Let’s put aside idle speculation

Veronica Zundel says that trying to work out when the end times will happen is a fruitless task

My late father-in-law, who died a few years ago at the age of 97, was a lifelong Christadelphian, a member of one of the various sects that arose in the mid-19th century who all embraced some form of millennialism (pre, post and who knows what else) and the belief that Jesus would return soon and the end times be ushered in. Whenever there was a global development he could associate with the prophecies in Revelation, he would say “Not long now.” The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 was of course a key piece of evidence for him and his fellow believers, and, had he lived to see the current war in Gaza, while he would certainly have lamented the slaughter, he would also have rejoiced in this sign that ‘the end is nigh’.