Jitro wrote:
The date December 21, 2012 is coming soon. Do you think it will be the end of the world?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#Calendar "the calendars they used were crude, being based on a year length of exactly 365 days, which means that the calendar falls out of step with the seasons by one day every four years." According to that the "end of the world" would've came decades, if not, centuries ago, because their calendar would have expired long ago.
Jesus tells us "Concerning that day and hour [when the end of this wicked system ends] nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father." (Matthew 24:36)
The bible is more than a book that helps people learn how to live good, moral lives. It is also a book of accurate prophecy by its author Jehovah God. For example the Bible tells us that King Cyrus II, many years before his birth, would free the Jews held captive in Babylon and allow them to return to Jerusalem and rebuild God’s temple. A place the Babylonians had destroyed in 607 B.C.E. (Ezra 1:1-7; 6:3-5) This account is corroborated by a clay document known as the Cyrus Cylinder discovered in 1879 in the ruins of ancient Babylon.
About 200 years before the time of Alexander the Great, Jehovah God’s prophet Daniel wrote concerning world domination: “Look! there was a male of the goats coming from the sunset upon the surface of the whole earth, and it was not touching the earth. And as regards the he-goat, there was a conspicuous horn between its eyes. And it kept coming all the way to the ram possessing the two horns, . . . and it came running toward it in its powerful rage. And . . . it proceeded to strike down the ram and to break its two horns, and there proved to be no power in the ram to stand before it. So it threw it to the earth and trampled it down . . . And the male of the goats, for its part, put on great airs to an extreme; but as soon as it became mighty, the great horn was broken, and there proceeded to come up conspicuously four instead of it, toward the four winds of the heavens.” — Daniel 8:5-8.
To whom did those words apply? Daniel himself answers: “The ram that you saw possessing the two horns stands for the kings of Media and Persia. And the hairy he-goat stands for the king of Greece; and as for the great horn that was between its eyes, it stands for the first king.” — Daniel 8:20-22.
Think about that! During the time of the Babylonian world power, the Bible foretold that the succeeding powers would be Medo-Persia and Greece and even explains how Greece would fall. The Bible specifically stated that “as soon as it became mighty, the great horn” — Alexander — would be “broken” and would be replaced by four others, adding further that none of them would be Alexander’s posterity. — Daniel 11:4. Who are these "four others"? These are none other than Alexander's four leading generals — Lysimachus, Cassander, Seleucus, and Ptolemy. They “proclaimed themselves kings” and took over the empire, states the book
The Hellenistic Age.
The above are just two examples of accurate predictions made in the Bible. There are MANY more. Which would you put faith in? The faulty calendar of an extinct civilization, or the proven and accurate words of the bible?
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17 Dec 2012, 10:03 pm
