{"id":1375,"date":"2012-12-19T11:49:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T16:56:02","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"Is This the End of the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D1375&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>Some believe that Friday, December 21, 2012 will mark the end of the world.\u00a0\u00a0These predictions are based on the fact that the ancient Mayans, whose civilization spanned across southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize from 1000 B.C. to 1519 A.D., carved into their calendar the day the world would end\u2014Dec. 21, 2012.\u00a0 In truth it turns out that this is merely the time when the Mayan calendar ends!\u00a0 Hey what!\u00a0 My own calendar comes to an end on Dec 31, 2012, but that is not any indication that the world will end on that date.\u00a0 It simply means that I need a new calendar!\u00a0 Of course going out to buy a new calendar is a lot less exciting than anticipating the END OF THE WORLD.\u00a0\u00a0 Others base their predictions of the end of the world upon &#8220;Biblical Prophecy.&#8221;\u00a0 One thing all of these predictions have in common:\u00a0 there is no truth in them!\u00a0 <a title=\"End of the World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/endoftheworld.htm\">Check out how some Christian prophecy &#8220;experts&#8221; have tried to one up the Mayans.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D1375&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some believe that Friday, December 21, 2012 will mark the end of the world.\u00a0\u00a0These predictions are based on the fact that the ancient Mayans,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,115,311,170],"tags":[411,189,439],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-christianity-communities","category-end-times","category-prophecy","tag-bible","tag-end-of-the-world","tag-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is This the End of the World? 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