Revelations on Revelation.
Over on Fr. Neo's white rabbit (www.frneo.blogspot.com) there has been a flurry of brief conversations on end times. It started with Fr. Neo asking about Tim LeHaye's books and what the existence of a "real" end-times says to us about the nature of God. I noted there that I am unsophisticated about pre-,post- and amillenialism, but have a vague sense of expectation of an end to this phase of our eternal life, someday. Although I think attempts to read the present into Daniel and Revelation is an uncertain use of time, I believe that the possibility of judgement and a transition of the age into God's next surprise is an uncertain boundary on my behavior. Living today as if it might be the last focusses the mind wonderfully. It keeps you blogging, at the very least.
I'm reading Camille Paglia's new book Break, Blow, Burn, which is a collection of poems with commentary. Her thoughts on the meaning of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 were provocative. I believe that the remembered love is Christ in that poem. She prefers to see a doubt about God's reality and an unidentified lover. Where can we talk about this stuff? Maybe on my deck this summer. I'm mulling that venue over.
Over on Fr. Neo's white rabbit (www.frneo.blogspot.com) there has been a flurry of brief conversations on end times. It started with Fr. Neo asking about Tim LeHaye's books and what the existence of a "real" end-times says to us about the nature of God. I noted there that I am unsophisticated about pre-,post- and amillenialism, but have a vague sense of expectation of an end to this phase of our eternal life, someday. Although I think attempts to read the present into Daniel and Revelation is an uncertain use of time, I believe that the possibility of judgement and a transition of the age into God's next surprise is an uncertain boundary on my behavior. Living today as if it might be the last focusses the mind wonderfully. It keeps you blogging, at the very least.
I'm reading Camille Paglia's new book Break, Blow, Burn, which is a collection of poems with commentary. Her thoughts on the meaning of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 were provocative. I believe that the remembered love is Christ in that poem. She prefers to see a doubt about God's reality and an unidentified lover. Where can we talk about this stuff? Maybe on my deck this summer. I'm mulling that venue over.
posted by Unknown @ 8:22 AM
1 Comments:
At 11:18 PM, May 16, 2005,
Unknown said…
Yeah, I know what you mean. I may have already answsered this post elsewhere, but just tidying up, I guess. I don't think of it much either. I feel of it, though, particularly when I see how deeply corrupt this age is. I think of the wrath of God, not as an abstract, but as a corrective measure for God's people. I know that Revelation is a curious book, but it is in the canon, so ... what?
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