"Our Lord Said to Discern This Time

My fellow believers, we must discern this time. The Lord said, “Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?” (Luke 12:56) When we listen to the weather report or look about the natural environment, we can discern the weather, saying, “Oh, it’s fall. The leaves are falling, and so is my heart.” After fall is over and all the leaves have fallen, we realize, “The days are getting kind of chilly. Oh, it’s winter. It’s snowing. It’s winter. The whole earth is going to get white with snow, freeze, then melt, and it will be spring when it rains and we can hear the sound of the brook.” We thus know how to discern the weather.

But God rebukes us that we can’t discern the time. He asks, “Can you not discern how much is left of this time in which you are living? What are the conditions of the world? How much can this world endure?” Of course, God did not say what month and day He would come to this earth. But the Lord who is the First and the Last, the Alpha and Omega, said roughly when He will destroy this world and create new heavens and a new earth, didn’t He? He clearly left that Word in the Bible. He asks, “Has that time drawn near or not? Why can’t you discern this time? Why can’t you discern this? You would discern it if you had just a little interest in it. Why aren’t you interested in it? Why can’t you discern it?”

You and I must clearly discern this time. We must have the knowledge of history. We must know history, even if we know nothing else. We become wise if we know history. There are a lot of mistakes made in history that are being repeated at this time exactly the same. The Bible says there is nothing new under heaven, and there are actually quite a lot of things in this world that repeat themselves. We are living at this time now. But if we clearly know history, if we correctly know the history of this universe, of this world, and of mankind from a biblical perspective, the thought becomes clear what kind of people we must live as. We figure out what era this world has arrived at. 

It says in the Bible that in the time of the end, many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase (Daniel 12:4). It also says that people will love money and themselves, disobey their parents, not believe in God, and slander Him in the last days. That is true. The Bible says that they will love themselves and money more than God. God says it will be a lustful generation. We must become people who can discern the time by correctly understanding the Word of God."

Paul C Jong