Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Mark 13:9-13
by: Jasmine Lynch.
We live with betrayal, vindictiveness, immorality, unspeakable crimes, and war such that only the strong in faith can have peace and endure to the end. Jesus pointed to these events as the “beginning of sorrows” (v.8, NKJV). Now children murder their parents, brothers and sisters square off against each other, and churches split because one faction embraces unbiblical lifestyles. Jesus began the discourse by saying, “Take heed that no one deceives you” (v.5, NKJV). Later, He offered hope, saying, “But for the elect’s sake, whom He chose, He shortened the days” (v.20, NKJV). Salvation is only for those who endure to the end (v.13). Is your witness enduring?