Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
The great theologians may wrangle over what the prophet Daniel meant, but an ordinary person is impressed with the literal fulfillment of one of his prophecies: "O Daniel, ... [in] the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased" (12:4).
Merge into the traffic on any urban freeway, or visit any electronics mart; consider these intense explosions of travel and scientific "knowledge." Or visit any bookstore. All the angels in heaven couldn't drum it into your consciousness more vividly: we are living in the closing hours of "the time of the end."
With all this "increase of knowledge," is it reasonable that we should understand more clearly what happened on the cross when the Son of God died for the world? Should the Holy Spirit impart a greater appreciation of what it means to say, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world"? Would we be less inclined to think someone a fanatic if he is "determined not to know any thing among [his congregation], save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified"? (Gal. 6:14; 1 Cor. 2:2)?
Luther, Calvin, Arminius, the Wesleys, did great for their day; God was with them. But this "time of the end" is the "hour of [God's] judgment ... come," the world's grand cosmic Day of Atonement. What is due now is not a proud triumphalism to "glory in the cross," but a self-humbling appreciation for the agape love seen there. Now is the time to "comprehend" what Christ accomplished on His cross (Rev. 14:6, 7; Eph. 3:14-21).
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: March 2, 2005.
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