I don't see why people are making such a big deal about this.
After all, Christians everywhere are praying for the events of the Book of Revelation to come soon.
These events make a second great depression, more terrorist attacks, or the collapse of industrialism seem like a small deal:
- Horse-like locusts with human heads, women's hair, lion's teeth, and scorpion's tails sting people, torturing them for for five months. 9:7-10
- Four angels, with an army of 200 million, kill a third of the earth's population. 9:15-19
- "The great winepress of the wrath of God ... was trodden ... and the blood came ... even unto the horses bridles." 14:19-20
- The seven vials of wrath: 1) sores, 2) sea turned to blood, 3) rivers turned to blood, 4) people scorched with fire, 5) people gnaw their tongues in pain, 6) Euphrates dries up, 7) thunder, lightening, earthquake, and hail. 16:1-21
- Non-Christians will be cast into the lake of fire. 20:15
And people are freaking about because we're praying for a mere depression?