NOTES for Joe 3:12-21
A girl of about seven attended Sunday school. She listened to stories about how Jesus was rejected, unrecognized, and killed. She wept and could not sleep for several days, and then she finally decided to ask the teacher who led the class a question. “Tell me,” the girl asked, “what shall we do when He comes a second time and we fail to recognize Him again? What if we miss Him again?” “Oh no,” the teacher replied, “the second time it will be impossible not to notice. He will come in glory.” The girl was so happy. When she grew up, she said that the longer she lived, the more people she met who failed to see mountains dripping with wine, hills flowing with milk, and deserts turning into streams of water. She would not even have been surprised to find people who did not notice that the sun and moon had grown dark and the stars were gone. She then came to understand that these signs alone are not enough for a person, and that in order to preserve one's delusions and avoid admitting one's mistakes, a person is capable of rejecting any facts whatsoever. From then on, evangelization became her principal occupation. “The harvest is so abundant,” she says now.