Q&A: Has the May 21 doomsday nonevent spoiled the December 21, 2012 doomsday prediction?
Question by : Has the May 21 doomsday nonevent spoiled the December 21, 2012 doomsday prediction?
A doomsday prediction needs a certain amount of time between the last doomsday prediction in order to gain momentum. If it comes too soon, it gathers little interest from people because the memory of the last false doomsday prediction is still fresh in people’s minds, right? And it’s quite a long time that’s needed, like, decades before people will take any interest in it again, don’t you think so?
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Answer by gutbucket
No, reality spoils all such predictions.
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Hope so.
I think prediction is 12/12/12, Dec 12, 2012
First of all, there is no such thing as “doomsday”. It is the coming of Christ, who will rapture all believers and leave the rest behind to suffer the seven year tribulation. That prediction is ridicilous, and meaningless.
The May 21 was just a blip on the radar of the December 21 prediction; the December 21 prediction has nothing to do with Christianity, and started gaining momentum years ago. The Mayans had nothing to do with Camping, and they’re the ones who made the prediction.
No, not really. People have been doing this for centuries…our modern media just revs up the momentum. The only downfall is that it distracts some believers from attending to the business at hand…which is to be God’s ambassador in this world…to show Christ’s love in word and deed and draw people unto Him. I am sure some will get all caught up in the next big expected event. Meanwhile, the rest of us will continue to follow God and “watch and be ready”, for we know not the day…
The Mayan Calendar end, December 2012, has been talked about longer than the recent nonsense. The recent event was about the Rapture. That is a Christian event. The Mayan Calendar is about the end of the world. And that is actually 2 different things.
Yes, you have a valid point. The only time I remember two ‘doomsdays’ being so close together was Edgar Whisenant’s “88 Reasons why the rapture will be in 1988.” — and then when it didn’t happen, he said he was off by a year, so 1989 was the new date.
However, aside from the History Channel’s ridiculous airing of 2012 being the gloomy ‘end of the world,’ (and I do like the History Channel – with this one exception) 2012 is seen also as a time of positive change, transformation, enlightenment, by some metaphysical and spiritual groups. So I think it will still hold its fervor for those who see it that way.
Interestingly, the Bible says there is no end of the world (Eccl 1:4, Eph 3:21, Psa 78:69, 104:5). Some say it was predicting the imminent end of the first century Jews’ world, or the end of the Old Covenant age of Temple worship and sacrifice… described with cosmic catastrophe figurative speech to communicate a major covenantal shift in God’s salvation plan.
See in the text below what you did NOT see on Judgment Day.
This is a surprising text:
http://soeverythinghappened.blogspot.com/2011/05/lords-day-new-heaven-and-new-earth.html
Hopefully, it’s convinced people that ALL doomsday predictions are bunk.
The 2012 prediction will sink without trace in the same way because it’s based on exactly the same evidence – nothing.