There seems each year that there is a doomsayer...
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There seems each year that there is a doomsayer who is predicting the end of the world. This year of 2012 doomsayers are turning to the Mayan calendar which on December 21 reaches the end of its 5,126 epoch. That, many predict, is the last day of this world. This could be ascertainable, except for the Mayans an end of an epoch is the same as the end of a century for Westerners. And at the end of the 5,126 mark, they decided not to continue their calendar. In fact, the Mayans of today do not follow the calendar of their ancestors, but they follow the Gregorian calendar, which is also known as the Western or Christian calendar.
In studying the original Mayan calendar, dream interpreter Jefferson Harman said, "I don't think the Mayan put a picture of Porky Pig at the end of their calendar and said, 'That's all, folks.' "
When Pilate put Jesus on the cross, he too thought that was the end -- not of the world -- but the end to the threat to his world. It was, until three days later. Let us stop predicting when the world will end but until it does, let us live as Jesus taught.
In studying the original Mayan calendar, dream interpreter Jefferson Harman said, "I don't think the Mayan put a picture of Porky Pig at the end of their calendar and said, 'That's all, folks.' "
When Pilate put Jesus on the cross, he too thought that was the end -- not of the world -- but the end to the threat to his world. It was, until three days later. Let us stop predicting when the world will end but until it does, let us live as Jesus taught.
