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== Friday, Nov 22: Good News? The Destruction of the Temple & the Tribulations == | |||
[https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/13 Mark 13] is more than a bit of a downer: See that great building over there, not a stone will be left upon another! Oh, and famine and war is coming, and that’s just the beginnings of the labor pains you’re gonna suffer! You’re gonna be beaten, betrayed, hated, and lied to, and after all that fun, the sun and moon will be blotted out, the stars will fall, and then some dude called the Son of Man will come surfing down to earth on winds and clouds and to gather his friends, leaving the rest to suffer eternally. | |||
Yikes! | |||
Well, it is good news -- indeed, THE Good News, but must have been freaky to hear about at the time. | |||
----What's so cool about the Bible is that there is not a word in it that God didn't want in it, and there's not a single word not in it that God didn't want in there. We're told, for example, that the "Eschatological Discourse" (end of times talk) takes place just outside of Jerusalem in the Mount of Olives, where to, after spanking the Pharisees in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/12 Chapter 12], Jesus and the Apostles head. On the way, the Apostles look up in amazement at the huge Temple. The last thing they expected to hear was that the building is going to be torn down. Jesus then launches into a series of warnings about the Tribulations and the Coming of the Son of Man. | |||
Early English monk and scholar, The Venerable Bede<ref>He's a saint, but is commonly referred to as "The Venerable Bede. Although he is a canonized Doctor of the Church (1899 by Leo XII), thus Saint Bede, I think "The Venerable Bede" sounds cooler!</ref>, points to an important detail here: Jesus gave his talk on the end times on the Mount of Olives. | |||
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== Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | == Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | ||