The End of Days, according to humans, not God

There has been a lot of debate about the end of days especially when we're inside the year 2012, and by that I do mean the ever popular 21 December 2012 where some of these mindful, nothing to do humans tend to create buzz over something that is so fictitious and remarkably silly.

A lot of the stories about end of days in december 21 this year derives from the PAGAN race, the Mayans. Though there are also some that came about to their stories by prediction, well so they say. Let's look at some of the stories.

The most popular of them all is the Mayan myth. They have this calendar called the Long Count Calendar. This calendar doesn't work like the ones we know. The ones we know are the Chinese Calendar, the Lunar Calendar (Islamic), the Gregorian...should I say more? You get the point. Now getting on to the Long Count Calendar, the date 21st December 2012 is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Long Count calendar. The question is, did the Mayans stopped writing the calendar or did they really think that the world would end on this date? Let's look at some historical facts about the Mayans. They think that their Gods made a few worlds, and that this one we're living in now is the fourth one, which the good one so far. The previous three worlds was crap apparently. Ok so this Long Count Calendar isn't really a calendar, it's more of a countdown clock, and guess what, the last day of the count falls on our calendar dated 21st December 2012. However, there isn't any significant fact of history that states that the Mayans thought that this was the end of the world. Other scholars (yes after research), suggests that it may be a celebration instead of doomsday. Another scholar says that the date might suggest "supposes changes in human consciousness", not the end of the world.

There's also speculations about some Galactic Alignment, which has been said to happen on the same date the Long Count Calendar ends. But this has been dismissed by almost everyone from NASA to Professors, pretty much everyone.

And then there's the POLE SHIFT THEORY.  Breakaway oceans and continents dump cities into the sea, thrust palm trees to the poles, and spawn earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and other disasters.
Scientists dismiss such drastic scenarios, but some researchers have speculated that a subtler shift could occur—for example, if the distribution of mass on or inside the planet changed radically, due to, say, the melting of ice caps.

This is my favourite one! The Planet X collision! Hah! Who comes up with these ideas. They should be making movies instead. According to some, a Planet will hit Earth. Sometimes referred to as Planet Nibiru, some lady who was convinced that she got a message from aliens that some planet was going to hit us. At first it was predicted for 2003, well since that has passed, now they say it's hitting us in 2012. Let's put it this way, even if some rock that was going to hit us, astronomers would have been studying it, and even if they're keeping it a secret from us, they've probably figured out a way to kill it off or prevent it from hitting Earth.

Moving on...now on Solar Storms. Heck we've been hearing this for a while now haven't we. Solar Storms would be a problem for us, in a minor way anyways. It will disrupt our communications for sure but doomsday? Way no! It's been said that our dearest Sun would reach it's cycle, blowing off some steam to us with some flares. But it's not happening in 2012 according to scientists. It'll only happen about a year or two after the end of days date. 

Remember the Y2K end of the world hype? It didn't happen! But so many people made money out of it! Book publishers, websites, magazines, all these entities made so much money and I guess this 2012 theory is just another means of getting more money.

If anything, we should be checking out the bible's saying on the end of the world. The Bible does say God will use cosmic events as means of his judgement on earth before the final day of judgement. Revelation 16:21 speaks of catastrophic disasters like 50 kilo hailstones. Matthew 24:29 says, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the SUN be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:"  But while the Bible speaks of judgment on earth before the ultimate "day of judgement", it also speaks of hope and describes very clearly how to escape the coming wrath. The bible never state that the world would come to its judgement on the 21st of December 2012. Let's have a look at Matthew 24:

1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying,

Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 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. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation [race] shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37 But as the days of Noe [Noah] were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.

There is nothing in writing about 2012. Jesus said, only GOD knows when Judgement Day will happen. Till then, we should just be ready and live life like how he told to us live.