Luke 21:26

I felt it incumbent to append a short paragraph referring to the above Biblical reference, as being forcefully pertinent at this time. A brother in Christ penned this at the beginning of 1974.

He writes: 

"As year succeeds year it is obvious to every seriously minded person that things in this world are becoming more and more insecure and sinister. The words of the Lord Jesus in Luke 21:26, referring as they do to a future era, yet have most surely a moral significance at the present time — "Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." This world, the scene of man's rebellion against God, where His beloved Son has been cast out and crucified, is doomed. Neither man's occupation with himself and his achievements, nor yet his rejection of God and His claims, can avert the impending judgment."

The literal version of J.N.D. reads thus: "men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable world..." 

While the A.V. has:

"Mens' hearts failing them for [from] fear, and looking after those things which are coming on the earth."  

My contention is simple: by taking pre-emptive measures which may well prove to be uncalled for, in closing our "doors," our local testimonies to Him and His salvation,  we are failing the fearful hearts of men!