End Times

The Newsweek article headlines: The End of Christian America. Note that there is no question mark following the headline. Before reading it, don’t get your hopes up that Christianity is disappearing in America, neither fear that it is true.

Even after reading the opening remarks quoting the Southern Baptist Convention president, do not begin burial plans.

The same site also headline linked: Is this the End of Traditional Country Music?, but when reaching the page, the headline there read: Murder on Music Row and the article decried the changes in country music, not its death. Note that here there is a question mark.

Same with the other “End …” article. It appeared as though Newsweek got a bit stuck on End times and neither Christianity nor country music will disappear any time soon.

Those headlines do catch the eye, and the writers are both informative and entertaining – which keeps us checking for the whole story, making their page hits rise.

The first article used the phrase nothing new under the sun, a contraction of:

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV)

I agree. Joash wasn’t concerned about God being able to take care of Himself, and that which is His. He wasn’t as certain about Baal:

And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar. (Judges 6:31 KJV)

Centuries later, Gamaliel expressed that God was still able to take care of Himself, and that which is His. Gamaliel’s uncertainly had to do with Christianity:

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. (Acts 5:39 KJV)

Both their answers are sufficient for me.