More Comments from your humble servant:

  As you will notice in the 1993 sequence the dating principle of a 1000 years equals a day, as Peter uses it (2 Peter 3:8), and this seems to make sense, and some have set dates in the past based on the idea we are coming to the end of the 6000th year and entering the 7th day, the day of rest, or the Sabbath day of earth, if you will.  Actually the 2000 AD debacle, based loosely on this principle, Evangelical prophets began predicting 2000 AD as the year of complete melt down as the computer systems of the world collapse and somehow this all translated, from their minds, the kick off point for the "rapture".  And this was not a bunch of "no-name" prophets, no, the list included nearly all of the those teachings the false "rapture' doctrine, names such as, Grant Jeffery, Hal Lindsay, Paul Crouch, and the, now infamous, Lalonde brothers (Peter and Paul) and many, many other modern prophets.  You would have thought this would had put them all out of business, but it did not as the lay people still like to have their ears scratched and sooth with the escape doctrine (the rapture, then tribulation). 

  The Lalonde brothers were big movers and shakers in this popular genre of fear and escapism in a sudden rapture, or "snatching away" of the good Christians away to "Heaven" while the bad Christians and the rest of the world must suffer the "tribulation". The brothers, Peter and Paul, have seemingly gone underground since their proclamations and their "Left Behind" tapes have proven to be so, so, wrong, but occasionally you see their names associated with film productions of fantasy events to occur during and after the "rapture".  Paul Crouch, of the Trinity Broadcasting fame (TBN), is another force behind such worldly productions.  It is truly amazing such talented men and such learned bible researchers would have so foolishly set their hopes on the 1000 years as a day rule and applied it to the literal expression of years as seen in the modern calendar.  They took 4000 years before our Savior's birth, then added the 2000 years after and came to 6000, making 2000 Ad the 6th day.  The simple reasoning is not characteristic of most of the books they have written on the subject, but for some reason they tied this in with the supposed coming doom of computers not being able to operate past that years.  This is truly a demonstration of the past and the willingness of men to stop listening toe the Word and to hear only themselves and their own desires.   

  By using the day as a 1000 years principle you would have thought someone would have consulted the Jewish scholars, after all, they are the 7th Day Sabbath keepers and the protectors of the written word, the Old Testament Canon, the book that give us the 7 day principle, wouldn't you?  So, why don't we see what the Jewish scholars have to say, concerning the year we live in:  According to the Jewish year, based on the history of time, by their calculations of the times set by scripture and their traditions, we are not even close to the 6000th year, we are in the year, 5770, as of 2009 AD. -- that would mean we have at least 230 years before we start thinking about entering the 7th day, the day of SABBATH REST (Millennial rule of the Messiah).  That's not much time, really, considering time as science sees it, even from a biblical point of view 230 years is short, still, I know of no one in the last 4500 years that has lived over 200 years, by that I mean, nearly all of the "rapture" teachers proclaim we are living in the "end days" now, that the Rapture is going to occur an "any moment".  Their proclamations have failed in the past but they continue to ignore a vital key in understanding their way is not His way.  They do not speak of the God of the Bible and they have little or no idea about whom our Savior really is. 

  I'm thinking, from all the pressure applied by rapture people (prophets), the general layperson may get a little tired of hearing, "any day now" as they grow older and older and begin dying off, as is already happening.  Hum, we still have 2047 (see list above) for the termination of the human race at 3:28 AM -- now some of us might be around for that one -- that is, of course, if we live through 2012 -- Hey, the Mayans didn't. 

  I would like to make a correction, to the statement above, following the 2012 with the remark, "this date is derived from the Mayan and the Aztec calendars".  This is not so, the Aztec calendar actually had a date but it has come and gone -- August 13, 1999, -- yeah, I know, way past.  Not sure how that one got by everyone but it did.  I happen to have a very detailed book on the subject, Day Of Destiny, by John Mini, published in 1998.   So, here is another proclamation of doom and it has been overlooked in the above list but you can fit it in as the Aztec failure just as the Mayan dating will also be a failure.  August 13, 1999, and that was on a Friday the 13th, too -- and dead wrong.

  Another thing to consider is the question of why anyone should listen to the savage Indian, Mayans, or the Aztec, for that matter?  They had greater wisdom, perhaps?  Do we really see evidence of this?  Didn't they practice human sacrifice? Is that a mark of higher intelligence?  Hasn't the world of the Aztec and the Mayan people vanished?  Where are they now?  If this knowledge is accurate what good did it do for them?  What good will it do for us?  Makes for an exciting movie, right?  I think you get the idea.  Certainly these prophetic claims based on Mayan intelligence seen through their pagan calendar cannot be true as their world came to an end many hundreds of years ahead of their precious calendar predictions. 

  Seriously, however, there is coming a time of doom, but will it be recognized for what it is?  The earth is going to be shaken to its very core and may result in turning this world back to a time of the horse and buggy.  When this earth shaking event occurs many, most, will think the end of the world is at hand.  At this point in time we can all forget about the "rapture" when the oceans rage against the coast lands due to the Great Quake to come and the mountains are shaken out of place a new world will be ushered in -- the political systems we see today will change as mankind dig out of the carnage and debris of this event.  The Great Quake is spoken of in Revelation 6:12-17, it is in the opening of the 6th Seal, and it will only be the beginning.  Click here for more information, not from men but from you own Bible

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