According to the Mayan Calendar

the earth as we know it will be destroyed in December, 2012. The Bible however tells us otherwise:

"Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them." Jeremiah 10:1-2

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" Matthew 24:36

The Word of God - the Bible - tells us that someday Jesus will return to earth and before His return momentous things will happen upon the earth. But, He is not coming to destroy the earth but according to His promise we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth - a place where righteousness will dwell.

We are not to fear, but be encouraged to live lives worthy of God and to be ready for that day.

We must understand that one day, the world for us will end - 2012, 2019, 2020, but it will end - and after that will come judgment as we stand before the Throne of God.

"Then I saw a Great White Throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence heaven and earth fled away... and I saw the dead great and small, standing before the throne, and the
book[s] were open; and another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the book[s], according to their deeds. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds." Revelation 20-11-13

I have been judged, I have been found guilty and I was sentenced to death - BUT GOD...

"Do this; knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep, for now Salvation is nearer to us than when we believed." Romans 13:11

"Behold, God is my Salvation, I will trust and will not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and song, and He has become my Salvation." Isaiah 12:2

"My own faith is rooted in the unshakable belief in God... and an awareness of a constant and holy spiritual presence in all people, all life, and all things." Former vice president, Al Gore

"...when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them... [then] your heart is lifted up and you forget the Lord your God. ...you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’ ...if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods... you shall surely perish." Deuteronomy 8:10-19

Jesus said: I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6

But --- "I am a Christian.... I believe that there are many paths to the same place.... I am a great admirer of our founding charter... and its resolve to prevent disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root in this country.... I think Gandhi is a great example of a profoundly spiritual man who... never slipped into intolerance or dogma." Former senator, now president, Barack Hussein Obama

"And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Genesis 6:5

"...they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart..." Jeremiah 11:8

No Place for Truth:
By Dr. David F. Wells

“To whom then will you liken Me, Or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and see Who has created these things...By the greatness of His might and the strength of His power." Isaiah 40:25

"...the shallowness of modern life derives not from its banality but from its having lost its moral bearings. ... Christ seems to offer little of what this world is asking for. It wants whatever is new; it looks for the next step in the journey of the human spirit...."

"It is this holiness of God, then, without which the Cross of Christ is incomprehensible, that provides the light that exposes modernity's darkness for what it is.... Evangelicals turned from focusing on God's transcendence to focusing on His immanence [pervading all creation] -- and then they took the further step of interpreting His immanence as friendliness with modernity....
"The loss of the traditional vision of God as holy is now manifested everywhere in the evangelical world. It is the key to understanding why sin and grace have become such empty terms....

Divorced from the holiness of God -

· sin is merely self-defeating behavior or a breach in etiquette...
· grace is merely empty rhetoric, pious window dressing for the modern technique by which sinners work out their own salvation....
· our gospel becomes indistinguishable from any of a host of alternative self-help doctrines....
· our public morality is reduced to little more than an accumulation of trade-offs between competing private interests.
· our worship becomes mere entertainment.

"The holiness of God is the very cornerstone of Christian faith, for it is the foundation of reality... this God, majestic and holy in His being... has disappeared from the modern evangelical world. He has been replaced in many quarters by a God... whose Word is a plaything for those who wish merely to listen to themselves, whose Church is a mall in which the religious, their pockets filled with the coin of need, do their business.

We seek happiness, not righteousness."

"I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings.... And one cried to another and said: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!' And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. "So I said: 'Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” Isaiah 6:1-5