Clearly, the predictors of doom in our own age—the Hal Lindseys (author of The Late Great Planet Earth) and the Tim LaHaye (co-author of the Left Behind series)—have had their predecessors, just as they will have their successors, world without end.
This is not unique to Christianity.
I think it is human nature to struggle imagining time continuing after our own death. It can be more comfortable to imagine we are in the end times than it is to accept that the world will move on from us.
