by Pastor Joseph Cortes One of the clearest indications that the return of the Lord is drawing near may be the growing apathy and indifference toward His coming. The longer the world continues as it has, the easier it becomes for people to assume that tomorrow will simply look like today. Even among believers, the expectation of His return can slowly fade into the background. We become occupied with daily life, responsibilities, possessions, plans, and everything happening around us. Yet Jesus specifically warned us that His coming would take place at a time when many would not be expecting Him. Jesus said, “Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Matthew 24:44). Notice His words carefully: be ready. He did not tell us to begin getting ready once we see Him coming. He told us to already be ready because His appearing will come at an hour when people are not expecting it. The warning is not given so that believers will live in fear, but so that we will live with expectancy. The present generation of believers should live with its eyes lifted toward heaven, knowing that the promises of God are certain and that the One who promised to return will return. There is an important difference between knowing that Jesus is coming and actually living as though He could come. It is possible to believe the doctrine of the Lord's return while allowing the urgency of it to disappear from our hearts. We can talk about prophecy, study the signs, discuss world events, and still become spiritually sleepy. That is why the words of Jesus are so important. “Therefore you also be ready.” Readiness is not merely knowing something about His return. It is living with the awareness that our Bridegroom will soon appear. Jesus illustrated this truth through the parable of the ten virgins. They were all waiting for the Bridegroom, but not all of them were prepared for His arrival. Five were wise and five were foolish. When the Bridegroom seemed to delay, they became drowsy and slept. Then suddenly the cry went out that the Bridegroom was coming. The wise were prepared, but the foolish discovered that their lamps were not ready. While they went away to make preparations, the Bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready entered with Him, and the door was shut.

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9/26/2026 by Joseph Cortes by Pastor Joseph Cortes There is something fascinating about the biblical calendar. God gave Israel detailed instructions concerning months, days, seasons, feasts, and appointed times. The Hebrew calendar is unlike the calendar most of the Western world uses today because it is a luni-solar calendar, taking both the moon and the sun into consideration. God was very precise when He established His appointed times. Yet while Scripture gives us considerable information about months and days, it does not give Israel a numbered calendar of years beginning with creation. That system came later. According to the traditional Jewish calendar, the Hebrew year that began in September 2026 is the year 5787. In other words, according to that traditional reckoning, we are living approximately 5,787 years from the beginning of the biblical creation chronology. But that number deserves closer examination because the system used to arrive at it was developed centuries after the Hebrew Scriptures were completed. The traditional system is called the Anno Mundi calendar, meaning “year of the world.” It traces history backward toward creation and is largely derived from a Jewish chronological work known as the Seder Olam Rabbah, compiled around the second century after Christ. Centuries later, Maimonides helped standardize the numbering system that became commonly used in Judaism. This is important because sometimes we can look at the number 5787 and assume that Scripture itself tells us that precisely 5,787 years have passed since creation. It does not. Scripture gives us genealogies, reigns of kings, prophetic periods, and historical markers from which a chronology can be constructed, but the modern Hebrew year number itself is the result of a later historical calculation. Still, the biblical chronology is remarkable. Genesis 5 records the generations from Adam to Noah and repeatedly tells us how old each patriarch was when the next generation was born. When the numbers are added together, Noah was born approximately 1,056 years after Adam. Genesis 7:6 then tells us, “Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.” Following that chronology brings us to approximately year 1656 from Adam for the Flood.

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