Kim and Yang Li came to Seattle for graduate studies in computer science. Kim was one of the brightest young software designers in China and he found the high-tech mecca of the Northwest exhilarating.

A few months later after their arrival, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took place and the suicide bombings in Israel intensified. Yang Li started attending an English language learner conversation group. There she met a Christian who was able to answer some of her questions about what was going on in the world. She was loaned a book on Bible prophecy and both she and her husband read it. Eventually they found more material on the end times from a Biblical perspective and then began to read the Bible itself.

It took several months of reading and discussion for them to get used to a Biblical frame of reference, but one evening they admitted to each other and their friend that they were convinced it was true. Intense excitement gripped them and within weeks they became followers of Jesus.

Since then they have been devouring the Bible. Their attention keeps being drawn to passages that refer to how Christians should be living in the last days. Scriptures found in the Bible have had a huge impact on their lives.

I think the end-times portions of the Bible are without a doubt “our mail.” Most alert followers of Jesus who take the Bible seriously believe that we are living at the very end of the age. The only real question is what difference should that realization make? “Keep yourselves in the love of God,” is Jude’s clear and simple directive.