If patience is a virtue...

If patience is a virtue, the only person who would be anxious and impatient about the end of the world is the antichrist.  He would want it to end as soon as possible by polluting all viable sources of drinking water, he would use four-ply toilet tissue and would use the most inefficient sources of energy to achieve  his impatient objectives. The Lord loves life and  the devil would wish to extinguish it. He certainly can't wait. He has his goal.  Many Christians may aid this impatience by worrying so much about prophecies and inadvertently failing to cast their net on the other side (John 21:6)  to fulfill their needs. have you heard of a hydrogen fuel cell that has enough power in one vehicle engine to power four homes over an entire week with normal average home electrical use? They may even write sermons suggesting there must be an end sometime without zeroing in on the role and commission to steward and preserve life.  What other duty would God give to His children?  This is also the duty given to redeemed children who live by faith in Christ; to goal to steward and preserve life.  You may not wish to believe he exists and if  that is so, just follow old fashioned home economics in your choice of paper towels, fuel for the stoves and the most efficient lard for cooking.  The slow burning lard is best. It lasts three times as long as the other brand used for preparation to satiate the family's appetite at Sunday dinner after church.  The antichrist's goal is to kill, to destroy and to steal but not necessarily in that order.  Whether God exists or not in your estimation, you would probably want to save fuel costs so you can buy more alcohol and cigarettes so you can kill your own life without dragging the whole planet with you, destroying the only planet on which mammalian and also reptilian life can sustain itself.  Even a repentant forked tongue human being would be cautious about saving his only inhabitable planet. Where else can you enjoy a smoke, drink of lager beating of your children and dog and also fishing all at the same time except but on earth? The cost of searching for another earth or inhabitable planet cannot justify the impatient loss, squandering and abuse of this one.