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Sounds like you should talk to a priest or a pastor since you have so many questions. Maybe even a Director of Religious Education (DRE) at your local parish (though I've sometimes found them to be more squishy on the logic & reason than more advanced theologians).

As for me, I figure if evil takes over the world, then the world would become Hell, which isn't something I want to pass on to my descendants regardless of Jesus's return. So it's in my interest to work to prevent that. If the world goes to literal Hell (that is, consumed by evil), then Jesus's return would involve very little rapture and very much righteous judgment akin to Sodom and Gomorrah.

But the future explicitly hasn't been revealed to us - the certainty of our requirement to act explicitly has. So the divine reasons as well as the human reasons to secure a good future are what I'm going with.

\* Oh shocker, this wasn't a good faith discussion. Maybe my Advent fast of not commenting on the internet just needs to be a full time fast. Or maybe I'll take a more stoic approach and just be more discerning when I know someone is asking questions in bad faith.