Well, it’s December 21, 2012, and I could remember the talk that the world will end in 2012. The basis was the Mayan Calendar. It was talked that the world will end in 2012. If it wasn’t the end of the world, it was actually the end of the Church Age or the Rapture of the Church. What was amazing was that after December 21, 2012, I talked with fellow Christians and said, “If the Rapture really hit last December 21, we wouldn’t be here right now and the Earth would’ve entered the Seven-Year Tribulation Period.” I didn’t believe in the 2012 predictions because Matthew 24:36 and Acts 1:7 says that nobody knows the time but the Father only. It’s not for anyone to know those specific times and dates either.
I did buy the book Will the World End in 2012? by Raymond C. Hundley, Ph. D. It wasn’t a book defending the 2012 doomsday or the possibility of a 2012 Rapture of the Church. There have been a lot of fake Rapture dates already. One was set on January 1, 2000. The late Harold Camping kept making quack predictions. Eventually, Camping died on December 15, 2013. What if we all read the Mayan Calendar wrong and it ended on that date?
If we’re going to believe in the Mayan Calendar, we have to believe in Mayan occultism. How can I trust a group of heathens who habitually performed human sacrifices and the like? Also, an interesting note is that it’s the end of another cycle according to the Scientific American. That’s why I laughed so hard last 2012 as some people prepared for the supposed end of the world.
There have been other sources cited yet again. Another was the prophecies of the quack called Michel de Nostredame aka Nostradamus. Once again, these prophecies are vague and tend to be rather difficult or even impossible to interpret. After Nostradamus died, there have been willful manipulations. Though, if some of Nostradamus’ prophecies did come true, Deuteronomy 13:1-5 warns that a false prophet, like a broken clock, can be seldomly right. Balaam predicted the Star out of Jacob (Jesus). Caiaphas was able to predict the death of Jesus. Yet, both Balaam and Caiaphas were men of Satan.
The same can also go for why I don’t subscribe to the alleged prophecies of Malachy, a Catholic bishop. Some say that Benedict XVI and Pope Francis will be the final popes towards the end of the age. I can’t rely on any prophecy made out of mysticism. Pope Francis is also becoming too old to become the False Prophet of Revelation. Some even felt the late John Paul II could’ve become the False Prophet. The Malachy prophecies are nothing more than demonic visions or wicked imaginations. It’s also stupid to try and use it as a study guide for Revelation too.
I’d say that only God knows His timetable. Right now, I still think that the best indicator is all about soul-winning for Jesus. Matthew 24:14 says that the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached across all nations and the end will come. The Gospel must be preached to the ends of the Earth. With the Gospel being proclaimed, it’s really then can we say that the end of the Church Age is at hand!
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