If the world didn't end on 6-6-1906, why should it end today? Why is this 6-6-06 different from any other one? There is one of these every century, you know. I shall never understand those Christians who obsess on figuring out when Christ will come. Christ himself said that he will come "like a thief in the night" and we "will not know the day or the hour." Christ said that he would come when we least expect it. If you are like me, the time you least expect it is right now. This, I think, is the point. Christ is not dead. Indeed, "where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them." Or if you are Catholic or certain strains of Protestant you believe in the real presence in the Eucharist. Paul says, "now is the accepted time; behold, today is the day of salvation." Or as a high school teacher of mine opined, the entire Gospel can be summed up in ten words: "Reform your lives; the kingdom of God is at hand." I do not know when the world will end, nor do I care. I also know I don't know when my life here on Earth will end. That's why it is best to be prepared. The verses from Revelation on the "number of the beast" are well known. How about a lesser known passage:
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." And he that sat upon the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new."
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