Yes, over-attendance to the "end times" does occupy time and resources better given off to serve in the here-and-now, but this person sounds like a typical Reformer (the 70 AD reference identifies him as a amillennial preterist) meaning the spiritualization of all the prophetic scriptures, giving rise to the "50 different ways to leave your lover" interpretations of the apocalyptic scriptures. Preterists are one flavor of amillennialist and generally believe that all of Revelation had been fulfilled by 70 AD and has no significance for the future. Not quite so fast my friend!
While Jesus said no one knows the time, He also said "to know the seasons" meaning having circumstantial awareness of what's happening. And who can deny we are closer to the End that at any other time in history. Who can deny that "what is wrong is right, and what is right is wrong", is occurring before our very generation in our own country?
