2012 Doomsday?

It hadn’t been long ago that my wife came to me with tears in her eyes.  She was clearly upset about something, and I could tell tears were about to fall by the way her chin was quivering.

“I wish you hadn’t shown me that movie trailer,” she said.

“What movie trailer?”

“The 2012 movie trailer, I’m afraid the world is going to end.”  I probably didn’t help things by laughing at her, but she spent the evening watching the trailer at least three times.  And of course it didn’t help when my mom was up for the weekend all she could talk about was how all the televagelists were saying that on December 21, 2012, Jesus Christ was going to return.  Not that that would be a bad thing.  But I cannot help but feel that the world is getting too worked up on the 2012 thing, both christians and non-beleivers alike.  I spent the rest of that evening and into the early hours of the night explaining to my wife why the world will not end on December 21, 2012.

I like the post-apocalyptic genre: Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and I want to go see this one, but if you are a christian, you cannot get wrapped up in what Hollywood like to exploit all for the purpose of making money.  For one thing, no one knows what will happen with the world tomorrow, several times people have predicted the end (Y2K), and the world is still here.  And for another, the bible tells us that all things happen on God’s time, including the end of the world.  True today or tomorrow some catastrophe could happen that could throw the world into chaos, but the end is on God’s time.

When asked when the end of the age would be, Jesus responded, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the son of Man.  For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.”

Matthew 24 paints an even bleaker picture for christians in the end: “You will be handed over to be persecuted and to put to death and you will be hated by all nations because of me.”

Jesus says, “No man knows of the day or the hour, not the angels in heaven, not even the Son.”  In fact, the bible states, “only he who stays strong until the end shall be saved.”  Jesus warns of the “abomination that causes desolation standing in the holy place”.  Clearly Jesus was talking of something opposed to Himself and his children, maybe the antichrist.

Matthew 24 goes onto say, “If those fays would not get cut short, no one could survive, but for the sake of elect those days will be shortened.”  Obviously, Matthew is not the only book to teach of the end, Revelation is the most popular and perhaps the hardest to understand, but you get the point, the end will be on God’s time, not ours.

I don’t pretend to know everything about biblical prophecy, I’m an ongoing study, but I know enough to secure my faith.  Leave comments, and if you know something, please share.