From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © 2009, all rights reserved
"2 0 1 2"
At my website http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterEight/SixthGroupOfTwelveYears.htm, entitled " 2011-2022 ????? Unknown future of the Sixth group of Twelve years, where it states:
One can expect major political and moral revolutions that will totally change society as we know it. These changes will sweep the world as there will be a total division among humanity.
The ones who follow and accept the new world order and all that comes with it, and the other ones who refuse to accept it and live in refuge from the new world order. Some have predicted this to be a period of the "haves" and the "have nots."
If the year 2017 A.D. is related to Rev. 6:17 then there may be hope for believers if the first six seals have been opened. Most of the Baby Boomer generation would be in their 70’s by this time in the future and if physically able would see these events take place.
A secret must occur between the years 2018 through 2022, or the visions were sealed up for the great day of God’s wrath.
Six Seals times Twelve years equals 72 years is fulfilled.
Rev. 6:12-17 (Sixth Seal)
Rev. 6:12 And I looked when He opened the sixth seal,
and there was a great earthquake (‘Seismo’, a shaking, a shock, idea of a concussion; Political and Moral revolutions and convulsions of society. Shaking of established order of things. The subversion of states and fortunes. Falling out of rulers. Wordsworth claims that the word earthquake is a catchword connecting the sixth seal with the six trumpet of Rev. 11:13 and the seventh vial of Rev. 16:17-21, and also the seventh seal of Rev. 8:5.),
and the sun (‘Helios’ as a means of judgment - the great light giver of society, in one sense a symbol of Christ or a supreme ruler)
became black (‘Melas’ to be dirty, bad; color of mourning; disaster, calamity and sorrow; dark)
as sackcloth (‘Sakkos’ for the purpose of prophetic testimony; symbol of mourning and penitence; black cloth)
of hair (warm material from a goat or camel; some claim this to be the hair of Cilician goats, used for tents.),
and the moon (‘Selene’ means brightness; Hebrew is yareach, wandering, and lebanah, white; here symbol of powers, rulers and great men which are not supreme since it shines by reflecting another light)
became like blood (carnage of war; blood-red).
Rev. 6:17 for the great day of His wrath has come,
and who is able to stand? (pp. who can survive it? The sixth seal brings us to the verge of the Lord’s coming. The ungodly tremble at the signs of His immediate approach.)"
"Next apocalypse? Year 2012 stirs doomsayers"
by Mark Stevenson, Associated Press.
October 15, 2009
Mexico City -- Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.
Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."
It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.
At Cornwell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer web site, says people are scared.
"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."
Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from the Western, not Mayan ideas.
A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiast have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.
But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as the one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostadamus and the Mayas and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"
It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades -- the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or "Planet X." But this one has some grains of archaeological basis.
One of them is Monument Six.
Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway consruction in the 1960s, the same stone tablet almost didn't survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.
It's unique in that the remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012. The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.
However -- shades of Indiana Jones -- erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.
Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico's National Autonomous University interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, "He will descend from the sky."
Spooky, perhaps, but Bernal notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 -- including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.
"'2012' craze is keeping scientists busy, frustrated"
by John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times.
October 26, 2009
Is 2012 the end of the world?
If you scan the Internet or believe the marketing campaign behind the movie "2012," scheduled for release Nov. 13, you might be forgiven for thinking so. Dozens of books and fake science Web sites are prophesying the arrival of doomsday that year, by means of a rogue planet colliding with the Earth or some other cataclysmic event.
Normally, scientists regard Internet hysteria with nothing more than a raised eyebrow and a shake of the head. But a few scientists have become so concerned at the level of fear they are seeing that they decided not to remain on the sidelines this time.
"Two years ago, I got a question a week about it," said NASA scientist David Morrison, whose Website is called Ask an Astrobiologist. "Now I'm getting a dozen a day. Two teenagers said they didn't want to see the end of the world so they were thinking of ending their lives."
Morrison said he tries to reassure people that their fears are groundless, but has recieved so many inquiries that he has posted a list of 10 questions and answers on the website of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (www.astro-society.org).
Titled "Doomsday 2012, the Planet Nibiru and Cosmophobia," the article breaks down the sources of the hysteria and assures people that the ancients didn't actually know more about the cosmos than we do.
"The world will not come to an end on Dec. 21, 20122," E.C. Krupp, director of Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory, declared in a statement released last week by the observatory and Sky & Telescope magazine. Krupp debunks the 2012 doomsday idead in the cover story of the magazine's Novemeberissue.
Morrison said he attributes the excitement to the conflation of several items into one mega-myth. One is the persistent Internet rumor that a planet called Nibiru or Planet X is going to crash into the Earth. Then there's the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, suggesting that the Maya knew something we don't. Finally, end-of-the-worlders have seized upon the hubbub about the 2012 date to proclaim their belief that end times are drawing near.
Morrison, who heads the Lunar Science Institute at the Ames Research Center in Northern California, has coined a term for the phenomenon: "cosmophobia," a fear of the cosmos. According to Morrison, for the most vunerable among us, all the things we've learned about the universe in the last century have only increased the number of potential threats to our existence.
Besides fearing a rampaging planet, the worriers think the sun might lash out at the Earth with some calamitous electromagnetic force. They also fear that some sort of alignment between the Earth and the center of our galaxy could unleash catastrophe.
Krupp said that the scare-mongers would have us believe that the "ancient Maya of Mexico and Guatemala kept a calendar that is about to roll up the red carpet of time, swing the solar system into transcendental alignment with the heart of the Milky Way, and turn Earth into a bowling pin for a rogue planet heading down our alley for a strike."
According to Rosemary Joyce, a professor of anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, the Maya never predicted anything. The 2012 date is approximately when the ancient calendar would roll over, like the odometer on a car, it did not mean the end -- merely the start of a new cycle.
Some authors have tried to merge that idea, Joyce said, with Maya mythology that said the Earth has gone through multiple ages of creation, each ending in a disaster. "But there's no prediction," she said. "They did not predict the end of the world."
Morrison says it's hard to know whether the people who have written to him with their fears represent a fringe or a larger cross-section of Americans who, distrustful of traditional sources of information and the authorities behind them, are falling victim to the Internet's snake-oil salesmen.
In such an environment, the viral marketing campaign for the movie "2012," which encourages people to "Vote for the Leader of the Post-2012 World," can seem like confirmation of the apocalypse, rather than of an upcoming 90-minute entertainment vehicle.
A spokesman for sony Pictures, Steve Elzer, said, "We believe consumers understand that the advertising is promoting a fictional film."
Morrison said the movie's distributors are feeding the "panic" by creating some of the fake science Web sites. Most of the sites, Morrison said, are full of misinformation and speculation, often by people who have written books they are trying to sell.
Morrison said he could not address the motives of people who were feeding the alarm, but added: "It's wrong to tell lies to frighten people merely to make a buck."
What most worries him is hte level of alarm in some of the most recent messages.
"Im getting more and more questions from people who are upset and scared," he said. Some people say their children are refusing to eat.
In the publication Morrison has posted online, he says that astronomers would long ago have spotted a rogue planet headed for Earth, that the so-called photos of Nibiru on the Internet are fictitious, and that just because the Maya calendar in question ends in 2012, it doesn't mean the Maya were predicting the end of the world.
"The calendar on my desk ends on December 31, 2009. I do not interpret that to mean the world is going to end that day."
A NEW PREDICTION FOR THE END OF THE WORLD IN 2011
Highlights from various online articles March 7, 2011.
Harold Camping from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world, claims the real date for the end of times, is in 2011. Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd found: The world will end May 21, 2011.
This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about Judgment Day.
On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping's believers gathered inside Alameda's Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven. But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations, as well as overseeing a media company that has grown significantly in size and reach.
"We are now translated into 48 languages and have been transmitting into China on an AM station without getting jammed once," Camping said. "How can that happen without God's mercy?" His office is flanked by satellite dishes in the parking lot that transmit his talk show, "Open Forum." In the Bay Area, he's heard on 610 AM, KEAR. Camping says his company owns about 55 stations in the United States alone, and that his message arrives on every continent.
Well here he goes again. He is too stubborn to realize that if he did not get it right the first time then mostly likely he is wrong again.
The new claim by Harold Camping is that Judgment Day is on May 21, 2011, and the End of the World is on October 21, 2011. In the claim that the Bible is the Word of God and that whatever Camping determines and when the Book of Daniel was opened up to him. He uses this as a justification for his predictions, Daniel 12:9 “And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.”
As I show on my Aquarius page beginning in 1950 A.D. we are in the time that Daniel prophesied, Daniel 12:4 "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Daniel was told by an angel that his visions would not be understood by him or anyone until the end of this era approaches, and then knowledge of this prophecy would become wide-spread. It will be a time when everything shall be revealed. This is the Age that the biblical people were interested, because its beginning concerned them directly. This would be the whole, entire Great Cycle of the Precession of the Equinoxes. Most contemporary self-proclaimed prophets concern themselves in this Age. Others believe that, near the time of the end, "many shall run to and fro," which means to scrutinize the word as in running through every page.
So I agree with Camping’s comment that, “… in our present day, God has opened up His Word (the Bible) to reveal a great deal of truth concerning the end of time (and many other teachings). God is now opening up His Word because we have arrived at the time of the end. For this reason, it has become very obvious to the serious student of the Bible that we are now living in the last few days of earth’s history. As a matter of fact, because we are living at the end of time, God is now revealing to His people the following information:”
But this is where the agreement ends:
Camping claims the genealogies of the book of Genesis, primarily in chapters 5 and 11, can be shown to be a precise calendar of the history of mankind in this world. Then claims the Bible’s calendar of history is completely accurate and trustworthy. There is a brief definition of why he believes that in the following, but they offer a free copy of the book “We Are Almost There!” by writing to the following address: Family Stations, Inc., 290 Hegenberger Rd., Oakland, CA 94621. This book goes into far greater detail regarding the timing of Judgment Day and the end of the world. Also, you can read or download “We Are Almost There!” online at: www.familyradio.com.
Here is his concept of important events in history.
11,013 B.C. — Creation. God created the world and man (Adam and Eve).
4990 B.C. — The flood of Noah’s day. All perished in a worldwide flood. Only Noah, his wife, and his 3 sons and their wives survived in the ark (6023 years from creation).
7 B.C. — The year Jesus Christ was born (11,006 years from creation).
33 A.D. — The year Jesus Christ was crucified and the church age began (11,045 years from creation; 5023 calendar years from the flood).
1988 A.D. — This year ended the church age and began the great tribulation period of 23 years (13,000 years from creation).
1994 A.D. — On September 7th, the first 2300-day period of the great tribulation came to an end and the latter rain began, commencing God’s plan to save a great multitude of people outside of the churches (13,006 years from creation).
2011 A.D. — On May 21st, Judgment Day will begin and the rapture (the taking up into heaven of God’s elect people) will occur at the end of the 23-year great tribulation. On October 21st, the world will be destroyed by fire (7000 years from the flood; 13,023 years from creation).
He then justifies this based on a New Testament concept. With a literal ONE DAY IS AS 1000 YEARS, to justify 7,000 years.
Camping has self determined and believes that the language of Genesis 7 has a twofold meaning:
Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
[Comment: As if this particular verse has a two-fold meaning.]
Historically, as God spoke these words, there were seven days remaining for Noah, his family, and the animals to get into the safety of the ark; but spiritually (and the Bible is a spiritual book), God was speaking to all of the people of the world and was declaring that sinful mankind would have 7000 years to find refuge in the salvation provided by Jesus Christ. How can we know that? We know this is so based on what we read in 2 Peter, chapter 3:
2 Peter 3:6-8 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The context of 2 Peter 3 is extremely important! In the first few verses, God refers us to the destruction of the world by the flood during Noah’s day. Then we find an interesting admonition that we ought not to be “ignorant” of one thing, which is, 1 day is as 1000 years, and 1000 years is as 1 day. Immediately following this bit of information is a very vivid description of the end of the present world by fire.
What could God be telling us by identifying 1 day along with 1000 years?
Since we recently have discovered the Biblical calendar of history on the pages of the Bible, we find that the flood of Noah’s day occurred in the year 4990 B.C. It was in the year 4990 B.C. that God revealed to Noah that there would be yet 7 days until the flood of waters would be upon the earth. Now, if we substitute 1000 years for each one of those 7 days, we get 7000 years. And when we project 7000 years into the future from 4990 B.C., we find that it falls on the year 2011 AD.
4990 + 2011 = 7001
Note: When counting from an Old Testament date to a New Testament date, always subtract one year because there is no year zero, resulting in:
4990 + 2011 – 1 = 7000 years exactly.
The year 2011 AD will be the 7000th year from the flood of Noah’s day. It will be the end of the length of time given to mankind to find grace in God’s sight.
It is not unusual that God’s people have been given insight into the timing of the end of the world. Actually, the Bible tells us this is normally the case. In times past, God has warned His people of approaching periods of judgment:
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
JUDGMENT DAY: MAY 21st, 2011
[Comment: Before you read the following I would like to insert this:
Taurus is the 2nd Hebrew Month and the 8th Jewish Month - 14th day of Ziv is Later Passover,
Zif (1 Kings 6:1, 37, "2nd month") (Taurus). Replaced by Heb. Iyar or Iyyar ("month of flowers"). Akkadian Ajaru, very similar to Ijar. The Babylonian name is Arah Aru, "Month of the Bull." Taurus is Apr. 20-May 20 - Dry season, barley harvest is complete. Tropical Date Mar. 16 to Apr. 14, Gregorian Date Apr. 15 to May 14, Julian Date Apr. 29 to May 28. Of the Sumerian calendar 2350 B.C. it was "the month of the eating of barley by the goddess Nanshe, and the Calendar of Nippur 3000 B.C. "the month the horned oxen marched forth," a month they prepare for plowing with the oxen. End Comment]
We know that the year 2011 is the 7000th year from the flood. We also know that God will destroy this world in that year.
But when in 2011 will this occur?
The answer is amazing. Let’s take another look at the flood account in the book of Genesis:
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Faithful to His Word, God did bring the flood 7 days later in the 600th year, on the 17th day of the 2nd month of the calendar aligned with Noah’s lifespan. It was on this 17th day of the 2nd month that God shut the door on the ark, securing the safety of its occupants and also sealing the fate of everyone else in the world outside of the ark. They would all now certainly perish in that worldwide catastrophe.
Genesis 7:16, 17 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
[Comment: How has he justified when the church age ended?]
Earlier it was mentioned that the church age came to an end in the year 1988 A.D. It so happens that the church age began on the day of Pentecost (May 22nd) in the year 33 A.D. Then 1955 years later, the church age came to its conclusion on May 21st, which was the day before Pentecost in 1988.
[Comment: Then makes an assumption that the great tribulation would follow.]
The Bible teaches that the end of the church age would occur simultaneously with the beginning of the great tribulation:
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
On May 21st, 1988, God finished using the churches and congregations of the world. The Spirit of God left all churches and Satan, the man of sin, entered into the churches to rule at that point in time. The Bible teaches us that this awful period of judgment upon the churches would last for 23 years. A full 23 years (8400 days exactly) would be from May 21st, 1988 until May 21st, 2011. This information was discovered in the Bible completely apart from the information regarding the 7000 years from the flood.
Therefore, we see that the full 23-year tribulation period concludes on May 21st, 2011. This date is the exact day that the great tribulation comes to its end, and this is also the most likely landing spot for the 7000 years from the flood of Noah’s day.
[Comment: He justifies his authority to predict the rapture.]
Keep in mind that God shut the door on the ark on the 17th day of the 2nd month of Noah’s calendar. We also find that May 21st, 2011 is the end of the great tribulation period. There is a strong relationship between the 2nd month and 17th day of Noah’s calendar and May 21st, 2011 of our Gregorian calendar. This relationship cannot be readily seen until we discover that there is another calendar to consider, which is the Hebrew (or Biblical) calendar. May 21st, 2011 happens to be the 17th day of the 2nd month of the Hebrew calendar. By this, God is confirming to us that we have a very correct understanding regarding the 7000-year timeline from the flood. May 21st, 2011 is the equivalent date to the date when God shut the door on Noah’s ark. Through this and much other Biblical information, we find that May 21st, 2011 will be the day when God takes up into heaven His elect people. May 21st, 2011 will be Judgment Day! This is the day God shuts the door of salvation on the world.
In other words, in having the great tribulation period conclude on a day that identifies with the 17th day of the 2nd month of Noah’s calendar, God is without question confirming to us that this is the day He intends to shut forever the door of entry into heaven:
John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
The Bible is very clear that Christ is the only way into heaven. He is the only portal into the glorious kingdom of heaven.
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Once the door (Jesus) is shut on Judgment Day, there is no more salvation possible on earth:
Revelation 3:7 …These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
The Bible teaches that on May 21st, 2011, only true believers elected by God to receive salvation will be raptured (taken up) out of this world to meet the Lord in the air and forever be with the Lord:
1 Thessalonians 4:16,17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
All the rest of mankind (billions of people) will be left behind to experience the awful judgment of God, a horrible period of 5 months of torment upon earth:
Revelation 9:3-5 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
THE END OF THE WORLD: OCTOBER 21st, 2011 - Five Months Later
[Comment: Before you read the following I would like to insert this:
Sept. 6, Rosh Hashanah; Sept. 15 Yom Kippur; Sukkoth; Ethanim (1 Kings 8:2, 7th month) (Libra). Akkadian tasritu, Tashritu. The Babylonian name is Arah Tisritum, "Month of Beginning (the start of the 2nd half-year)." The Canaanite month is Ethanim a derivation "begin" civil year, "dedicate" to the sun-god by the Babylonians, that which the Jews associated with the Creation and the Day of Judgment, who also began their feast on the first new moon of the year, and had some connection to the Moon-goddess at one time in their history, a connection to the "city of the moon." In the OT it is called "permanent streams," the flowing brooks.
Akkadian Tul-ku, (lunar month of the autumn equinox, September-October) means "The Sacred (Holy) Mound" or "The Holy Altar." Sum. (dul(6), mound, sanctuary + kù, sacred, holy), in lieu of tul-ku. Sum. kug, kù: n., noble metal; silver; money; v., to cleanse; adj., bright, pure; sacred, holy. On Libra under Calendar of Nippur, 7 Duku or du-ku, "Festival of the Sacred Mound."
The 7th Hebrew Month and the 1st Jewish Month. Autumnal Equinox – Sept 21 Libra, Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Fields plowed and barley and wheat is sown "The sowing of grain." The Tropical Date Aug. 18 to Sep. 16, Gregorian Date Sep. 17 to Oct. 16, and Julian Date Oct. 1 to Oct. 30.
In the Sumerian Calendar of 2350 B.C. it represented the distibution of barley for seed, and the 3000 B.C. Duku or du-ku "Festival of the Sacred Mound," the temple in Nippur called E-Kur, means house of the underworld and house of the mountain. The Sacred Mound was in the Tummal complex, where Enlil’s ancestors dwelt. The god En-duka-ga and goddess Nin-duku-ga, lord and lady of the Sacred Mound. Enlil was the first born son of An and Ki. Duku was a holy place in Nippur. Also in Eridu we have the temple of Ningirsu. The last two days of this month, just before the eighth month’s new moon festival they observe and remember the spirits of the dead, the mound covered over the entrance to the realm of Apsu and Kur. Seen on Libra under the Volume III is Akkadian Tul-ku, means "The Sacred (Holy) Mound" or "The Holy Altar," where the Sumerian (dul(6), mound, sanctuary + kù, sacred, holy, in lieu of tul-ku). End Comment.]
By God’s grace and tremendous mercy, He is giving us advanced warning as to what He is about to do. On Judgment Day, May 21st, 2011, this 5-month period of horrible torment will begin for all the inhabitants of the earth. It will be on May 21st that God will raise up all the dead that have ever died from their graves. Earthquakes will ravage the whole world as the earth will no longer conceal its dead (Isaiah 26:21). People who died as saved individuals will experience the resurrection of their bodies and immediately leave this world to forever be with the Lord. Those who died unsaved will be raised up as well, but only to have their lifeless bodies scattered about the face of all the earth. Death will be everywhere.
The Lord also emphasizes these awful 5 months of destruction in the final verse of Genesis, chapter 7:
Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Five months after May 21st, 2011 will be October 21st, 2011. It so happens that October 21st of 2011 is also the last day of the Biblical Feast of Tabernacles (held simultaneously with the Feast of Ingathering). Tabernacles is held in the 7th month of the Hebrew calendar. The way God speaks of this feast in the Bible is very significant:
Exodus 23:16 …the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
The Feast of Tabernacles / Ingathering was said to be in the “end of the year” even though it was observed in the Hebrew 7th month, which is not the end of the year. The reason for this is that the spiritual fulfillment of this particular feast is the end of the world. The date October 21st, 2011 will be the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles and the last day of earth’s existence. The Bible describes what will take place on October 21st, 2011 in the following passage:
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Along with the entire world and universe, all those who have sinned against God and were left behind will likewise be consumed by this fire and be eternally destroyed:
2 Thessalonians 1:8,9 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
On October 21st, 2011, God will completely destroy this creation and all of the people who never experienced the salvation of Jesus Christ along with it. The awful payment for their sinful rebellion against God will be completed by the loss of everlasting life. On October 21st, 2011, all of these poor people will cease to exist from that point forward. How sad that noble man, made in God’s image, will die like a beast and perish forever:
Psalm 49:12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
There is much more to share. But please, dear soul, be warned that the time for salvation is drawing to a rapid close! God has given the world 7000 years from the flood, and now only a few days remain until we reach May 21st, 2011. Before we know it, time will have run completely out. The few grains of sand remaining in our hourglass will have elapsed and be gone forever. Although little time remains, there is still wonderful hope for anyone today:
2 Corinthians 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
It does not take God much time at all to save someone. In the last hours of a terribly sinful life, the thief on the cross was saved by Christ:
Luke 23:42,43 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Our prayer is that you will receive this tract in the spirit of genuine concern in which it is being offered. As you read this pamphlet, please carefully consider the verses quoted from the Bible, for they are the Word of God, and as such, possess absolute power and authority. Our only hope for salvation is through the reading of the Word of God. It is now that the door of heaven (Christ) is open. It is now that God is saving a great multitude of people from around the world outside of the churches and congregations:
Revelation 7:9,13,14 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; …What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
God saves through the hearing of the Word of God and no other way:
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Read the Bible with all your family (especially your children); and along with your reading, pray for mercy. Pray to the merciful and gracious God of the Bible that He might deliver you from the approaching destruction. We learn a little about God’s tremendous compassion in the book of Jonah. God also gave advance warning to the people of Nineveh regarding the destruction of their city:
Jonah 3:4-9 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not?
God did not destroy the people of Nineveh. Although there is no possibility that God will not follow through on His intention to destroy the world in 2011, we can know from His dealings with the people of Nineveh that God is tenderhearted and full of mercy. This should encourage each one of us to go to God and beseech Him for His great mercy.
APOCALYPSE … NOT!
Highlights from Associated Press article May 22, 2011 by Garance Burke.
Believers take lack of Rapture in stride; skeptics just carried on as usual anyway
OAKLAND, Calif. — They spent months warning the world of the apocalypse, some giving away earthly belongings or draining their savings accounts. So they waited, vigilantly, on Saturday for the appointed hour to arrive.
When 6 p.m. came and went at various spots around the globe and no extraordinary cataclysm oc¬curred, Keith Bauer — who hopped in his minivan in Maryland and drove his family 3,000 miles to California for the Rapture — took it in stride. “I had some skepticism but I was trying to push the skepticism away because I believe in God,” he said in the bright sun outside the gated Oakland headquarters of Family Radio International, whose founder, Harold Camping, has broadcast the apocalyptic predic¬tion for years. “I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this Earth.” But, he added, “It’s God who leads you, not Harold Camping.” Bauer, a tractor-trailer driver, began the trip west last week, figuring that if he “worked last week, I wouldn’t have gotten paid any-way, if the Rapture did happen.”
After seeing the nonprofit ministry’s home base, he planned to make a day trip to the Pacific Ocean, then start the cross-country drive back home today with his wife, young son and another relative.
The May 21 doomsday message was sent far and wide via broadcasts and websites by Camping, 89, a retired civil engineer who has built a multi-million-dollar Christian media empire that publicizes his apocalyptic prediction. According to him, the destruction was to begin its worldwide march as it became 6 p.m. in the various time zones, although believers said Saturday the timing was never exact.
Many followers said though the sun rose Saturday without the earthquakes, plagues and other foretold calamities, the delay was a further test from God to persevere in their faith. “It’s still May 21 and God’s going to bring it,” said Family Radio’s special projects coordinator Michael Garcia, who spent Saturday morning praying and drinking two last cups of coffee with his wife at home in Alameda.
“When you say something and it doesn’t happen, your pride is what’s hurt. But who needs pride? God said he resists the proud and gives grace to the humble,” he said. At Chicago’s Millennium Park, hours before 6 p.m., people continued to take photographs as they do every Saturday and poked fun at the Judgment Day prophecy. “I guess the whole school thing was a waste of time,” said Sarah Eaton, a 19-year-old college student visiting from St. Paul, Minn.
The New Orleans Secular Humanist Association planned to hold a Left Behind balloon release and costume party rather than their usual monthly gathering to hear a speaker.
The Internet also was alive with discussion, humorous and not, on the end of the world and its apparent failure to occur on cue. The top trends on Twitter at midday included, at No. 1, “endof¬worldconfessions,” followed by "myraptureplaylist.”
Camping’s radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website are controlled from a modest building sandwiched between an auto shop and a palm reader’s business. Family Radio International’s message has been broadcast in 61 languages.
Camping has said his 1994 apocalyptic prediction didn’t come true because of a mathematical error. “I’m not embarrassed about it. It was just the fact that it was premature,” he said last month. But this time, he said, “there is … no possibility that it will not happen.”
Mayan apocalypse theories shattered - Archaeologists find calendars
May 11, 2012 by Brian Vastag, The Washington Post.
The ancient Mayans were masters of time, keepers of good calendars.
And now we have one of their timekeepers’ workrooms to prove it. In a striking find, archaeologists in Guatemala report the discovery of a small building whose walls display not only a stunningly preserved mural of a brightly adorned Mayan king but also calendars that destroy any notion that the Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012. These deep-time calendars can be used to count thousands of years into the past and future, countering pop-culture and New Age ideas that Mayan calendars ended Dec.21, 2012—or Dec. 23, depending on who’s counting — thereby predicting the end of the world.
The newly found calendars, which track the motion of the moon, Venus and Mars, provide an unprecedented glimpse into how these storied sky-gazers who dominated Central America for nearly 1,000 years kept such accurate track of months, seasons and years.
“What they’re trying to do is understand the large cycles of cosmic time,” said William Saturno, the Boston University archaeologist who led the expedition. “This is the space they’re doing it in. It’s like looking into Da Vinci’s workshop.”
Before the new find, the best-preserved Mayan calendars were inscribed in bark-paged books called codices, the most famous being the Dresden Codex. But those pages hail from several hundred years later than the newly found calendars
Saturno said researchers have long assumed the Mayans had worked out the cycles of the moons and planets much earlier, but no evidence of such work had ever been found. But in 2010, an undergraduate student working with Saturno, Max Chamberlain, stumbled onto the house as the team began a huge job: starting excavations at a Mayan city, Xultun, which despite being known since 1915 had never been professionally excavated.
Instead, through the decades, looters had dug deep trenches to access buildings. One day at lunch, Chamberlain announced his intention to find paintings by crawling through the trenches.
Saturno scoffed. The buildings were too shallow — any paint on their walls would surely be long gone, erased by water, dirt, insects and encroaching tree roots.
But sure enough, Chamberlain stumbled onto a wall, open to a trench, showing two red lines.
A quick excavation revealed the back wall of the building, replete with a mural of a resplendent Mayan king, in bright blue, adorned with feathers and jewelry.
Saturno’s team brushed off the wall, and “Ta-da!” he said. “A Technicolor, fantastically preserved mural. I don’t know how it survived.” Saturno immediately emailed contacts at the National Geographic Society, which agreed to fund a full excavation of the building.
The mural is the first Mayan painting found in a small building instead of a large public space. And it’s also the oldest known preserved Mayan painting.
Next to the king, a scribe — perhaps the worker who scribbled the calendars on the wall — holds a writing instrument.
Three mysterious figures wearing black also march across the wall. One of them is named “older brother obsidian.” Mayan experts have no idea whom these mysterious figures might represent. Once the team uncovered several columns of red and black dots and dashes — the Mayans’ numbering system — and the meaning of these figures was almost immediately evident to David Stuart, one of the world’s foremost experts in Mayan hieroglyphics. It was a lunar table, showing a 4,784-day cycle of the moon’s phases.
“It’s really cool because it shows us the tools the ancient astronomers and priests were using to do their calculations,” Stuart said.
On another wall sits a smaller set of four columns of figures. These took a bit more puzzling. But eventually the all- star Mayan scholar team figured it out: This second table was filled with huge numbers relating to how long it takes Mars and Venus to cross the sky and come back again. This calendar spans some 7,000 years, heading much further into the future than the supposed doomsday date.
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