End Of The World in 2012?

by Fred Hoehn,  www.fredhoehnblog.wordpress.com

It's been on the news lately about people counting down to "the end of the world." 

Those people are wasting their time.  The world won't end during our lifetimes.  If you're alive now, you won't be alive when the world ends. 

"How do you know, Fred?"  I know because I'm a student of the Bible.   

Before the end of the world, there'll be seven years of Great Tribulation.  And the Great Tribulation hasn't started yet, a period of time when the earth is ruled by "The Beast" spoken of in the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament part of the Holy Bible, and also spoken of in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, which is the last twenty seven of the sixty six books of the Holy Bible.  

The Beast is also called the Antichrist.  

That person has not yet become very significant on the world scene, although he may be alive at this time, but has not yet come into the office of world ruler.  There is no person yet who is ruler of the world.

After the Great Tribulation, the Lord Jesus Christ will rule the world for a thousand years (The Millenium).

So then, the earliest that the world can end is one thousand seven years from now, and that's if the Great Tribulation starts immediately, which seems rather unlikely.