This week, in fact in approximately 36 hours, I have a major assignment due which is pushing me to come to some conclusion upon matters of Eschatology (end times). I didn’t think it was going to be this frustrating, but it has been racking my brain for days on end.

Sometimes I feel like in these matters we often lose sight of the forest for the trees. We focus on breaking everything down to the fragment, we piece together a subjective timeline to comfort ourselves, and we come to some rational conclusion about how it’s all going to work out.

I call bullshit. I don’t see it as a puzzle that we’re meant to decode, or a timeline that we’re meant to figure out. I think it’s a call to live in a way that affects the here and now, because there is a future hope. That hope is that Christ will return and his reign will be evident. Beyond that, I don’t know how the details line up. Do I have some ideas? Certainly, but I’m probably wrong. Even if I am right in a broad sense, I think it will still be different then I could imagine.

Ps. One of the positives that has come from this study though, is a great album title: The Present State of the Dead. I just need to figure out a band name… and write songs. I figure it’d be more of a contemplative sounding thing sorta ambient/emo crap.