{"id":2468,"date":"2009-09-09T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/09\/take-a-chill-pill-the-world-will-not-end-in-2012-in-spite-of-pagan-mayan-mahdi-planet-x-speculations.html"},"modified":"2024-05-11T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T17:39:54","slug":"take-a-chill-pill-the-world-will-not-end-in-2012-in-spite-of-pagan-mayan-mahdi-planet-x-speculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/take-a-chill-pill-the-world-will-not-end-in-2012-in-spite-of-pagan-mayan-mahdi-planet-x-speculations.html","title":{"rendered":"Take a chill pill, the world will not end in 2012 in spite of Pagan Mayan, Mahdi, Planet X speculations."},"content":{"rendered":"

Think the 2012 date setters are not having a negative effect on many in the Church? Obviously this speculation based mostly on Mayan ages and a Mahdi coming out of well is attracting many followers. Some such as the “Gospel Tract Society” now take the position that we are already in the tribulation<\/strong>. H E L L O… what tribulation? <\/strong>I will say it as gently as I can, those who think we are already in the tribulation have lost their marbles.<\/p>\n

I do not see a good end result coming from all this date setting nonsense. By 2013 Bible prophecy teachers will be mocked.<\/strong> It is as if there is a Satanic deception (there is) to destroy the message of the soon coming of Jesus through the promotion of those crying wolf based on pagan crap – not the Bible. This 2012 date setting speculation is not coming from God.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think I understand why people promote their crap and pet theories in books, it is profitable for them. But, why do Christians buy it and suck it up like it was profound biblical truth. Some of us warned that the 88 reason why Jesus would come in 1988 was unfounded but people bought the books anyway and Bible prophecy teaching in the Church took a huge hit because of that. Now we have to endure the 2012 end of the world books and movies based on pagan fantasy and those who only know enough about Bible eschatology to twist it to fit their theories. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The world is not going to end in 2012 and we are not in the tribulation.<\/strong> Like Nathan Jones said in this article “take a chill pill”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Christ in Prophecy Journal: Gospel Tract Society Abandons Pre-Trib Heritage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gospel Tract Society has changed their longstanding view in the last month. Lamb & Lion Ministries was first alerted to the change when the ministry’s successor, Tom Buttram, asked founder Dr. David Reagan to change the wording in his tract “Living for Christ in the End Times” (based on the article) from “Rapture” to “Second Coming.” The second alert came when a friend of Lamb & Lion Ministries contacted the Gospel Tract Society for copies of that tract, only to be told the remaining 6,000 in inventory were going to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

Upon inquiry as to why the Gospel Tract Society would desire to change the wording and destroy the existing inventory, Tom Buttram responded with a very startling revelation. “As though someone reprinted my Bible overnight,” Tom Buttram now believes humanity has already entered into the Tribulation and the Church will not be raptured until the Seventh Trumpet Judgment has sounded mid-way through the Tribulation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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after over 80 years of the Gospel Tract Society proclaiming the imminent return of Jesus Christ, they will now refocus their attention on printing materials “needed for all to escape delusion and attack” by the Man of Lawlessness (the Antichrist) and a Mid-Tribulation rescue by Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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the esteemed Gospel Tract Society after 80 years of preaching the Rapture of believers before world judgment has just declared that they got it all wrong, that we are actually living in the Tribulation, and that we will all be attacked (means “massacred,” folks) by the coming world leader \u2014 and that is supposed to be a source of calm!?! Just how much “calm” are they now going to spread with their newest batch of tracts?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Secular movies like “Knowing” and “2012” and books and commentaries and pundits (and the list goes on) are very interested in End Time speculation. Only the overall Church seems to be sleeping on this subject. But, for those believers who are anticipating Christ’s return, a certain hysteria has begun to set in. The people are getting very antsy and have begun chasing after every new theory and speculation that rises to the scene.<\/p>\n

Secondly, as Dr. Ron Rhodes once said, we are filtering God’s Word through our human antennae and our fallen nature is putting static in our reception.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Every person believes God is giving them a particular revelation or insight into the Bible that is different than what they once believed \u2014 but they all conflict! I get hundreds of emails a week from people all over the world, and many writers purport to have discovered some special insight from God. For example, could the Pope, Javier Solana, Prince Hassan, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, the Mahdi and the entire United States of America all be the Antichrist at the same time? Saved believers in Christ each have a candidate God has “revealed” to them in Scripture. Or, could the Tribulation be seven years long, World War II, the Papal years, only for Israel, for the entire world, and it’s just the conflict in our hearts all at same time? Saved believers each have a position. But, only one answer can possibly be correct.<\/p>\n

To use an 80’s term, we all need to “take a chill pill.<\/p>\n

Full article<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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