Live or Perish?
Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 6:44 PM | 2 comment(s)

Hello baby DOWAC (yes, that's what I call this blog) and readers! I'm on my writing mood again and will post some relevant stuff that I should have blogged before. I'm sorry for my insanely profane use of words on my last post. All of it was a product of a broken heart, false hopes and initial shock. I’m really sorry. I’m not promising you all that I won’t do it again, because I don’t think that will happen. Yes, I use curse words a lot, and I’m sorry about it.



Anyway, have you heard of the news about the “end of the world” phenomenon? It’s widely known as the “Judgment Day” and I’ve read about its history and stuff. It was said that 2011 is the 7000th year from the flood. If you can still remember, and I know nobody forgets about this, 7000 years ago, God asked Noah to build a huge ark that would carry all kinds of animals in pairs and Noah’s family, and a great flood washed the earth and the individuals that were not inside the ark. In short, the world was destroyed by the flood and the catastrophe. The flood lasted for forty days, and all that was in safety started a new race of humankind.

But contrary to what has been spreading like wildfire all over the internet, May 21st isn’t really the end of the world. It’s the day when Jesus Christ will return for the Rapture – a reference to the being caught up referred to in the Biblical passage 1 Thess 4:17 when in the End Times the Christians will be gathered together in the air to meet Christ*. Those who will be saved, approximately 3,000,000 true believers, will be sent to Heaven, and hence, it’s the end of their world. The others, who will not be saved, roughly 6,997,000,000, will suffer a different fate. They will be punished to five cruel months of disaster, disease, mayhem and everything that spells suffering. After those unfortunate months, called “End Times”, the sufferers will now ultimately face the “End of the World.”

If you may ask why they need to go through grueling and tough times, it’s because they do not believe in God. They don’t respect and fear what God is and what He can do. The trials that they will face will make them realize that there is only one Father, and guess what, He’s very powerful that He can make us all suffer in one snap and live in tranquility in another.


For the record, I do not believe that the world will end tomorrow – washed out, burned or any other way – because the Great God is the only one who knows when and how we would all perish. If you believe and have faith in God, then you will not be afraid if Jesus Christ will return and choose only three million people and leave others on mortal peril. You will not be afraid if the Rapture will indeed happen this Saturday. If you trust and believe in Him, you will live.

Maybe our own little world would end in any other way we can think of – a singer’s world might end when she loses her voice; a mother’s will end when she loses her child; a lover’s will end when the one she loves leaves her for good. We may have it in any way… but we’d all end up in this: Our world ends the day we stop believing in God’s love and care.



Notes:
* Rapture - Wikipedia | Judgment Day 2011 | E-Bible | Photos - Tumblr


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