29 May 2012
II Peter 1:19
I Peter 1:19: “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:”
Notice how Peter urges us to “take heed” unto prophecy. These days more and more people are becoming “pan-millennial”: they think that it will “all pan out in the end”, so there’s no sense in bothering with it right now. After all, they say, what difference does it make?
I think it makes quite a lot of difference. It makes a difference in how you live your life now, in how you view Israel, and in how you interpret world events. Plus, God gave us all of this information because He wanted us to know it. Peter told us that we should “take heed” to these things, and Jesus emphasized repeatedly that we should be watching. On top of that, a great deal of the Bible is prophecy, and one of God’s defining characteristics is His ability to foretell the future (He “makes known the end from the beginning”). Do you really think that God is pleased when, instead of taking heed, people just dismiss the whole thing by saying “eh, it’ll all pan out”? Is total indifference really the approach that God wants us to take with His Word? I don’t think so.