(March 31, 2012) Last year we had the Harold Camping craziness which predicted Biblical apocalyptic events to take place on May 21, 2011. This year we can look forward to Mayan apocalyptic madness leading up to December 21, 2012. According to the London Independent Newspaper website the madness has already begun: “Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship” The article states, “A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah’s Ark when doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now. A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach. They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age. As the cataclysmic date – which, according to eschatological beliefs and predicted astrological alignments, concludes a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar – nears, the goings-on around the peak have become more bizarre and ritualistic.”
I assume the closer we get to December 21st the worse the media hype will become. I cannot adamantly say that nothing will occur on December 21, 2012 because Jesus said, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” (Matthew 24:36) But if that is the day God chooses to begin His End-Times plan it won’t have anything to do with the Mayans or Harold Camping or Nostradamus or any other source of supposed prophetic writings. Although we can’t know the day or hour we can know when the time is near. Earlier in chapter 24 of Matthew Jesus told His followers what the signs would be leading up to His return such as the Gospel will be preached in all the world (see my article: “Bible translators hope to have every language covered in 15 years”). Jesus said, “So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.” (Matthew 24:3)
From a biblically prophetic aspect the more important things to watch for are events that involve the Middle-East and Israel. There are many prophecies which declare the the nation of Israel will play a major role in End-Times events. I recently had someone submit a comment in which they stated, “I can’t believe people still buy into this crap.” There are many reasons I believe what God declares prophetically in the Bible. Centuries before Jesus came to earth God spoke through His prophets many prophecies that would occur to prove that one person would be His Messiah. Jesus fulfilled all these prophecies perfectly. Concerning the End-Times God declared that the nation of Israel would be at the center of His apocalyptic plans and that He would return the Jews to the land of Israel in the “latter days”. After 1,800 years of dispersion throughout the earth, God returned the Jews to Israel in 1948.
God Himself told how humanity could know that He was the one and only true God, “9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.” (Isaiah 46:9-10) God declares that you can know He is God because His prophecies always come true because He knows the “end from the beginning”.
Therefore, do not be swayed by false prophets and false prophecies. Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” (John 14:6) Only Jesus and His word are the truth about existence throughout the universe. If you belong to Him then you have nothing to fear whether in the present or in the future for He said, ” All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Matthew 28:18-20)
