“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. ”—Matthew 24:36 The fact that this is my 666 th blog posting on Barnabas File seems appropriate since so many Christian associate that number—“the number of the Beast”—with the end times, and some people expected that the world would end today based on some interpretations of the Mayan calendar. As of this writing, the world has not ended. This type of thing comes along regularly. Christians have been anticipating the end of this present world since the time of Christ. Various millennialists, chiliastics, prophets, and seers arise from time to time to proclaim “the end of days.” Some modern Christian sects have been founded on such calculations and then their leaders have done some fancy interpretation when the date arrived and everyone was still here. The predictions continue, however. In connection with the present prediction,...
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