Is the World Going to End on December 21, 2012
as the Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, etc. claim?

QUESTION:

Dear Fr. Michael:

Is the World Going to End on December 21, 2012 as the Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, etc. claim?

There have been TV documentaries, books, etc., etc. with people talking about how there are going to be terrible storms, earthquakes, etc. in December, 2012.

Since none of them seem to give any solutions to these problems, and therefore no hope for the future, does this mean the world itself is going to end in 2012?

Hopeless in Hamilton, Iowa
 

ANSWER:

Dear Hopeless in Hamilton:

NO!!! The world IS NOT going to end on December 21, 2012!!!

This is nothing less than anxiety, worry, fear, and irrational hysteria run amuck which flames of fear have been inflamed by a variety of publications, TV "documentaries" (especially on the History and Discovery channels), etc. which has led some people, it seems, to the brink of panic?!

On the contrary, let everyone stay calm, trust and hope in God, pray, and know that it is God - not Satan - Who is in charge!

God Bless You!

Father Michael

One Summary of the 2012 Catastrophe

Some Think 2012 Will Bring End Of World
http://wcbstv.com
March 13 2009

CHICAGO (CBS) Ancient prophecies that the world will end in the year 2012 are creating quite a stir.

But is the hype about prophecy -- or profit?

CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago's Susan Carlson asks the question, "2012: real or not?"

Nanci Flynn was intrigued when she first heard about predictions the world will end in 2012 and started her own research.

"When I see so many things across the board pointing to exactly the same time frame, it's something that we need to take seriously," she said.

She believes the financial crisis could be the first sign.

"There's talk that in the end of days, there will be economic chaos," Flynn said. "I think we're seeing that."

Books predicting disaster in 2012 are flying off store shelves, and the hype is only expected to grow. But when the dust settles, will 2012 go the way of Y2K?

"You cannot just pick and choose and interweave pieces of un-contextualized history together to sell a story that might help you sell books," says Gary Feinman, the Field Museum's curator of Mesoamerican anthropology.

Dec. 21, 2012 marks the end of the 5,000-year Mayan calendar. Feinman says while many are attaching catastrophic significance to that date, for the Mayans, the date simply marked the end of a cycle, not the end of the world.

"Kind of like an odometer flipping over," he said.

But you wouldn't know that from surfing the Net. Googling "2012 disaster" results in more than 2 million websites. People are buying it, literally: everything from emergency supply kits to 2012 T-shirts. And right on cue, a blockbuster movie is coming out this fall.

Fueling the hype, Dec. 21, 2012 falls on the winter solstice. And it's supposed to be when the sun aligns with the center of the Milky Way galaxy. While that sounds impressive …

"That happens every year," said Mark Hammergren, astronomer at Adler Planetarium. "It was closer aligned in the past; there's no consequence to this."

Despite predictions of cosmic chaos, Hammergren says there's no scientific data pointing to anything unusual happening in the year 2012.

"A woman asked me if I thought Jesus was coming back soon," said Scot McKnight, professor of religious studies at North Park University. "And she was definitely impacted by the 2012."

Religious furor is also driving speculation the world is coming to an end. But according McKnight, some of that may be politically motivated.

"It doesn't surprise me one bit that with a new Democratic president, some evangelical Christians think the end of the world is near," he said.

The bible does reference the end of days, but there's no indication when.

"Date-setting was denounced by Jesus," McKnight said.

But Flynn, like many others, still won't shrug off the 2012 prophecies.

"Suppose it were real -- would you still ignore it?" she asked.

We questioned the main areas where the hype is coming from. Several ancient civilizations and many prophets, including Nostradamus, have been interpreted -- or misinterpreted -- with Armageddon predictions linked to 2012.

On the other end of the spectrum, some spiritualists predict that that year will not bring disaster but instead usher in an age of enlightenment.

Results of One Opinion Poll

What Will Happen in 2012?

Description	Number of Online Votes	Percentage of Votes
Nothing:	4823	51%
End Of The World As We Know It:	1617	17.1%
Spiritual Awakening:	1429	15.1%
Aliens:	975	10.3%
Biblical Rapture:	599	6.3%
Total Number of Voters:	9448	100%
First Vote:	Monday, 09 October 2006 @ 13:01
Last Vote:	Saturday, 30 May 2009 @ 19:54

Protestant Movie “2012 Doomsday”

Release Date:  February 12, 2008

“2012 Doomsday” is a modern Protestant epic that follows in the footsteps of The Omega Code and Left Behind.  The plot concerns  strangers who, while they are  on a journey of faith, are drawn to an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico on December 21, 2012.. For the Mayans it is the last recorded day. For NASA scientists it is a cataclysmic polar shift. For the rest of us, it is Doomsday.

Cast  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Cliff De Young Dale Midkiff Ami Dolenz Danae Nason Joshua Lee Sara Tomko Caroline Amiguet Shirley Raun Louis Graham Jonathan Nation Mark Hengst Omar Mora Jason S. Gray

...  Lloyd ...  Dr. Frank Richards ...  Susan ...  Sarah ...  Alex ...  Wakanna ...  Dr. Trish Lane ...  Mrs. Reed ...  Dr. Ian Hunter ...  Uncle Jim ...  Matt Gilberto Canto  ...  Gino ...  Raul Wil Omar Sanchez ...  Man on Bridge ...  Jason S. Gray

...  Gino ...  Man on Bridge

Observations

Miscellaneous: Frank tells Trish that she's losing a lot of blood, but when her wound is shown, it is clearly clotted closed and not bleeding.

Crew or equipment visible: When Frank and Trish are sitting down in the trees resting and the camera pans away you can clearly see the camera rails on the floor.

Factual errors: If the rotation of the earth was suppose to be slowing to a stop when the girl is giving birth, how does the day suddenly turn to night? The view of the earth with the sun in the background shows the United States rotating into night. However, the speed at which the U.S. went into black was several times faster than the normal speed of the earth because in a matter of seconds, the U.S. rotated into night. Several minutes later, it was day again. The earth was suppose to slow to a stop, not speed up to outrageous speeds.

Reviews

Review # 1:

Should have been alerted by the Christian [i.e. Protestant] Epic reference, thought it was an apocalyptic movie in the line of the 7th Sign. It indeed deals with the end of the world and the usual heroes that somehow convince God through some ordeal that He should let us apes live a little longer.

But where movies like the 7th Seal grip you by script and acting, this one will bore you to tears. Acting is awful, the dialogs are out of bad evangelical early morning TV, plot and subplot lines make no sense at all. You’ll need a lobotomy to watch this one with anything other than utter boredom and a sense that Armageddon must indeed be near for something like this to be thought of, let alone be produced.

Review # 2:

I hope the makers of this movie are happy, they made me waste 1,5 hours of my life a left me puzzled with greatest question of all time: will there ever be a movie that’s worse then this? I have to say I started watching this movie with skeptic thoughts in my mind, but not even in my worst nightmares would I have seen what was before me.

The dialog is a waste of breath, they could have had "Band X" play random songs for 1,5 hours on top of the movie instead of the dialog and it would have made exactly the same amount of sense.

The special effects are like from the 80’s, and even then they would have been below average, the acting is below zero.

This movie was actually so bad it forced me to register to IMDb so I could rant about it so at least it achieved something good. The only time I could recommend spending time with this movie is ... well lets face it: never.

Review # 3:  Awfully awful:

It’s a doomsday not for the all humankind but to the ill fated ones who are doomed to watch it. A real disaster starting from misguided storyline, dumb acting, pathetic dialogues and supreme bad direction.

The dialogues are real #@#@. One is: “The world is falling apart and so I want to know you are safe”.

And the special effects reminds me of some late seventies movies. I mean some of them had much better effects. Starts with doomsday countdown of your patience and unlike the world’s fate (saved of course by talking to God) u are out of any patience. Uff - pathetic.. give me back my lost 90 minutes.. I am planning to invest in inventing time travel to get it back.. Never ever watch it..if u dare u will have your doomsday...

Review # 4: Not a mega disaster film and not trying to be one:

I see all the comments about how bad this movie was. I thought it was an OK film. Sure it is not a big budget disaster movie and I do not believe they were trying to make one.

I feel this one was made to be shown in churches or other like minded places.

The movie had a message that was lost on most that rented this one. It is what it is. A good clean spiritual end of the world picture, that you would not mind if youngsters watched.

So all in all I liked the movie and would indeed recommend it to my friends.

Review # 5: Movie shows true Christian values:

This movie is truly not a blockbuster hit... and it is surely not a multi-million dollar production. The acting is second rate... the special effects stink... and the story line is not very believable.

But the content of the movie makes it worth watching. The movie follows multiple people in their search for truth / meaning in their lives. The script is amazing in multiple parts of the movie and it really captures the heart of the spiritual struggle that many people have.

I know that the big time critics don't agree with me... and that the ratings might not be all that great. But give this movie a shot and you might be surprised.

This movie is appropriate and understandable for all ages.

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Review # 6:  This is an ultra low budget film made in no time:

I was impressed with the look of this film... especially if you take the time to consider the tiny budget. This film faces impossible odds if it is stacked up against the Hollywood blockbusters that boast $100 million + dollar budgets. For a film with such restraints (limited time and money) to produce such an impossible film, it is actually a good movie. Wait good? Seriously.

I’ll grant you - the script was written in a matter of days and is a far cry from a work of art. The concept itself was thrown away in the edit to appease the demands of Christian buyers. A big part of the movie was botched in hopes to sell more copies. The directing was good for such a short production schedule. Acting? Well, the ADR makes actors look weaker than they actually are. It is a shame that so many people are blind to the facts of movie making and smash this film, going so far as to say the director should kill himself. REALLY? This film was made with less than 1/10 the time of a big blockbuster and not even 1/100 of the budget.

I hope Nick Everhart gets a chance to prove everyone wrong by taking time to write a serious script. Given time and money it won't be hard for him to prove all these amateurs wrong. Maybe you all should take a moment and use your brain before you critique a film without knowing the facts of what it takes to make a movie. Thanks.

Commentary


Prologue

Based upon some of the data currently available, the bottom line seems to be that there are supposed to be various prophecies, oracles, or whatever which it is claimed by some sources are found around the world.  These so-called prophecies, oracles, etc. seem to indicate that Friday, December 21, 2012  A.D. is “doomsday” - the end of the world.

This idea has been disseminated by numerous books, internet websites, and by TV documentaries. The forecast is based primarily on what is claimed to be the end-date of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which is presented as lasting 5,125 years and as terminating on either Friday, December 21 or on Sunday, December 23, 2012, along with interpretations of assorted legends, scriptures, numerological constructions and prophecies.

Yet a New Age interpretation of this transition takes a different position which is that, during this time, the earth, along with its inhabitants, could possibly undergo a positive physical and/or spiritual transformation rather than an armageddon, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a newer sociopolitical age for the global community (Benjamin Anastas,  New York Times Magazine, July 1, 2007, “The Final Days”).

Proofs

As “proof” for such a conclusion, it is claimed that this is the specific date for the end of civilization based, at least in part, on such things as:

1) the ancient Mayan Calendar;
2) the Prophecies of Nostradamus;
3) the Apocalypse;
4) the Chinese oracle of the I Ching.

Although skeptics recognize a long list of historical  “Failed Doomsdays”, proponents claim that some oracles of “doom” throughout history have a disturbingly accurate track record.

The End of the World in the Bible

It is necessary to examine such false claims because Jesus Christ, Who teaches all of us: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6), also taught the following about various things of concern to the Apostles, including the end of the world:

3    And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying:  Tell us when shall these things be?  and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world?
4    And Jesus answering, said to them:  Take heed that no man seduce you:
5    For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ:  and they will seduce many.
6    And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars.  See that ye be not troubled.  For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places:
8    Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.
9    Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall put you to death:  and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
10   And then shall many be scandalized:  and shall betray one another:  and shall hate one another.
11   And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many.
12  And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.
13   But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.
14   And this gospel of the kingdom, shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come.
15   When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place:  he that readeth let him understand.
16  Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains:
17   And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18   And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.
19   And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.
20   But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the sabbath.
21   For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.
22  And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved:   but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.
23  Then if any man shall say to you:  Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him.
24   For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.
25   Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.
26   If therefore they shall say to you:  Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out:  Behold he is in the closets, believe it not.
27   For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west:  so shall the coming of the Son of man be.
28   Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.
29   And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be moved:
30   And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:  and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn:  and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty.
31   And he shall send his angels with a trumpet, and a great voice:  and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.
32  And from the fig tree learn a parable:  When the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.
33   So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors.
34   Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
35   Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.
36  But of that day and hour no one knoweth, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone.
37   And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38   For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark,
39   And they knew not till the flood came, and took them all away; so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.
40   Then two shall be in the field:  one shall be taken, and one shall be left.
41   Two women shall be grinding at the mill:  one shall be taken, and one shall be left.
42   Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come.
43   But know this ye, that if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open.
44   Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come.
45   Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season.
46   Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall find so doing.
47   Amen I say to you, he shall place him over all his goods.
48   But if that evil servant shall say in his heart:  My lord is long a coming:
49   And shall begin to strike his fellow servants, and shall eat and drink with drunkards:
50   The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not, and at an hour that he knoweth not:
51   And shall separate him, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites.  There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matthew 24:3-51).

Historically, those who have claimed to know the exact time for the end of the year have each had their false prophecy exposed as false.  When one reads about the coming of the year 1,000 A.D., one finds predictions that said the world would end in 1,000 A.D. just as happened concerning the year 2,000 A.D.!   Christ refers to them as “false prophets” who “shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect” (Matthew 24:24).

This is why, concerning the exact hour, day, month, and year, Christ tells all of us:

“But of that day and hour no one knoweth, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone” (Matthew 24:36).

The Ancient Mayan Calendar and Friday, December 21, 2012

The significance of this date in Mayanism stems from the ending of the current baktun cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar in 2012. Speculation about this date can be traced to “The Maya” by Michael D. Coe (Michael D. Coe, “The Maya. Ancient Peoples and Places” series [1st Edition], Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0500285055) originally published in 1966, in which he suggested the date of Saturday, December 24, 2011 (later revised to Sunday, December 23, 2012) would mark the end of civilization.

“There is a suggestion . . . that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth [baktun]. Thus … our present universe … [would] be annihilated on December 23, 2012, when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion” (Michael D. Coe, “The Maya. Ancient Peoples and Places” series (7th Edition, 2005).

But other academic scholars of Mayan civilization have disputed the apocalyptic interpretation of the Long Count calendar end-date, insisting that it simply marks a resetting of the calendar to Baktun 13.0.0.0.0 (G. Jeffrey MacDonald, “Does Maya calendar predict 2012 apocalypse?”, USA Today, March 27, 2007), which is similar to the units and tens columns of a car’s odometer resetting itself  to zero each time a series of 99,999.9 miles are completed.

They also argue that the Long Count calendar does not end on 13.0.0.0.0 as, for example, Susan Milbrath in “Star Gods of the Maya” (page 4, University of Texas Press [2000], ISBN 0292752261).

Scholars such as Linda Schele and David Freidel in their book, “A forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya” (Morrow, 1990), cite the Mayan inscription Koba Stela 1, which features the date 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0.

This corresponds to the Mayan year 0 in 3114 B.C. It is self evident that 3,114 B.C. was also neither the beginning nor the end of the world!  Furthermore, of necessity it also corresponds to the end of the present Long Count cycle and the beginning of the next. With each column equal to twenty times its predecessor, this date therefore is some 41,341,049,999,999,999,999,999,994,879
years in the future, or 3 quintillion times the scientifically accepted age of the universe!

Only one Mayan inscription, Tortuguero Monument 6, directly mentions the end of the 13th baktun, which corresponds to 2012 A.D.  It has been defaced, though Mayan scholar David Stuart has attempted a partial translation:

Tzuhtz-(a)j-oom u(y)-uxlajuun pik
(ta) Chan Ajaw ux(-te’) Uniiw.
Uht-oom ...
Y-em(al) ... Bolon Yookte' K’uh ta ...

The Thirteenth 'Bak'tun" will be finished
(on) Four Ajaw, the Third of Uniiw (K’ank’in).
... will occur.
(It will be) the descent(?) of the Nine Support(?) God(s) to the...(John Major Jenkins, “Comments on the 2012 text on Tortuguero Monument 6 and Bolon Yokte K’u”, 2006).

Dionysius Exiguus

It should also be noted that the calendar year 2012 A.D. has already passed according to some scholars who claim that Dionysius Exiguus , a.k.a. Dennis the Little or Dennis the Short- meaning humble [b. c. 470 A.D. - d. c. 544 A.D.], who was a Scythian monk resident at Rome who tried to calculate year in which Christ was actually born, incorrectly calculated the birth year of Christ.

In about 527 A.D., the monk Dionysius Exiguus introduced his calendar which fixed its starting date in the year 753 from the foundation of the city of Rome, in which year, according to his calculations, the birth of Christ occurred.

However, today many scholars claim that Dionysius erred in his calculations and that the birth of Christ really happened a number of years earlier than he placed it, i.e. before 1 A.D.

Research indicates there is are good reasons to accept the birth of Christ happening either in the year of Rome 746 (7 B.C.) or 747 (6 B.C.).  6 B.C. seems to be the more correct date of the two.  Therefore, IF correct, this means that the current year, 2009 A.D., is most probably really 2015 A.D., or possibly 2016 A.D. - but very definitely not 2009 A.D.!

Mesoamerican - Zapotec, Olmec, Mixtec, Aztec, and Mayan - Calenders

Even so, this apparently has no impact on the 2012 year hype since the current baktun cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is independent of the Julian and Gregorian Calendars of the West and simply refers to December 21, three years from now, whether the third year from now is the year 2012 A.D. or 2018 A.D. or whatever is immaterial.

The Mayan calendar is actually a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Mayan Civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and by some modern Mayan communities in highland Guatemala. These calendars could be synchronized and interlocked in complex ways, their combinations giving rise to further, more extensive cycles.

The essentials of the Mayan calendric system are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 6th Century B.C.  It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec, and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec Calenders. Although the Mesoamerican Calender did not originate with the Mayans, their subsequent extensions and refinements of it were the most sophisticated. Along with those of the Aztecs, the Mayan calendars are the best-documented and most completely understood.

The point needs to be stressed that the Mayan calendar doesn’t actually end on Friday, December 21, 2012. It simply marks the end of an Age. The calendar is made up of a series of three calendar “circles”. They all just begin again, as they have in the past just as the odometer on a vehicle starting all over again once it has reached its maximum reading, e.g. 99,999.9 miles.

The Prophecies of Nostradamus about Friday, December 21, 2012

“Nostradamus: The Truth” and “Doomsday 2012: End of Days” - Reveal the Science Behind Centuries of Speculation airing on the Discovery Channel.

Hyped claims such as “Your days are numbered - if the predictions of ancient oracles and soothsayers are to be believed” are designed to get people to watch the programs on the Discovery Channel, as well as the History channel, which are partners in this crime so it seems?

First, “Nostradamus: The Truth”, premiered on Sunday, November 18, 2007 and attempted to give a “revealing portrait of one of the most acclaimed seers the world has ever known: Nostradamus.”

The hype continued:

“A 16th Century mystic, he predicted major world events, including the rise of Napoleon, both World Wars, the Apollo moon landing, and even the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center - but what’s next?”

Premiering Sunday, November 18, 2007 - “Doomsday 2012: End of Days”.

The hype for this claims the program:

“explores how various cultures have remarkably arrived at the same consensus when predicting the end of the world - just five years from now - on December 21, 2012. Passing up tea leaves for technology, see how today’s seers - and skeptics - are testing the prediction.”

More hype:

“This one-hour special tells the true story of Nostradamus, uncovering the myths and speculations that surrounded the life of this legendary figure. He battled against anti-Semitism and the Inquisition to become the confidante of some of the most powerful and dangerous figures of his time. Nostradamus was a man who tried to ignore his ‘visions’ but, forced by poverty and prejudice, he decided to capitalize on them. It was this fateful decision that would bring him into conflict with the establishment, as well as a poisonous rival who would stalk him throughout his life. In the end, the rise and fall of dynasties would rest on his words.”

More recently the History Channel has come out with the “Lost Book of  Nostradamus”.  The hype fails to explain, for example, why for 9-11 there is only one burning tower, not two.  3 lunar eclipses and a solar eclipse predicting the period of 1992-2012 doesn't really make sense either since there are various lunar and solar eclipses that happen frequently.  No reason is given for the period of 1992-2012, the year 1992 supposedly being the year the horrible world events began to happen.

The program also claims that the Mayans were supposedly able to calculate that on Friday, December 21, 2012, the plane of the solar system will align with the plane of the milky way in coincidence with the alignment of the precession of the equatorial axis.

The History Channel claims it is a 13,000 year occurrence.

On the contrary: This  happens every year, said Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium. It was more closely aligned in the past.  Bottom line, there is no consequence to this and hence this is irrelevant to 2012!

Nostradamus was never specific insofar as giving an exact date, not even an exact year.  In addition, Nostradamus was very definitely wrong regarding some of his “predictions” according to a person who told me that, for example, his predictions for his Wife and Daughter, who were both supposed to live a very long life, was totally wrong!  They both died of the plague when he insisted that both of them accompany him - despite his Wife emphatically telling him “NO” she did not want to go with him, nor did she want their Daughter to go with him - into a plague infested town.  Truly pride goeth before the fall: “Pride goeth before destruction” (Proverbs 16:18).

The Apocalypse on Friday, December 21, 2012

The History Channel has included the Bible, especially the Apocalypse, to try to prove its “documentaries” are correct concerning Friday, December 21, 2012.

Those who are familiar with the Bible know that the date of Friday, December 21, 2012 is not specifically mentioned anywhere in either the Old or New Testaments of the Bible.

Book of Daniel

Some maintain that the Book of Daniel speaks about four apocalyptic visions from chapters seven to twelve, especially about the abomination of desolation (Daniel 9:27 and Daniel  11:31) which some interpret as referring to anti-Christ.

Daniel  11:31 states: “And they shall defile the Sanctuary of Strength, and shall take away the Continual Sacrifice, and they shall place there the Abomination unto desolation”.

It is absurd to interpret the “Continual Sacrifice" as anything other than the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as prophesied by Malachias:

“For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, My Name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is Sacrifice, and there is offered to My Name a Clean Oblation: for My Name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts” (Malachias 1:11).

There is no mention of anti-Christ here because “the Abomination unto desolation” of Daniel 11:31 clearly refers to a “mass rite” or a new, although very evil, liturgical rite of Mass which replaces the Catholic Traditional Rite of Mass which was perfectly instituted by Jesus Christ in terms of its ontological and metaphysical essences which can not be changed by anyone since they are of Divine Institution.

There are some scholars, Church historians, liturgists, etc. who take the position that the so-called "New Mass", a.k.a. Novus Ordo Rite (Novus Ordo Missae) of Pope Paul 6, and most especially the "nude mass" of Pope JP-2, perfectly fulfills the prophecy of Daniel 11:21 concerning the “the Abomination unto desolation” because it replaced the Catholic Traditional Rite of Mass which was, prior to Synod Vatican 2, "the Continual Sacrifice" and thus, historically, they have taken "away the Continual Sacrifice, and they" have placed "there the Abomination unto desolation”.

Matthew (24), Mark (13), and Luke (21)

The discourse of Christ to His Apostles on the Mount of Olives, a.k.a. the Olivet discourse, which is sometimes called the “Little Apocalypse” because it includes what Christ told His Apostles about the future and His use of Apocalyptic language.  But Christ was talking about what was going to happen to his Apostles and Disciples - a short time period away - and also the end of the world.

Concerning the exact hour, day, month, and year the world will end, Christ tells all of us: “But of that day and hour no one knoweth, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone” (Matthew 24:36).

Apocalypse

Various people over the centuries have tried to wrestle an exact date for the end of the world from the Apocalypse.  Some have focused on the Seven Trumpets, others on the Seven Seals, others on the Seven Bowls, etc.

The reality is that the Apocalypse is primarily what was then the future history of the Catholic Church.  After the defeat of anti-Christ, a thousand years of peace will reign, followed by Gog and Magog trying to attack the Catholic Church in her new headquarters in Jerusalem because the city of Rome, along with the Vatican, will be totally destroyed by the orders of anti-Christ.  These will be defeated and another, undisclosed, period of peace will be given to the Catholic Church.

Eventually, after only God knows how long, will the event of the Parousia happen - the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the world to judge the living and the dead.

Over the centuries, many people have mistranslated and misinterpreted the Apocalypse.  Their misinterpretations, with some notable exceptions, are erroneous.

Prophecy of Archbishop Malachy

Archbishop Saint Maelmhaedhoc (Malachy) O’Morgair, a.k.a. Maol Maedoc [b. at Armagh, Ireland in 1094 A.D. - d. at the Abbey of Clairvaux on Tuesday, November 2, 1148 A.D.; Feast Day November 3], baptized as Maelmhaedhoc (Latinized as Malchy), was ordained a Priest by Bishop Saint Cellach (Celsus) in 1119 A.D., chosen Abbot of Bangor in 1123 A.D., consecrated as a Bishop for the Diocese of Connor, and made Archbishop and Primate of Armagh in 1132 A.D.

Malachy accurately predicted the place and time of his own death when in Rome in 1148 A.D.   In 1190 A.D. Archbishop Malachy was canonized the first Irish Saint by the Roman Catholic Pope Clement III, Paolo Scolari [Saturday, December 19, 1187 - March, 1191].  His relics in the cathedral at Troyes.

His Pope prophecies, about all of the future Popes and anti-Popes of the Roman Catholic Church,
have become fairly well known.  They were made in Rome in 1139 A.D. during his pilgrimage to visit the Roman Catholic Pope Innocent II, Gregorio Papareschi [Friday, February 14, 1130 - Friday, September 24, 1143].  While in Rome, he also visited the Lateran Basilica, the home church of the Popes.

It is claimed that, while kneeling in the Lateran Basilica, he had a vision of all future Popes. Saint Malachy gave each future Pope a short cryptic term in Latin which was supposed to describe each Pope.   After writing down his prophecies, he gave them to Pope Innocent II who put them into one of the many “black holes” of the Vatican archives where they remained unknown for over 400 years.

These prophecies, which were first mentioned by the Benedictine historian Arnold Wion or DeWyon, in his book LIGNUM VITAE in 1559 A.D., begin with the Roman Catholic Pope, Celestine II, Guido [Sunday, September 26, 1143 - Wednesday, March 8, 1144] in 1143 A.D.

His last Pope is call “Peter the Roman”.

The 112th prophecy states:

In persecutione extrema Sancta Roma Ecclesia, sedebit Petrus Romanus, qui pascet oues in multis tribulationibus: quibus transactis ciuitas septicollis diruetur, and Iudex tremêdus iudicabit populum suum. Finis.

(In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there shall reign Peter the Roman who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city [Rome] will be destroyed and the terrible judge will judge the people. The End.)

N.B.  The prophecy concerning Pope # 112 appears to be an interpolation, perhaps based upon the Apocalypse? Not only is #112 inconsistent which the terse wording of the description of all previous Popes, but also, according to one source, Malachy's original prophecies listed only 111 Popes, not 112!

The last Pope in this list of Pope prophecies, #112, it has been claimed, was only added after the 1820 publication of the prophecies of Archbishop Malachy.

What I do know for sure is that the Apocalypse indicates that the entire Vatican (Vatican City), along with the entire city of Rome, will be totally destroyed by anti-Christ!!!  But this is not the end because there will then follow a thousand years of peace, followed by a time of apostasy!

The Chinese Oracle of the I Ching on Friday, December 21, 2012

Synopsis

The information on the I Ching and it’s relation to 2012 can be found in the work done by Terence McKenna “Time Wave Zero”. Basically McKenna discovered a pattern in the I Ching that when the hexagrams are laid out starting with the inception of the I Ching the pattern ends exactly on Friday, December 21, 20012.

Timewave Zero

Timewave zero, which is part of Novelty theory, is a mathematical formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of “novelty”. “Novelty” is defined as an increase in the universe’s interconnectedness, or organized complexity, over time.

According to Terence McKenna, who conceived the idea in the early 1970’s, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity on December 21, 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur instantaneously.

McKenna expressed novelty in a computer program, which purportedly produces a fractal waveform known as “Timewave zero” or “the timewave”. Based on McKenna’s interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity’s biological and cultural evolution.

He believed the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose his end date by looking for a very novel event in recent history: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This gave an end-date in mid-November of 2012, but when he discovered its proximity to the end of the 13th baktun, he adjusted the end date to match this point in the calendar.

Professional mathematicians and scientists would consider McKenna's sources and reasoning to be primarily numerological rather than mathematical, and they generally have not taken his theory seriously. The theory was, however, revised by nuclear physicist John Sheliak after British mathematician Matthew Watkins argued that he had found a flaw in it. The new revision is often referred to as “Timewave One”, but is also included in the set of alternate waves in the “Timewave Zero” software.

Commentary

This reminds one of the futile attempt to put God under a microscope which it was claimed some scientists were trying to do back in the 1940’s and 1950’s!  This is the same kind of mentality.

For the record, the “I Ching” Classic of Changes or Book of Changes, which is also called” Zhouyi”, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book is a symbol system used to identify order in random events.

The text describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy that is intrinsic to ancient Chinese cultural beliefs. The cosmology centres on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change.

The 64 Hexagrams

The King Wen sequence of the I Ching, a.k.a. Yi Jing, is a series of sixty-four binary figures (hexagrams), each composed of 6 lines, either solid (yang) or broken (yin).

The King Wen sequence, also known as the classical hexagram sequence, is sometimes considered the second–oldest formal arrangement of the hexagrams, preceded only by the Fu Xi arrangement, though the Fu Xi arrangement is most often associated with the Song Dynasty scholar Shao Yong. The historical legend is that King Wen of Zhou designed this sequence in the 12th Century B.C. while imprisoned by the tyrant King Zhou of Shang; King Wen is said to have died in 1050 B.C.

The 64 hexagrams are grouped into 32 pairs. The second partner in each pair is created by inverting the first. In four of these pairs inversion (i.e. 180 degree rotation) of either hexagram effects no change (in which case all six lines will change). The number of lines that change between pair partners is always even (either 2, 4, or 6).

The number of possible different arrangements of the 32 partner pairs is 32! = 2.63 * 1035

In moving from one hexagram to the next a minimum of one line must change. There are no instances in which exactly five lines change.

The ratio of even to odd numbers of line changes between the hexagrams is exactly 3:1.

64 hexagrams × the 6 lines of a single hexagram = 384, the same number of days as found in ancient annual lunar calendars (that were based on 13 months of lunations).

The I Ching book was traditionally split up in two parts (or books), with the first part covering hexagrams 1 to 30 and the second part holding hexagrams 31 to 64 of King Wen’s sequence. The reason for this is not mentioned in the classic commentaries, though it is explained in later commentaries.

In Western cultures and modern East Asia, the I Ching is sometimes regarded as a system of divination. The classic consists of a series of symbols, rules for manipulating these symbols, poems, and commentary.

It should be self-evident that “evolution” per se is an error because it denies the Scriptural proof for the Creation by Almighty God.  “Evolution” is one of the dogmas of the heresy of Modernism and was condemned by Pope Saint Pius X:

“38. It remains for Us now to say a few words about the Modernist as reformer. From all that has preceded, it is abundantly clear how great and how eager is the passion of such men for innovation. In all Catholicism there is absolutely nothing on which it does not fasten. They wish philosophy to be reformed, especially in the ecclesiastical seminaries. They wish the scholastic philosophy to be relegated to the history of philosophy and to be classed among absolute systems, and the young men to be taught modern philosophy which alone is true and suited to the times in which we live. They desire the reform of theology: rational theology is to have modern philosophy for its foundation, and positive theology is to be founded on the history of dogma. As for history, it must be written and taught only according to their methods and modern principles. Dogmas and their evolution, they affirm, are to be harmonized with science and history....” (Saint Pius X, Giuseppe Sarto [Tuesday, August 4, 1903 - Thursday, August 20, 1914], Encyclical “Pascendi Dominici Gregis”, On the Doctrine of the Modernists, Sunday, September 8, 1907, # 38).

This pagan concept of the “dynamic balance of opposites” is part of the basis for the heresy of dualism in which there is a “good God” and an “evil god”.  This heresy took root in a variety of other heresies such those of the Manichæans, Patarines, Cathars, Albigensians, etc.
Does the World Really End on Friday, December 21, 2012?

NO!

It IS Fear and Hysteria Run Amuck!

TV Program About the “Lost Book of  Nostradamus” (Sounds like it is a forged document?!)

TV Program Life After People

NO!

The world does NOT end
on Friday, December 21, 2012!

Despite the hysteria generated by irresponsible TV "documentaries" with their "theories" and “proofs” and even a conveniently "discovered" book by Nostradamus (where was it found and by whom, etc.? - has this "book" been forged?), etc., most of which have been culled from various writers, alleged "prophets of doom", mis-interpreted Bible passages, Mayan Calendar, etc., who claim/which it is claimed, that the end of the world will happen on Friday, December 21, 2012 A.D., along with the various TV "documentaries" on various TV channels, none of them have garnered mainstream acceptance by academic scholars, e.g. Scripture Scholars, scholars of the Mayan, a.k.a.  the Mesoamerican Long Count, Calendar, etc., etc.

Their alleged "theories" and “proofs” have been rejected on scientific, historical, and Scriptural grounds.  Apparently someone or something is trying to control everyone else by using scare tactics and/or by hysterical fear-mongering?

STAY CLAM

GOD IS IN CHARGE,
NOT THE DEVIL!

Just one Hail Mary, recited with fervor and devotion, is more powerful than all of the weapons, ammunition, bombs, missles, etc. of the entire world! God will continue to keep the sun in its proper place and under control.

The Day the Sun "Fell" to Earth!

A few of the over 70,000 people who
witnessed the sun "falling" towards the earth!

Our Lady of Fatima "restored" the sun to its proper place.

This has been called the "miracle of the sun"
of Our Lady at Fatima on Saturday, October 13, 1917!

Our Lady of Fatima protected the people
on Saturday, October 13, 1917 from the sun
which began to "fall" towards the earth!

Was this somehow "prophetic" concerning 2012?

IF need be,
she will do the same on
Friday, December 21, 2012!