Peter explains: “The end of all things has drawn close. Be sound in mind, therefore, and be vigilant with a view to prayers.

(1 Pet. 4:7, 8) It is true, the end was then near. Peter wrote sometime between 62 to 64 C.E., and it was shortly after that, in the year 70, that the end finally came to the Jewish system of things. The Roman armies devastated the whole area of Judea, and especially Jerusalem.