The end of times or earth?

Question

The Mayans based their prediction of the end of times in 2012 on astronomical events. It appears that they might have known about Sun’s 11-year cycle of magnetic field flips (Solar maximums). The next Solar maximum is due in… 2012!

During a Solar maximum, the Sun emits significantly more radiation than usual in the x-ray and ultraviolet portions of the EM spectrum during a Solar max, & this energy significantly alters the uppermost layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
Scientists believe that Earth is due for her flip. This observation is based on a weakening EM field, which always occurs shortly before the magnetic poles switch.
The EM field protects the Earth from harmful effects of radiation brought on by Solar winds.


What if the Earth’s EM poles were to go through the switch in 2012, making Earth MOST VULNERABLE to radiation…. while also in 2012, the Solar max were to occur, emitting the MOST RADIATION???
Do you see where I’m going with this?

jack_d: Plasma shielding actually ALLOWS radiation to pass through. With current technology, this volume is quite small and the plasma is generated as a flat plane inside a cylindrical space.
I don't think we'll be up to speed in just 6 years.

Iain the ORN!: Only the Sun's flip happens every 11 years.
The last geomagnetic reversal for Earth....780,000 years ago!

Manuel: It isn't a worry nor a fear. It's more of a "Maybe the Mayans were right?"
One thing I'm definitely not afraid of is death.
I'm just interested in others opinions considering the given circumstances.

Libertarian: Yes, solar flares never harmed the Earth, and yes, nothing happened during geomagnetic reversals, but as far as we know, they never occurred at the same time.
I have just watched a TV show about the geomagnetic flip, and the EM field of Earth is declining more rapidly than ever before, which means the flip could happen sooner rather than later. If the Earth has little to no protection from the solar winds, and you have increased radiation coming from the Sun, God only knows what could happen to our atmosphere, without which burn time could be 1 minute or less.

Mayans or Egyptians a primitive culture? How come we can't build anything that would last as long as their structures with all our technological advances?
If we can't understand something, it doesn't mean that the one with a message is stupid, but rather we are the ones who lack knowledge.

Answer 1

Incredible as it sounds and as mysterious as these predictions have been so right for so long of a period of time is truly Amazing!!! I hope that this catastrophic event doesn't take place because all Life as we know it will be gone....this would be the Planet Killer that we have feared throughout all recorded human history.......God help us all and may we as a civilization advance in our technology to defend against this or detour it in some way!!!! The Ancient cultures of the World seem to have had some type of divine connection with cosmic powers or a intelligence that we will never understand!! Hmmmm?

Answer 2

OK, time for a little SCIENCE FACT here.

First of all, the Mayan calendar is just the result of another ancient civilization of barbarians, no more advanced than the Egyptians, Greeks, or any other primitive culture.

Any predictions made are purely religious in nature. There is no evidence or logic to support any of it, nor have any past predictions come to pass. (Although like nearly all ancient "prophesies," they are invariably worded so broadly that you could easily make a prediction fit any circumstance you like, if you play with the meanings enough.)

Now concerning the sun's cycle, this does not really mean a whole lot. The increase in solar flares has never been enough to harm Earth. At its extreme worst, it might zap a couple poorly-insulated satellites in orbit.

Regarding a flip of the Earth's magnetic field, this has happened hundreds of times in the past with no discernable effects whatsoever on life on Earth. None of the mass extinctions in the past correlate with magnetic pole flips. They happen on different timescales anyways.

Speaking of timescales, I can guarantee you that there will be no magnetic pole flip in the year 2012. Why? Because this process usually takes several centuries to millenia to complete. While there are some indications that we may be at the beginning of another pole flip, this is certainly not a short-term phenomenon. (The Wiki article below says this one may take 1-2 millenia just to get to the halfway point.)

So in other words, I wouldn't put too much faith in the predictions of the Mayans. They did not have any special knowledge or divine wisdom. The whole 2012 thing is just hype to sell wacko pseudoscience books from the same crowd who'd like you to believe that Nostradamus could see the future.

Answer 3

No, the earth will not die...and if this were the case...and we have monitored earth's magnetic field..even altered it. We would protect the earth from the radiation by plasma shielding. But anyway. Don't worry about what the 'mayan calendar' says, its a load of bull.

answer: haha, that's based on your technology. Or at least, this is what I might have you think...? haha, cuz we want to take over the earth on 2012...our way...of eliminating you....blasphemy...the earth is sacred--we would never do this..

WE will help YOU...so no worries...
if you want a concrete technical description of what to do...

you would need a negative influx through cashmere 'effect'...it is quite complex mathematically and the engineering of such a craft would be quite enormous... with a saddle shaped plasma vortex...instead of the cylinder you have a saddle encased in a sphere...you then have a vortex where the plasma is 'almost' unstable.... this..although normally enhances radiation, would serve kind of like a reverse 'osmotic reaction' and allow the radiation to 'pass' around the space-time bend created by the Earth..This is in effect, what is accomplished by the magnetic field....

basically, its just a vacuum 'cleaner' that sucks the plasma discharges through the vortex...accelerates them orthogonally from the axis of discharge...and dissipates it into a 'cloud' that...ionized...will pass around the stratosphere due to a temperature difference known to us as a constant in earth atmosphere..

just think of 'plasma shielding' as a mirror or "focus" of radiation...normally focusing radiation...but since the surface is a saddle...it 'deflects' de-focuses the radiation...which in this case is heavy based...not light...away from our object of shielding (the earth)...it becomes an ionized cloud as it goes through the vortex so it reacts repulsively with the atmosphere and due to relativity, passes by the space-time bend created by Earth.

Also, the shielding acts as a filter to the "heavier elements"...only deflecting the lighter more radioactive nuclei...Therefore, the 'heaviness' of the discharges...is actually used as energy, by the vortex, to keep in operation..thus, plasma shielding actually gets more potent the more discharge it interacts with...becoming more and more like a "wall"...thus deflecting the radiation more and more away from the earth as time transgresses...and filtering heavy heat into the machine.

It would disrupt sattelites and communications but save the earth from an otherwise bad hairday on the surface.

Answer 4

Peter recommended the church that interior the 'final days scoffers will come'.(see 2 Peter 3:3) "they're going to say, 'the place is this "coming" he promised? Ever because of the fact that our fathers died, each little thing is going on because it has because of the fact the start of introduction.' "(3:4) Such unbelievers deny the reality that 'by skill of God's be conscious the heavens existed and the earth replaced into shaped'.(see 3:5) 'by skill of an identical be conscious the present heavens and earth are reserved for hearth, being saved for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly adult men.'(3:7)

Answer 5

Question: what if a bus drives over one of us tomorrow?

Another: What if we have underestimated our world leaders fear and stupidity and nukes begin to fly in ten minutes?

Last one: What does it matter? Live for today. If you're religious, pray to God all is well forever and ever, so we can keep messing up the only planet we possess. If it's gonna happen, who can save you? If not, what are you doing with the time you will live?

Answer 6

Everybody has forecast the end of the world for thousands of years and it hasn't happened yet. The earth and life will not end because of the perspicacity of its inhabitants: it will die because of the inhabitants stupidity. The question should be have we finally reached the apex of our stupidity or do we have some way to climb? When you have answered that you will know when the world will end and a Mayan mystic will not be necessary.

Answer 7

The 2012 shift is expected to be a change in consciousness rather than a physical transformation. But it's still expected to be big.

Answer 8

Harpazo = Rapture

END-TIME BIBLE PROPHECY

The Messiah Lord Jesus said BIRTH PANGS would signal the time of the end (Matthew 24:8). There are NINE birth pangs, they are all PRE-TRIBULATIONAL and the 1st three already occurred.

The first birth pang was worldwide conflict coupled with famines and earthquakes (Matthew 24:7-8). Worldwide conflict was fulfilled in 1914-1918, major famines happened in 1918-1921 and most of the world’s major earthquakes began to occur since 1900.

The second birth pang was the restoration of a Jewish State (Ezekiel 20:33-38; Ezekiel 22:17-22; Ezekiel 36:22-24; Zephaniah 2:1-2). This was fulfilled in 1948.

The third birth pang was Jewish control of the Old City of Jerusalem (Revelation 11:1-2). For the third Jewish Temple (Tribulation Temple) to be rebuilt, Jerusalem needs to be under Jewish control and this was accomplished in the Six Day War in 1967.

The fourth birth pang will be the Ezekiel 38 war. Russia, allied states of Iran, Ethiopia, Somalia, Germany and Armenia will invade Israel. God will miraculously destroy the invading army by earthquake, civil war among the invading soldiers, pestilence, blood, flood, hailstones, fire and brimstone. This will bring a revival in Israel where many Jews will turn to the Lord, and Israel will spend 7 years and 7 months burying the bodies and burning for fuel the military equipment left behind (Ezekiel 39:9-16).

The 5th birth pang will be the development of a one world government (Daniel 7:23-24).

The 6th birth pang will be the splitting of the one world government into 10 kingdoms and this Ten Kingdom Stage will continue until mid-Tribulation (Daniel 7:24).

The 7th birth pang will be the revelation of the Antichrist (II Thessalonians 2:1-3; Daniel 7:24).

The 8th birth pang will be a period of peace and false security that will be shattered by the Tribulation (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3).

The 9th and final birth pang before the Tribulation is the signing of the 7-year covenant between Israel and the Antichrist. THIS EVENT IS WHAT BEGINS THE (7-year) TRIBULATION - NOT THE RAPTURE!

The Rapture of the Church (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) is also a pre-tribulational event (Luke 21:34-37; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10; Revelation 3:10; Revelation 19:6-8). The fact that the Church is not mentioned in any of the Tribulation Scriptures proves the Rapture is pre-tribulational. All raptured Christians will receive glorified bodies (Romans 8:22-23; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54)) and it can happen at any second.


THE FIRST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION (SUPPORTING VERSES IN REVELATION 6-9 AND 17)

The Ministry of 144,000 sealed Jewish believers will bring many throughout the world to accept Christ.

There will be a powerful Ministry of Two Witnesses who will also be anointed Jewish believers.

A one world religious system (Babylon the Harlot) will rule. Under this one world religious system, many who are saved during the Tribulation will suffer persecution and death.

The Political system of the 10 kings of the one world government will continue.

During the first half of the Tribulation there will also be war, worldwide famine, death (1/4 of the world’s population will die), a huge earthquake, a blackout and a meteor shower. 1/3 of earth’s dry surface will be destroyed, 1/3 sea life and salt water will be destroyed, a fallen angel called Wormwood will make 1/3 of earth’s fresh water bitter, 1/3 of earth’s natural light sources will be destroyed, there will be another blackout and demons in the form of “locust-scorpions” will come up out of the abyss led by Abaddon their king and they will inflict harm and pain for five months upon those who are not sealed by God (unbelievers). Another demonic invasion will occur and the demons involved will be led by four fallen angels who will be released from the Euphrates River and this army will kill 1/3 of the earth’s population.


MID-TRIBULATION (SUPPORTING VERSES IN REVELATION 10-14 AND 17)

The Antichrist will war against the 10 kings, and during the war the Antichrist will be killed.

Satan will be cast out of the atmospheric heavens onto earth and will resurrect the Antichrist.

The Antichrist will kill 3 kings (the kings of Syria, Egypt and Mesopotamia) and the 7 other kings will submit to him.

The Antichrist will kill the Two Witnesses in Jerusalem and the wicked people will celebrate this event. Three and a half days afterwards, God will resurrect the Two Witnesses and take them up to Heaven and the people who celebrated will become terrified. The city of Jerusalem where the murder of the Two Witnesses occurred will then suffer an earthquake which will kill 7,000 people.

The False Prophet will receive from Satan the power to perform great miracles and will deceive many. The False Prophet will command all people to worship the Antichrist and have persons create an image to the Antichrist. The False Prophet will use his satanic powers to give it life and the ability to speak. The False Prophet will cause those who refuse to worship the Antichrist and the image to be killed.

The False Prophet will issue his own counterfeit seal known as the Mark of the Beast and it will be placed on all those who surrender to the Antichrist’s authority and accept him as god. Those who refuse to take this mark will not be able to buy or sell. Those who take this mark will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire.

The Antichrist will break the seven-year covenant he made with Israel, cause the sacrifices to stop, sit in the Jewish Temple, declare to the world that he is really God and set up an idol called the Abomination of Desolation in the Temple (Daniel 9:27; Daniel 12:11; Matthew 24:15-16; 11Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13:11-15).

Through the Antichrist and the False Prophet, Satan will attempt to destroy the Jews once and for all but he will fail because 1/3 of the Jews will succeed in fleeing into the wilderness. These Jews who escape will accept the Lord Jesus as their Saviour during the Tribulation (Zechariah 13:7-9) and while they are in hiding, God will miraculously provide for them (Zechariah 13:8-9; Isaiah 41:17-20). Divine intervention will also destroy the pursuing army.


THE SECOND HALF OF THE TRIBULATION (SUPPORTING VERSES FOUND IN REVELATION 15, 16, 18, 19, 20)

In the second half of the Tribulation, those with the Mark of the Beast will suffer skin sores, the remainder of sea water and fresh water will be destroyed, the sun will cause terrible burns and the wicked will blaspheme God. There will be yet another blackout and persons will suffer gnawing pains.

Babylon will be the center of world economy and political system but Babylon will be swiftly destroyed by fire and become uninhabitable for man.

The Antichrist will locate the Jews who sought refuge in the wilderness and surround them with his armies to wipe them out. The Lord Jesus will then descend from Heaven with His angels and Saints. He will come with great glory riding upon a horse and will destroy the Antichrist, the False Prophet and all of their armies. After this, a loud voice will cry out “It is done!” followed by the greatest earthquake in the earth’s history and hail weighing 120 pounds will fall.

At the end of the Tribulation, there will be another blackout, the stars will fall from the sky and the heavenly bodies will be shaken (Matthew 24:29), the Antichrist and the False Prophet will be thrown into the eternal Lake of Fire and Satan will be cast into the Abyss and bound for 1,000 years.


THE MILLENNIUM

The Lord Jesus will reign over the entire earth during the Millennium. The Jewish and Gentile believers who survive the Tribulation will go on to populate the Millennium. Believers who died before and during the Tribulation and believers who were raptured will be present on earth during the Millennium and because they will have glorified bodies they will not reproduce. All believers will be given special tasks by the Lord Jesus (Revelation 20:4-6). There will be no wars (Isaiah 2:2-4), animals will return to the Edenic state and become vegetarians (Isaiah 11:6-9), people will not labour in vain but eat what they plant and inhabit what they build, there will be renovations in the heavens and earth and there will be righteous and unrighteous children born during the Millennium (Isaiah 65:17-25).

At the end of the Millennium, Satan will be loosed from the Abyss and will deceive and gather the unrighteous for a war against the righteous. This will be his final attempt to destroy the righteous and when the unrighteous of the Millennium surround the good people, God will send fire down from Heaven which will suddenly and massively annihilate all of the wicked people. Satan will then be cast into the Lake of Fire where he will remain in torment for eternity (Revelation 20:7-10).


THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT

The Great White Throne Judgment will be the next main event. The old heavens and earth will be done away with and all will stand before God’s throne to be judged (Revelation 20:11-12). Those whose names are not found written in the Book of Life will be cast into the Lake of Fire which will be their final and eternal abode (Revelation 20:14-15).


THE ETERNAL ORDER (REVELATION 21 AND 22)

Those whose names are found in the Book of Life will enjoy paradise with God forever. The heavens and earth will be made new and the New Jerusalem will come down upon the earth making the earth like Heaven. All curses from the fall will be removed and the earth will be inhabited by the Triune God (The Father, Son and Holy Spirit), all angels and all of the righteous. The seas, moon, night and sun will be done away with and the glory of God will illuminate the earth. The River of Life will flow from God’s throne, the Tree of Life will bear health-giving fruits and leaves and the name of Jesus will be on the foreheads of all of the righteous.


God’s Plan of Salvation for Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZkDk1GZ7do

Answer 9

Ummm... The earth will end in God's time. No one knows WHEN it will end, except for God. It could end in a million years and it could end in two seconds, or any time in-between.
I leave you with an awesome quote I found the other day. "Every time someone predicts the end of the world God pushes it back a little, just to be funny."

Answer 10

Surely if it happenes every 11 years we shuld have died in 2001? I remember getting a tan *checks pulse* yep, i`m still alive!