Calendars & Apocalypses

Confused or anxious about the steady drumbeat of end-of-the-world proclamations? Lately, we’ve been told that due to calendar changes, 2020 is really 2012 -- and we were told the world would end on June 21 of 2020. That prediction does not appear to have been accurate -- but now another batch of predictions has popped up regarding December 21 of this year. This video explains that ancient apocalyptic texts -- including the Revelation of John included in the New Testament, as well as the description of Ragnarok found in the Elder Edda of Norse myth -- have their foundation in celestial metaphor. Indeed, the ancient myths from virtually every culture on earth can be shown to be based on celestial metaphor, including the figures and episodes described in the Bible. The Maya Calendar of 2012 fame almost certainly fits into the same world-wide pattern. A new twist this year is researchers who declare that, due to the switch from the Julian calendar system to the Gregorian calendar system, 2020 is actually 2012. Th