Immanuel Kant and secular apocalyptic and William Miller and biblical apocalyptic

Metusaleh means, when he dies it shall come.

When Metusaleh died the flood came.

Immanuel Kant wrote in 1794 a book Das Ende aller Dinge.

The end of all things.

When the church stop to exist and stop to be authority over everything, then the End of all things will come.

The Catholic Church which was very authoritative and persecuting people stopped to be ruler in 1798. How true and close was Immanuel Kant in his prognosis.

Kant felt that if the church stops to exist, stop to be caring and lovable, then people will free themselves from it and rebel against it and the End is there and in his view a better future.

This is how Satan think and how Satan talks.

The church administration will stop to exist in the Time of Trouble that is ahead of us just before Christ come on the clouds.

It is the long-expected return of the Messiah from heaven to earth and not silently arising in some country as some expects.

Kant wanted to change eschato-logy to eschato-ethiclogy. People have tried all kinds of things like changing it to eschato-Christology. The biblical picture is simple and clear and one should follow the 14 rules spelled out by William Miller after his conversion in 1816 after 911 of that year.

Four years later after Kant wrote this essay the Catholic church received its deadly wound. Secularism took reign in all countries and Kant was partly right.

A religion that robs people of their freedom of choice, even contra-religion freedom, is dictatorship.

Kant started then secular end-time thinking and influenced many like Goethe, Schiller (writer of ode of joy) Beethhoven, Hegel, Marx, Engels, Fichte, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Derrida. All working for Satan. Their biographies reveal that their lives were just wine, women and song. Zero religion.

God switched on William Miller in 1816 and he influenced the Whites, Bates, Litch, Edson, Andrews, Loughborough, Smith and others with the biblical end-time thinking.

So we see that two streams of eschatology appeared during the rise of Millerism or Adventism fever, true eschatology expectations of Miller and his people and secular eschatological descriptions of Kant and his boys.

The translator of Kant’s book gave this information:

“Das Ende aller Dinge was first published in June 1794 in the Berlinische Monatschrift 23, pp. 495–522.. By 1792 J. E. Biester, editor of the Berlinische Monatschrift, had moved his publication to Jena to avoid the Prussian religious censors. On April 10, 1794, Kant wrote him criticizing the political philosophy of the Hanover conservative August Rehberg and connecting it with the censorship activities of Hermes and Hillmer, who “have taken their positions as overseers of secondary schools and have thereby acquired influence over the universities with respect to how and what is supposed to be taught there.” Then he abruptly ends the letter with this final paragraph: “The essay I will send you soon is entitled ‘The End of All Things,’ which will be partly plaintive and partly funny to read” (AK 11:496–7).

Having endured the difficulties with the censors in getting the Religion published, Kant's outlook was anything but sanguine regarding the prospects for free thought and discussion of religious topics in Prussia. “The End of All Things” is a plea for Christians to be true to what is best in their religion by adopting a “liberal” way of thinking; but because it is a plea directed at the Prussian religious authorities, it is one Kant expects to fall on deaf ears. Thus it is couched in the form of a sly, bitter satire, which approaches its political theme only indirectly”.

https://archive.org/stream/essaysandtreati00kantgoog/essaysandtreati00kantgoog_djvu.txt

Source for Aufklahrung understanding of Apokaliptics, see Ferdinand Schoningh, Apokalyptik in Antike und Aufklärung, Editors Jürgen Brokoff and Bernd U. Schipper. Zurich: 2004.