Revelations is the part of the bible written by a man named John to record a dream he had.

Btw, I am NOT discounting Johns record of his dream.

Nor am I discounting the bibles record of what Christ said about "The End" ie ONLY God the Father KNOWS when that will happen.

Consequently, I find Christs parable about the Bridegroom's Return to be useful. ALWAYS be READY. The Return will happen when you least expect it to happen.

Nonetheless, each generation of "Christians", including those who lived while Christ was here, had people who engaged in speculative guessing about when The End would happen; people who often concluded that they KNEW Christ was returning in their life time because what Johns dream described perfectly described what was happening in their world.

Often this lead them to dooming waiting and VIEWING rather than DOING.

Perhaps Christ was speaking to these " Doomer Viewer-Rather-Than-Joyful-Doer" Christians when He told His parable condemning the servant who was so certain his Master would be pleased because hed chosen to bury the talent his Master had entrusted to him so he could return exactly what he'd been given?

Revelations is the part of the bible written by a man named John to record a dream he had.

Btw, I am NOT discounting Johns record of his dream.

Nor am I discounting the bibles record of what Christ said about "The End" ie ONLY God the Father KNOWS when that will happen.

Consequently, I find Christs parable about the Bridegroom's Return to be useful. ALWAYS be READY. The Return will happen when you least expect it to happen.

Nonetheless, each generation of "Christians", including those who lived while Christ was here, had people who engaged in speculative guessing about when The End would happen; people who often concluded that they KNEW Christ was returning in their life time because what Johns dream described perfectly described what was happening in their world.

Often this lead them to dooming waiting and VIEWING rather than DOING.

Perhaps Christ was speaking to these " Doomer Viewer-Rather-Than-Joyful-Doer" Christians when He told His parable condemning the servant who was so certain his Master would be pleased because hed chosen to bury the talent his Master had entrusted to him so he could return exactly what he'd been given?

The part of the bible written by a man named John to record a dream he had.

Btw, I am NOT discounting Johns record of his dream.

Nor am I discounting the bibles record of what Christ said about "The End" ONLY God the Father KNOWS when that will happen.

Consequently, I find Christs parable about the Bridegroom's Return to be useful. ALWAYS be READY. It will happen when you least expect it to happen.

Nonetheless, each generation of "Christians", including those who lived while Christ was here, included people who engaged in speculative guessing and often concluded that they KNEW Christ was returning in their life time because what Johns dream described perfectly described what was happening in their world.

Often this lead them to dooming waiting and VIEWING rather than DOING.

Perhaps Christ was speaking to these Christians when He told His parable that condemned the servant who was so certain his Master would be pleased because hed chosen to bury the talent his Master had entrusted to him so he could return exactly what he'd been given?