Watching for the Son of Man
Taken from Mark for Everyone
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Mark For Everyone
MARK 13.28–37
Watching for the Son of Man...
...Most modern Western houses don’t have a doorkeeper. It’s up to the owners to lock up, and perhaps set burglar alarms. But in some big cities, over the last few years, there has been quite a change. Many people now live in apartment buildings which employ a full-time guard by the main entrance. Where I live, there is a succession of courtyards, and by the outer one there is a gate, with people on duty 24 hours a day. They see everyone who enters or leaves. This is how it would have been with a great house in Jesus’ day.
The thing gatekeepers have to do above all, of course, is to stay awake. This is the warning Jesus issues so solemnly to his followers, as they face the troubled time that’s coming upon them, upon Israel, upon Jerusalem, and indeed in a measure on the whole world...
Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright