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Sunday, August 14, 2011

I Forgot!

We forget so much.
Like the Reverend Harold Camping; he predicted the end of the world back in May. (And we are still here, by the way, if you have not noticed... although some might say that the blather of financial news since then does indeed have the same effect of the Last Trump.)

Reverend Camping thought that he had figured out the end day from the number of natural disasters and the accumulation of sin in the world.


What Reverend Camping forgot is that Forgiveness is Immediate, if one repents. Even though you may have sinned for decades, when there is repentance, Forgiveness is in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps the original end-of-times that Jesus and the early Christians expected and did not occur was not a "mistake", but rather it was "re-scheduled" since enough people in the Roman Empire had turned from brutality and lust to repentance and reconciliation.

End-of-Times is coming, but no man knows the time. Such things are not a matter of knowledge, but of our natural Intuition of the Holy.

The reason no man knows the time is that End-of-Times occurs when the degradation has progressed so far as to inhibit our natural Intuition of Creation and the Universe. End-of-Times comes when we are already spiritually dead and cannot perceive its advent.
It remains unknown; it remains beyond human ken.
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2 comments:

Reading the Signs said...

I know that Reverend Camping is talking through his hat and no-one (almost) takes him seriously. But this 'end of the world' stuff is a powerful archetype. And apparently a new date has been fixed (he got it wrong again, apparently). And I shudder - in secret perhaps, but I do. And I bet others also - secretly - breathe a sigh of relief when the date comes and goes again. God kept his promise to us after all.

Montag said...

I do not take the literal content of his statements very seriously.

And I'm not so sure it is an archetype anymore - if ever - and more of a fearful obsession.
The dynamics of an archetype seem to be lacking in our present day symbols. They are vast and monstrous, but they are not numinous. They do not glow, they sputter and slouch like deadly vagrants.