Parable on the Unrighteous Judge.

(Luke 18:1-8).

While grave times will exist with the Second Coming of Christ, there is no need to be desponded because of this but to “always pray.” The Lord directs how to pray through the figurative presentation of a callous judge in a parable, who refused to respond to the pleadings of an aggrieved widow. But eventually, because she was giving him no respite from her entreaties, he wearied and fulfilled her request. The Lord doesn’t want to compare God with this unrighteous judge (further proving that all the details in a parable, should not be interpreted in a spiritual sense), but only to makes a progression from the bad to the complete, and makes a conclusion that more so, the All-good and All-righteous God will protect His chosen if they will entreat Him day and night, even though He may be initially slow in helping them. “Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” — notwithstanding the undoubted certainty of God’s speedy protection of His chosen, will He find such faithful that will have such commitment and such persistence in prayer that is required? In other words: there is no need to fear that God will not protect His faithful from imminent misfortunes and assaults, but to sooner fear that with the Second Coming of Christ, there will be no such faithful.