“Well, here’s another clue for you all. The walrus was Paul.”
We might wish it were all laid out definitively—every particular addressed. But clues are all we’re going to get. The walrus was Paul.
“Into these very things [outworking of the things of Christ], angels are desiring to peer.” (1 Peter 1:12) I like to picture them crouching, as though trying to squint through a hole in a solid fence. Anyone up for telling them to knock it off and get back to work?
It’s not that prophesy is bad stuff. It is very good stuff. It’s just that prophesies are best understood after the fact. Beforehand, they work as do clues. They might be fulfilled in any number of ways.
“Predictions are hard. Especially when they are about the future.” – Yogi Berra
It’s why it’s good to focus simply on declaring the good news. Whether the finale is tomorrow or many years out, it is not a problem. The record numbers I meet saying they avoid newscasts since they’re “disgusting” suggests it is soon indeed. (Not to mention my neighbor who likens the news to a bad accident—“you know you should look away, but you can’t”) But it comes when it comes.
****** The bookstore
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