"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Mark 13:31-32)

In one of the Peanuts comic strips by Charles Schultz, the television is on, but there is no one in the room listening to it. The announcer is talking about a golf tournament that is in process. He says, "Smith has to make this putt to win the championship, or there will be no tomorrow." Just as he says, "There will be no tomorrow," in walks Lucy. She immediately goes into a panic and starts running around and yelling to the other children, "The world is coming to an end. They just announced it on television." Her panic quickly spreads as we see all the peanuts kids as they go wildly screaming about. Finally, in the last square all of the children huddled on top of Snoopy's doghouse waiting for the end of the world.

When someone claims that he knows when the world is coming to an end, we can rest assured that he knows no more about it than did Lucy.