<description>&lt;img style="width:75%" src="https://www.borntowin.net/wp-content/uploads/End-of-the-Road.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of us have what some call a &lt;q&gt;worldview&lt;/q&gt;. We are as unaware of this as a fish is unaware of water, but we all have a grid through which we view life&amp;rsquo;s problems and which we use to make decisions about those problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the most part, that worldview goes unexamined. We have always thought the way we have and unless something jars us off our platform, we always will.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are the foundational principles upon which we will base our end-of-life decisions, be it our own life or someone we love? As Christians, we like to think that the Bible is our foundation, our platform from which we view the world, and the framework for making the hard decisions of life. But we immediately, it seems, have a problem&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

  All of us have what some call a worldview. We are as unaware of this as a fish is unaware of water, but we all have a grid through which we view life’s problems and which we use to make decisions about those problems. For the most part, that worldview g

The End of the Road

<description>&lt;img style="width:75%" src="https://www.borntowin.net/wp-content/uploads/Bible-Open-to-Proverbs-1.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This message presents a small problem: it is almost too simple. And yet it contains a principle which can (and will, if you can apply it) change your life &lt;em&gt;forever&lt;/em&gt;. Are you interested?&lt;/p&gt;</description>

  This message presents a small problem: it is almost too simple. And yet it contains a principle which can (and will, if you can apply it) change your life forever. Are you interested?

You Can Change Your Life

<description>&lt;img style="width:75%" src="https://www.borntowin.net/wp-content/uploads/Leonid-Meteor-Storm-as-Seen-Over-North-America-on-the-Night-of-November-12-13-1833.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;What did the First Christians believe about the last days? Forget about the expression &lt;q&gt;the End of the World&lt;/q&gt;&amp;mdash;the end of the &lt;em&gt;planet&lt;/em&gt; is a long way off. It is plain, though, that the First Christians believed there was to be an &lt;em&gt;end of the age&lt;/em&gt; (however one might take that) because that is what they asked Jesus about one day on the Mount of Olives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They were familiar with the Old Testament prophets and their view of the last days and end of this system. Peter cited Joel with clarity on the day of Pentecost. He would be less than human if he had not seen what looked like the initial phases of the end times. And yet, Christ would not come in his lifetime, for some 2,000 years to come, or (for all we know) many more years yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The prophets told of a &lt;q&gt;day of the Lord&lt;/q&gt;, a day of God&amp;rsquo;s wrath. And while they also saw it as a near-term thing, there is good reason to think that they also saw it as a distant event. It would be so cataclysmic that the destruction would boggle the mind. And they also saw it ushering in a new age. And not only did the First Christians have the prophets, they had Jesus&amp;rsquo; Olivet Message to make them a little hypersensitive to prophetic events. Peter and the others thought they saw it coming, but they were also quite careful to avoid crying wolf. And they had good reason for that as well.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

  What did the First Christians believe about the last days? Forget about the expression the End of the World—the end of the planet is a long way off. It is plain, though, that the First Christians believed there was to be an end of the age (however one m

About the Last Days #2

<description>&lt;img style="width:75%" src="https://www.borntowin.net/wp-content/uploads/The-Disciples-Admire-the-Buildings-of-the-Temple.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;What did the First Christians believe about the last days&amp;mdash;the end time of man on the earth? It may not have been a lot different from what some of us believe today, as I suspect more than a few of us have been disquieted by events in the Middle East. Even if we don&amp;rsquo;t fully understand all the implications of biblical prophecy, we know that the Middle East looms large at the end time, along with &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; loss of life. With the Iranian regime &lt;em&gt;certain&lt;/em&gt; to develop nuclear weapons, and with the stated intent to destroy Israel, you have to take this seriously and wonder how much longer are we going to be able to go on this way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But we aren&amp;rsquo;t seeing a lot more than the First Christians did, and they can be excused for thinking the return of Christ would be in their lifetime. There were prophets among those First Christians but strangely, as far as the record is concerned, they express little interest in the far horizon. Perhaps, because they thought it wasn&amp;rsquo;t all that far away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The activities of the prophets in the church seem to be very timely&amp;mdash;that is, concerned with the events of the immediate future. But that doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean at all that there was not a broader view of prophecy in general and of the last days in particular. In fact, you are probably already thinking about the Book of Revelation. But it is plain that they had a belief system about the last days which was, at first, somewhat off-base. To some extent, this is accounted for by something Jesus said. We&amp;rsquo;ll find it in Matthew, chapter 24.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

  What did the First Christians believe about the last days—the end time of man on the earth? It may not have been a lot different from what some of us believe today, as I suspect more than a few of us have been disquieted by events in the Middle East. Ev

About the Last Days #1

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