The Last Day Report

Were the Mayans Onto Something With Their 2012 End-Of-The-World Belief?

2008-12-21T11:03:00.000-08:00

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.

The Last Day: Some Main Points To Consider

2007-10-20T08:14:00.000-07:00

The name of this Web-Log should explain what I think is important. It is all about the time of the end of the world. It is about that very last day. These are some of the main points that come up when I consider the Last Day:

* the falling away first (see II Thessalonians 2:3)

* the coming of the abomination of desolation to stand in the holy place to show himself god (see II Thessalonians 2:4, Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14)

* the strong delusion, that they would believe a lie, that everything is "peace and safety", and that, when they shall say that, then sudden destruction will come upon them -- as a thief in the night (see II Thessalonians 2:11, I Thessalonians 5:2-3)

* The true believers will not be in darkness that that day should come upon them as a thief. (see I Thessalonians 5:4)

* The time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. (see 1 Peter 4:17)

* the call from Heaven "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues" (see Revelation 18:4)

* the candlestick being taken away from the church (see Revelation 2:5)

* the two witnesses being killed, then 3 1/2 days later standing on their feet, and then ascending into Heaven at God's invitation (see Revelation 11:7, 11-12)

* Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them. (see Matthew 13:34)

* Jerusalem being surrounded by armies (see Luke 21:20)

* We are to get out of Judea and flee to the mountains. (see Matthew 24:16, Mark 13:14, Luke 21:21)

* Jerusalem is called Babylon and the mother of harlots by God. (see Revelation 17:5)

* The nation of Judah, also referred to by her capital city Jerusalem, is metaphorically called a woman, to whom God was married, and that she had parents, her father being an Amorite and her mother a Hittite. (see Ezekiel 16:3, 45)

* Jerusalem, Samaria (Israel, referred to by her capital city, to whom God was also married) and Sodom are all spiritually referred to as sisters. (see Ezekiel 16:46)

* Jerusalem is called Sodom and Egypt by God. (see Revelation 11:18)

* Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. (see John 1:14)

* Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables and and without a parable he did not speak to them. (see Matthew 13:34)

* Jesus therefore came speaking parables, as the Word of God, throughout the *words* of the whole Bible, including the Old Testament.

* Every word, every letter (every jot), every stroke of every letter that differentiates one letter from another (every tittle) is God-breathed and trustworthy, in the original languages (which we still have!), including the numbers of the Bible, which are all written-out words, not groups of numerals, in the text. (see II Timothy 3:16, Matthew 5:18, Luke 16:17)

* God first divorced the nation of Israel, then, later, her sister Judah (Jesus said that this fig tree shall never again grow fruit).

* The Living God, not the church, is the pillar and ground of truth. (see I Timothy 3:15)

* The 7-year famine in the land of Canaan in Jacob's time was called his great tribulation.

* Israel, then Judah were punished by God. Judah's punishment, a 70-year period, was called great tribulation by God.

* In both cases, the people of God, whom God calls the house of God and the church, were required to leave the Promised Land to remain in covenant with God (and to survive at all), trusting that He would take care of them and bring them back again one day.

* In both cases God sent a messenger to call them out of the Promised Land.

* The New Testament church is called the bride of Christ.

* True believers in Christ are called the "Israel of God", the children of Abraham. (see Galatians 6:16, Galatians 3:7, 3:29, Romans 2:29)

* Noah was informed by God that the world would be destroyed by water in 120 years.

* Noah was warned by God when there were yet 7 days before all flesh that breathed would be killed, and was told to get all his charges, which were all the paired animals plus his family, into the ark during that time.

* Noah was called a preacher of righteousness in the Bible, and therefore told everyone he could find about the coming calamity, but no one believed him.

* 7 days later, God shut the door of the ark, and that very day the flood came.

* Peter, in the midst of comparing the great flood to the final destruction of the world by fire, was motivated to passionately press one point to his listeners, that a day is, with the Lord, as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day.

* The Bible demonstrates by example that the word "begat" does not always refer to a direct father-to-son relationship but sometimes a many-generations-removed antecedent-to-descendant relationship.

* The Bible gives the life-span in years of many of the prehistoric patriarchs, but only one per generation, in a single unbroken line, from Adam, to Seth, to Noah, to Shem, to the Hebrew patriarchs, to Jesus Christ the messiah.

* God gave great life-spans to the prehistoric patriarchs, up to nearly 1,000 years.

* None of the life-spans of the men of the line of Cain are given, so that for all we know, they may have lived about as long a life as does a man today.

* God points out that He gives the special blessing of extra years of life to those of His choosing, using the accounts of the lives of Job, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, King Solomon and King Hezekiah.

* The Bible demonstrates that it refers to the various eras of the Earth's history by a single patriarch and that when one patriarch dies a new patriarch is born, unless the Bible specifically gives another name-and-life-span reference to designate the new patriarchal era.

* One can therefore construct an actual time-line of history that shows the exact time in the past of each of these time references.

* Using these patriarchs and their ages, one can determine that the flood of Noah's day occurred almost 7,000 years ago, with the anniversary being 2011.

* God says that He will do nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. (see Amos 3:7)

* God says that all of His people in the Last Days will prophesy, which He also defines as declaring the Word of God. (see Acts 2:17-18)

* God says that a wise (i.e. saved) man’s heart discerns both time and judgment. (see Ecclesiastes 8:5)

Quite literally, you do the math.