December 21st, 2012 (hell, belief, philosophy, scriptures)
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Wild. Never heard of this before today and I was old enough(18) to remember 1988. Although, in the way I lived in 1988, it's really no wonder my memory is limited.
Anyway!! I found this particularly hilarious(from your link):
After his "few weeks" had transpired, Whisenant finally saw his error. He claimed that he had made a slight miscalculation of one year because of a fluke in the Gregorian calendar. Jesus was actually going to return during Rosh Hashanah of 1989! Whisenant published his discovery in The Final Shout--Rapture Report 1989. "The time is short," he said. "Everything points to it." This publication was subsequently retitled The Final Shout--Rapture Report 1990 and has since been re-titled yearly as The Final Shout--Rapture Report 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and so on. He continues to revise his date annually. (ETV p. 94)
There are prophecies and oracles from around the world that all seem to point to December 21, 2012 as doomsday. The ancient Mayan Calendar, the medieval predictions of Merlin, the Book of Revelation and the Chinese oracle of the I Ching all point to this specific date as the end of civilization.
I remember this thread! Predictions can be entertaining and interesting, so I'll concede that at least. But Merlin? Oh me oh my. Can you say Puff the Magic Dragon?
from what I have read, the real end of the world will come in about 5 billion years. At that time, the sun will balloon into a red giant, swallowing the planets Mercury and possibly even Venus. The Earth may not exactly be engulfed, but according to many astronomers, the swollen red giant sun will raise daytime temps on Earth to approximately 2,500 to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which would boil away all of the oceans and melt the crust into lava. The Sun will remain a red giant for approximately 500 million years, after which it will blow off its outer layers and become a white dwarf, and whatever remains of the Earth will freeze.
December 21, YULE, is the Winter Solstice. The Christian Holiday, Christmas was picked to be on a date near this date so that they could try to convert Pagans to Christianity and keep a holiday close to theirs...
2012 the end? Who knows? However I am not going to stop living before that time.
i honestly do not believe this to be true.... If God wanted us to know our date of death it would be stated and there wouldn't be any debates like this. We are not promised Tomorrow nor are we promised 5 minutes from now. everything is based on God's will.
Like Our prayers. we may pray to God like "Dear God, please help me win the lottery. Amen." Of course we believe everything is possible throught Christ who strengthens me, but it may not be God's will for you to win the lottery. God knows what will happen before we do. He knows your plans with that money. YOUR REAL PLANS not your front plans.
All we can do is pray, worship, and praise our Lord and stay true to our Christianity until our time comes.
All supersitious nonsense. The end for our planet will come billons of years from now. The end of humanity is largely in humanity's own hands, but totally unrelated to a bunch of "predictions". My fear is some of these doomsday religious types will attempt to make man's destruction a self-fullfilling prophecy.
God may not want Christians who believe the Bible to be the true and living word to know the date of the end of the world, but maybe the Incas managed to figure it out without the help of the bible.
There is always one neat thing about ideas like this, they may be true, or they may not be true. All we can do is wait until after the date and evaluate what did or didn't happen.
God may not want Christians who believe the Bible to be the true and living word to know the date of the end of the world, but maybe the Incas managed to figure it out without the help of the bible.
There is always one neat thing about ideas like this, they may be true, or they may not be true. All we can do is wait until after the date and evaluate what did or didn't happen.
I disagree. I think we can very easily dismiss it as pure nonsense and we should.
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