is it true that the bible says the apocalypse will come in 2012 or something like that?
2007-10-12 10:45:55 · 51 answers · asked by Killah 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. The bible does not give the exact dates/times. I think you are thinking of the Mayan calender that ends in 2012.
2007-10-12 10:48:28 · answer #1 · answered by flemm88 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, it's not biblical.... 2012 has to do with the end of the Mayan and other ancient calenders which lead many to believe there will be an end (not apocalypse, that's a biblical idea), but not necessarily the end of the world. Many think that changes will take place then that will change the world forever. The thing is, man has been trying to make predictions like this since "time" became a concept they could count (ie: minutes, days, years), and so far they've been wrong every time!
2007-10-12 10:55:19 · answer #2 · answered by I, Sapient 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one could actually say when it is coming. The bible especially when it comes to dates are too hard to decipher.
Revelations is what tells of the end of times but the good prophet that speaks for God needed to make the people of those days know that though time is limited it's still a distance off. Someone could speculate they they mean it literally that date someone could say that he was just trying to get his point across to those people.
Studys say the sign of the devil is 666 what the bible says is threescore and a half then score three times again. They are assuming this means 666 but someone else might say 616 whereas some people think it's 636. Or what if it's 31.53...
We aren't supposed to know the exact date. It isn't for anyone to know. But we will know when it's happening and are supposed to live our lives like Jesus is coming this evening.
Also they don't even know what the Exact Date of today is. Seems like leap years and daylight savings time makes us lose some time here and there. It could very well be 2012 this year. Although I don't remember reading that date or any date in the Bible.
2007-10-12 10:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by Emily 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
2012 looks like one hell of an eschatological year
A brief, incomplete survey of these prophecies includes the following:
An aspect of the polar shift theory claims that on December 21, 2012, a shift of the axis of the Earth’s rotation will bring a host of devastating natural disasters.
The Orion Prophecy is a book that claims the Earth’s magnetic field will flip-flop in 2012, causing mass chaos. The truth is that the magnetic field will in fact reverse at some point (it has done so many times), but this does not happen overnight.
According to algorithms extracted from the bible and mentioned in The Bible Code, a big asteroid will strike the planet in 2012. The Bible code is the belief that messages, warnings and predictions were encoded in the Hebrew bible by E.T. and his friends (who also gave us our genetic code). The decoding technique was described in a paper entitled "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" by Professor Eliyahu Rips of the Hebrew University in Israel. Incidentally, supporters claim The Bible Code gives proof of Oswald’s destiny as JFK’s killer, and it also predicted the apocalypse… in 2006. Remember that one? Me neither.
2007-10-12 10:51:36 · answer #4 · answered by hdf69 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the bible does not say when the world will end..You are thinking of the Mayans...Once upon a time, this blood drinking and highly superstitious people, made a calendar and some rather ridiculous people, assume that because the calender they made does not go any further than 2012, that must mean the world will end on that date....I'm not kidding,,,,there are some who believe this! Takes all kinds...
2007-10-12 10:55:22 · answer #5 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't know yet. The Mayan where the best astronomers of the ancients. They wrote there calenders backwards like a countdown and the age we are in now ends dec 21st 2012. Go to youtube and search 2012. One thing is for sure though, 2012 will be an interesting year. Also search Nibiru.
2007-10-12 10:53:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is more like 2011... pass it on... but the problem is that Jesus Christ doesn't know it!
Mark 13: 32 (NIV) [Jesus said] "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
God the Son Jesus Christ's omniscience is a bit faltering, if I may say... Actually, he thought that he was going to come back in his own human life time and left a lot of Jewish followers of his hating their parents and everybody else (they were actually written off by their own families for following Jesus). They were all thinking that Jesus was serious. (Mat 16:28, Mar 9:1, Luk 9:27). That's probably why hardly any Jew is a Christian.
It turned out that not even Jesus knows when he has to come back!!!
2007-10-12 11:22:41 · answer #7 · answered by Opus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People had been trying to determine the time of the end of the world since long before I was a child (and I am over 60 years old). When I was a young lad, a preacher forcast the exact day and hour of the end of the world. I was a bit apprehensive until the time came and went.
Don't sweat it. The world will last much longer than you or I as long as man does not destroy it with pollution and over-population.
2007-10-12 10:51:41 · answer #8 · answered by Franklin G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People interpret what the Bible says in different ways. All the interpretations that have been made about a certain date have never come true. I personally believe that there is no real way of knowing. I just believe that it will happen when it's supposed to, in Gods time. So don't put all of your eggs in one basket.
2007-10-12 10:52:21 · answer #9 · answered by amy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no!!!!!!!! if you read the bible, it says the day and the hour is unknown. the mayans said the apocalypse is coming in 2012
2007-10-12 10:51:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋