Twenty Sixth Sunday After Trinity

The season of Advent begins soon. On this second to last Sunday of the Church Year, we focus on the return of Christ as Judge of all. The Lord Jesus will return in glory on the Last Day with all His holy angels. “Before Him will be gathered all the nations . . . And He will place the sheep on His right, but the goats on the left” (Matt. 25:31–33). Those on His left will be cast into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels while those on His right will inherit the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world. We await Christ’s coming, conducting ourselves in godliness, knowing that this fallen creation will soon pass away. We look forward to “new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13).