#12299 Are We Currently in the End Times? Signs of Jesus’ Return - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Are we currently in the End Times?” This episode explores the signs of Jesus’ return, delving into questions like what dispensationalism is and whether Jesus got end-of-the-world prophecies wrong. Join us as we navigate these important topics and more in this thought-provoking discussion.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:30 – What is dispensationalism?
- 05:59 – Are we currently in the End Times?
- 14:30 – What are the signs that will precede the return of Jesus?
- 30:33 – Did Jesus get end-of-the-world prophecies wrong?
- 49:58 – Will Jesus really return—like “a thief in the night”?
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| 0:32.4 | Thanks so much for being here with us today. |
| 0:35.3 | You're going to be glad you're here because what a show we have today. |
| 0:38.3 | Jimmy Aiken is our guest, both hours, and we've asked him, can we ask him every question we can |
| 0:45.0 | think of about the end of the world, the end times, the tribulation, the rapture, whatever, |
| 0:51.3 | all the things we're going to ask him about that have to do with the end of the world. |
| 0:56.6 | And Darren pointed out to me that we're pre-recording this show because both Jimmy and I are traveling today. |
| 1:02.8 | And we don't actually know if it's going to air because the end times could happen between now and then. |
| 1:08.6 | So if this is airing, at least we made it this far, |
| 1:12.3 | but we'll find out from Jimmy Aiken. Well, I just say we'll find out from Jimmy Akin how far we'll |
| 1:16.9 | make it, but he knows a lot, but I don't think he knows that. Jimmy Aiken's senior apologists here at |
| 1:22.3 | Catholic Answers. Thank you for agreeing to do this, Jimmy. Yeah, my pleasure, Sikellet. |
| 1:27.0 | Always happy to oblige. |
| 1:29.0 | I feel like we have discussed before Hal Lindsay in the late Great Planet Earth, which I think both of us as teenage. |
| 1:36.2 | I think I was 12 or 13 when I read the book. |
| 1:39.4 | It was scary. |
| 1:40.3 | It was scary because this was in the early 1980s. I don't know if he wrote it in the late |
| 1:45.8 | 70s or when. Mid 70s. Okay. And it was about, well, now, right now is the end times. |
| 1:54.2 | Well, actually, it was about the 1980s is when he thought the end of the world was going to be. |
| 1:59.6 | Yeah, I think that's when I finally got around. I'm sorry, not the end of the world, but he thought the second of the world was going to be. Yeah, I think that's when I finally got around. |
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