Scared yet? Maybe you need to start playing the game and get with the 2012 experience. It will help to read a fictional novel (is it really fiction?). Its on Facebook.
As part of the total 2012 experience you can join in and hope to be chosen to live in one of the underwater cities to be developed by the IHC. This is really getting thrilling.
I've been wringing my hands and sweating all night since I watched the latest installment on the History Channel. I'm going to record every chapter and watch them again and again until my adrenaline is pumping so furiously I'll not be able to sleep at all. Want to join me in my fear, anxiety and terror? And don't say I didn't warn you this was coming.
But I did write something that should also comfort and strengthen you. And this time I'm serious. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you should review it. If you don't yet know Christ, you should check it out.
To that let me add a few notes from Scripture, the true source of information about the future of planet earth, far more reliable than Nostradamus and the Mayan calendar, Edgar Cayce, the Sybilline oracles, , Hopi Indians, etc., etc. By the way, in all the hype, note how the media ignores the sober comments of the Bible, especially what is written by the Apostles in the New Testament. That is, of course, to be expected.
Let's look at the most detailed and explicit Scriptural account of the end of the world in 2 Peter 3:10-12.
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
"Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat."
To understand what St. Peter writes you must add verse 13, a reference to the promise of new heavens and a new earth from Isaiah 65:17 and Isaiah 66:22.
"But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness."
No question about it. The apostle teaches the annihilation of the present creation. You cannot argue that when he speaks of the 'elements' (Greek stoixeia) he is not talking about the material elements of the world, but rather superhuman spirits. Note that 'elements' and 'the heavens' are both to be destroyed. The governing image is that it is all about to be dissolved and melted. Let us be very sober about this. In that sense the current hype about the end is accurate. In that sense, parts of the movie 2012 are helpful. Everything that now exists will be discontinued. This chapter is about to end!
But that's not the end of the story: "But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward—to a new heaven and a new earth!" Got it? That's the promise. Whose promise? The promise of the Creator who became one with us in the Child of Bethlehem.
More on this the next time.
