Vice President JD Vance has spoken openly about the Antichrist, the end times and what he describes as troubling spiritual forces in the modern world, while cautioning Christians against becoming consumed by speculation about when Christ will return.
According to LifeSiteNews, Vance discussed the subject during a wide-ranging interview with evangelical Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford, who asked the Catholic vice president whether he believes the world may currently be approaching the end times.
, who asked the Catholic vice president whether he believes the world may currently be approaching the end times.Vance said the subject has interested him since childhood.
“I have for my entire life been fascinated by end times prophecy and theology,” Vance told Crawford, recalling that his first Bible was a prophecy study Bible he received when he was around 10 or 11 years old.
Despite that lifelong interest, Vance said he does not know whether the present age represents the biblical end times and suggested that excessive attention to such predictions could actually become spiritually harmful.
“Do I think that we’re in the end times? I don’t know,” Vance said. He explained that Christians still have immediate responsibilities before God, including duties to their spouses, children and communities.
Vance then made one of the interview’s most striking remarks, according to LifeSiteNews.
“I think that there are things about the world that make me feel not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us,” he said. “But again, I try not to focus too much on it.”
The vice president also connected his spiritual concerns to developments in artificial intelligence, an industry he knew firsthand from his previous work as an investor in Silicon Valley.
Vance said some developments surrounding AI give him the sense that there is “some really really weird spiritual dark energy.” He specifically described hearing about an AI company where employees allegedly conduct a “burial ceremony” when retiring one model and introducing another, saying the practice made him deeply uncomfortable.
The conversation also turned to the growing tendency of some people to form relationships with artificial intelligence or seek personal advice from chatbots.
Vance argued that replacing authentic human relationships with artificial substitutes can undermine something fundamental about how God created human beings.
“When you like completely divorce the human from the social element that God made us for,” Vance said, “I think that’s very bad.”
For Catholics, however, Vance emphasized that speculation about the end times should not overshadow the Christian obligation to live faithfully in the present.
He noted that different Christian traditions approach end-times theology differently, but said there is something about the Catholic approach that has been particularly helpful to him.
“One of the things that I think that Catholics are very focused on that I think is very good for me is this idea that we don’t know when God is coming,” Vance said, adding that Christians are nevertheless called to work toward a society where people can live virtuously, families can flourish and genuine human relationships are strengthened.
That emphasis is significant within Catholic teaching. Christianity affirms that Christ will return and that history will ultimately reach its fulfillment in Him, but the timing of those events is not known to humanity. Catholic spirituality therefore calls the faithful to vigilance, conversion and fidelity rather than attempts to calculate when the end will occur.
Vance ultimately returned to that practical approach.
“While I wouldn’t be shocked if we are living in the end times, what I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now,” he said.
Whether the end comes soon or remains far in the future, Vance said Christians have responsibilities that cannot be postponed.
“The end times may be coming. In fact, they are coming,” Vance said. “It’s just a question of whether they’re coming thousands of years down the road or a few months down the road.”
“And we’ve got a lot of work to do right now,” he added. “I got to try to do the work I can right now.”
For Catholics, that final point reflects an essential response to questions about the end of history: Christians are not called to fearfully predict the day or hour, but to remain faithful to Christ and carry out the work God has placed before them today.
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