What is 2012?
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Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
Where does the Rapture Theory come from?
In the 19th Century an Irish Christian evangelist named John Nelson Darby taught the message of the rapture to a group a believers in the United States. The message continued to gain prominence among evangelicals under the guidance of William Eugene Blackstone who used the printing press as a propaganda tool through a highly popular book called "Jesus is Coming".
On a side note it is interesting to mention that as this is happening in the early to mid 1800's the Mormon Church of the Latter Day Saints is newly founded by Joseph Smith in the same generation. The Mormon however do not believe in the Rapture as the Evangelicals do.
We move passed the 1950's and there are new Evangelicals such has Hal Lindsey and Russell Doughten who are teaching those who want to believe them about this concept of magical ascension into a metaphysical realm. ( On a side note...and making a fortune in the process). These people and the rapture theory is supported by song writers and actors who agree to again use the media as a propaganda tool to extend their message.
Further into the new millenium the Rapture believers are still at it. Hal Lindsey is still at it and now we here a new name playing the same old fiddle. Here we have the good ole TV ministers Jack Van Impe and his beautiful wife Rexella who are convinced that they are schedualed for a trip into the ethereal realm of the spiritual just before the great tribulation is about to unfold. ( Now i feel a little cheated by this act of grandeur...how dare you take all the money and run when the kettle is about to boil over....). The Van Impe's are right into this 2012 prophecy stuff. Good old Jack can't put a date on it since that would go against the teachings of St. Matthew where no one knows the hour, yet you need only to watch is program once to see him grinning at the very possibility that those dang gone pagan mayans might have been onto something.
In fact they have mastered what they believe to be another great video in their endless series of videos that should keep them in the money until they disappear from the scene, a scene they describe as an horrific time that the rest of us will need to deal with from our earthly material body. I haven't personally seen the 2012 Van Impe video but i imagine it takes every Mayan concept of spiritual ascension or end time concept and turns it into a Christian issue. (Isn't that just a continuation of the original Mayan idea burning that the Spaniards started in the 16th century ? ).
Other names associated with current rapture theory spiritual ascension include Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins (not to be mistaken for John Major Jenkins, the galactic alignment theorist) who brought us the film and book "Left Behind". I did see that film and it was as stupid to me as the recent 2012 Doomsday film that i recently viewed. 2012 Doomsday also pretty much raped the crap out of the reality of the Mayan legends of 2012 and turned it into a Christian festival that includes the rapture.
However this rapture concept is not a phenom that is agreed about by all branches of Christianity. The Catholic Church for instance deny the rapture. As mentioned before the Church of the Latter Saints or Mormons don't support the rapture concept. Even some evangelicals question the merits of the Rapture Theory.
To remain a generalist i am telling you that it might be true and the again it might not be true. What i can say is that i wish i was making a fraction of the money that some of these evangelicals make on selling religion while they wait to get scooped away before the @#%# hits the fan.
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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Does Mahatma Gandhi, a man who lived by the beliefs of the great Yuga cycles of good and evil forces that rule the human psyche, and the Mayan creators of cyclic calendars, speak the same language.
Mayan scholars say 2012 is a consciousness revival that will see humanity rise above the seven sins that Mahatma Gandhi describes. The interpreters of the Yugas state that during the Kali Yuga period men will be rapped up in the bondage of Gandhi's seven sins. Then through a consciousness revival process these things will come to pass and man will pass to a Golden Age once again.
Bible scholars will explain that same process as the coming of the Lord and the ascension of consciousness for the chosen ones who will go on to live a thousand years in peace.
Are we there yet?
Wealth without work
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Pleasure Without Conscience
Knowledge Without Character
Commerce Without Morality
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Science Without Humanity
Worship Without Sacrifice
Politics Without Principles
“Man had been created by God that he might have life. If now, having lost life, and having been harmed by the serpent, he were not to return to life but were to be wholly abandoned to death, then God would have been defeated, and the malice of the Serpent would have overcome God’s will.”
We are making this statement concerning what have been called
"Bible codes" or "Torah codes". We recognize that many sincere people take this
phenomenon seriously, which compels us to speak out on the basis of what our
mathematical training tells us about the evidence claimed for this alleged
phenomenon.
There is a common belief in the general community to the effect
that many mathematicians, statisticians, and other scientists consider the
claims to be credible. This belief is incorrect. On the contrary, the almost
unanimous opinion of those in the scientific world who have studied the question
is that the theory is without foundation. The signatories to this letter have
themselves examined the evidence and found it entirely unconvincing.
We refer
in particular to the paper Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis,
published in Statistical Science in 1994. This experiment suffers from major
problems concerning both its execution and the interpretation of its
conclusions. Even without these concerns, we would not take such extraordinary
claims seriously without a vastly more systematic and thorough investigation. No
such investigation has been carried out, nor has the work so far established a
prima facie case. In addition, word clusters such as mentioned in Witztum's and
Drosnin's books and the so called messianic codes are an uncontrolled phenomenon
and similar clusters will be found in any text of similar length. All claims of
incredible probabilities for such clusters are bogus, since they are computed
contrary to standard rules of probability and statistics.There are 50 scholarly names attached to this letter.