MAYAN APOCALYPSE COUNTDOWN BEGINS

12/21/11 BEGINS THE FINAL YEAR OF THE LONG FORECASTED END OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR, WHICH MANY SAY BRINGS WITH IT THE END OF THE WORLD

For more than a decade now we have been treated to both theory and fact concerning the end time prophecy dealing with the supposed ending of the Mayan calendar. Soon all the hype will come to an abrupt end and the long awaited Mayan calendar mystery will be realized. In the meantime, the Mayan region is gearing up to take full advantage of this event.

An expected increase in tourism will bring curious people from all over the world to visit their ancient land. Mayan regional tourism, which usually sees around 22 million visitors, expects to see upwards of 52 million visitors this year, most of who are wondering if the world could possibly end in 2012.

Many celebrations and events are being planned much as we saw during the year 1999 and you can be sure local Mayan priests will be in high demand to perform religious ceremonies, burn incense and offer prayers to their gods. However, Yeanet Zaldo, a tourism spokeswoman for the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, home to Cancun tells us “The world will not end. It is an era,” “For us, it is a message of hope.”

In case you are wondering, she is right, there is absolutely no chance that the world will end on December 21, 2012. The Bible is very clear that we will experience 3 ½ years of tribulation such as has never been seen upon the earth, culminating with the ascension of the two witnesses into heaven just before Jesus returns.

While we have had numerous tribulational events recently, they have not all been grouped into the tight 3 ½ year time frame that we are told they will happen in. The Bible also teaches us that the end will come in a fashion similar to that of a woman during pregnancy, as the day of delivery approaches her pain will increase more and more until the birth takes place.

We are told in 1st Thessalonians 5: 3 “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” Just as the woman is not able to escape her birth neither will those of us in the world be able to escape ours.

So, while we can clearly show that this day isn’t the end it may very well become the beginning of the end. Since there is a good chance the elite of the world would attempt to use this particular date to make a push that would indeed hurl the world into the tribulation, we have but one year more to wait.

Thomas Jefferson

I have decided to begin a series on the founding fathers of America, to see what they actually believed and to determine whether or not America was truly founded on the word of God.

My first subject of research is Thomas Jefferson, our third President. What did he actually believe about the word of God? Well, take a few minutes and read the quotes taken from his letters.

After reading the quotes, take a look at what Thomas Jefferson decided to do to the word of God.

Without further ado, let's allow Thomas to speak for himself. The following are several quotes from his letters.

“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.” —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus." —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 July, 1816

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it [the Apocalypse], and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Alexander Smyth, Jan. 17, 1825

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

Below are pictures of Thomas Jefferson's source Bibles that he used to cut and paste from. Also pictured is the book he pasted his chosen verses into.

Notice the care he took in carving up the Bible, it really speaks volumes for how he felt about the Bible.

As you can see, he didn't really write his own Bible as some believe, rather he "cut and pasted" (literally) his own Bible, carving up the word of God like a steak.

Yes, it is a hard fact, from the very foundation of our country we have been led by people who maintained an image of Christianity only because the majority of the people believed the Bible.

Many of our leaders held no such beliefs and today they would be proud to see the decline in Christianity. It was all a facade propped up to the degree necessary to fool the population at large, who ultimately show themselves to be sheep.

Rather than rolling over in their graves they would stand and cheer, yes friends we have been duped into believing that America was founded on Christian principles when it clearly was not. It was only the God fearing population that held our leaders to even pretend that they were Christian.

Now that that hold is weakening, they are free to be as Godless as they please, as they have been all along. Stay tuned for more research soon!