“For Sweden’s prime minister, celebrating New Year’s after the Asian tsunami felt ‘completely wrong.’ Paris, is heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along a favorite haunt for romantic reveling—the Champs Elysees. Elsewhere, prayers substituted for parties in the final minutes of 2004.” So “the world tones down revelry to honor Asia victims,” says the Sacramento Bee on New Year’s Day.
Teens are noted for thinking they are immortal; all our lives, the Bible has been telling us we are always only a minute away from eternity. When a moral tsunami rolled over wicked King Ahab of Israel, he finally humbled his arrogant heart and “walked softly” for awhile. The stern prophet Elijah had read him God’s riot act--in mercy to his soul (1 Kings 21:20ff.).
Prayer is always a proper substitute for wild partying. The Tsunami coming at New Year’s has sobered the world--for awhile. What the world must understand and in God’s providence will yet be told them, is that we, as the world, have been living in His cosmic Day of Atonement for well over a century. Revelry was always inappropriate on Israel’s ancient days of atonement, for in type that solemn day prefigured the antitype that came at the end of the 2300 years of Daniel’s solemn prophecy (that Jesus said we must “read” and “understand,” Dan.8:12; Matt. 24:15). “As it was in the days of Noah,” said Jesus, is the way to live since this solemn cosmic “Day” has come upon the world. The Bible makes plain that we all are minutes from eternity.
Isaiah describes the Lord’s disappointment when we forget when He calls for Day of Atonement living: “Instead, . . . slaying oxen and . . . drinking wine, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!’ Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts, ‘Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you, even to your death,’ says the Lord God of hosts” (22:12-14). The whole world has been stunned; let us read what God’s prophets have been saying.
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