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It's an old family tradition
This.Coming from a specifically Christian and as biblical position on this as I can...
The time of the end has been with us for the last two thousand years, St. Peter was clear on this in his sermon in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Two thousand years have come and gone, and another two thousand years could come and go. It's not ours to speculate over times and seasons, neither is it ours to worry about tomorrow, as tomorrow has its own problems.
Nation has risen against nation and kingdom against kingdom since the first man who hurled a rock against his neighbor; these things will continue right up until history is concluded.
Our prayer is to be what Christian prayer has always been: "Thy will be done."
There have always been people who think they have recognized the "signs of the times", for many that was when Rome was sacked by the Vandals; for many it was the Muslim armies marched on Byzantine lands; still others when the Black Death spread across Europe; then there was the first world war. And so on it goes.
Rather than trying to divine the future, our energy is better spent toward constructive pursuits: obedience, faithfulness, loving our neighbor, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, being a people of gentleness and kindness in imitation of Jesus Christ.
Apocalyptic-mania is a toxic obsession. Flee from it.
-CryptoLutheran
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