“The End of the World’s Coming”
“In those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.” Sunday, April 14, 1935. Palm Sunday. Across the Great Plains of America–in Kansas, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, Colorado, New Mexico–people awoke that day to a bright and clear morning.
But before the day was over, the biggest dust storm of them all–a mile high and 200 miles wide–would sweep down the plains and turn the day to night. Palm Sunday, 1935, would forever be known as “Black Sunday.”
“The end of the world’s coming,” the people thought when they saw the giant dust storm approaching. “They thought the world had ended, and they thought it was their doom.”
Life without Christ is indeed like a “Dust Bowl,” a dry and arid place of death and darkness. “Dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” The end of the world’s coming, and, without Christ, a grave and grim future lies before us: only judgment and doom.
But in Christ, through faith in him, disaster and despair give way to life and light. The end of the world’s coming, but for us who hope in Christ, something better is on the way. We who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake to everlasting life and shine like the brightness of the sky above. This is God’s promise. Believe it.
Adapted From:
https://steadfastlutherans.org/blog/2012/11/the-
