Are we living in the End Times?

2 Peter 3

The World Will Be Destroyed
3 Dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to you. In both of them I have tried to get you to remember some things. 2 You should remember the words that were spoken before by the holy early preachers. Do not forget the teaching of the Lord, the One Who saves. This was given to you by your missionaries.

3 First of all, I want you to know that in the last days men will laugh at the truth. They will follow their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “He promised to come again. Where is He? Since our early fathers died, everything is the same from the beginning of the world.” 5 But they want to forget that God spoke and the heavens were made long ago. The earth was made out of water and water was all around it. 6 Long ago the earth was covered with water and it was destroyed. 7 But the heaven we see now and the earth we live on now have been kept by His word. They will be kept until they are to be destroyed by fire. They will be kept until the day men stand before God and sinners will be destroyed.

8 Dear friends, remember this one thing, with the Lord one day is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years are as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about keeping His promise as some people think. He is waiting for you. The Lord does not want any person to be punished forever. He wants all people to be sorry for their sins and turn from them. 10 The day of the Lord will come as a robber comes. The heavens will pass away with a loud noise. The sun and moon and stars will burn up. The earth and all that is in it will be burned up.

11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, you should think about the kind of life you are living. It should be holy and God-like. 12 You should look for the day of God to come. You should do what you can to make it come soon. At that time the heavens will be destroyed by fire. And the sun and moon and stars will melt away with much heat. 13 We are looking for what God has promised, which are new heavens and a new earth. Only what is right and good will be there.

 

Thank you for that!
I wonder if from the ashes will he create the new heaven and earth? The fantastical creation of Narnia also comes to mind. Well, all in God's good time. We will get there when we get there.

 

Sister Lucia of Fatima saw that in a kind of vision and kept repeating "one faith one Church. ."(from Lucy in Her Own Words)
Several things have to happen before the "end of days: Some of those things are happening. Israel's return to the Holy land in 1948. The increase of wars and storms and earthquakes. And the removal of the "restrainer" or Katechon. Since Pope Benedict was removed and then died things have been ramping up. No question. But Our Lady's words at Fatima and Quito make me think there is a long way to go to the End. Obviously I dont know for sure. Thats why I " watch and pray".

 

Me too.

 

Hard not to think we are there--as I read these words of St Peter.

 

Yes.

 

This is what we are waiting for.