We just completed a family trip through Kentucky and
Tennessee. One of our stops was to see some ducks in Memphis. These were real
ducks who lived in a hotel. Every morning hundreds of tourists would gather
around the fountain in the centre of the hotel as these ducks came down from
their penthouse apartment and walked along the red carpet to the fountain where
they would spend the day until evening when hundreds more tourists would gather
to see them exit the fountain and march along the red carpet to the elevator
which they rode up to their room to go to bed. (I’m not kidding!)
On another stop on a trip at a Shaker village in Kentucky, my
daughter was able to help with another duck parade. She helped them march back
into the barn for the evening. On yet another night, I looked out from our
motel balcony to see quite a number of ducks parading to the river. I called my
children over. I didn’t realize our trip had a theme but it did: it was all
about the ducks.
Scripture is like that.
The first time the Gospel is mentioned in the Bible is
Genesis 12:3 when God promises Abraham that all of the world will be blessed
through him. The Apostle Paul confirms this for us, millennia later, when he
points out that that promise is not simply vaguely pointing to a salvation
that is to come but that it is specifically referring to the salvation that
comes through Christ alone.
The Gospels and many of the epistles spend a lot of time and
words to explain to us exactly how we can know that indeed all of history until
that point was leading up to Christ’s penultimate appearance and all of history
from then, including now, is leading up to his ultimate appearance. As this is
the case let us go now and reserve ourselves a front row seat and even ask to
be involved in the show. It will be the time of our lives.
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