It’s the END OF THE WORLD! Stand by for NEWS!

 

 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

 

 It’s the end of the world! Last Pope. Some guy you never heard of said so nine hundred years ago! With the passing of Pope Francis, the prophets came out of the holy woodwork announcing this with all the pseudo-facts in a row. Shades of Nostradamus.

Trying to fit God into a tight, neat box never works. To begin with God doesn’t measure time as we do because He created time and He doesn’t use it. Like everything else on our level, time is organic. We measure time. Time doesn’t measure itself. And a factor of time is perception. How does it flow for you. Time flies, time drags, time stopped. We have all been there. At an execution the perception of time is different to the witnesses and the man on the gurney.

So beginning with “End of the World” predictions we must wind our watch. Then consider freedom of choice.

Now the word of the Lord came unto son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Now ask yourself, why would God send Jonah to warn the people of Nineveh if His mind was made up? And forget about the vernacular, if there was a whale. A lot of the Bible is teaching lessons about the nature of God and His relations with man. As a man does, he is, as he speaks so he will become. Abracadabra.

 

Abracadabra! These words, recited by magicians all over the world, when broken down into smaller words introduce us to the truest mystery-the creation of the world. —>Amara K’adabra – I will create as I have spoken.<—

 

Man has always been the master of his fate. But as according to God’s direction of right and wrong. It is folly to try to place God or man in tiny little compartments and try to substantiate it with understandings that you devise by your studies of countless translations that are the understanding of other men in far different societies than you!

This does not rule out reason. If you see two trains approaching each other at full speed, a hundred yards apart you can reasonably assume that neither train will arrive on time at the station. Depending upon the political savvy of the “prophet” predictions may have various levels of accuracy. A prime example was Joseph Smith supposedly predicting the Civil War when slavery advocates and abolitionists had been at each other’s throats for years. If he were a prophet why did he think that lynch mob converging on the Carthage Jail was Mormon Militia sent to save him?

The more that soothsayers try to tie world events into a pretty pink bow the more it all frays on the ends. In the passage from Matthew where Jesus cites all the bad things that will occur they will fit if you understand the reason for His lecture. The things He lined out are things that happen whenever society falls apart. People put the cart before the horse when they try to squeeze the future into events. It is not If you see this then this will happen but more like if you do this then this will happen!

If God intended the Catholic Church to fall apart then why have it at all? If there were going to be a last Pope why have a first. And didn’t Jesus say something about the Gates of Hell not prevailing?

Church is Church and Jesus is Jesus. While the Protestants slice and dice the Catholics spice and fry. The Catholic Bible has more books than the Protestant because Martin Luther took editing to the extreme. But I digress.

Can we blow it all up? Most certainly. Can we find a path to world peace? I don’t think so. Did some crazy monk nine hundred years ago have the future all figured out? Give it a year or two or six. That’s one great thing about being old. Odds are you won’t be around if it comes.