As the Church year ends, Scripture confronts us with the return of Christ, the Final Judgment, and the passing away of every earthly kingdom. In this extended message we hear how our Lord uses wars, disasters, moral collapse, and the decay of nations as sermons calling us to repentance.

Drawing on Scripture, the Lutheran Confessions, Luther, Walther, and Francis Pieper, this episode boldly exposes one of the greatest idols of our age: trusting politics and politicians for salvation. We face the errors of Christian nationalism, civil religion, therapeutic theology, escapist rapture teachings, and a Christianity that uses the poor instead of serving them.

Yet above all, this episode proclaims comfort: the Judge who returns is the same Jesus who was judged for us. For those who trust in Christ alone, the Last Da ...