End Of The World 2012?

End of the world 2012 and "The Hobbit"

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:45:00 +0000

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The following blog is by our guest blogger, Rob Holding. Rob has been in national radio for over 20 years and has interviewed a host of people on world events. He has been looking at the big picture for quite a while so we think his opinion is one worth listening to.

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One of the most annoying things with the world ending on December 21st next year is that I’m probably going to miss out on seeing The Hobbit. The release date is the 14th of December and, what with the world ending one week later and absolutely no chance of ever seeing the second part I can imagine hawkers will have ticket prices up in the unattainable range.

It’s not that I actually believe the world is going to end on December 21st 2012 it’s just that there seem to be a lot of people who think it may and I’m well aware of what a panicked humanity can do. Anyone remember what happened?

Back in June 1941 during a Japanese air raid on Chungking in China 4,000 people were trampled or suffocated to death trying to return to air raid shelters.

On the 21st of May 1985, 56 people died and 265 were injured after fire engulfed the Bradford City football stadium. Most of the dead were children or elderly people crushed in the rush to escape the inferno.

Just over a week later, about an hour before the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, a large group of Liverpool fans breached a fence separating them from rival Juventus fans. The Juventus fans ran back on the terraces and away from the threat into a concrete retaining wall. Fans already seated near the wall were crushed; eventually the wall collapsed. 39 people died and over 600 were injured.

I actually got up to watch that game (New Zealand time) and stood there unable to move as I watched the carnage before me on TV.

Early 2011 four people were arrested in East China's Jiangsu province for allegedly spreading rumours about an impending explosion that triggered panic and led to the deaths of four and the injury of three others. Residents thought poisonous gas was leaking from a chemical plant in the Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park. The plant's neighbors believed the leaking gas was about to explode. More than 10,000 people from four townships in the county started to flee the area at 2 am, leaving the streets in chaos.

Oh yes, I am going to be very careful on December 21st 2012.

My mate Mike’s been going through a few problems in the last couple of month, everything from losing his job and having to go into arbitration with his employer to moving home and worst of all, not being able to afford to get his bike on the road.

In one of his texts to me he said “I’m packing my bags and getting ready for December 2012”. Now Mike’s a Christian, and he believes that the world is going to end this year about as much as I believe that The United States of America is going to win the next Rugby World Cup (in other words, it’s not going to happen), but for some reason, everyone is talking about it.

If the world was going to end in December 2012 then I think Mike’s got the right idea. As a Christian he knows that the Bible says to be absent from the body is to be present with The Lord. So no matter what happens to him, he’s going ‘home’

I wonder if all the panic about December 21 is because most people don’t have that same assurance of faith about what they say they believe in.

If you believe in reincarnation, what happens to your soul if there’s no planet to be reincarnated on (remember there are no life supporting planets anywhere else - and we’ve looked hard enough). Do you get instant Nirvana? Everybody passes GO, everybody gets $200?

It would take a little rearranging of the belief systems to fit that scenario in.

Atheists shouldn’t be worried except that they won’t get to fulfil all their plans for their lives but, hey, you only had 80 odd years to do it in anyway so the chances were that you weren’t going to achieve, what would you call it, Immortality? (A rather ironic word for an atheist)

No, I think the problem really is that very few people have actually seriously questioned or researched what it is they believe in and this whole 2012 thing has put them on edge because it forces us to look for the cracks in our belief-system armour. (You don’t want to step out of the space craft unless you KNOW that your space suit is airtight).

So what do you believe? Are you 100% sure?

I have a mate from Gisborne, NZ, who has this wonderful little saying. He says “Eternity is the wrong thing to be wrong about”. Do you like that? Eternity is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

We could all be wrong about December 21st 2012. I could be wrong about December 21st 2012. I don’t think I am, but I could be. But in the end, as someone once said; no one gets off the planet alive.

Death pushes our buttons like nothing else does because we all die. If you are reading this it simply means that you haven’t died yet. But you will. And so will. However, as a Christian, I don’t have a fear of death. In fact, like Paul, I look forward to it.

Talking to the church in Philippi, St Paul (not McCartney, that’s Sir Paul) said he was tired of the world and just wanted to go home to Jesus and was only sticking around because it was more beneficial for them that he stayed alive. And he was only in his mid 50s.

That’s faith you can take to the bank.

Where are you going when your number’s up? 12-21-12 or whenever (maybe next week). 150,000 die every day, what’s going to happen to you when it’s your turn? Remember, eternity is the WRONG thing to be wrong about.

Me? Well, let me leave you with the immortal words of Larry Norman, a man that I never got round to interviewing during my radio career but look forward to doing so in the future.

“I hope I'll see you in heaven.”

John 14:6 Jesus said “I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except by Me”

CLICK HERE to find out if you'll go to heaven when you die, whenever that may be.

FEAR of the end of the world

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:55:00 +0000

Fear of the end of the world

The Bible talks about “Men's hearts failing them for fear” as they consider the things which are coming upon the earth, things where the very powers of heaven shall be shaken (Luke 21:26).

The thought of the whole world coming to an end, whether that be in 2011, 2012 or beyond, is a terrifying thought.

I have received letters from people totally freaked out about the 2012 predictions. Those most affected (or at least those willing to write to me saying they are affected) seem to be teens, young adults and mothers of young children, but there are others also.

We all have things in life that we are afraid of. It is not the thing itself that makes us afraid because it is not actually happening at the time. Rather, it is the anticipation or thought that it will happen, that we will experience disaster, pain or grief. This is what it is which stirs up all those anxious feelings. And the closer the expected danger, the greater the fear.

Perhaps you can identify with some of the following….. Fear of:

insects, natural disaster, terrorism, job loss, the end of the world, current end of the world 2012 predictions, death itself, what happens after death, failure, public ridicule, loss of acceptance by a parent, rejection… then there are dentists, dogs, thunder and lightning, darkness, heights, other people (public speaking), flying, small or confined spaces….. The list goes on.

I want to share with you a story about one of my personal fears and then bring it back to 2012 and fears about the end of the world. If you have a fear of heights, you may not want to read this next bit…

I never used to have a fear of heights until one day when I was painting my daughter and son-in-law’s roof. I had been up on the roof for a while then in one careless moment, I stepped on some wet paint.

I was instantly thrown onto my back. Despite my desperate attempts, there was no getting up as I slid from about half way up the roof down towards the spouting, picking up speed as I went. My vain hope that a fall to the concrete below would be halted when my feet hit the spouting was shattered at the same moment the spouting shattered and I flew right through.

At that very moment, I was imagining landing on my back with no chance to soften the landing by putting my hands out in front of me. I could just see myself cracking the back of my head open on the concrete below. Then, almost immediately after my heel hit the spouting, my body suddenly flipped forwards so that I was now staring straight down at the concrete as it rushed up towards me. I remember the rush of adrenaline that hit me at that critical moment.

I think that when I first slipped onto my back I had said something like, “No, this can’t be happening!” I was so annoyed that I had made such a stupid mistake after all the careful time I’d spent safely on the roof. But that feeling of annoyance was quickly overtaken by fear.

In such a short space of time, all kinds of thoughts rushed into my mind (as people say they do) such as: Is this the end of the world for me? Is there anyone still in the house to help me if I survive the fall? My wife has gone out for a message, how is she going to find me? And, if I survive, this is going to take a long time to recover which is going to put my chances of employment back even further. I was unemployed at the time.

At the same time these thoughts were bombarding my mind, I was also fighting to take control over my mind. Internally, I was screaming to myself to “Concentrate! Concentrate!” I knew I had to concentrate because there was only a split second to get my hands into place to give me any kind of hope of stoppint my head from splitting on impact.

It may sound a little crazy – and hopefully you’ll understand as you read on – but at that very moment what got my attention was that I was falling in a push-up or press-up position (like a belly flop position if you’ve ever done a belly flop into the water). I realized that I had to try and keep that position if I was going to keep my face intact. I really wasn’t thinking about anything else except my face, my head.

Now although I was falling in a push-up position at that moment, my head was actually starting to move faster than my feet and was beginning to overtake them in my quick and unplanned descent from the roof. So I wasn’t going to be able to spread the weight of the impact on all fours (like a cat so to speak) because my feet would hit after my hands.

Only a week or so before I had reached a personal goal of doing 3,000 pushups in one day. It was the goal I had set after having reached my previous goal of 500 pushups at once. So what I’m saying here is that my love for physical exercise and goal setting gave me some extra strength in my upper body and I was counting on that to reduce some serious injuries. In the last few milliseconds while my body was still airborne and I could just about taste the concrete, I hoped (and that was a God directed hope) that my love for exercise would break my fall and prevent the breaking of bones. I was wrong. But I do believe that had I not been as fit as I was, things would have been much worse.

Half way down (and I didn’t discover this till about 20-30 minutes later), my right foot had struck and broken a large window pane. This slowed down the descent of my right foot and put me more off balance so that any hopes of a four point landing were dashed at that point. So my right foot, being the last to land and having nothing to soften the impact ended up with a vertical fracture in the heel.

Going back before my heel struck…. It was so quick after my hands hit (perhaps a tenth of a second or less, I wasn’t really counting at the time) that my head also hit the ground. So there wasn’t much time for me to take the weight of my upper body (which had fallen about 5 meters from the moment I slipped) in my hands and arms. However, the push up goal setting seemed to be enough to prevent any serious head injuries other than a small bruise, a small lump and scratch. My left hand did not come off so well suffering a broken bone in one finger and multiple fractures in the joint of my little finger. Others have certainly had far worse injuries than this and some have died.

For weeks after this accident, I would wake up at night with a shudder as I found myself reliving the fall, and the landing. Even during the day, this same fear would creep up on me unexpected. Getting up on a ladder as I was required to do at my work place from time to time, brought a queasy feeling to my stomach and I had to talk myself through what I was doing.

Today, five years later, I can remember that falling sensation without any effort. I can also feel the fear that went with it but it does not control me and is now more of a health respect rather than fear.

So what does this all have to do with December 21 2012 end of the world doomsday predictions and the fear people have about the end of the world? Here’s the answer…

Fear has something to do with the future. Fear is expectation and a focus that something bad will happen, involving pain or grief of some kind. Fear of falling is the anticipation of what will happen at the end of the fall. Fear gripped me as I began to fall. After the fall, it was mostly pain that gripped me.

If I could have known that I was sliding into a swimming pool (as in a water slide), the fear factor would have disappeared altogether before I landed. Instead of fearing what was ahead, I would have been looking forward it.

It is the same for end of the world fears. This website makes it clear that 2012 is not the end of the world but it also states that the world will end on day. At that time, terrible judgements from God will fall upon the earth. However, if you know things are going to end OK after the initial fall or arrival of those judgements, and if you know that you will overcome whatever future disasters may strike the earth because you have a good future in God beyond this…. then even as you consider those judgements, any initial fear will give way to joy.

We began with a quote. The quote was talking about one kind of people; people whose hearts would be filled with fear and anxiety because their gaze or focus at some time in the future would upon the terrible disasters coming upon the earth when the end of the world is imminent (close at hand). These people have no hope of a good future, or any future for that matter, for themselves or for the world.

However, the second half of this quote speaks of another group of people. This group, while they know that terrible things will come upon the earth, are not focused on those things, they are focused on what happens next. These people are not bent over with fearful anticipation of God’s final judgements but rather, are looking upward with joyful expectation of what will happen next. Fear is replaced with joy as they look forward to what God has promised to those who trust in him: a new heaven and a new earth where there is not more suffering, death or evil… only perfect love in a perfect world.

Here’s the full quote. Please note the last sentence. In the context, these comforting words are spoken by Jesus to those who follow him.

“Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. (Luke 21:26)

The Bible tells us that perfect love casts out all fear (James 4:18). God is the only one who has perfect love so if you know God through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, you do not need to fear any end of the world events or judgements. The reason is that while Jesus said, “In this world you will have trouble”… he also said, “take heart, I have overcome the world.”

WILL YOU GO TO HELL FOR TELLING A LIE?

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:07:00 +0000

Thereis a verse in the Bible that says, "The heart is deceiptful above allthings and desparetly corrupt, who can understand it" (Jeremiah 17:9). The implied but unspoken answer is, "No one". You could add, "Not even myself".

Can you understand the reasons for everything you do and say and think? I know I can't. But I do know that I sometimes consciously make excuses for the things I do, say and even think. I have this conflict: on the one hand, I have just excused myself for something wrong (trying to convince myself that it wasn't that bad, really).

On the other hand, my own conscience condemns me. Anyone know I'm talking about here? Of course you do! Well, if there are times when we know we are deceiving ourselves, what about those times when we do not know we are deceiving ourselves. After all, isn't that the nature of deception. When it's happening, you don't know because, well, you're being deceived.

Every deception has to do with the corruption of truth, even in just a small way. So every deception is actually a lie! It has to be if it's not true. How many times a day do you think you lie to yourself (we haven't even begun to consider lying to others). 5,10, 20, 50.

OK, what about lies to others? Be honest (if you can). We lie when we try to make ourselves look better than we are; or when we exaggerate to make a story more exciting; or say we would never do a certain thing when we know we would or have; or we agree with the popular person just to win their favour when we don't actually agree at all; or we lie to cover up something. The list goes on.....

All the time you are reading this, there is a battle going on. Do I admit this is true or do I tell another lie and try to deceive myself that it is not. Self-deception runs deep.

If you're honest (that's telling the truth) how many times do you think you lie, fib, exaggerate, decieve, withhold the truth, bend the truth, tell a white lie, make out something is true but is not, in just one day? We're just talking about 1 day here. Let's not get too carried away, yet.

I'm going to be really generous here, despite the damning evidence, and suggest that perhaps you may only tell 5 lies a day. That's either in your thoughts, words or both. Just 5!

Now consider this. 5 times 365 days in a year = 1,825 lies!

That should concern you.

Take those 1,825 lies now and multiply them by 60 years and that's 109,500 lies!!!!!

It's true, God will not sent you to hell just because you just told one lie.

Would you like me to list all the other unholy things we think, say and do and multiply that by 109,500?

Addto this the fact that we are sinful and God is Holy and what we call good is often an unclean thing to God. As sinners it is hard for us tofully comprehend how filthy our lives are in the eyes of God who alone is Holy (Perfect, Pure). It would not be unreasonable to suggest thatin an average life time we actually commit well over 1 billion sins. Well over that.

If you were to name all 1 billion of your sins by naming one every second, how long do you think it would take you to count them all up.

The answer is 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes, and 39 seconds.

Do you now see why you need God's forgiveness and why the only way youwill get to heaven is to throw yourself at the mercy of God.

Does that help you see how merciful and generous God actually is that he has provided a way for you to escape the just penalty of eternal hell forall your sin?

The Bible says in Revelation 21:8 "But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, theirpart `shall be' in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; whichis the second death."

Your lies are not the only things that will send you to hell.

Please CLICK HERE and do the Good Person Test and see the amazing thing God has done so that you do not need to go to hell. What he has done requires a response from you in order for you to know his mercy here on earth and forever in heaven.

Over 127,000 Visits in 30 days!

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:26:00 +0000

This site went live around November 2008. There was a time when I was excited becasue it had 50 visits in a day. Then one day visits shot up to over 90! I ran and got my wife to show her this remarkable news. Who would have thought (not me at the time) that just on a year later on November 13, 2009, that we would have exceeded 100,000 visits in just 30 days!!!!

This amazing result was from the 2012 movie project we launched inviting all members to pass the website onto as many people as they knew and to leave comments and links about it as they surfed the net on other websites. You guys are amazing. Thank You. :)

Now that the movie has arrived, some of the interest has dropped off but we are still getting heaps of visits and what is more important, people are staying longer and looking at more pages. There are new pages planned and we will notify members when they arrive.

One of the things we would like to see happen a bit more is for people to use the 2012 Forum. This is an opportunity to have your say, even if you don't agree with something that you read on the site. As long as you're respectful your forum post will be welcome.

Pole Shift

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:06:00 +0000

Well, after the site being live for just on a year, I've finally done my first blog. This is actually a response to a question from the Polish magazine "Magia Gwiazd" who asked me to share my personal thoughts on what I thought had the greatest posibility of happening in 2012 and in particular the idea of a pole shift. I have no idea whether they will print all this or just extract a few quotes.

It was interesting getting a request to comment on a pole shift from a Polish magazine.

I am thankful to Chris White who's article on NIBIRU has helped me chrystalise my thinking on this matter. Thanks Chris :)

Will the world end on December 21, 2012? Personally I think that the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was right. He is quoted as saying, “man willbelieve anything as long as it is not written in the Bible.” Thiscan be applied to all the recent theories that the world will end in2012. People will believe anything. This is often because of one totwo reasons (1) they give far too much importance to the history channel andother pop media and (2) they give far too little time to actually thinkingabout what is being said.

Anexample is with the belief that there will be a pole shift in 2012. Forstarters, there is no agreement on whether this would be a magnetic pole shift,or a physical shifting of the crust of the earth that would swap the poles around. So that casts a lot of doubt on it happening in the first place. Secondly, it is important to realize that neither of these things could happen without a cause. You cannot have an effect without a cause. So we need to ask, what possible causes are being given for a possible pole shift? These are often given as being one (or more perhaps) of the following: planetary alignment, Planet X or Nibiru, a tremendous sun flare or an asteroid.

Let’s start with the asteroid. The biggest threat NASA have identified is anasteroid named Apophis. However it is currently on a Level 0 on theTorino Scale. It will pass close in 2029 with a probability for impact onApril 13, 2036 calculated at 1 in 45,000.

What about a sun flare? It is a known fact that the sun has an 11 cycle andthat towards the end of this we can expect to see increased solar activity. However, those who study this phenomena say that regardless of the type of flare (and apparently there is more than one kind) nothing will bepowerful enough to overcome our magnetosphere, ionosphere and thick atmosphere.

Willplanetary alignment cause a pole shift? We will never know for sure because there is not going to be a planetary alignment on December 21,2012! The movements and positions of the planets in relation to eachother are clearly observable not just by NASA but other scientificbodies. No reputable body who regularly observes these has announced that we should expect an alignment of the planets in our solar system. There will however be an alignment of the sun with the earth and the centre of the milkyway galaxy BUT, this is not a physical alignment – it is only anillusion.

Because the earth tilts on its axis there are certain times in its cycle that there appears to be an alignment but this is only from the earth’s perspective. The alignment is an illusion. One of the people putting forth the 2012 scenario says on one of his websites, “In the interest of clarity, I will mention that it would be more accurate to say that the alignment occurs in the ERA of A.D. 2012; because precession is such a slow phenomenon, fifty years on either side of 2012 might be appropriate.” byJohn Major Jenkins

Thisleave us with Planet X – Nibiru. You don’t need to get very technical toprove that planet X is NOT going to be visiting us any time soon, especially December 21, 2012. This planet is believed to have an orbit thatintersects with our solar system every 3,600 years. However if it is going to keep this appointment in the next 10 years, it would have to be less than a billion kilometers away right now. That's very interesting because Pluto is about 5 billion kilometers away and yet we can see it. And by all accounts, Planet X – Nibiru, is many times larger than Pluto. So how is it that we can see a planet smaller than Planet X and further out than Planet X (would have to be right now), but we cannot see Planet X !

To rephrase that, if we can see the much smaller Pluto at 5 billion km, why can we not see the much larger Planet X which would have to be around 1 billion km away?

Furthermore, if we cannot see it with the likes of the Hubble telescope then how could the ancient Sumerians have seen it? This is an important question to ask since the recent talk about Nibiru can be traced back to Zechariah Sitchen’s translation of certain ancient Sumerian texts. Also worth noting is that he mistranslates the symbols on these writings. This is spoken of in detail on the page: NIBIRU on this site in an article by Chris White.

In conclusion, I think planet X should be renamed planet Z. “Z” for Zero chance of ever turning up in the backyard of our solar system.

Having said all this, there is one thing we can be sure of: the world still will come to an end one day. This is clearly predicted in the Bible.

As an example of the Bible’s reliability, it contains around 300 prophecies about Jesus Christ, all of which were fulfilled – in detail. The probability that Jesus of Nazareth could have fulfilled even eight such prophecies would be only 1 in 10(to the power of 17).

That's1 in 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000. And that’s only for 8 of the 300 prophecies that were fulfilled.

When it comes to end of the world events, the Bible is a reliable source of information. For more information, see 2012 Bible Prophecy

However, we are still left with one problem as stated by Napoleon, “Man will believe anything unless it is written in the Bible”. This will result in the eternal damnation of many. Not a good note to end on but it’s all there in the Bible.

We have been warned. But it is a warning with hope. Repentance and faith in Jesus who died for sin and rose again, will save one from the day of judgement. A day that will happen after God pours out his wrath on the earth in proportions at least as bad as the 2012 scenario - generally speaking

On this final day of judgement all the dead will be raised and great and small will come before the throne of God whereupon he will pronounce their final destiny.

Interestingly enough, this is spoken of in Revelation 20:12 !

Revelation means Apocalypse