2006-08-28 02:00:05 · 23 answers · asked by overseas and broke 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe. Could be today.
2006-08-28 02:03:07 · answer #1 · answered by Vosot 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Rapture is a christian scripture based belief.
The 12-21-2012 thing has to do with the ancient Maya who weren't christian, never heard of Jesus or read the bible.
On 12-21-2012, the Mayan Long Count calendar rolls over into the 13th Baktun (like our calendar going from 1999 to 2000 except that a baktun is 396 years long). Also on that day is a grand & rare (every 26,000 years) astronomical alignment at dawn between the sun and the Milky Way that to the Maya signified a new world age.
There's nothing in there about the previous world age ending on that day because it won't. It's already ended.
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Edit after reading the other answers:
It's NOT the 23d, it's the 21st.
The calendar doesn't end-- the Baktun ends.
It's not the Aztecs, it's the Maya.
Precession is ~26,000 not 47,000 years. And precession has nothing to do with the calendar, only with the astronomical alignment.
And that guy's ridiculously long answer would have been more interesting if he provided links rather than site names. Cut and pasting from a bunch of sites (with no URLs) doesn't indicate any knowledge of the subject.
2006-08-30 00:46:35 · answer #2 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THERE IS NO RAPTURE. IF YOU THINK SO P L E A S E GIVE SCRIPTURE.
If you are talking about the end of time.
Mark 13:32
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the FATHER.
Mark 13:33
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
2006-08-28 02:12:57 · answer #3 · answered by Rhonda 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You got to be kidding.
First, they rapture isn't very biblical-except if your a white, evangelical American/Western European protestant-and not all of them believe it, and they argue about the details. There are the few that buy it, based on very loose biblical interputations. You notice that the biggest believers of this theory..are from rich nations???
Second, the raputure was not a teaching of ANY church, or religion until the 1840's-when Rev. Darby created it.
Third, trying to date the rapture is impossible. A lot of false people have done it in the last 100 years...and they all have been wrong. Dating the supposed rapture is wrong, misleading, and is a cancer in churches today.
Fourth, a lot of false teachers such as 4 time married Hal Lindesy write books, and continually have to revise their books for the present day-they are false, don't trust them.
2006-08-28 02:11:00 · answer #4 · answered by Villain 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
And it is December 23rd, 2012....
That is the day of that the Mayan Calender ends... Then end of the "great cycle".
It is based on the precision of the equinox... The wobble of the earth on it's axis and it takes 47,000 something years to complete.
2006-08-28 02:27:11 · answer #5 · answered by TK421 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about the "rapture" but that is the date when the Aztec Calendar ends
2006-08-28 02:06:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Given the 1000's of predictions of this "rapture" from the past, you guys are batting an impressive 0%.
Don't you think it's time to give it up?
2006-08-28 02:07:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why that particular date? And it depends on your understanding of Scripture... a post-tribber would answer "definitely not" because the 7-year treaty involving Israel hasn't begun, and 2012 is less than 7 years away...
2006-08-28 02:05:45 · answer #8 · answered by inhopeofglory 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, notwithstanding the subsequent image voltaic optimum is envisioned to ensue in 2012, and the most important auroral reflects take position for the period of image voltaic optimum. even as certain human beings see the northern lights fixtures (probably for the first time) and matter on such issues because the rapture, i am going to wager you they are going to run interior, wondering the lights fixtures in the sky are the arriving of the Lord, or something comparable to that. some human beings in the southern pacific nonetheless have self assurance eclipses are a dragon ingesting the solar, and have self assurance they ought to conquer drums and scream alot to scare away the dragon before it eats the solar thoroughly. human beings are exciting to visual demonstrate unit at times.
2016-11-28 02:23:37 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 24:36 says "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven,but My Father only."
2006-08-28 02:18:08 · answer #10 · answered by Dion 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Won't happen.
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." - Matthew 24:36 (speaking of the time of His return)
2006-08-28 02:09:21 · answer #11 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋