As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.
The religious community is usually fast to jump on anything that smacks of an END TIME. And of course to frame any destruction around the judgment of God is an automatic default position. So, think it not strange that December 21, 2012 will be increasingly looked upon and written as the Coming Rapture. Why not 2012? How many hundreds of other dates have been predicted as a rapture date already?
Maybe a new release of "Left Behind" can be issued with a prologue or added chapter. Hey, the series sold millions of copies. Let's build on that success. NOT!
Since the earth is 4-5 billion years old it would appear to the logical mind that God, or whomever you want to call the Great One who designed the universe, isn't in any hurry to work things out here on planet earth. I simply find it hard to accept the picture wherein in an instant, we see a pile of clothes on the ground which our neighbor once wore, but is no longer there since he was raptured. I guess that's scary since I'm the one still here awaiting tribulation or whatever.
Would you believe an electromagnetic radiation pulse that burns the skin off my bones? :-(
No, I believe the "show must go on". The world is not going to ever end. Why would it? What would be the point or purpose of that? But, that the world will continue past 2012 in a heightened awareness or consciousness seems viable to me. But some sort of religious rapture is truly a 2012 Final Fantasy.
For the intuitive readers of the historical Jesus who became the Christos, there's obvious language about spiritual ages. So, when Jesus spoke of the "end of an age", it wasn't the end of earth: even a reading of Isaiah 65 and 66 tells us of a NEW EARTH- even a NEW HEAVEN. And therein is what I truly believe we're going to see- a new spiritual age developing. It's in the process of happening now and it's more closely related to a proper understanding of the writings of the Mayans, Hopi Indians, and others.
The only rapture that religious fundamentalists (of any stripe) are going to see is an individual rapture as they transition from here to there- not a corporate rapture.
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