Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Is the world coming to an end?

You probably have heard about the world ending on December 21st 2012. If you have not then you should definitely look into it. The History Channel always runs a show on this topic. According to "experts" the world is supposed to end in 2012. The way they identify this is through a series of historical data. These are a few of them:
1. The Mayan calendar is considered the most accurate of all. More accurate than the one we use today. This calendar ends on December 21st 2012.
2. The I Ching was developed by a Chinese to for tell the future in certain ways. A genius did some math on the I Ching (there are 64 combinations that can occur) and plotted it over a time line with the start as the start of when the I Ching was developed. The lows in the plot seemed to coincide with major downfalls eg. The fall of the Roman Empire, WWI, etc and more astonishingly this plot ended in 2012.
3. The book of Revelations talks about dooms day, but does not specify December 2012 as the day.
4. Other fortune tellers like the Oracle at Delphi have also predicted the dooms day.
5. Last but not the least, my favorite "WEB BOT". The web bot is a program or automated script which browses the world wide web in a methodical, automated manner. This was initially introduced to make predictions on the stock market. But soon they noticed a certain pattern and actually were able to predict that something big was happening on September 9th 2001. Now they predict that something much much bigger will happen on December 21st 2012.
As a man of science I tend to believe some of these predictions. But as a man of faith I ask myself, "Who are we to say when the world ends?" We are not the creator of earth. Only GOD can end the world if tends to. He has done it once before. He can do it again, if he pleases.
There have been numerous people who have predicted the end of the world and have been wrong about it. All we can do is speculate when the world will end. But I know it in my heart that it is not time yet.

Bottom Line: Do you believe that GOD will really end this world?

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