Words are flying these days about proximity of the end. Talk of rapture and judgement has ramped up again.

When people ask me about the end times, I usually shrug my shoulders.

In His last days in flesh and bone the boys asked Jesus about the end.

So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” – Acts 1:6-8 NASB

During His ministry, Jesus made some statements about His second coming, but His discourse…