Here we are, in December of 2008, and there are 2 1/2 years left until the Rapture and beginning of the end of the world, which will last 5 calendar months (153 days), a time of hell-on-Earth that begins with an event that itself will be an Extinction-Level Event (ELE) but will itself not be the cause of the actual end of the world. No, that will be a deliberate fire of the likes that is unimaginable, and it will melt and cause the consumption of not just the Earth but the entire universe, and it will occur on October 21, 2011.
Now, most people have heard through the popular media that the Mayan people had a calendar figured out that implied or predicted that the end of the world would occur in 2012, or rather, that their calendar did not have a 2013, because they believed that the world would not experience a 2013 (same thing). So, it would seem that the Mayans were right, and they sort-of were, but not for the right reasons. The question is, did they just accidentally happen upon a date that was very close to the actual end of the world, or did they know something?
I personally suspect that the Mayans did really know something. I can't (yet) find any direct hint to this from the Bible, though I continue to study it and would not be too surprised to find such a direct indication that their might be some unsaved people of the past who did have some of the information about the end of the world.
I personally think that they might have figured the date somewhat imprecisely because whom I think they listened to could not himself have precisely known the date. They were, of course, deeply religious people, and also very smart and advanced people. All people who were not learning from He who is their creator and who is always True and Faithful are going to be learning from the wrong source. They were idolators, worshipers of the god of their own reasoning, of the creation of their own understanding and appreciation for the world. They did as do all people who did not humble themselves before the infinite Creator Himself, who cannot be placed into a box, who cannot be captured in a form or object of men's artwork. They worshiped the god who would be pleased to be represented by a stone effigy, and which a stone object could truly describe, the great adversary of Almighty God, Lucifer himself. Everyone who sets out to worship the god that they can describe by their work or in what they see ends up worshiping that adversary of the One-And-Only True God. That is because when Adam sinned, he sinned for all of us, on all of our accounts, because we were all in the loins of Adam . Adam placed himself under the authority of Satan at that point, as his slave, and we are all born with a heart that is also enslaved to darkness and deceit , Satan being the prince of that darkness, and the imaginings of our heart is only evil continually . Thus, when the Mayans followed their hearts, they were following the source of all evil, Satan. He is the god of all forms of worship except that which is directed to the Creator God, and no one can come to God unless the Spirit of God draws him . The Spirit of God did not draw the Mayans, and their culture instead followed Satan, who was always the object of their hearts' desire.
Now, we know that Satan is a great theologian, understanding much of the Bible . It may be possible that Satan was given to know the year of the end of the world (though no angel knows the exact date and hour ). I happen to think that he has known the year for a long time. That is why demons were able to tell Jesus that it was not yet their time to be punished . They knew the year of their punishment. Therefore, it is also likely that those who were close adepts to Satan would have been privy to this information. The Mayans were some of Satan's best worshipers, what with the human sacrifice, ripping beating hearts out of the sacrificial victims and all. I think it likely that Satan told them the year that the end of the world would come. Of course, if he did do so, he told them the lie that it wasn't really the end, that they would all be preserved as the world was renewed or remade, that they would all live in a new age of a new world, which is what the Mayans believed. He told a half-truth, for there is going to be a new world, a better world, and there are going to be many who are preserved to see it and joyfully live in it. However, neither Satan, nor his minions, nor his human worshipers are going to be saved out of this world and brought into that new, perfect world. They are going to be thrown out in the trash and consumed away and will be nonexistent forever.
I look at the fact that the Mayans seemed to know the approximate end of the world as another sign of the end. The fact is, there are a lot of people who put more stock by the Mayans than the Bible. This may be a roundabout means that God may use to get people aware of end-of-the-world issues. I don't know. It certainly does not matter to us, the people who are already clued in to the shortness of time left in the world via the Bible.
A lot of people who are regular Family Radio listeners and who agree with the doctrines taught via that radio network are going to disagree with my views regarding the Mayans. Most of them believe that the Mayans knew nothing about the actual end of the world and that their 2012 prediction is mere coincidence. Harold Camping has stated that himself many times in the past couple of years when asked about it. I may make some Family Radio listeners annoyed by even considering the Mayan prediction as anything interesting at all. I am not trying to imply that the Mayans are important in any way, and I apologize if I led anyone to believe that I think so. Yet, I would not be surprised if they did have some sort of advanced warning of the year of the end, coming from Satan, as I have speculated. There are all kinds of strange things in the world that bear the marks of the fact that existence is totally within the hand of God at all times. There are all kinds of things that are not explained by what man thinks he knows based on his scientific studies. An example, other than the Mayan calendar and its 2012 ending point, that immediately springs to mind is the amazing Great Pyramid of Giza. That was never built by Khufu. Our own finest instruments today could not duplicate some of the precision with which the Great Pyramid was made. No, none of the post-deluvian civilizations of man could have even come close to being able to create such an obelisk, except for our own modern civilization. Therefore, it was made before the Great Deluge. It made it through that mighty flood. It is probably about 10,000 years old. That's just one example that man does not know anything unless he first starts with the knowledge that the Bible is never wrong. The Bible states that the first men were closer to God than we are, and therefore had more knowledge. It is therefore not surprising that some of those first and greatest men (speaking in worldly terms) created something that displays their knowledge and which makes our own civilization look rather sophomoric. Now, these may have been (though not necessarily) unsaved men that built the Great Pyramid, but they were closer to the source, the first man, created by God from the dust of the ground. The proof is in the pudding, the building itself.
