Revelations, 2012, killer asteroids, volcanoes, doomsday diseases, global warming, Nibiru, solar storms, nuclear wars, etc, etc, etc. These are all things that we as a human race has been focusing our attention on, that one or more of these things will destroy the world as we know it. Even Hollywood knows this and they are raking in massive profits off of this obsession with the end-times. So why is it that we are just coming up with more and more ways in which the world will end as we know it? I believe it’s because of Satan’s lies.
This obsession with the end times isn’t exactly new. If you google anything that has to do with end times, you will find that throughout history various people (mostly cults) have “predicted” the end of the world. Some Christians believed that June 6, 1666 will be the end of the world because of the 666 in the book of Revelations. There was also one instance that I know of where a comet (hale bopp, I believe, correct me if I am wrong) that came close to the earth sometime around 1997 and it inspired a cult known as the “Heavens Gate Cult” to commit mass suicide because they believed that the comet was a spaceship that came to take away the “faithful followers” and everyone else would die in some horrible disaster. The truth is, they’re the only one that died.
Then there is the 2012 Mayan prediction. Somehow in the last two years there was the idea that the Mayan calendar will end in December of 2012 and life as we know it will end. There are somehow the idea that ancient civilizations knew more than we do regarding the end times, perhaps due to aliens? The idea was that planet X or Nibiru will come around and cause all sorts of disaster. Some even suggested that the planet will collide with Earth and kill mankind, while others suggested that a comet will hit the earth, or that solar activities will plunge mankind into a dark age.
I believe we have been deceived by Satan, who owns this world. Death comes from Satan and he is obsessed with death because he knows he is going to be in hell for eternity, and therefore hates us for it. So he tempted the first man and woman to sin and therefore bring death into the world. For thousands of years, we came to accept death as a “necessity” and it’s just a fact of life. Then Jesus came and defeated death at the cross and reconciled us with God. Obviously Satan isn’t happy about this so he fills our head with the idea that everyone will die soon for whatever reason, in order to keep us away from what God truly wants us to experience, which is life.
I have met many Christians who would happily take a bullet between the eyes for the sake of the Gospel, yet would hesitate at the thought of actually living for the gospel. God’s plan for us is to live a fulfilled life, so that our lives would be a testimony of what God has done in our lives. Some Christians would go to dangerous countries, where being a Christian is a capital crime, seemingly for the chance to be martyred for the Gospel. I do not think it’s what God wants us to do.
God gave each of us gifts and talents in various areas, and he did so in order that we may work as a team, and life a happy and fulfilled life in doing so. Some are called to be doctors, others to be lawyers, scientists, construction workers, relief workers, social work, store clerks, entrepreneurs, and many more. I believe we are to live missional lives but it doesn’t necessarily have to be “missions” work or even purposely put ourselves in situations where we may have to die for the sake of the Gospel. There are other religions that preach similar things (like Islam) but every religion leads to death, because it gives false hope to have a relationship with God while denying the very thing that we crave and need.
So please, LIVE for the Gospel, because it is what God wants. Find out what you like doing, what you’re gifted in, and make every effort to make a career out of it. I assure you God will use that to accomplish great things.
