Why the End Times fervor?

[TPJCatholic]

We live in unique times–different then at any other time in history.

 

[Didi]

I heard a very interesting perspective on this some time back.

Many of our Protestant brothers and sisters long for the end times, for Jesus’ second coming, to be in His Presence.

As Catholics, we already have Jesus’ presence with us – Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity – in the Holy Eucharist. **He is already with us, so we don’t have that longing. ** You simply walk into a Catholic Church, find the Tabernacle, and you are in His Holy Presence.

Our pastor talked about the whole rapture trap awhile ago during one of his homilies. He gave very wise advice. Of course we do not know the day or the hour, Our Lord told us so. So, we live the best we can, with God’s help, as if each day is our last. We do not fret or worry, because our lives are in His hands. Also, the prayer the priest prays between the “Our Father” and “For Thine is the Kingdom…” really applies to this:

“Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In Your mercy, keep us free from sin, and protect us from all anxiety, as we await with joyful hope the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”

 

[Pro_Iesu]

Well if we look at the past century 1900-2000 a great deal of suffering and apostasy has occured. Massive wars at a scale never known before to man with amazing amounts of bloodshed and cruelty. The greed of our day and age is also very apparent even in our own country as the gap between the rich and the poor grows. Western society is decaying at an alarming rate.

And global disaters and weather are also beocming more severe as droughts are spreading in africa, hurricanes/ tornadoes beocming stronger, massive earth quakes hitting asia it is scarry times!

And even if this is nothing compared to what is to come one could say the end times started back after Christ rose from the dead since we each have our own unexpected personal endtimes just as St Paul tried to tell the early christians to be ready for the Lord at any moment. . .

 

[gladtobe]

People get stirred up by slick prophecy writers who make **lots **of money scaring the daylights out of you. In every generation since the time of the apostles there have been doomsday propagandists and there will continue to be.
No one knows when it will all end or when Christ returns. Maybe 10,000 years from now? My point is quit buying those books and just be faithful to God in your life and that's all that matters.

 

[MaggieOH]

gladtobe:

People get stirred up by slick prophecy writers who make **lots **of money scaring the daylights out of you. In every generation since the time of the apostles there have been doomsday propagandists and there will continue to be.

No one knows when it will all end or when Christ returns. Maybe 10,000 years from now? My point is quit buying those books and just be faithful to God in your life and that’s all that matters.

Amen. I agree with every single point. I do not believe in stuff like the Rapture or even a lot of the current End Times prophecies. There are a lot of false ideas floating around and these ideas scare people. Instead of concentrating on God this kind of stuff has a tendency to cause people to turn away from God and live in fear about what might happen. Then it does not. Disappointment. Loss of hope. Anger. Loss of belief in God.

MaggieOH

 

[whit]

Grace and Glory:

I’ve noticed a lot of discussion/speculation about the end times in books, movies, magazines, and on this forum lately. My question is, why do you think there is so much focus on the end times? Why do other issues that deserve discussion lack the popular appeal of end times literature? Is interest in the end times increasing, or has it been here all along?

It sells books!!! Other than that anyone who can read the Book (Bible) knows what Jesus said when He was asked about when He would be back for the final Judgement. “…,only my Father knows…”, but He admonishes us to be ready at all times which means that our personal end time is always imminent and it is in our interest to be ready at all times. Then by that reasoning, the end times for the final judgement will take care of itself.

God bless.
Whit