World without end!

Do you remember the furor the surrounded the Mayan calendar and its supposed prediction of the end of the world on December the 21st 2012.....well that date (like all the others before them) came and went, without the apocalypse happening: the Mayans, or rather those who attempted to read something into their calendar that was never there, have been proven wrong…. yet again.

A tavern in the English town of Knaresborough.

How many times have millions of people who, fearing the end of their temporal existence, have fallen prey to widely inaccurate prophecy? How many more times will the “end of times” scenario play out?

It was interesting, and disturbing, to see how the whole Mayan calendar “cult” linked to Doomsday which became intertwined with the Doomsday preppers who then somehow got linked to Bible prophecy, then to the Bible, then to certain churches  and ultimately they all got lumped together as fundamentalist crazies. 




One well known group of "door knocking" evangelists have made at least 8 failed "end of times" predictions, the first being in 1897, the most recent being 1975. Odds are that one day they might get the date correct.  

It never ceases to amaze me that so many otherwise rational people fall for the most unlikely apocalypse stories, and yet completely rubbish the Biblical “version” as outlandish or a complete “fairy story” Mind you, those same people also reject the Biblical record of creation as a myth.  

That our world will end someday is axiomatic; "Once our own Sun has consumed all the hydrogen fuel in its core, it too will reach the end of its life. Astronomers estimate this to be a short 7 billion years from now. For a few million years, it will expand into a red giant, puffing away its outer layers. Then it’ll collapse down into a white dwarf and slowly cool down to the background temperature of the Universe."** 

That's the cold hard scientific facts.... however our Creator God has everything under control!  The final, and perhaps least mentioned or studied prophecy in the Bible is this....

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. Revelation 21:1

Now that verse plainly tell us that the old earth has passed away, just as modern scientists and astronomers love to tell us all! God's time-line may well be very different to mans, (it inevitably is) but this old sin-soaked planet is going to perish.

The new heaven and new earth are also mentioned in Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, and 2 Peter 3:13. Peter tells us that the new heaven and new earth will be “where righteousness dwells.” Isaiah says that “the former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.” Things will be completely new, and the old order of things, with all of its accompanying sorrow, pain, grief, sickness and tragedy, will be gone.

As the old hymn tells us...
How beautiful heaven must be
Sweet home of the happy and free
Fair haven of rest for the weary
How beautiful heaven must be.

 **Read more: Here Universe Today 

From God's Word
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. Proverbs 22:1 NIV