This is not an absolute law, but it is a common pattern seen in many Scriptures. So there are continual jumps in time from the present to the end and final judgment. Readers sometimes try to look for the end things in the history, but of course they are not there.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed
good seed in his field.” Mtt 13:24

But some enemy hated this farmer, and quietly planted weeds, darnel (the Greek is zizanion), among the wheat. The servants ask if they should uproot the weeds?

“29 But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
Mtt 13:28-30 WEB

Later Jesus explained. The one sowing the good seed was “the Son of Man,” Jesus Himself. The enemy sowing the bad seed is the devil. So what happens when we let bad things grow in us?

“40 As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
Mtt 13:40-42 WEB

So what we let grow in us has literally eternal consequences.

Or look at Isaiah chapter 24.

It after a series of oracles about the sins of various nations including Israel. Isaiah 13 and 14 is an oracle about Babylon and her sins. Isaiah 15 and 16 is an about the nation of Moab. Isaiah 17 is about Damascus, and so on. Then Isaiah 24 comes along and God says He will make the earth empty and waste, and turn it upside down, Isa 24:1. We are left wondering about how these judgments will come, and how literally we should take this. There are indications that much of this judgement is in history. But then we come to some of the clearer passages, as in Isaiah 24.

“19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently. 20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 … in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.”
Isa 24:19-21 WEB

There is much more to quote in Isaiah 24. Clearly it is speaking of the end of the world and final judgement, as in many other places in these passages. Linking things soon to come with the end of all things.

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