To begin with, I think I will state uncategorically that I do not believe the world will end on December 21, 2012.

I realize I am flying in the face of The History Channel, perhaps, and maybe even Nostradamus, not to mention the uncanny Mayan Calendar, but there you are.

However, I will not ignore several signs and portents, and so I wanted to begin a discussion, undertaken after prayer, as to what I see happening and what I see might indeed happen.

I will go back to scripture, for starters.

When God brought about the birth of his son, Jesus, called Immanuel, he announced this birth with direct fanfare to a group of shepherds.  He also indicated the birth of his son in a much more subtle way – to the magi.

The magi might more properly be called star-gazers, or astronomers (astrology being linked with astronomy as a science until just recently, in terms of human history).  People who studied the skies. And in these skies, the magi – the astronomers, if you will – saw the signs that the King of the Nation of Israel was being born. In the second chapter of Matthew’s gospel, we can read a little about them.

I believe God can indeed use stars to communicate when he wishes, for he made the stars and the planets.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for festivals and for days and years. - Genesis 1:14

God specifically said these “lights in the sky” would serve as signs for festivals.  They are not there just to amuse our Creator, or to provide light (though they do both, I am sure, at different times) but they have a purpose.  In addition, each star and planet is placed with precision.  I have heard that the balance of the gravitational pulls is necessary to the stability of our universe.

I am not a scientist and cannot speak to that, but am only reporting what I have read and heard.

So, then, I believe that God can use the skies to speak to us.  Not in the ways that astrologers of today might say, necessarily, but I do believe these lights in the sky do serve to communicate under the will of the Creator of All, the Lord God Almighty.

This being so, I believe that modern magi, astronomers, and even not-so-modern ones, might indeed be correct when they say that a huge cosmic event will occur in 2012.

I just don’t believe it will be the end of the world.

Not quite.

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