| Martin Lings give us from the outset
powerful reasons for believing that we have now reached a point in
time from which ‘the end’ — whatever that may mean
— is already in sight without being immediately imminent. The
Eleventh Hour has its roots in the parable of the labourers in the
vineyard. The following questions run through the book: why did the
latecomers receive the same wage as those who had laboured throughout
the heat of the day? Why were they the first to be paid? And why,
did Christ say ‘And the last shall be first?’ These questions
are answered in the light of the concept of the Millennium, which
is clearly the equivalent of the new Golden Age of the next cycle
of time, and which is found in all three monotheistic religions, bringing
them into line, in this respect, with Hinduism, Greco-Roman Antiquity
and Buddhism.
This new and expanded edition now includes the fascinating ‘St
Malachy’s Prophecy of the Popes’, a remarkable twelfth-century
prophecy which Lings analyses in depth, according to which the end
of time is predicted and also an appendix concerning the apparitions
of the Virgin Mary at Garabandal and other places.
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