Is Jesus coming soon?

Yesterday, I read an interesting article at CNN's website.  The full article can be read HERE.

Basically, the article cited the Reverend Franklin Graham as saying the earthquake and tsunami in Japan could be a sign of the end times.

The article went on to talk about the dangers of predicting exactly when the end times would occur.  No big news here.

What I did like about the article was a quote from Darrell Bock, a research professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary;
“I think you have to be careful. Jesus is trying to do two things at once,” Bock said. Jesus is talking about the end times and using these examples “to create in people a responsibility of not knowing when the end will come.”

"[Jesus] is telling [his disciples] to persevere because they don’t know when the end will be," Bock said. “It’s never an attempt to have us calendar out when the end is going to happen.
“I actually think what Graham is doing is raising the accountability issue,” Bock added.

Well said and I agree!

Gary