Yes, to the people of those era's I'd agree, including the deciples as they asked "when shall we see"....
What's different now than then?....Nuclear Capability.
I enter as a fool who steps in where angels fear to tread.
I am old and may not see the End Times come, because each day now for me is a “bonus” day: “seventy is the sum of our years or 80 if we are strong”—Ps. 90:10)
“Whatever God wills, He does” (Ps.) and when God wills to bring into reality the last days of this time and world, He will do it. The only admonition we have been given is to be ready, to “have oil in our lamps”, to “keep our eyes on the goal line and run so as to win.”
We are to be as “little children”, knowing neither the day nor the hour, but being always ready for all the the Lord chooses to send, day in and day out, with our eyes focused on the one thing necessary—”life on high with Christ Jesus.”
I know I can’t predict or prevent those eschatological events-—I can only say with the Psalmist “My heart is ready, O Lord, my heart is ready”.
Every moment, then, is precious and all the research and documentation and separation of fact from fiction won’t change the course of events.
If the sky falls, with God’s grace I will be ready and will run to meet Him.
Some might say: Isn’t this a form of “quietism”?
I would say not. It’s listening and striving to live out the prayer Our Lord Himself gave to us:
“Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done...
give us this day our DAILY bread
Forgive us
as we forgive...
deliver us from evil.”
He has plans for us, not for our destruction but for our good (Jeremiah)
“Father into you hands I commend my spirit.”
I may be a crowd of one, but I believe that as long as I live each day as if it were my last, my life is in His hands and this is all I really need to know.
And TV so the bodies of the 2 witnesses will be seen lying in the streets of Jerusalem by all the world as Biblical prophecy indicates . . .