I’m not a great one for end-of-the-world prognostications, but all my life I’ve heard of this (or something like it) as being a sign of the Last Days:

Protestant translators expect to have the Bible — or at least some of it — written in every one of the world’s 6,909 spoken languages.

“We’re in the greatest period of acceleration in 20 centuries of Bible translation,” said Morrison resident Paul Edwards, who heads up Wycliffe Bible Translators’ $1 billion Last Languages Campaign.

Portable computers and satellites get the credit for speeding things up by about 125 years.

Full story here, from the Denver Post.

Apocalyptic or not, it’s good news.