My husband and I watched a comedy movie last night! It was about how the world was going to end!
Based on the Mayan calendar, the world was going to end!
The reason that I call this movie a comedy is because its not based on reality! An airplane simply can not out fly an erupting super volcano! But aside from that!
This movie was about lots of little gods trying to survive in a world they couldn't control, yet they obviously had some power to pull off "miracles"!
Putting the movie aside... I do actually have a point!
Firstly, there is a lot of "end of the world" hype! And some are deceived into believing it and the Mayans have obviously gotten it wrong!
Even Jesus doesn't know when its going to happen! How could the Mayans know? Or are they closer to God than even his own son?
How much end time rubbish is out there? How many authors write about it? And how many people actually know what exactly is going to happen and when? I don't think anyone really knows! And you know what else I think?! I think it doesn't matter!
We know that at some point in time God is going to do His thing and the world as we currently know it will end! What happens after that - we have a guide from John, being Revelation! But, I have heard many sermons on this book! Some match up with each other, some couldn't be more weird! I'm no scholar, so I don't know who is right or who is wrong and who is just plane up the pole!
But, even then, with all the preaching and teaching, I think we've missed the point! The churches in Revelation have letters written to them... What they did wrong is listed, and what they did right! It is a guide for how to live!
The point of it is relationship! The general list of do and do not, is a guide to keep us on the right track! The point is Jesus. The point is relationship! Put the two together and the point is relationship WITH Jesus!
If we cling to Him, we will come through whatever is in store for us, good or bad!
Only the Father knows when the "shit will hit the fan"! And Jesus and the Holy Spirit will get us through it!
I don't need a shelf full of end times books to know that!
Jesus said to not be deceived, for many will come! There have been many who come claiming they know the date and time, and many others have come claiming to be Jesus! Yet Jesus said, do not be deceived! Many have written books, they line up with scripture with some fanciful imaginings thrown in! Some of these go amazingly deeply into scripture, and there are people who hold onto these as legitimate teachings of Revelation, they're books, written by humans with a humans understanding of Gods word, and thus should not be relied on! We don't know when or how! We have a guide! God knows the details! Can't we just trust Him, put aside end times crap and get on with doing what the Father planned for us to do?? God has it all in hand! He knows the story from beginning to end, and all the details in the middle! We just have to trust Him!
And, if we cling to Jesus, we can't go wrong!
May Gods blessings shower down upon you. And may you be coated in the dust of your Rabbi!
Based on the Mayan calendar, the world was going to end!
The reason that I call this movie a comedy is because its not based on reality! An airplane simply can not out fly an erupting super volcano! But aside from that!
This movie was about lots of little gods trying to survive in a world they couldn't control, yet they obviously had some power to pull off "miracles"!
Putting the movie aside... I do actually have a point!
Firstly, there is a lot of "end of the world" hype! And some are deceived into believing it and the Mayans have obviously gotten it wrong!
Even Jesus doesn't know when its going to happen! How could the Mayans know? Or are they closer to God than even his own son?
How much end time rubbish is out there? How many authors write about it? And how many people actually know what exactly is going to happen and when? I don't think anyone really knows! And you know what else I think?! I think it doesn't matter!
We know that at some point in time God is going to do His thing and the world as we currently know it will end! What happens after that - we have a guide from John, being Revelation! But, I have heard many sermons on this book! Some match up with each other, some couldn't be more weird! I'm no scholar, so I don't know who is right or who is wrong and who is just plane up the pole!
But, even then, with all the preaching and teaching, I think we've missed the point! The churches in Revelation have letters written to them... What they did wrong is listed, and what they did right! It is a guide for how to live!
The point of it is relationship! The general list of do and do not, is a guide to keep us on the right track! The point is Jesus. The point is relationship! Put the two together and the point is relationship WITH Jesus!
If we cling to Him, we will come through whatever is in store for us, good or bad!
Only the Father knows when the "shit will hit the fan"! And Jesus and the Holy Spirit will get us through it!
I don't need a shelf full of end times books to know that!
Jesus said to not be deceived, for many will come! There have been many who come claiming they know the date and time, and many others have come claiming to be Jesus! Yet Jesus said, do not be deceived! Many have written books, they line up with scripture with some fanciful imaginings thrown in! Some of these go amazingly deeply into scripture, and there are people who hold onto these as legitimate teachings of Revelation, they're books, written by humans with a humans understanding of Gods word, and thus should not be relied on! We don't know when or how! We have a guide! God knows the details! Can't we just trust Him, put aside end times crap and get on with doing what the Father planned for us to do?? God has it all in hand! He knows the story from beginning to end, and all the details in the middle! We just have to trust Him!
And, if we cling to Jesus, we can't go wrong!
May Gods blessings shower down upon you. And may you be coated in the dust of your Rabbi!
2 comments:
Food for thought. Put yourself in a Mayans footwear for a moment. You are carving a calendar and turn to your supervisor, "what date are we gonna stop at?" Your answer comes back after a short pondering, "2012 should be plenty enough".
Perhaps a bit more fore thought on their behalf, say, dot, dot, dot, after to let us know "to be continued..." After all some people are simply not that smart and will believe EVERYTHING they see in the movies, "LOOKOUT, a giant marshmallow man is walking up the street... Oh wait it's ok, the hulk can crush anything!"
Good point! Gav said that his theory is that if the Mayans had have lived until 2012, they probably would have simply started a new calendar! My theory is that they "ran out of paper"!
But, you're right, people will believe anything and everything that they see and hear!
And Thor will smack Loke into the next millennium!! But even that makes no sense, because on one show the Asgards are little grey aliens, yet in another show they are Gods that look strangely like humans! I'm confused! 😏
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