I don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting ‘end of the world’ vibes for a few years now. Ever since the onset of Covid, the world seems to have been getting crazier and crazier. To be honest, there was a fair amount of turmoil before Covid, too, but since then the world has gone way beyond anything I expected to see. At times, world events appear almost surreal even.

Within Christian circles, there seems to have been a general uptick in a sense that ‘the end is nigh’. Within LDS circles there was a big fuss about an obscure prophecy from apocryphal literature, named Ezra’s Eagle, a couple of years ago. It always seemed unlikely to me, but a lot of people appeared to take it pretty seriously. The so-called ‘prepper movement’ also seems to like it’s grown in both the number of people involved and its intensity. We’ve seen eclipses and other solar events linked to biblical prophecy of the end times.

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