Archive for May, 2011
The basic unit of the Mayan Long Count calendar was the Tun. The Tun consisted of a cycle of 360 days. As we have seen from the previous instalment, at the time that the Maya set up their Long Count calendar, this actually was the exact number of days it took for the earth to travel […]
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The basic unit of the “Long Count” calendar of the Maya was the Tun, which consisted of a cycle of 360 days. Following on from this were increasing multiples of Tuns such as the K’atun (7,200 days), then the B’aktun (144,000 days), the Piktun, the Kalabtun and so on. However, modern scientists calculate time by the solar year, which is […]
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The “Long Count” calendar of the Maya was constructed according to an escalating number of chronological units. So, for example, a single day was referred to as one K’in, and 20 days as one Winal. Carrying on from there, 360 days made up one Tun, 7,200 days one K’atun, and 144,000 days one B’aktun. But […]
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According to many, the year 2012 will see the fulfillment of a concatenation of events, some of them good while others are undoubtedly bad. The worst of these is the prediction that the world as we know it will end on the date of the mid-winter solstice, on December 21, 2012. However, despite these dire predictions, the reality is that the […]
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When the disciples of Jesus came to him privately, asking when the sign of his return and of the end of the world would be, he responded by warning them not to be deceived. He said that when the time of the end came, many would be misled by people claiming to know the truth, but who would in […]
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By now there can be few people interested in Bible prophecy who have not heard of Harold Camping. Camping, an 89-year-old retired civil engineer living in California who had built a multi-million-dollar non-profit ministry known as Family Radio, had issued an Apocalyptic warning that God’s Day of Judgement would begin on May 21, 2011, starting with a worldwide […]
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As we have seen from previous instalments, many people (of whom Harold Camping is the latest) have gone on record to announce the precise date of the Day of Judgement as well as the event known as the “Rapture”. And as everyone who is a student of prophecy is now aware, Harold Camping has been proven […]
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As explained in the last instalment, Nostradamus published seven quatrains that contained actual dates, allowing subsequent researchers to verify his original prophecies. These quatrains are quoted below. Translations from the original French, together with the accompanying commentaries, are taken from the book The Prophecies of Nostradamus by Erika Cheetham. Century 1 verse 49 – “Long […]
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As we have seen in the previous instalment, Harold Camping’s prediction that God’s Day of Judgement would happen on May 21, 2011 has proven to be incorrect. Not only did the catastophic earthquakes that he predicted would devastate the world not occur, but Jesus also failed to claim the souls of the righteous in the event widely known as the “Rapture”. […]
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By now there can be few people interested in Bible prophecy who have not heard of Harold Camping. Camping, an 89-year-old retired civil engineer living in California who had built a multi-million-dollar non-profit ministry known as Family Radio, had issued an Apocalyptic warning that God’s Day of Judgement would begin on May 21, 2011, starting with a worldwide […]
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