No Man, Nor Angels

When I started this blog two years ago, I vowed not to get too religious or political. But I didn't vow not to talk about Jesus completely. As you seen in my "My Easter Prayer" post, I am a believer of our Lord Jesus Christ. I do believe that he has died for our sins and rose from his tomb to walk by our sides today. I also believe that he will come back to take all his children home with him one day. Yet I do not know as well as others do not know the specific date or time he will arrive. Also, nobody knows when Doomsday will come upon us. We do see the signs happening in the world but that still give no man the opportunity to predict the Judgment Day or return of Christ.


Photo I took of a billboard while riding through Newark, NJ

Harold Camping is a Christian radio and television host who has claimed he used mathematics and the Holy Bible to predict the end of the world. People have been saying the world is coming to an end many times giving dates and has failed. Yet the fact that Camping has failed once before in 1994, he insisted it as a miscalculation and has redone it all. Now he predicts May 21, 2011 as Judgment Day and October 21, 2011 as the end of the world. He says he used the Bible to predict this but I think he has skipped one very important verse:
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" Matthew 24:36.

I know I don't know when Jesus will return. When he does I know I want to be ready. If by any chance this man is correct, I know I am prepared.

2012 - What are your thoughts?

2012 is supposed to be the new blockbuster film. I saw it this weekend and it was a very good movie. The effects were much more dramatic than the previous The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day by director Roland Emmerich. It made me lose my breathe a few times as well as other people in the theater. I call him the "Disaster Master." I felt he wanted people to leave the theater with that one question in their minds, "What if...?" I know that was on my mind as well as "What would I do?" The prophecy in which the film is based on has been told for so many years but now that that the time is approaching another question forms in our heads, "Do you believe?" Do you believe that the world will end on December 21, 2012? Will there be shifts? Will the Yellowstone super-volcano erupt? Will California fall into the Pacific? Will giant tsunamis engulf the world in water? We'll never really know when. Do you think when our creator is ready to come will he give us a specific date or time? These are tough feelings and tough emotions. Who's to tell us when the world will end? It's an unsolved mystery. Until the time comes, no one will know for sure. The movie will leave you wondering.

Another point made in the film is "Will you be saved if there is a way to survive?" According to the film, people who had billions of dollars here safe and average people like me and you will never know what's happening. Now that the movie made that point clear, I'm sure people are wondering "What will they do when the time comes?" I know I did. Another point it makes is "Will you be at peace with God or your higher power?" and if you are, "Will you fear death and take the sacrifice?" I know I'm afraid to die but if I do I am at peace with God. This movie will make you think about plenty of things. I feel that people should go out to see this film. It will make you wonder, no doubt about it.