Evening: Psalms 4, 7; Mark 13:14-27
Much ink has been spilled about today’s Gospel story. Since Mark was writing between 65-70A.D. (during the Jewish-Roman War that ended with the destruction of the Temple in 70A.D.), many writers agree that it is about the end of the Temple order rather than the end of the world … For our own day, perhaps we might understand it as a prophecy (i.e. a truth-telling) about how when human societies and institutions set themselves up against the kind of humility and humanity that are shown in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, they will not last for long.
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