Mere Speculation

Are these the last days?

How long do they last?

How much more must we go through?

How long before all this is passed?

Every era since Pentecost

Has claimed theirs was the last

And similarly, this present era,

We are getting there quite fast.

Every major incident these days

We try to connect with the Word,

Some Bible believing Christians

Even push this to the absurd.

 

We look intently on the skies

To see what is happening there

And we try to use that information

To prophesy when Jesus will appear.

“Wars and rumors of wars”

Is the state of our political world,

So, we use this current trend

To interpret God’s Holy Word.

Bible prophecy is like today’s news

As its prophecies are being fulfilled

And with every new development,

There is an exciting thrill.

But it has been shown in every era

That similar things were occurring

Yet, we believe it is more upscale now

Hence, Jesus is soon coming.

 

I have no doubt he will return

I can take him at his word,

But he said that we know not when

So, any predictions are absurd.

Notwithstanding all I’ve said,

That day should not take us unawares,

For the expected and unexpected

A good soldier always prepares.

If these of a truth are the last days

Then we should be upping our pace

At evangelizing and discipling

And telling all of God’s wondrous grace.

Instead, you would observe

That there is increasing neglect

And the propagation of the Good News

Is not pushed as we should expect.

There is little urgency in our steps

And concern for the peril of the unsaved,

If these are truly the last days

It is not showing in the way we behave.

We should be gathering in the harvest

Which is truly plenteous,

We should be making very sure

We’re telling everyone about Jesus.

Like John, the Baptizer,

We should be calling them to repent

But instead, we are hearing these days

Messages of little Gospel content.

We are redefining the Gospel

To make it what it is not

And if you want to be filthy rich

The church will give you your best shot.

 

Yet we say these are the last days

And Jesus will soon be back,

Maybe they are and maybe they’re not

None of us knows for a fact.

It’s speculation, mere speculation

And not what is needed at this time,

Instead, the Great Commission from Jesus

Should now be filling all our minds.

   

Go ye into the highways and byways,

In communities and on the Internet,

Tell them Jesus is the one to turn to

It they have not done so yet.

  

Rather than argue about his return

Tell all about his first advent,

And now commands this same Jesus

That today is the day to repent.

Tell them about their sin:

The bad news they don’t want to hear,

Then tell them of the good news:

Of the one who came our sins to bear.

In him is our hope and joy

Whenever he should come again,

However, now is the time to get on board

Get on board the Gospel train!

Stewart Russell © March 2020