It’s the end of the world as we know it…

And I feel fine. Or so goes the iconic song by REM.

Or is it? And how do we actually feel?

I know there is a segment of Christianity that is addicted to constant predictions about the end of the world and all the hysteria that goes with it. Frankly I don’t understand why any of these folks are ever listened to anymore. They have been wrong so much that the predictions sound more like a meme than anything serious. Does anyone actually take predictions about the end of the world seriously? I mean really, even Jesus said that no one knows when that will happen. Jesus! The one Christians are supposedly following. But hey, what does he know anyway? #sarcasm

Jesus had a few things to say about the end of the world type of things.

The most commonly cited might be from Matthew 24:6–8 -

“And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.”

We have war going on in Ukraine and now in Israel/Palestine. The Israel/Palestine war has added apocalyptic emphasis is you read Revelation through a certain lens. There have been plenty of preachers who have made a nice fortune in books, videos, and merch selling the end of the world. They ought to be ashamed, but it is apparently just too…