Acts 1:7, "He
said to them, "It is not for you to know the times or seasons which the
Father has fixed by his own authority."
As happened
so often with predications about endtime disasters and the return of
Jesus, so
it happened again with the predictions about an endtime disaster
through the
comet Elenin. This comet would pass earth so close on 17 and 18 October
2011
that it would bring apocalyptic disasters, but nothing happened. Many
people
experienced unnecessarily fears and worries through what was published
about
it. Some dreamed that their house was going to be hit by a meteorite
out off
the tail of the comet and that they were going to be killed. Some
thought that
they would now be soon with the Lord. Life continued however as usual
and as
far as I know nobody has seen this comet. The message of NASA was
right: We did
not need to fear for a disaster through this comet because it was going
to
bypass the earth at 35 million kilometres.
I find it very
saddening that some believers
pay more attention to messages that are not sufficiently checked by
trustworthy and recognised scientists.
It is also saddening that some believers pay more attention to messages
that
come from he freemasons, the Illuminati and other mysterious and occult
movements. The future of this world and of apocalyptic disasters as are
prophesied
in the book of Revelation are not in the power of world and occult or sectarian leaders, but in control of Jesus
Christ, sitting on the throne above this universe in heaven.
I wrote
earlier already an evangelical reaction to the ’prophecy’ of Harold
Camping
that Jesus would return on the 21st May of this year (2011).
This
reaction you find also on this site. This
new
‘prophecy’ of him that it
would happen on the 21st of October 2011 has not been fulfilled. Now we
read
that the same very saddening things happened as was the case after the
false
prophecies of William Miller in the 19th century. He
prophesied
three times a certain date for the return of Jesus. People had sold
their home,
business and gave their money away. When Jesus did not return they were
ruined
and some committed suicide. Wiliam Miller confessed afterwards that he
had
erred and that nobody can predict the return of Christ, for only the
Father in
heaven knows the time that Jesus is going to return, Matthew 24:36;
(Acts 1:7).
Let me say
in closing that we need to be very careful with putting dates on
disasters,
that we read about in the book of Revelation. One reason is this that
many
descriptions in that book are obviously written in a figurative way and
need to
be very carefully compared with the apocalyptic visions in the Old
Testament
and then interpreted.
Postscript