There is a very, very fine line that needs to be drawn. We need to hope and expect every day for Moshiach to come tomorrow. At the same time, we can’t say for sure that it will happen. The Gemara has very harsh words for those who try and calculate when Mashiach will come. The reason is because if you say that Mashiach will come at a precise time, then if you’re wrong it causes people to lose hope or mock (look at what happened with the nutcase and the rapture last year). So saying that this is for sure the lead-up to Mashiach is bad, because if C”V Mashiach isn’t here in 5 years or 10 years, people will say, “Look, everyone said all the signs were here but he didn’t come. Either he’s never coming or he doesn’t exist.”
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