The World Exploding
I am sure that you have not been living under a rock and have heard something about the Mayan calendar predicting that the world would come to a cataclysmic ending on December 12, 2012 (12-12-12).
I am happy to tell you that I have just learned that there has been a press release by U. C. Santa Barbara that the scientist publishing this study says the Mayan calendar could be anywhere from 50 to 100 years off.  I don’t know about you, but I am totally relieved by this news. The only bad thing now is that I am going to have to buy Christmas presents.  There goes the excuse that I thought the world was going to come to an end, so I didn’t buy anything this year. Then again, as I was looking into this most relieving news, I ran across another article by Discovery News that mentions that the Mayan calendar is off also. Unfortunately, this article goes on to say that they Mayans may be off as much as 60 days. Oh the nerves are starting to flare up again.
Actually the Discovery News article goes on to make much mention of the fact that this date is the “inane ramblings of doomsday advocates who have their sights set on the world ending on Dec. 21, 2012″. I just love the way he said that so I had to quote it. The Discovery News article also says that the Mayans never predicted the end of the world, there was no apocalyptic prediction. Man, where is the fun in that?
I would like to leave you with some factual information. God’s word says in Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matthew 24:36 But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, not the Son, but the Father only. Well that is pretty clear to me. We do not know the day. The end could come before I finish this post or it could happen many years from now. We should behave as if Jesus was coming back any second. With that thought I have comfort in knowing who holds the future and that my future is in the Lord.
The Mayan calendar had to end at some point. It is simply the end of a cycle, not the end of the world. Man wants there to be meaning, a higher power, symbolism, major events that cause one to evulate their lives, and question their existence. Some will go to the end of the Earth (literally in this case) to fulfill this need of there being “something more”, all in an attempt to run to anything but a loving God who judges them.
I agree. The Mayan calendar was on a 52 year cycle. I guess the “printers” only went so far ahead.