Today, according to the Mayan Calendar, is the final day of the end of the world. It ain't midnight yet, so we'll see, but Jesus said this kind of thing would happen. He said people would prophesy the end of the world - and then, people would prophesy that they were Him.
It's happened time and again.
Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism prophesied the end of the world in 1891. Hello.
Ellen White, founder of the Seventh Day Adventist movement did it multiple times. All wrong.
The Jehovah's Witnesses have made at least 9 such predictions over the years - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
Others have done it as well, including several claims by Christians in very recent years. Some of the claims have made national news. But frankly, that kind of thing has turned Christianity into something of a laughingstock with folks. 'There go those crazy Christians again.'
Then Jesus said there would be people who would say that they were Him. And again:
Arnold Potter from the 1800s ... Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church ... Jim Jones, who led the 900-person mass murder-suicide in Guyana in 1978 ... David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in 1993 ... that's just the tip of the iceberg.
But the truth is, the one and only Jesus really came, really lived, really died, really rose, really conquered satan, sin, death and hell. That is historically and factually true. People got to see Him, touch Him, hear Him and speak with Him.
Then He ascended into heaven - and now, He's coming back. We don't know when exactly but we know He will.
Jesus says, 'Nobody knows the hour or the day of My return. No one.' Do you know who that includes? Everyone.
There's only one Savior and His name is Jesus. Anyone or anything else we cling to, thinking that will deliver us, is false. So the world may not end today - there is still 7 hours to go - but my suggestion is to keep your eyes on the Eastern Sky -- and wait -- and watch -- and through it all, be sure your hope is in Christ.
And be blessed.
It's happened time and again.
Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism prophesied the end of the world in 1891. Hello.
Ellen White, founder of the Seventh Day Adventist movement did it multiple times. All wrong.
The Jehovah's Witnesses have made at least 9 such predictions over the years - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
Others have done it as well, including several claims by Christians in very recent years. Some of the claims have made national news. But frankly, that kind of thing has turned Christianity into something of a laughingstock with folks. 'There go those crazy Christians again.'
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Arnold Potter from the 1800s ... Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church ... Jim Jones, who led the 900-person mass murder-suicide in Guyana in 1978 ... David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in 1993 ... that's just the tip of the iceberg.
But the truth is, the one and only Jesus really came, really lived, really died, really rose, really conquered satan, sin, death and hell. That is historically and factually true. People got to see Him, touch Him, hear Him and speak with Him.
Then He ascended into heaven - and now, He's coming back. We don't know when exactly but we know He will.
Jesus says, 'Nobody knows the hour or the day of My return. No one.' Do you know who that includes? Everyone.
There's only one Savior and His name is Jesus. Anyone or anything else we cling to, thinking that will deliver us, is false. So the world may not end today - there is still 7 hours to go - but my suggestion is to keep your eyes on the Eastern Sky -- and wait -- and watch -- and through it all, be sure your hope is in Christ.
And be blessed.
2 comments:
PK, how many yrs went by from the creation of the world until Jesus was born? I know God's time is very different from our sense of time, I just wondered why it has been so long. That may be a question that you can't answer.
Yes, I'm afraid that question is bigger than me.
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