The world didn't end on Dec. 21 as some people thought. A Mayan calendar ended there, but the world did not. Another misunderstanding is that the end of the world and the end of the earth are the same thing. They are not. The earth is the planet on which we live, but the world is the human system by which it is governed.

All governments are flawed. We praise democracy, claiming it provides freedom, but our founding fathers knew that our rights come from our creator. Eventually the world of human governments will come to an end.

The earth as we know it will also come to an end, but the earth will remain a planet. Two millennia ago, Flavius Josephus recorded in the Antiquities of the Jews - Book I at the end of Chapter 2 - "upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone: They inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day." (The apostle Peter goes into much more detail about the flood and the coming destruction by fire in 2 Peter 3:1-14.



Believers need only drive west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and see layers of earth that were caused by sediment from water. It is evidence that there was a great upheaval of the earth. That should be a reminder there is a coming destruction by fire. Doubters claimed that no fire could melt the elements until the atomic bomb.

We need not fear the atomic bomb, or global warming. We need to fear Christ the Son of God. Pledge your allegiance to Christ alone.

Ben Haldeman