Monthly Comment This month millions of unbelievers will celebrate Jesus' first coming, and millions of believers will ignore His second. How strange! Those of us who preached on Bible prophecy fifty or more years ago might have found their notes appropriate with only minor modifications several years later. Admittedly over the ensuing decades there were occasional milestone happenings, such as the Treaty of Rome, the Six Days War and Yom Kippur War to keep us on our toes.
But suddenly the pace of change has accelerated rapidly. I am sure that I am not the only Prophetic Witness contributor who recently has wanted to up-date an article within days of submitting it, because of something in the news. Yet, as the signs of the times demand our attention ever more urgently, so Christian leaders bury their heads more deeply in the sands of scoffing, apathy, disbelief and dismay. Some do pray most earnestly about what they see happening, but forget that it has all been foretold by the One in whose name they pray. We should not only be solemnised, but also challenged and even excited.
