An explanatory book concerning the date of the end times :

The Jubilee of the Revelation

by

Daniel Meynen

[a work in preparation, of which here are the first pages :]

The year 2000 is near. We are going to celebrate the big Jubilee of the Incarnation, a very expected Jubilee, one of those that is celebrated only very rarely.

As time passes by, nearer are we of the time of this other Jubilee, the ultimate and last Jubilee, the one that will celebrate the manifestation of glorious Christ, the one that will reveal that the times are definitely accomplished : I want to speak about the Jubilee of the Revelation.

The "Jubilee of the Revelation", is the title I gave to this book. Also, the reader will have understood that, I will dare to talk about the end times, or should I say, I will try to explain in written words all what the Almighty Lord permitted me to understand concerning the end times.

Everybody knows this passage of the Holy Scripture evoking the end times : «But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.» (Mt. 24, 36) So, why would I want to talk of the end times in that book, and above all, why would I want to say, maybe with arrogance and presumption, that the Lord himself inspires my desire ?

Generally speaking, this passage of Saint Matthieu applies to everybody : like each one doesn't know the day and the hour of his death, neither does it matter to know or not when Christ will return on earth to judge the livings and the deads. But, as "exception proves the rule", God revealed to some person the precise date of their death : for instance, to Saint Benedict, the Patriarch of Monks. So, why could we not suppose, that God could reveal to one or another person that the day when his earthling life will end, would be precisely the day (stated since the beginning of time) of the revelation of the divine glory in Christ ? Such an assumption would perfectly harmonize the Holy Scripture and the living Tradition of Church.

If Tradition and the Holy Scripture can be in harmony with the end times question, what could be said about profane science which we absolutely have to take into account ? Will we not learn that our chronology towards Christ birthdate is relatively wrong? That Christ was most probably born in year 3 before our era ? So therefore the beginning date being doubtful, the arrival date would probably also be so ...

Since the Father God is the author of all the Creation, and that He only knows perfectly which is the Day of his Son's glorious Return, no doubt that there is any incoherence between these complexed questions raised by the profane Science and the certain and determined cognizance of the end times. The reader shall find that out as he goes through the book's pages.

Thus, three parts - closely bound between them, in order to be harmonized - are going to constitute the present work. The first will be dedicated to the Tradition of the Church ; the second will treat the Holy Scripture ; and the third will introduce us in this vast domain of the profane Science.