Robin Roese

Gotcha. Well, I don't know exactly what Peter meant, especially since God runs on a different clock than we do, plus the objective is to always be ready for the end regardless when it comes; but when people cite the verse or say the words in response to current events, they generally don't mean "the end is near and we're going to be saying the same thing 2,000 more years from now". They generally mean prophecy is being fulfilled as we speak and we're in the book of Revelation with the Antichrist activating and the final days upon us. You know, "signs of the times" implies that we can somewhat tell the time by the signs, and if the current conditions represent the signs and the signs represent the end times, aren't we making some sort of prediction that judgement day is coming sooner rather than later...when really we have no clue? I'm certainly not suggesting that because history came and went, it will continue to do so eternally. I'm only saying that interpretations of prophecies and predictions based upon those interpretations ring a bit hollow for me at a certain point. Fox example: How many Popes can come and go before the vaguely specific claim that the Pope equates to the Mark of the Beast loses some value, or turns into fear-mongering? If the claim is that the end will come through specific circumstances, and that we can see when those specific circumstances are playing out, we are making a claim that's time-sensitive - a prediction about a prophecy, so to speak - and I'm just wondering how long we get to say "we're almost there" before it becomes more accurate to say "we're just getting started"? Sometimes it sounds to me like people such as yourself are saying "I'm not saying that the end is just around the corner, but the prophetic representations of the end are just around the corner". Sometimes it sounds like a distinction without a difference, or a claim without a conclusion...if that makes sense... Something short of a "Great Disappointment", but a series of misinterpretations nonetheless... Sincerely questioning here...