Proclaiming the coming of the End Times is a sport Christians have regularly engaged in lo these twenty centuries. I am not convinced myself that we live in the End Times, but one fine day that constant prediction will finally come to pass and we should all be prepared as if that day will be today.
Agree its not the End Times but I think it is the beginning of bad times.
Every day is the “end time” for somebody.
End of digital age, maybe. Hopefully. Although I would miss my online friends.
My dh said they are going to cut off internet. And I said, you say it like it’s bad.
When I was a youngster, I thought that heaven would be a place where I could catch massive fish, and now that I’m much more seasoned, I just hope when I catch it, it isn’t already cooked.
“Something wicked this way comes…..”
It’s Dead, having been mortally wounded 2024 years ago this Friday.
Dare say I Love God as much for Saving me (all of us) as for also Destroying It.
If It does rear It’s ugly head in the short years ahead, do not forget …
It’s Already Dead.
It feels like we are living on a freight training headed now where.
I too would miss the internet if it was taken away.
I read few blogs, this being one, and its one of the things I can rely on to give me joy and a sense of shared values with others, which I find gives me strength in the season of life I am in.
Having said this, it wouldn’t be a bad thing if this whole AI and social media had the brakes pulled on it.
No offence to those who live in NYC (and forgive me for saying this), but back in 2010 we visited NYC. The indifference of people to each other in a colossal city like NYC had a lasting impression me- generally people were rude and rushed. Fast forward suburban suburban Sydney Australia n 2024, and people here have become exactly the same as people who live in NYC, but without the excuse and rush of a big city. People’s tolerance for each other it things such as simple manners is all but gone. You can’t even get a smile from someone serving you when you order a coffee. I think ppl are generally unhappy with the pace of the world.
Something has to give.
Definitely getting into the “maps with arrows on them” territory.
Dang, but things are not creative; first we do a remake of the 19-whatever flu, and now we’re getting a remix of the world wars.
True, Foxfier…the eternal wisdom of Scripture is proven once again: there is, indeed, nothing new under the sun. Here we go, repeating history yet again, because we ever fail to learn from it.
I’m not sure he’s talking about the end of times. He seems to be saying what I’ve heard many say in recent years. That we are on the brink of something. Something likely big and world changing, like the world in August, 1939. Or 1913 for that matter. Or in the US in the 1850s. That what we are seeing is not sustainable, and something is going to give. I agree with that, because I feel it too. Not in a ‘the Second Coming is nigh’ sense, but in the “‘why didn’t they see it coming?’ asked future generations” sense.
I agree wtih David G. It isn’t the end times, but something is over the horizon that will change things significantly. There have been enough tremors as prelude to warn us. My guess is that it’s a man-made event.
Three possibilities suggest: another financial crisis, China seizing Taiwan and undertaking other belligerent acts, and consequential electoral fraud in this country. Gross misbehavior on the part of the political class in European countries is certainly possible but with more circumscribed effects.
This year is my apology tour to all my Evangelical friends. “Sorry I made so much fun of your end-times obsession. So when do the giant locusts show up?”
A cloud no bigger than a man’s hand…
I have a strong feeling that we are going to regard 2024 as worse than 2020, and for good reason.
Not the end times, but the end of these times.
Frank said: “Here we go, repeating history yet again, because we ever fail to learn from it.”
But, what if it’s not a bug, but a feature? What if we’re repeating history because the string-pullers are going with what’s worked in the past, and they mean to get their Great Reset™ come hell or high water?
In the meantime, on the Left, which for some time has been excoriating us as being “on the wrong side of History”, we now have Biden, who is doing his damnedest to put this country on the wrong side of Armageddon.
Donald wrote, “I am not convinced myself that we live in the End Times, but one fine day that constant prediction will finally come to pass and we should all be prepared as if that day will be today.”
My AA sponsor (a Catholic who got me into RCIA) once told me, “Paul, what difference does it make if Jesus comes back tonight or the beer truck hits you while crossing the street? In either case you got to be ready.”
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What makes me think it might be end times is because our current Pope makes Jack Chick tracks look correct.
We’ve had really bad popes before but I don’t remember them spreading heretical teachings as he is doing.
“what difference does it make if Jesus comes back tonight or the beer truck hits you while crossing the street? In either case you got to be ready.”
That is true from an individual point of view, however, I think there is one really critical difference between one’s own death vs. the end of the world. If the end of the world is just around the corner, what’s the point in trying to leave any kind of legacy for yourself — including marrying or having children? Even St. Paul strongly implied that celibacy was better than marriage in part because “the time is short” and “the world is passing away”.