We know two things to be true:
1) the world will not end on October 7. (No one knows the day or the hour.)
2) the common response throughout much of Christian history has been something along the lines of, “if I knew the world were ending tomorrow, I would plant a tree,” meaning we are supposed to act as if our work will never end, all the while knowing that it will end when we don’t expect it to.
Which you guys got from the Jews...a very famous rabbi was once asked what one should do upon hearing that the Messiah has arrived, and his reply was "plant a tree."
1) the world will not end on October 7. (No one knows the day or the hour.)
2) the common response throughout much of Christian history has been something along the lines of, “if I knew the world were ending tomorrow, I would plant a tree,” meaning we are supposed to act as if our work will never end, all the while knowing that it will end when we don’t expect it to.
Responding to 1), if no one knows the day or the hour, than it could INDEED "end" on October 7. To say that it won't "end" tomorrow is as presumptuous as saying it will.
I don't think God is going to redo his plans over just a few nut case prognosticators.
That said, the horribly misunderstood "end of the world" needs to be corrected, badly. The "end" isn't just a distinct point in time, but a whole series of events over a vast period of time, and non-time, the which our present period is a part. There will be a LOT of "ends" in eschatology, the end of the Church Age (rapture of the Church), the end of the Great Tribulation (at Christ's second coming), the end of His thousand year earthly reign, the next end of Satan's captivity, the final end of Satan and absolute banishment, the end of planet earth, etc.