The fact that "they" have been predicting "the big one" and the end of the world ever since the days of the Apostles and every generation has thought that they were surely the last just doesn't seem to sink in. When you've actually lived through a long list of almost 100 reasons why the rapture was going to happen in the 80's - and it didn't come to pass - you get kinda jaded on the predictions and suggestions that don't have near as much to support it.
D.
That is of course true. Even when you read Paul you get the feeling that he thought that the end was really close.
Could Paul as an apostle of Jesus have erred about how close the end is?

Btw, something I also cannot understand at all is how many christians can believe that the rapture is the next thing to happen when the bible clearly says that first the antichrist has to be revealed. I just don't understand how they can ignore this or interpret it in another way.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall
not come, except there come a falling away
first, and
that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;How can anybody read this and say the antichrist will be revealed after the rapture?