Bingo. People love the world and the things of the world more than they love the God who created the world and those things.
They are pretending it's the date they find offensive, but it is really the idea that they might have to face God sooner rather than later.
Truth be told, any one of us could get hit by a bus or choke to death on our morning Pop-Tart tomorrow. So if that happens, next thing you know is that's Judgment Day right there for that person.
The Gospel has pretty much been preached in all the world. And it's hard to imagine that people living in Noah's day or the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were any more sinful than the world of today.
The world is close to this reenactment but we have not reached the activity taking place in the days of Noe.
Just quoting for emphasis. Talk of the Second Coming should always come around to this. May 21st will be the end of the world for many, maybe even some reading this thread.
We are all dying a little bit every day, that much closer to eternity.
"Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 Jn. 2:15).
Do we not all love some of the things of this world? Do we not all sorrow for unbelieving loved ones for whom, regardless of the date, it will be too late? Yet can we see this within us and use it to spur us on, to evaluate our love for God in comparison to the things of this world? We, all of us, struggle in this way.