Doomsday

 

 

Somewhere in time, the week before last, the date was December 21^st, 2012.  The Mayan calendar ended on this day (shock, shudder, shrink), but the world didn’t.  Oh my goodness, what went wrong?  There were a group of people on a mountain top waiting to be rescued by aliens when the end of the world happened.  I wonder if they’re still there.

Are you old enough to remember Y2K?  This was January 1^st 2000.  This was supposed to shut down all computers because of the 00 year date.  I was working for a computer company and I still had to be at work on January 2^nd  because the computers were still working.

What about solar storms?  Particularly active storms are expected in 2013 and 2014. Will this knock out the electrical grid? Doom, gloom, agony and despair, how will we survive? 

In World War 1, many people thought it was the apocalyptic war. The world had never seen anything like it.  They were wrong of course.  Around twenty years after the end of the war, another broke out. This war was worse than the first. 

I do believe the world will end someday.  The Bible says the world will face hard times, but then God is coming to reign and rule for one thousand years.  At the end of this, God has a new heaven and a new earth.  This is not cataclysmic, this is wondrous.

When is this happening, when will Christ return, when will the world we live in change?

I don’t know.

In Luke, chapter 21 verses 10 – 28, Jesus tells us about the world before his return.  There will be wars, famine, and persecution. Earthquakes, hurricanes and other strange weather patterns.  Jerusalem will be surrounded by enemies and distress will fill the land, but the very last verse is my favorite.

                “When these things begin to take place, stand and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

The next time you hear that the world is ending, or that Jesus is coming back on a certain day, I can pretty much guarantee that will not be the day.  Don’t worry about what the future holds, just look up, for our redemption is drawing near.

 

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