Written by Brother Korey, son of Robin
Dear Catechumen,
It has come to my attention that some of you have become
rather fearful of the “End Times”.
Because of this fear, you have become border-line obsessed with
understanding future events. The
evidence of this is your constant draw to watch or read stories about the world
coming to an end, your frantic discussions and questions about events in
Revelation, Daniel and other prophetic books.
Some have even become interested in psychics and fortune tellers and
even witchcraft, stating that you believe there is some truth in them. There are even some of you who waste your
lives studying current events and how they might coincide with scripture.
Don’t get me wrong, studying scripture is not wrong. However, what I mean is that you frantically
study it, trying to understand how the events in the prophetic scriptures might
align with events today so that you can try to predict or guess what our future
is. What’s more, some of you have even
gone so far as to claim things you predict as if it is certain they will come
to pass or that they have, in fact, come to pass already. This is dangerous!
Let me ask you, “What is the purpose of your studies? What is the purpose of your obsessions? Is it to give glory to Christ and to provide
love and hope for the lost? Is it to
bring peace in a time that is full of turmoil?
Or is it that your studies are for yourself? Is it that you fear the future and are
trying, as the world does, to do everything in your power to prepare for the
future as if by knowing what the future is you can somehow prevent your own
death? Or is it so that you can be
right…so you can be the one who has finally deciphered the prophetic scriptures
to the point that you can say with certainty what will happen? Is it pride?
Is it fear? What motivates you?”
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