Both Readings today, verses from Revelation 18 and 19 and Luke 21:20-28, contain terrifying images of destruction. Babylon, Rome, is emptied of music, industry, and happy voices as punishment for her long reign of conquest and oppression, and the entire universe crashes in utter destruction as the Son of Man returns in power and glory. Writers and movie makers have never tired of returning to these gruesome sights and sounds.
We cannot help but feel some of the terror as we read these symbolic descriptions of the end of time as we know it. Fittingly these appear at the threshold of Advent, the new beginning, the new coming. Rather than induce fear, they invite us to trust and love, that indeed the Son of Man will return to erase all hatred, violence, division and evil. May we find hope rather than despair as the plan of God eventually comes to fulfillment. At this time we are just on another page in a larger chapter.
Bro. Rene
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