Before You Call It a Sign: How to Follow Jesus When 2026 Feels Like the End Times
hapter 1: Before the Headline Becomes a Prophecy At 6:12 in the morning, a man sat at the edge of his bed with one sock on and his phone in his hand. He had meant to check the weather before work. Instead, he found a video claiming that a new world event was another unmistakable sign that the return of Jesus was close. The comments were already full of certainty. Some people sounded excited. Others sounded terrified. He watched longer than he intended because the subject mattered to him. He believed Jesus would return. He did not want to be spiritually asleep. Yet he also remembered how many times a frightening prediction had been presented as certain and then quietly disappeared. That tension is exactly why t he end-times claim Christians do not need to fear matters: faithfulness begins by taking Jesus seriously without handing our peace to every person who says they have decoded the future. He put the phone down long enough to finish getting dressed, but the question followed...