The End of Time? 2012? I Don’t Think So!
by admin ~ October 14th, 2009
Hey, are you worried about the end of time?
Don’t be! As you know from your participation in our Ministry, we teach that the true victory in Christ comes from understanding His already completed work! You see, you are already present in eternity and living in His present Kingdom, so you have no worries!
But, in case you are not a partner with us and do find yourself worried, take a look at this article by Mark Stevenson from the Associated Press, where he makes the point that even the Mayan’s insist that 2012 is nothing more than a Hollywood tale…
Posted: Oct. 11, 2009
2012? It’s not end of the world, Mayan insists
BY MARK STEVENSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world.
Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.”
It can get only worse for him. Next month, Hollywood’s “2012″ opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.
At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the “Curious about astronomy? Ask an Astronomer” Web site, http://curious.astro.cornell.edu, says people are scared.
“It’s too bad that we’re getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they’re too young to die,” Martin said.
Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.
A significant time period for the Maya does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.
But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel that mixes predictions from Nostradamus and the Maya.
A stone tablet called Monument Six was found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s. It almost didn’t survive, and the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.
The remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012. The inscription describes something that is to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god associated with both war and creation.
However, erosion in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.
Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico’s National Autonomous University interprets the last glyphs as, “He will descend from the sky.”
Spooky, perhaps, but Bernal notes other Mayan site inscriptions for dates far beyond 2012 — including the year 4772.
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Now, how do you avoid all this heretical nonsense? Simple, come to live in the already won victory of Jesus Christ! Grasp His gospel of salvation, yes, but then dig even deeper and understand the 10 Key Areas which provide the foundation for an immovable faith. This will provide you the means to avoid all the spells cast by false teachers expert in the craft presentation of lies.
We discuss such teachings regularly in our writings and other Ministry services, especially in our Daily Scripture Reading Service, where each day we go in depth as we wrap the Daily Scripture Reading with an informative and heartfelt Inductive Bible Study. The amazing love of God is always at the core of each ten minute daily podcast, and the doctrine is always in support of the culmination of God’s love—the Gospel of Salvation, as portrayed in the writings of the Early Church Fathers. You can learn more at: http://www.cjrpress.com/blog.
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