End of the Year, End of the Era

I'm listening to a couple free speakers read through Malachi today at BibleGateway.com and notice how small the book is, how relevant to today and how, right before 400 years of silence, God tells us that the coming One will bring love for the fathers to the sons and love for the sons to the fathers.

I don't think it's just me, since the world divides time according to when Jesus lived.  Jesus changed the world and it wasn't just what evil white people did with His message.  People matter now.  Individuals matter.  I'm sure some fathers have always loved their sons and today we don't respect our fathers enough, but it's understood that there is a connection there.  People don't leave a child by the side of the road to die, unless it's really young.  They used to.

Is it possible that the things generally considered appropriate are now considered appropriate because of the influence that Jesus had on the world?  People can complain about how things today are backward or things today are too forward.  People can listen to CNN or Fox News.  But we're thinking this way because we've misunderstood what Jesus came here to do.  We're part of His conversation now.  We've been let into some secret knowledge that people didn't used to have.  We're here now because He came here first.