Purloined Letter Syndrome

Consider the obvious seriously, for few will see it.
--Isaac Asimov (I don't like to quote him approvingly, but if he was right, he was right.) As 2021 comes to an end, it occurs to this blogger that the time is increasingly characterized by what I call Purloined Letter Syndrome--a term I recently invented, taken from Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Purloined Letter (1844). Just as the letter in question was always in plain view, the same is true of what's going on around us now.

2021 was a year in which recent trends, including the increasing evil of politicians and public "servants," the dishonesty of mainstream media, the fraudulence and lies surrounding the Covid-19 "pandemic" and "vaccines," and cowardice of Christian leaders, became increasingly obvious, but few seem able to see it.

Biblical end-time prophecies are increasingly, and more rapidly, being fulfilled, yet there's very little preaching on prophecy--and preaching on the end times too often consists of Calvinist/preterist nonsense; for examples, there are the series of sermons on Revelation at Vernon Alliance Church's Vimeo page from January 26/27-March 30-31, 2019; the Fraser Lands Church's sermon series on Revelation from January 10-July 18, 2021; and the postmillennialism of Gateway Alliance Church lead pastor Martin Trench, as expressed in his book Victorious Eschatology and elsewhere. More than ever, it's necessary for people to be Bereans as the coming of the Lord draws ever nearer.