Let's suppose that the world really was coming to an end. How, do you suppose, the headlines of our major newspapers would read? One day at lunch a crowd of reporters, bankers, brokers and PR types at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. speculated on how various news media would play the story of the end of time. Here are some suggested headlines:

*LOS ANGELES TIMES: NO TRAFFIC ON FREEWAYS TONIGHT.

*USA TODAY: WE DIE! (Late Sports, 1C)

*THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: MARKET CLOSES EARLY.

*SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: THE FAT LADY SINGS. (1)

Our lesson from Mark's Gospel is part of the apocalyptic literature of the Bible.

In very vivid terms it describes the last days of planet earth. Some people get a chill just thinking of the possibility of the end of the world or the Rapture or the Secon…