A netfriend wrote in message . <> We cannot know the “Day or the Hour,” but we can know that He will come in our generation.

My response:

An event (in this case the second coming or ‘parousia’) whose timing is unknown, but is in fact to be a lover’s reunion, will always be ‘imminent’ for those lovers…

So we *pray* as if it were today; and *work* as if it will happen in 1,000 years…

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Shalom!

Rowland Croucher

http://jmm.org.au/

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