Was Jesus wrong about the end of the world?
November 17, 2024 Today’s first reading and the Gospel reading takes up a theme that has fascinated human beings from all time - i.e. the theme of the end of the world. We have predictions about the end of the world from all kinds of civilisations from ages ago, and even today there are many interpreting the words of Nostradamus and other more recent voices to try and decipher when the world will end. It would seem to me that from the beginning of our existence as Homo Sapiens, we have always found the world, the universe, as something that is so unpredictable, so chaotic, so unjust, and so on, that we are desperate to believe that everything will someday be put right. This was certainly the experience of the early Church, which could not explain why a God-sent person like Jesus could be crucified, why his followers could be hounded, persecuted and tortured, and who saw a world in which, what they perceived as ‘evil’, was repeatedly winning. A professor of the ology , DiTommaso, sug
