Understanding the Times, Part 4: The Framework of History

Understanding the Times: Part 4
The Framework of History
by T.M. Moore at The Fellowship of Ailbe 

We cannot understand our times, or know what we should do in them, unless we see our times in the larger framework of history. There is a framework of history, and Christians can know it. Jesus reveals it to us in the parable of the wheat and the tares, and this is the subject of our study.

The field is the world, where the Son of Man goes forth daily, sowing seeds of the Kingdom. The enemy seeks to thwart His work, but to no avail. On the final day of harvest at the end of the age, the Lord returns not to a weed field, ready to be burned, but to a glorious wheat field, infested with weeds, but brimming with fruit for the Kingdom and glory of God.

Is this our understanding of history? If so, then we will order our lives accordingly. If not, then we are probably allowing our under-the-sun contemporaries to tell us how we ought to live, while our under-the-heavens calling to the Kingdom and glory of God languishes without fruit.

Men and brethren, these things ought not be.

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