Dewey Bertolini's Podcast

Birth pains. It’s all about the birth pains. As you will hear in this PODCAST, as we enumerate the final three of the six "signs of the times," both Paul and Jesus made it crystal-clear that we are to think of these signs in terms of birth pains. Paul, who borrowed this most-meaningful metaphor from Jesus, used it most-appropriately when he in Romans 8 declared, "For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." It would not surprise me one bit to hear that some of you -- Or should I say some of us? -- have been groaning a little more than usual this past week. It is all about the birth pains, that increase dramatically in frequency and in intensity as the moment of birth approaches. This troubled planet of ours is undeniably in the later stages of its own labor pains, as it waits in breathless anticipation as the moment of Jesus’ return approaches. So said Paul. So said Jesus. Here in Matthew 24:8, spoken in the Olivet Discourse, on the Tuesday after