by Ricky Kurth
Depending on when your monthly
Searchlight arrives, the Mayan calendar deadline for the end of the world has
either come and gone, or else it is looming in the imminent future. All the hoopla that surrounded this gloomy
prediction got me to wondering if there might not be some way that Christians
could capitalize on yet another failed non-Biblical prophetic expectation. After all, last year when the Rapture failed
to take place on the date designated by a popular radio Bible teacher, God’s
people were able to take advantage of this by pointing out that, when it comes
to the Second Coming of Christ, the Bible says that “of that day and hour
knoweth no man” (Matt. 24:36). Those
that knew the difference between the Rapture and the Second Coming were also
able to point out that the date of the former is just as unsearchable in
Scripture as that of the latter. Surely
there has to be a way to similarly benefit from the failure of the Mayan
calendar disaster as well.
I wonder if what we are looking for might
be found in Isaiah 41:21-24. There, God
Almighty thunders forth a challenge to all the false gods of the nations,
daring them to “produce your cause,” that is, to produce “strong reasons” why
anyone should believe they are God. If
you are wondering what kind of reasons He had in mind, the Lord went on to say,
“let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen…
“Shew the things that are to come
hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods….”
This challenge went unanswered in
Isaiah’s day, of course, for only the God of the Bible knows the future,
something He has proved over and over again in Scripture, and something that
the failed predictions of others serve to magnify.
With all this in mind, why not put
together a short mental list of fulfilled Bible prophecies, and mark Isaiah 41
in your Bible? That way when the
subject of the Mayan calendar comes up the day after the December 21st deadline
(as you know it will!), you can capitalize on the biggest non-story of the year
by reminding people that the challenge of Isaiah 41 has still gone unanswered,
and that the God of the Bible is still the only God worthy of worship. Let’s determine to be ready to offer “a word
in season” (Isa. 50:4) to all who are disillusioned by the gods of the nations,
and are in desperate need of the God who sent His Son to die for their sins.
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