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Pedro Vicente

Professor Matthew Thompson

BIB1107 Jesus in the Gospels

28 November 2021

Day of the Lord

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBc2gSSW04)

God's relationship with the world we live in, He who is the creator, has been one

of permanent forgiveness and teaching. The permanent search for the world of good in

opposition to the world of evil and sin has been a constant in the life of humanity.

Despite the prophecies that point to the day of doom, humanity continues a wrong path

of selfishness and individualism.

As we read the Bible, we are clarified about God's desire for human beings as

individuals and for humanity as a collective that encompasses all of us. Although God's

will have suffered many setbacks throughout history, his belief in the goodness of

human beings has allowed humanity to continue to search for the path that can free us

from all evil and live forever in God's grace.

If we analyze the history of the last two millennia, we find that associated with

the evolution of the human species we find a long history of struggle for power and

domination over the other associated with death and suffering. Over time, man's

ambition for power and individual wealth has driven many peoples to war and death.

Man's ambition for the accumulation of wealth and power has often used the illusion of

the collective advantage of his people to lead them into struggle and poverty. We all

know stories of leaders who worried about their power and domination led their people
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to doom. In the case of God and his commandments it is exactly the opposite. Jesus

allowed himself to be sacrificed with his pain and death for the salvation of all. He who

is the leader of the Church and who could have used his powers to impose his will,

delivered himself into the hands of man to demonstrate the goodness of his individual

sacrifice for the salvation of all. What better teaching and demonstration of purity of

spirit and loyalty to his commandments than for God to sacrifice his son at the hands of

those who desired his evil and sowed discord and greed?

The day of final judgment will come, and God will deliver our world from all

the sin and evil that man has spread throughout the ages. But until that day, we can

continue to strive for a better world, with less suffering and more brotherhood. Every

day, we must make our own daily judgment and see if through our acts and omissions

we spread the word of God. Every day we can make our contribution so that the world

is better, and that God judges us as his follower.