If it is true, the tree remains where it falls when it dies, does it matter if each one determines the exact year or date of “the end” or Christ’s return? If, as some have suggested over the years, there is an exact year or date, how do they differ from hundreds, maybe thousands of false prophets, Catholic, Protestant, and otherwise? I’ve heard all sorts of dates bandied about, all of which have come and gone. 1906? 1900? 2000? October of 1994, 1918, 1965, May 21, 2011, 2033?, 2035, 2047?
I suppose if enough people each choose a year or a date, someone is apt to have guessed correctly, but Scripture is not a game of BINGO!
Shall Traditional Catholics join the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons, the Protestant lunatic fringe, the same as that of the Jews, Zionist or anti-Zionist, or the Mayan Calendar that had the world ending in 2012? One by one, these have ended up in causing the unbelievers to mock.
Our Lord told His disciples that no man knows but the Father in Heaven.
Are there signs? Yes. Unless you are a Pygmy living in the jungles of New Guinea, having no contact at all with the outside world, one cannot help but recognize the deterioration of general morals. I suspect even the “uncontacted” tribes, if there are any, know by natural law that things are amiss in nature. How can someone not notice airplanes, climatic anomalies, decline in health of both humans and other sentient creatures? The appearance and effect of litter on the environment?
Rather than arguing and seeking an end time date, God calls us to “redeem the time because the days are evil.” The question is whether a soul makes use of the time allotted him to save his soul. The “last day” and “end of time” comes for everyone. That is the day of his death, when, like all before us, he must give God account of his soul.
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