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We are approaching Advent and the liturgy makes us meditate on the final coming of Jesus foretold by atmospheric convulsions and terrible historical events that will put our faith to the test. The signal is the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem, which occurred in 70 AD, as the beginning of a “final time”, of trials and apostasy, in preparation for the Parousia. In the meantime, false Christs and false prophets will arise. The curiosity to listen to this or that will grow out of all proportion, but it will be part of a diabolical deception. Yet, when all these things happen it will not yet be the end, of which no one knows the time, except the Father. However, if, with a wrong exegesis of Matthew 24-25, we forget the historical reference to the abomination of desolation and the destruction of the temple, we risk distorting the entire eschatological expectation. Every warlike event and every painful historical juncture could represent the end. To understand if this is true, messages, various prophets and apparitions here and there are chased. While curiosity and confusion grow, a vain hope is fueled with the risk of falling into a social and political neo-millenarianism (of the Russian-Orthodox type).