Seeing 20/20 on 2012

originally posted on myspace.com/kbp54

November 11, 2009 - Wednesday

There is some speculation that the world will end on December 21st 2012 but I think that such thought is false. As a true Christian and believer in the Bible (as far as it is translated correctly) I am highly skeptical.
Matthew 24:36
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angles of heaven, but my Father only.
Mark 13:22
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither he Son, but the Father.
We are not meant to know when Jesus will return. If we were, we would know already. It seems that we as humans like to think we know so much, even more than God Himself. Or some like to think that God doesn't exist anyway, so it is easy to dismiss His word. We seem more inclined to believe human predictions than those of true prophets of God. Interestingly there are more than one civilizations that predict close to this time, as I have watched on the History Channel. But so many civilizations also believed in the existence of vampires and werewolves that I don't buy into that so easily. Perhaps their predictions only pertained to their own individual civilizations. According to their line of thought at the time, they probably thought they were all there was in the world. Think about it, how much interaction did they have with civilizations beyond their own scope? Until 1492 Europe didn't know about the existence of the Americas. I see so many plausable mistakes in these predictions. Remember how paranoid people got about Y2K? I recall hearing about a man in China who said the world would end in 1994. He missed the mark on that one.However, it is my suspicion that God Himself doesn't even know the day of the second coming (which may not be the cataclysmic end of the world) because it is, as I understand, dependent on our own agency as a world collectively. Meaning the faster we become corrupted, the sooner the second coming will occur. Perhaps our world will be vastly devastated before he returns, say from the fallout from Armageddon. I'm not sure on the timetable, but I as I said, I believe what the Bible says as long as it has been translated correctly. Make no mistake there will be trials and tribulations as predicted in the Bible, the question remains as to how bad and when it will all happen.The only truly momentous event that I think will happen around December 2012 is the Presidential election, which is when Mr. Obama is up for re-election. Perhaps he won't be re-elected and that will spark some hysteria. Who knows?
This blog may seem choppy and inconsistent in its flow. This is probably due to my slipshod editing. Bear with me please.