{"id":2115,"date":"2009-08-17T10:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2009-07-18T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T18:22:35","slug":"lcg-on-sony-2012-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/cog-news\/lcg-on-sony-2012-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"LCG on Sony 2012 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAncient Mayan City of Palenque<\/em><\/p>\n

COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

Wallace Smith of the Living Church of God<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

As my wife and I walked into the local cinema, before us stood one of the largest movie advertisement displays I\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0 It depicted a coastal city being completely ripped apart by unprecedented seismic activity\u2014tossing vast swaths of the city into the sky and dumping entire neighborhoods into a hungry ocean. \u00a0It was a scene of utter devastation that clearly would have taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.\u00a0 And it was a fitting advertisement for the movie 2012<\/em>, the new End-Of-The-World epic written and directed by Roland Emmerich, coming out this November.<\/p>\n

No stranger to such movies, with 2012<\/em> Mr. Emmerich is capitalizing on a growing public fascination: the idea that the world will end on December 21, 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And a fascination it is…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why 2012?<\/p>\n

It seems the Mayans\u2014the well-known and much-studied ancient Mesoamerican empire\u2014kept many calendars, including one known as the \u201cLong Count Calendar.\u201d \u00a0This calendar will reach the end of a 5,100-year-long epoch on\u2014you guessed it\u2014December 21, 2012.<\/p>\n

Is there anything to the hype?\u00a0 Should we expect doomsday to come on 12\/21\/2012\u2014or, perhaps, a New Age paradise?…<\/p>\n

Given the state of things, today\u2014with economic distress, terrorism, global instability, natural disasters of powerful intensity, and more\u2014interest in what the future holds and concern for the direction in which the world is going is understandable.\u00a0 But the answer doesn\u2019t lie in a date on an ancient calendar, the conjunctions of astrologers, or the hallucinations of drug-using \u201cpsychonauts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather, there is a proven<\/em> source of knowledge about the future, and that source does<\/em> speak of natural disasters\u2014and supernatural<\/em> disasters\u2014of unimaginable scale and intensity.\u00a0 And it speaks, as well, of a soon-coming new age of peace and prosperity across the globe\u2014a time without war or needless suffering, in which the nations have learned to live with each other in harmony.\u00a0 That source is your Bible<\/em>, and not only does it have a proven track-record of accuracy, it does something that a mere date on a calendar or a \u201cGalactic Alignment\u201d could never do: the Bible tells you not only the amazing details about what is ahead, but it also<\/em> tells you what to do about it!<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the Bible shows that the world will not have the type of flood the movie and many others expect to happen on or shortly after December 21, 2012.\u00a0 The Bible is clear that there will not be another flood such as Noah experienced (Genesis 9:11-15), and while the movie does not go quite to that degree, what it shows simply will not happen then.\u00a0 Other scriptures show that the Great Tribulation and the related great earthquake (cf. Revelation 16:18) will not begin that early (see Can the Great Tribulation Begin in 2009, 2010, or 2011?<\/a> for more details).<\/p>\n

As I reported a year and a half ago (Sony Buys Script for Maya 2012 Movie<\/a>), Sony spent big money for this movie.\u00a0 And while it is biblically inaccurate, it is likely to be a hit.<\/p>\n

But while there can be some type of accuracy in non-biblical predictions, many are in conflict with scripture and all must be understood within the context of the Bible.<\/p>\n

Those interested in learning more may find the following articles of interest:<\/em><\/p>\n

End of Mayan Calendar 2012–Might 2012 Mean Something?<\/a> Are there Mayan calendar predictions for change in 2012? Changes were centuries ago predicted by the Hopi Native Americans. Do Mayan\/Hindu\/Hopi\/Buddhist\/New Age\/Nostradamus prophecies have any value here? Why might Satan have inspired this date? Does the Dresden codex show destruction of the earth by flood? Can the great tribulation<\/a> start before 2012? How might Barack Obama be involved in 2012?
\nDo Certain Catholic Prophecies About Antichrist Warn Against Jesus?<\/a> Will the final “Anti-Christ” be Jewish, insist on Saturday, be opposed to the trinity, and bring in the millennium? Catholic writings indicate this, but what does the Bible show?
\nCatholic Prophecies: Do They Mirror, Highlight, or Contradict Biblical Prophecies?<\/a> People of all faiths may be surprised to see what various Roman and Orthodox Catholic prophets have been predicting as many of their predictions will be looked to in the 21st century.
\nDoes God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?<\/a> Was a 6000 year time allowed for humans to rule followed by a literal thousand year reign of Christ on Earth taught by the early Christians? When does the six thousand years of human rule end?
\nCan the Great Tribulation Begin in 2009, 2010, or 2011?<\/a> Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before in the “beginning of sorrows”? What happens in the Gerat Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ancient Mayan City of Palenque COGwriter Wallace Smith of the Living Church of God reported the following: As my wife and I walked into the local cinema, before us stood one of the largest movie advertisement displays I\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0 It depicted a coastal city being completely ripped apart by unprecedented seismic activity\u2014tossing vast swaths […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t