The End
So here we are in the midst of life's own little problems. A project to do for uni, a colleges social life to survive, a course to learn...
But death is the destiny of all men, and the living should take this to heart - Proverbs.
So this morning, I have spent a little time just reading about the crisis over in the middle east. Over these few years we have had several more earthquakes than usual, storms and hurricanes of increasing magnitude and frequency due to the perceived weather changes and just not too long ago, the largest natural disaster known to affect men, the Christmas Tsunami.
Every generation has seen itself as the last generation. The prophets have been crying out about the end of the world long since Jesus came. But if there is an end, then surely one generation will be the last.
I have always been most intersted in the Mayan calendar. They were star gazers and built a very long time line of the future and the fate of the world based upon the changes of the stars. They noted that the earth underwent cycles of severe changes believing that with each change all life would undergo an upheaval of mind and matter. These cycles were incident with the slow, unending wobbling of the galaxy and its paralleling with the plane of our own solar system. On one of their greatest time lines, the time just stops suddeny at the fifth change/cycle and it is termed the Great Cataclysm. There is no more after that as if the sculptor grew bored or disillusioned or died. The date of this end coinicides with the winter solstice of 2012 - 21 December.
I've always been fascinated by that. Not many predicitions like to give accurate dates. They prefer being vague and full of intrigue.
This morning, reading of the horror and sadness of war, I remembered a passage. Jesus talks about the end times only on occasion. This is the line that I remembered well -
Luke 21:13 20-21 - When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. The let those in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out and let those in the country not enter the city.
The whole of Luke 21 is basically about the end times. It is a scary and sad thought. What if, I always ask myself, what if all we have until is 21 Dec 2012? And worse! The years and events leading up to it are ones full of pain and sorrow.
A random graffitti I read on the street that made me laugh - Jesus is coming! Look busy!
Some people told me once not to bother whether or not the end is coming because you wouldn't be able to do anything about it. I never ever agreed with them although I didn't know any reply I could give. But now I do. I will be watchful - watchful because that day will come suddenly and I want to be able to stand before the Son of Man.
Growth studies doesn't feel like such a big deal after all of that...
But death is the destiny of all men, and the living should take this to heart - Proverbs.
So this morning, I have spent a little time just reading about the crisis over in the middle east. Over these few years we have had several more earthquakes than usual, storms and hurricanes of increasing magnitude and frequency due to the perceived weather changes and just not too long ago, the largest natural disaster known to affect men, the Christmas Tsunami.
Every generation has seen itself as the last generation. The prophets have been crying out about the end of the world long since Jesus came. But if there is an end, then surely one generation will be the last.
I have always been most intersted in the Mayan calendar. They were star gazers and built a very long time line of the future and the fate of the world based upon the changes of the stars. They noted that the earth underwent cycles of severe changes believing that with each change all life would undergo an upheaval of mind and matter. These cycles were incident with the slow, unending wobbling of the galaxy and its paralleling with the plane of our own solar system. On one of their greatest time lines, the time just stops suddeny at the fifth change/cycle and it is termed the Great Cataclysm. There is no more after that as if the sculptor grew bored or disillusioned or died. The date of this end coinicides with the winter solstice of 2012 - 21 December.
I've always been fascinated by that. Not many predicitions like to give accurate dates. They prefer being vague and full of intrigue.
This morning, reading of the horror and sadness of war, I remembered a passage. Jesus talks about the end times only on occasion. This is the line that I remembered well -
Luke 21:13 20-21 - When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. The let those in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out and let those in the country not enter the city.
The whole of Luke 21 is basically about the end times. It is a scary and sad thought. What if, I always ask myself, what if all we have until is 21 Dec 2012? And worse! The years and events leading up to it are ones full of pain and sorrow.
A random graffitti I read on the street that made me laugh - Jesus is coming! Look busy!
Some people told me once not to bother whether or not the end is coming because you wouldn't be able to do anything about it. I never ever agreed with them although I didn't know any reply I could give. But now I do. I will be watchful - watchful because that day will come suddenly and I want to be able to stand before the Son of Man.
Growth studies doesn't feel like such a big deal after all of that...
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