For quite a while now we’ve been hearing that the world is coming to an end in December 2012, because the ancient Mayans predicted it. Mostly, I think, we hear this from authors featured in Doomsday documentaries on the History Channel (which we also call “The Disaster Channel”). Russ has been saying all along, “Just watch. As the time gets closer, they’ll come up with something else, something new, some way of explaining why their original prediction has now been replaced with a more accurate prediction.”
Well, we knew this was going to happen. I just didn’t imagine it was going to happen a full seven months before the supposed “end of the world.” But there it is, today, on my MSN homepage:
Archaeologists have found a stunning array of 1,200-year-old Maya paintings in a room that appears to have been a workshop for calendar scribes and priests, with numerical markings on the wall that denote intervals of time well beyond the controversial cycle that runs out this December.
The article goes on with details, but just this sentence alone was enough for me to say, “Yep! Russ called it.”
As he always does.
And as he now says: “I’m just waiting to hear about the comet that’s going to destroy the world in 2030.”
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear about something like that. And then, as the time approaches, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear yet another doomsday prediction. In the end, what it all comes down to, the only thing we can really count on, is this: Jesus said,
But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Therefore the only surprise regarding the end of the world will not be that it doesn’t happen when predicted, but that it does happen at a moment when it was never predicted.
Does that make sense? Don’t worry about it. The only important thng to know about the end of the world is that you are right with God and READY FOR IT, whenever it might come.
