First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. -II Peter 3:3-5
All we need to do is look around us and we see that we are living in troubled times. Jesus warned us about such trials as wars and rumors of wars, and we see that in the present age now more than ever. But we also hear discussion about such catastrophes as a meteor or comet striking the earth and the damage that would inflict. And lately I keep hearing that Yellowstone National Park is going to explode any minute now and pretty much wipe out life as we know it. There’s also the possibility that a solar flare from the sun might shoot toward us with such force that the ozone layer of the earth is ripped open thus letting in all the ultra-violet rays of the sun. If that happened scientists say we’d last a very short time. And to top all of that, people have become fixated in the year 2012. Some are saying that there’s going to be horrible cataclysms starting then and that the world is going to pretty much explode. This last one tries my patience more than any other due to the origins of the fear – which by the way is causing people to act even stranger than they did the year before the calendar turned 2000. That was supposed to be a global meltdown as well. The 2012 scare comes from the ancient Mayan calendar which ends at 2012. The ancient Mayans supposedly predicted that in 2012 great and terrible catastrophes would come upon the earth. Even some believers appear to be buying into this foolishness. Since when are we planning our future upon the predictions of the Mayans? The Mayans were a pagan civilization who worshiped the sun, moon, and stars. Not only that they weren’t smart enough to make a calendar that went past 2012!
As followers of Christ we look not to the Mayan calendar, but to the Word of God. Jesus said that no man knows the day or the hour of the coming of the Son of Man. One day the world as we know it is going to end , but only God knows when that’s going to happen. So, we move ahead, trust God, serve Him, and put our faith in Him at all times.
Do not give in to fear. Trust the Lord, move forward in faith, and rejoice that we are in God's hands.
