The End Is Here

We just safely passed the end of the Mayan calendar without the end of the world happening.

Earlier in the year we passed the predicted rapture of the Church and the end of the world in May and in August.

We passed the predicted catastrophes that were to destroy planet earth with the aligning of the planets in May 2000.

We passed the predicted Y2K world wide computer crash (this one actually had some remote possibilities).

We lived through the predicted Anti-Christs - Russian Rulers, President Kennedy, Htler, the Unions (in the 1910s and following, joining a Union was considered the same as receiving the mark of the Beast), and we are watching the Church of Rome grow more and more feeble (this is still considered by many to be the evil empire in the book of Revelation).

Every generation rewrites Revelation to fit their own world, never seeming to notice that the prophecies were as fitting to the last generation, to the last Century and to the times when they were written, 2,000 years ago..

When I went to a Pentecostal Bible school, there was rumor that some Christian lady had recently predicted that a wave was going to hit Florida.  Tension built throughout the campus as people feared the oncoming tsunami.  One or two students left to go to other states, and one teacher walked around campus with a surf board.  He won my admiration.

During the 70s, my Mormon Brother-in-Law was storing guns, water and boxes of Cheerios in his basement for some coming disasters.

I have heard more than one preacher say that Jesus will come back before his/her life is gone, but they die in peace with no return from Jesus.  I have heard countless preachers say that Jesus will come back in their generation; but their generation came and went without the return of Jesus.

WHAT'S GOING ON?

For some reason we are drawn to end of the world disaster scenarios.  Even though we have passed so many promised disasters, we are drawn to them like magnets.  People build bunkers and load food and guns in storage for the sure government take over or whatever other disaster is sure to come.  Movies and T.V. shows are filled with stories of Apocalyptic disasters.  Zombies take over the earth, vampires rule the nations, and us normal people struggle for survival in small communities of people fighting to stay alive.

What is this all saying about us?

Meanwhile, time passes by and the world continues to move along.  Natural and human disasters do come and go, but no comet comes to destroy the planet; no governmental coup takes over the country; presidents who are sure to destroy the nation, come and the nation still moves on; the zombies don't come out and eat us up at night, and life goes on; the Rapture comes and goes, and everybody is still here.

Nevertheless, I too have a bit of this end of the world feeling.  I believe that one day a human disaster will hit us.

MY OWN APOCALYPTIC PREDICTIONS

I believe that we will see bad climate results from stripping away the ozone layer, while this is happening, many will deny that we had anything to do with it (the same denial or responsibility that the biblical prophets faced in their days).

I believe that eventually some zealous or mentally unstable person will break through our nation's security and create a huge disaster, killing thousands if not millions.

I believe that our nation will one day be eclipsed by other nations.

I believe that in time the world as we know it will end.  But by then, I will have been gone from this world for thousands of years.

Jesus said he would come back to this earth, and I believe that he will in his time and his way.

Never mind what I just said.  Really, Jesus will come back to take his church on January 20, 2014, and to prepare for that, you should sell all of your possessions and send the money to my me so I can warn people and tell them to get ready.  And if that day comes and goes without event, well then, Jesus didn't come back because of something you did.