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He [the Lord] told His disciples that a sign of the end of the world and the proximity of the second coming of the Lord would be an extraordinary material development: people would forget God, forget heaven, forget eternity, and in their deception, as if they were eternal on earth, they would direct all their attention to the earth, to achieving for themselves the most exalted and unchangeable well-being on it. What could be crazier than this trend? Doesn’t death, which has befallen and is constantly befalling all men, testify that we were created for eternity, that on earth we are the shortest wanderers, that for this reason our concerns about eternity should be the main and greatest concerns, and concerns about the earth should be very moderate? Despite all the recklessness of such a direction, it will appear on earth in the inevitable fulfillment of Divine prophecy. If it appeared, then, being hostile to the Word of God, it serves for us as one of the clearest proofs of the truth of the Word of God.
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