Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Is God speaking through a donkey (or donkeys) again?

Bill Nye, the (un) Science Guy, recently warned his now adult viewers, in graphic detail, about the Earth's impending doom because of global warming by lighting a globe on fire.  Someone should let Bill know that the term 'global warming' is passe and is not in line with the in crowd.  For goodness's sake, even the term that replaced it, 'climate change' isn't 'woke' enough for the dooms-dayers today, it's now 'climate crisis' don't you know!

https://youtu.be/IFgBFYkBZ6E

But maybe that's the point.  What does the Bible tell us?

2 Peter 3:10

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.[a]

Is God speaking to us through this donkey?  And is he because the time is short?

Why would I think the time is short?  Well, because the Bible says so at the beginning of Revelation, and, well, let's look to another more modern, hip, woke donkey; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

"The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change." - AOC

Some have mocked her, some have taken this as deadly serious, although she herself has wavered back and forth since the original comment.  If we are to believe that God is speaking through a donkey yet again, what is significant about 2031?

Doomsday predictions have been around since the fall of the second Temple in 70 A.D. and even some of the Pauline Epistles reference those who believe they had already missed it.

But as we are now more than 2,000 years from The Messiah's first coming, more and more  believe that we are truly in the last days of the end times.  The vague warnings He gave to us in the Gospels seem to be happening with more frequency (ie. the birth pangs getting closer and closer together) and so even those who have only a cliff notes understanding of Scripture are taking note.

I foundly remember the Y2K scare and although that was about computers, there were many who thought it would be the year of the Messiah's return.  But if they were looking for his return to be 2,000 years after his birth, they were looking two years too late!  Most scholars peg his birth to 2 B.C. which means he would've returned in 1998.

Now if we're talking about 2,000 years after his ascension into heaven (which to me sounds more plausible), that would put his return in.... 🤔😲 2031!

Is Yahweh speaking to us through a donkey yet again?

More to come...