Some ramblings about "the end times"

In a recent article in The Futurist magazine, writer Laura Lee catalogues some of the worst predictions of all time:

"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments." —Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus, A.D. 100

"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." —John Eric Ericksen, surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1873

"Law will be simplified [over the next century]. Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly curtailed." —journalist Junius Henri Browne, 1893

"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything." —Albert Einstein's teacher to Einstein's father, 1895

"It would appear we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology." —computer scientist John von Neumann, 1949

"The Japanese don't make anything the people in the U.S. would want." —Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 1954

"Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years." —Alex Lewyt, president of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company, quoted in The New York Times, June 10, 1955

"Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail." —Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General under Eisenhower, 1959

"By the turn of the century, we will live in a paperless society." —Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, 1986

"I predict the Internet . . . will go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." —Bob Metcalfe, InfoWorld, 1995

One lesson to these words is to be careful what you say. But beyond that, there is the element that during difficult times, there are always those who articulate that we are near the end. "The end is coming!"

I want to respond, "it's the end of the world - again."

I don't object to carrying over the daily news into a look see into the prophetic. How current events are the fulfillment of end time prophecy. I personally believe we are living in the end times. It's just that we have been living in the end times for 2000 years, since the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Isn't it always interesting how some can give into the temptation to dust off their copy of "The Late Great Planet Earth," and try to "sensationalize" everybody into a recognition of the fact that Jesus is coming soon?

Again, don't get me wrong, I believe we are closer to the "midnight hour" than we would like to think.

But rather than stirring up a lot of conversation of speculating about biblical prophecy, why don't we stand upon the word of God with the knowledge that God has everything under control.

Why don't we realize that rather than ushering in the future, God is much more interested in us drawing closer to him in the present?

Maybe it is the end of the world. But I'm going to continue to live life to its fullest in the present and continue to trust in Him.

Thanks for letting me ramble.

By the way, aren't you glad your faith does not rest on human words but on the sure Word of God?