And Then… The End Shall Come

Here’s something interesting about the Kingdom and the end of the world…

Remember when the disciples asked Jesus: “Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Thy coming and of the end of the world?” Jesus went through a whole list of signs that will take place in the end, and then He said, “but the end is not yet”. 

He enumerated all the signs of the end of time, but then He said, “but the end is not yet“. However, He continued, saying, “When this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached into all the world for a witness unto all nations; then shall the end come.”

When you have to say THIS gospel, it implies that there are other gospels, and when you say, “for a witness” it means it has to be seen or manifested. A witness has a testimony. He had to have been there. He had to have lived it. In other words, this gospel has to be demonstrated. When we preach this gospel of the kingdom and demonstrate it to all the world, the end will come. The end depends on all of us, believers, witnessing, living out and demonstrating the Kingdom of God.

And then Jesus added, “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be ” (Mat 24:37-39). 

Noah took 120 years to build the ark. And then, the flood came. If the ark had been built in 50 years, then the flood would have come. The flood was waiting on Noah’s completion of the ark. God had already promised the flood. 

So as soon as we finish our task of preaching this gospel, the end will come…