apocalypse now??

I think one of the greatest nagging fears of every Christian has to be the end of the world. Ever since Jesus left the earth, Christians have been trying to rush him back with a passionate fervor. I’m currently looking at a webpage called “220 Dates for The End of the World.” From what I’m seeing, people have been hailing in the end times from 44 A.D. all the way to the current 2010 A.D…and every time we predicted it, we’ve been wrong. I believe the biblical scripture, “no man shall know the day nor the hour that the son of man shall come…” just as much as any Christian, but I will bet my left front tooth that that day is NOT December 21, 2012. Sure, a common thread of many Christians is that we’ve all dreaded the day of the rapture since our childhoods. Not because we didn’t believe we’d be taken, but because, in that moment, we lose our humanity. We become totally spiritually oriented from that point forward. Earthly interests disintegrate. We all succumb to the larger context that surrounds us. The impending battle of Armageddon. I feel like fearing that moment is the most human emotion there is. Even more human than love, because in that moment, the moment of the rapture, as selfish as it sounds, the universe according to us ceases to revolve around us. It is the most solemn moment that will ever be for humanity. It’s when everything becomes real. Living in a real-life horror movie. Facing the unveiled namesakes of our nightmares and watching the entire universe succumb to a script recited so many times in thoughts, so many nights in dreams, so many ways in emotions. I think almost every Christian today can sit and reel through the caverns of his or her mind and fall back into remembrance of that dream. The dream that we’ve all secretly had. The one that constantly haunts our subconscious mind and makes us wonder every morning if ‘today is the day.’ I would venture to say that that same dream has been floating through the minds of believers since 44 A.D. It’s the force that causes us all to believe that we are living in the end times. I believe that one of the causes of our obsession is the fact that we actually desire the arrival of this cataclysm. We secretly enjoy the adrenaline rush of this epic disaster scene. Add that to the belief of most that Christians will be spared from enduring these sorrows and it all becomes clear. We get to lay safely on celestial cloud smack dab in the middle of the greatest atrocities mankind has ever seen and we don’t have to suffer at all?? Who wouldn’t want to speed the storyline? It’s basically like going to the gladiatorial arena. We aren’t gonna be chased by lions. No one’s out to get us. We get to sit in the stands. Of course we’re excited to go! But as for me…somehow, someway, I just don’t think it all will be that easy. There’s gonna be a catch. There always is…

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