Christmas and the end of the world

It has been a while since I first decided to write about this idea that has been going around in my head. But, as a Bible student aware of end time prophecies in both the Old and New testaments, I can’t but say how I see the link between the days that we live in and the end of this age. Therefore, it is a time to speak my words load.

From the political scene, to the natural, cultural and ethical situation of the world, I see the signs of the imminent end of this world. Not that I believe the Mayan Calendar is correct and the world will end in three weeks time, because somehow I know it won’t. But it is a sense that I see in the news that I read every day. The least I can say is that the world cannot continue the way it is. And the direction of world events is down into darkness. So either Nuclear Dark Ages are ahead, or God will get fed up with the Awfulness of man and will interfere to save a remnant of people who still cherish ethics, and value human life. And with my knowledge of the Bible, I say the second one is at Hand.

I see a western world that has forsaken God to the level that its Atheists are forbidding the use of the word “Christ-mas” in public (because of its religious Indication), while their countries fall in economic disasters, with greed, hate, drugs and crime ruling the scene. They banned the teaching of the Bible (the word of Love) at their schools, while guns and drugs took over and murders “unheard of before” are now common in school campuses.

In the same west, some minorities rule moral majorities, and even if you believe that a certain minority is causing damage to society and triggering hate within it to destroy it, such as fundamentalist Muslims in England and Austria, you are accused of intolerance and discrimination, though the tools you are using are only awareness-related peaceful tools to sound the alarm.

At the same time, I see the Middle East, where the same western systems are supporting fundamentalism that kills minorities and terminates whole societies. These Arab systems that attack religious freedom and the right of conversion to another religion, spread hate against others and consider them “monkeys and pigs”. It is these people who brag by killing others in front of TV cameras and consider themselves servants of God, (and which God is this who calls people to kill?).

The Bible mentions that just before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, He says “The Outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin is grievous” (Genesis 18: 20 TNIV), then the destruction came. And I believe with the Cry of the widows and orphans of the people being killed in the name of Allah, and the lives wasted into destruction because of the carelessness of the west will definitely be heard by the true God, YHWH, and then destruction of this world will come, to be replaced by a New Earth and New Heaven where the Righteous One, Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, who called people only to love, and not to hold the Sword, will rule over the earth. Then and only then, “Wolves and lambs will graze together, Lions and Oxen will feed on straw, snakes will eat only dirt! They won’t bite or harm anyone on my holy mountain. I, the LORD, have spoken!”(Prophet Isaiah 66: 25).

I end up this by crying with the early Christians: “Maran Atha” (Come Lord Jesus), cause I believe soon this cry will be heard, and the one who came as a Child in Bethlehem of Judea 2000 years ago to save, will come riding on a white horse to destroy those who destroyed Humanity in the coming battle of Armageddon, cause “the LORD has spoken”.