As we were discussing eschatology in class today and the differing views I had a thought return to me. There are people who think the world is getting worse and who can argue with that. There are those who think the world is getting better and there are some good points for that. But I don't think the world has gotten better or worse. You could take specifics and say those have gotten better or worse but on the whole things are as they always were. From the moment of the fall we have been sinful and we will continue to be sinful. Every period of time has had its successes and its failures.

I thought about the Black Plague and what impact that had on people's eschatological views. I found one article about it and have yet to finish reading it. People in Europe must have thought that it was the end...Christ would soon have to come after this calamity, right?

I don't know where I'm going with this but I just don't see the world getting better or worse. Just seems business as usual to me. Christ will come when he comes. It is our duty to continue to grow the kingdom no matter when that time may be.