Whether you are a Believer, or a non-Christian, you may have asked yourself this question on occasion. Doomsday and 2012 may be looked at as two of a kind. With the Mayan prophecy of doom quickly approaching, more and more people have the same burning question on their lips: How to survive 2012?
There are so many prophecies in the Word of God that have come true. For example, when God had said that Babylon was going to be laid waste and never rebuilt again, this is exactly what has happened. To this day, Babylon is a badlands and has never been rebuilt. Alexander the Great tried and was struck dead within a week of endeavoring to rebuild it. Bringing it closer to the modern era, Saddam Hussein tried to rebuild it but the bricks started to crack and they were unusable. Then because of the Gulf War, he put the rebuilding Babylon at the bottom of his list, and now as we all know, he is no longer with us.
So an early prophecy from God way back in 580 BC holds true still today. I know what you are thinking. This has nothing to do with Armageddon or the the Day of Reckoning in 2012. In fact, actually it does. The Bible tells us lots of things about the end of the world. One of the major themes is in Matthew 24:43,44 which states that “no one knows the day or the hour” as to when Armageddon will happen. That kind of puts a damper on the whole “end of the world and surviving 2012” philosophy, since no one knows the time it will occur.
But let’s just say that 2012 is going to be the end of the world. How does one go about preparing for 2012, or Armageddon? Well again, the Bible lets us know in John 17:3 when it clearly declares “This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”
Right there is the key to survival, the handbook, the map, the arrow pointing which way we are to go. In order to survive 2012, if that is indeed the date that we are going by, we need to trust Jesus to forgive our sins and ask Him to be Lord of our life.
The Bible tells us what clues to look for in the end days. Let us look at a few occurances in our time and compare them to what Jesus said. In Luke 21, they were questioning Jesus as to what the sign will be when these things are foretold to happen. Jesus told them:
1. “Do not be misled, many will come on the basis of my name and try to mislead you”.
Think back to Heavens Gate, one of the biggest mass suicides in history. The cultists thought they were going to bigger & better places not of this world. Some of us may have thought this was obviously some charismatic leader just misleading people. However, this could have been one of the things that Jesus was giving us warning about.
2. “Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom”.
Clearly this means national turmoil. If we look around the world today, we see nothing but war. Since 1914, the First World War was supposed to be “the war that ended all wars”, but it was in fact the war that seems to have incited more of them. The enemy has certainly been instigating war after war ever since the beginning of time. But with every nation on earth being touched in some way by wars in the last one hundred years, things have definitely heated up. In World War One millions of people died. World War 2, again, millions of people lost their lives. So when Jesus said that nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, this has clearly happened and still is occurring.
3. “Earthquakes, pestilences and food shortages will happen in different places”.
Look around the world today; we see catastrophes everywhere we look. We hear about earthquakes, pestilence in third world countries, and lack of food almost every day on the news. Even here in our country, one of the richest nations on earth, poverty and starvation are more prevalent than we would like to admit. It’s not a happy reality but then again, it was prophesied by Jesus as future things to happen. He even told us there would be symbols from the heavens to watch for. In Matthew 24:29 it says that after the tribulation “the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give off light, and the stars will fall from the heavens”. This could be symbolic, but if it was symbolic how would we know for sure that this is the beginning of the final chapter? It would make sense that the Lord would reveal something visual in order for people to know.
2012, or Armageddon, need not be about doom and gloom. In fact, going back to John where it says taking in the knowledge of God means living forever. We could get very fearful thinking that this world is going to be destroyed. How can it be that life as we know it could end? Again, drawing our attention back to the Bible, in Psalm 104:5, it says that “He has founded the earth upon its established places; It will not be made to totter to time indefinite or forever”.
In Psalms 37: 11, it tells us that“The meek ones will possess the earth. And they will find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.” Although there does seem to be an end of the world according to the Word of God, there is also a message of hope. That hope is found by putting faith in Jesus Christ. Then you will have the possibility of living forever with Jesus Christ. Our hope can only come from Him and in Christ alone. We must confess our sins and ask for forgiveness. When we are forgiven, the Holy Spirit of God will come and live in our hearts forever. This is the hope to survive 2012 and to live forever no matter what happens.
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