Finally, a question I feel qualified to answer! Okay, yeah ... like Elysa said, the "predictions" are based on a Mayan calendar that basically had an expiration date. Here's another few facts to go along with that.
1. We're talking about converting between two
calendars, their time to our time. I can guarantee mistakes have crept in.
2. There's actually around
six different old Mayan calendars. Only
one predicts "the end of the world".
3. Modern-day Mayans aren't worried about 2012.
4. This calendar supposedly predicts the end of the world in 2012. They even give a day: 20 December. Well, Nostradamus predicted the end of the world in July 1997. The Jehovah's Witnesses were predicting it back in 1914 (and 1918, and 1925, and 1975). It didn't happen back then, and I don't expect it'll happen in 2012.
5. The New Agers predict that 2012 will start a great "spiritual awakening" ... which is the same thing their forebears, the hippies, were predicting back in the sixties and seventies with the "age of Aquarius". So, the so-called "prophets" can't even agree on what's going to happen ... they just recycle old garbage.
6. 95% of what's popularly "known" about 2012 comes from two sources: Hollywood, and a guy named Eric von Daniken. Both are notorious for making things up. Oh, and the History Channel ... which calls on Daniken as a
resource whenever they want to cash in on pop culture. (The History Channel is
not a reliable resource for
anything. I'd sooner trust the
National Enquirer.)
7. (And this is the most important) Nobody,
nobody, knows when the end will come. Man doesn't know, the angels don't know, even
Jesus didn't know. Only the
Father has that information, and He's keeping it to Himself. (Check Matthew 24:35-37 and Mark 13:31-33.)
There will
always be "doomsday prophets", always be people screaming "look out, here comes the end!" That's a given. But we Christians are
not to be worried, because we know God's got everything under control. What's the kid-song ... "He's got the whole world in His hands"?
O'course, me being me, I like the more adult version.
xp Quote:
Hearts are failing left and right.
Children fear this planet's plight.
Fatalistic fears abound,
And take their toll without a sound.
But through the vague uncertainty
Comes a bold assurity:
This world is under sovereignty,
Divinely-ordered destiny.
He holds this world together,
With the Word of His power,
Safe within His hands,
'Till its own appointed hour.
And He's still got the whole world in His hands tonight.
And only He knows where the sparrow lands tonight.
And nothing in this world can stop His plans tonight.
'Cause He's still got the whole world in His hands ... tonight.
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