Highland Church Podcast

Mark 13 is apocalyptic—which is a good genre to talk about on Halloween. Apocalyptic is a way of using symbols and metaphors to talk about the world as it really is, both in the future but also now. Sometimes symbols and metaphors make better sense of some things than anything else. And so Mark uses this apocalyptic language to describe our world as growing increasingly dark, and frankly scary. There are a lot of ways we can face the darkness of this world. Fight it. Resist it with beauty and power. Try to scare it away. Hide from it. Or we can be light. The people who stand in the light and offer blessings to those coming from the dark.