The end of the world?

Hello all,

Here’s more from my interview with the Rev. M

ark Hitchcock, author of the new book “2012: The Bible and the End of the World.”

Hitchcock is pastor of Faith Bible Church in Edmond. The majority of my interview with him is featured in today’s LIFE section of The Oklahoman. His book gives a biblical perspective about a Mayan prophecy that says the end of the world will occur on Dec. 21, 2012. The subject is so compelling and there was just too much to get in print, that we thought we would offer the rest of the interview in this venue:

Q: Should we be looking for signs? Should believers be looking for signs of the end of the world?

Mark Hitchcock: “I think it’s OK. Remember in Matthew 24, the disciples asked Jesus what is going to be the sign of your coming at the end of the age and Jesus didn’t say don’t worry about that. He gave them signs, so I think we should be looking for things. What I think we should be looking for are things like the regathering of the nation of Israel and the world focus on the Middle East. The whole world is focused on the Middle East. That’s going to be the staging grounds for the events of the End Times. Also globalism. The Bible predicts a one-world economy and a one-world government in the end. Well, we see a move in that direction.

So what I would say is that we can look around in our world and see the stage being set. None of us know when the stage setting is finished, so we don’t know when the Lord’s going to come. But we can see the things that are setting the stage for the events of the End Times that do lead us to believe, I think rightly, that the Lord’s coming could be near.

Jesus, when they asked him about signs, He gave them some. One of the main signs He gave in Matthew 24: 4, he said see to it that noone misleads you or deceives you and I think this 2012 stuff is deception. It’s part of the deception that He said would come.

Really, the whole 2012 phenomona is the New Age eschatology and I like to call it the Mayan Y2K.

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