+ Our readings today are quite
interesting indeed. The first reading from the Prophet Joel
talks of “the day of the Lord” as coming and near. It calls on the priests and ministers of the people to get into
crisis mode: they must wail, put on
sackcloth, order a fast, call an assembly and cry out: “Oh, what a day! For the
Lord is near! The devastation day of the Lord is near!” “such as never has been
seen before: hmmm an overlapping of superlative language: Joel and President
Trump: “a day such has never been seen before – just a terrible day – no one
has ever seen the likes of it.”
Maybe Trump is more
prophetic than we think!
This ancient prophecy was actually about the may “days of
judgment” that came upon the people of Israel when the became a dutiful people
of the God of the Covenant, but then going astray had to be led back, by having
everything taken away from them: in a day of devastation and doom. So the theme
is old, but the reality is ever present.
And one day there will be the “big one” – in Trump’s terms – there
will be one like no one has ever seen or
imagined – it will be terrible – but this time it will be for keeps: and
those who end up lacking will be left out of a promised eternity of joy and
peace promised those who do things God’s way rather than their own.
The gospel passage screams out the current state of affairs in our
country: the Kingdom of Trump is very much a
house divided against itself [like the very house of Beelzebul himself]. And
just as the gospel predicts and promises – it’s a law of nature and supernature
– it will fall! And fall hard. And if
changes are not made immediately, will fall soon!
We must be a “gather with Christ” and not “scatterers” of
everything that is good and holy!
We must clean house now, and then install good, upright, virtuous and conscientious
administers of law and democracy, who are God fearing, sensible and rational – or the last condition will be worse than the
first.
In baseball talk of this season of the year – there must be a
“clean sweep” – but then an engaged and skillful Final Game.
The Lord will judge the world
then with justice, his kind of justice, and not ours! and
this ought to be a sobering thought!
Amen.
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