Will world end in 2012?
read more recent story comments Reader comments| RevTJCarter Friday, February 3, 2012: 12:25 pm More from RevTJCarter  | Dear Bette, No one knows the day of the hour. There on msny other signs of the times you did not list, such as the gay rights movement, turning from the natural plan of God and the countlees killings of babies by abortion. All these things predicted by God's word. The world is becoming worse than Sodom and Gomorrah and judgement is to soon come. That Earthquake on the east coast awhile back was just a warning of things to come. " God is jealous and the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengence on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not acquit the wicked: The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet: Nahum 1:2-3. The day is soon coming ! |
| nobodyimportant Friday, February 3, 2012: 6:06 pm More from nobodyimportant | Bette and Rev. With respect, Rev is right in his first statement, but he should have stopped with that one. Any attempt to project an hour, a day, a month, or a year that the end will come is foolishness. I think that it is even foolishness to speculate that the end is "close". I don't believe the world is worse or more sinful than it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah or for that matter, the 1st Century after Christ ascended. Remember, the saints then thought the end was soon to come. Our ability to transport massive amounts of information in short amounts of time has brought to our attention more evil, but it doesn't mean that that there is proportionally more of it. The end days are characterized with "lovers of self" and other discriptors that fit man since the fall of Adam Each one of us should live as if the end is our next breath. That way, we will be ready, whether we pass from this life or He comes to take us with Him. The end days are characterized with "lovers of self" and other discriptors that fir man since the fall of Adam. Don't waste your time contemplating the end. Live each day as if you are living your last AND your salvation is secure. If each one of us did that, wouldn't that be awesome? |
| RaynBo Friday, February 3, 2012: 7:39 pm More from RaynBo | Rev? I agree with Nobody you really should have stopped with the first statement! The gay rights is a sign of the end times? Really? Well that seems hateful...unkind.. Jesus loves everyone! |
| Danny Stewart Saturday, February 4, 2012: 9:09 am More from Danny Stewart |
The Bible says homosexuality is anabomination. In other words it's wrong and it goes against nature. It's a choice you make.maker |
| nobodyimportant Saturday, February 4, 2012: 9:47 am More from nobodyimportant | Raybo. You are correct, Jesus loves everyone. But he cannot love sin. You no doubt have heard the phrase, "love the sinner, hate the sin." If Jesus hated sinners, we would all be hated, because not one of us can point our fingers at others and condemn their sin. Point it out? Sure. Call it what it is? Yes. But calling out sin is not judging, just getting the person's attention so they can hopefully agree with God on their condition(confess), turn away from it (repent), and begin a new walk along a very straight and narrow path toward Him. We can't serve two masters. God is a very jealous god who desperately wants us to come to Him, but He is also patient, because He gave us free will to choose or reject Him. The thing is, it is an all or nothing proposition. If we choose to hang on to our sin and our false beliefs, He cannot give us a passing grade for effort. Even when we accept His mercy and grace, we will continue to sin. That's because He is perfect and we are not. But unlike the unbeliever, we have a way to get those sins under the blood of His Son. But to do that, we have to call it what it is and not try to justify it or ask him to relax the measuring stick. |
| Ratcatcher Saturday, February 4, 2012: 10:44 am More from Ratcatcher |
Must disagree with you on this part. The Bible wouldn't have given us all the signs if God didn't want us to recognize the end was near.(Matt 24:32) Learn the lesson of the fig tree. We will know the season like spring is comeing but we won't know the exact day and hour. The clock started ticking a lot faster when Israel became a country in a day and God's chosen people returned to their homeland. The Bible tells us that generation shall not pass away without seeing his return. The problem is what is the definition of a generation. Hal Lindsay thought it was 40 years which is what got him in trouble with the book he wrote entitled "1988:Countdown to Armaggedon". As long as someone is still alive that was here on May 14, 1948 I think there is hope for those that are lost. |
| Josiah Wells Saturday, February 4, 2012: 2:35 pm More from Josiah Wells | This kind of ridiculous propaganda is why it is so easy to be anti-theist. Religion has caused more bloodshed than any other single man made thing in the history of mankind. |
| nobodyimportant Saturday, February 4, 2012: 2:59 pm More from nobodyimportant | Josiah, you are right, "religion" has caused much bloodshed. But what we are taliking about is not religion at all. It is about a personal relationship with the creator of the universe. Religion is organized, has rituals, gatherings, heirarchy, and a host of other activities that have nothing to do with what God has planned for us, that is to give up being our own god and follow him. All of this is based on the unseen and unknown. It is accepted by faith. The anti-thiest believes there is no god, certainly not the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and me. That is also based on faith. So, we go through this life, living by faith. But all of us will die. To the anti-thiest, the end is just that, the end. It is life without hope until death. The Christian, not by name only.....a "church attender" or church member (those are religious terms), has what every non-believe does not have, and that is hope. For the Cristian (if I am right), there is no end. Our body will die, just like the anti-theist, but it will be resurrected and in the presence of the Lord for eternity. Now, if I'm wrong, I haven't lost a thing. Neither of us can take our toys with us, and if that's the end, it is the end. But if I am right, .....wow! I like the odds. I have one of two chances, the anti-thiest has zero of two. |
| Lassiter Saturday, February 4, 2012: 4:43 pm More from Lassiter |
I agree Religion has caused much bloodshed. I tend to think though that over time land has led to more bloodshed. Different lands just tend to be inhabited by different forms of religiion. For instance the Israel/Palestine conflict is not really about religion. Its about the land. The zionists and the moslems both want the land and kill each other for it. Over time hatred between the religions builds and appears to be a religious war that it is not. |
| Josiah Wells Sunday, February 5, 2012: 11:09 am More from Josiah Wells | nobodyimportant, I appreciate your comments. I consider myself Anti-Religion not Athiest. I have experienced things in my life that I would like to credit to a higher power. I also have been a member of organized religion in the past and was told when I left the "church" that I would be going to hell and dragging my children along with me. I won't subject myself to that kind of hatred. I do not fear the idea of death being the end. It's easier to believe than some fairytale city floating in the sky. |
| realinsight Wednesday, February 8, 2012: 11:10 pm More from realinsight | I think everyone has some concern in the back of their head as life passes on by daily. The point in the whole mix of information I have been exposed to that really keeps popping up and sounds halfway viable is, when the earth does align with the milky way and therefor the center of the galactic plain, will this small but measurable increase in gravitational pull have any real effects on the solar radiation, possibly increasing it to the point of radiation like we have never seen. The reason this point continues to come up is during 2009, myself and girlfriend worked hard to build a really nice garden, taking all steps to maximize out yields. About mid July everything burnt up and dies off, while being watered daily. I put this away as my bad gardening skills until i noticed trees that have stayed bloomed well into late August and beyond were also burning up and dying off, leaves were falling faster and were drier fast and sooner in the year. Later after nearly the same outcome in 2010 I ask my 88 year old grandmother about it. To my surprise she stated having the same thing occur in her garden, as well as with her flowers and trees, some of which she had cared for nearly 50 years. And now in Mid Feb and I spent most of last week riding my motorcycle for the first time ever. Coming across article where the fairies up on lake superior that normally stay closed till spring due to ice have decided to reopen months early, having not been restricted by ice all winter long for the very first time. Furthermore watching intensely all the online documentaries and learning the behavior of Earths ice, and viewing pictures of ice covered mountains for as long as man has been taking picture, green, sprouting small trees. Is it global warming? I doubt it, I think global warming, much like "Acid Rain" and "the hole in the ozone" when we were kids came through and broke the government with funding request, I think global warming has seen its better chances at fooling the American public. However, is something going on? you bet it is! And if global warming is in-fact another ploy, a scam, like scientist going to the presidential administration in the 70's stating Earth was entering the next ice age, and would do so in the following few years, scaring the public, collecting millions then for new construction concept studies, mass relocation ect ect....if in-fact Global warming is a scam, we have much worse thing to fear. If Gamma Ray burst, solar and particle radiation are to blame, a few burnt leaves, a shorter growing season, and dead gardens will be the least of our worries. Lets all hope at noon on Sunday, December 23rd 2012 that the world keep right on turning, and at least for now, keep the signs from the bible and from nature in our thoughts, it is certainly something worth considering. |
| realinsight Wednesday, February 8, 2012: 11:40 pm More from realinsight | " So, we go through this life, living by faith. But all of us will die. To the anti-thiest, the end is just that, the end. It is life without hope until death. The Christian, not by name only.....a "church attender" or church member (those are religious terms), has what every non-believe does not have, and that is hope. For the Cristian (if I am right), there is no end. Our body will die, just like the anti-theist, but it will be resurrected and in the presence of the Lord for eternity. " Life goes on in many ways in several hundred religions. To the true atheist life goes on " From earth we are born, To earth we shall return " some believe much Like the famous Richard Samuel Westfall of IU who had his ashes spread out at stepp cemetery, that lifes goes on in new plants and animals. Many of the pagan and atheist stones in the older cemeteries actually state this, some of which right here in this county. Unknown to many of us here locally, Mr Westfall's placement of his ashes and placement of a stone with his name on it, which also says "never at rest" was very significant in the pagan world. Bringing people to stepp cemetery from as far away as the new England states right here to this county, especially during pagan holidays. If most true blooded christian's were openly aware of the thousands of Pagan paintings, and pagan statues, and writings on our state house, and government buildings, lining our legal halls and dotting our war memorials, I am sure a greater controversy would be sparked. After all, it is quite often we hear of someone suing the state over something christian on our court house lawns, do we not? Our forefather did not mean for Freedom of Religion to instill the power to pound upon, denounce or degrade any other religion, and if in-fact they would have had a little more insight into what America would have became, I have no doubt they would have chose their words more carefully, in this and many issues we all face out here today, many times without a leg to stand on, some of the time having the constitution, our constitution, written for us, turned against us for the benefit of an outsider is was never meant to encapsulate. |
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