პროგნოზები 2012 წლისთვის, ნაწყვეტი სტატიიდან '2011 და შემდეგ" ჟურნალი The Real Truth, Restored Church of God
Given 2011’s events, many agree the world is in for a rocky ride. Unending commentaries describe what could happen in 2012.
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If 2011 was the year when governments were overthrown in the streets, 2012 could be the year when politics plays out at the ballot box,” Foreign Policy reported. “A third of the world’s nations will be holding local, state, or national elections…” Votes will occur in a number of Arab Spring countries, as well as the U.S., China, Russia, France and Mexico, among others.Consider a few more forecasts from Reuters:
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With elections and leadership changes in the most powerful countries, Europe in crisis, ferment in the Middle East and worsening economic hardship driving unrest and discontent everywhere, 2012 could be just as volatile as 2011 if not worse.”
The media outlet further stated: “At worst, 2012 could still see a disorderly breakup bringing with it a chain of defaults, bank runs and civil unrest, not to mention a savage global economic shock worse than that of 2008.”
One of the biggest concerns for 2012 is a rise in food prices. La Nina, the weather condition blamed for crippling drought in the Western hemisphere, is expected to persist until mid-year. Moreover, natural disasters have jumped since 1970, something that could also impact this year’s harvest.
“There were 820 natural catastrophes in 2011, about average for the past 10 years but significantly higher than the 30-year average of 630 events per year,” a separate Reuters article reported.
According to reinsurance giant Munich Re, natural disasters caused more than a third of a trillion dollars in damage.
“A sequence of devastating earthquakes and a large number of weather-related catastrophes made 2011 the costliest year ever in terms of natural catastrophe losses,” the firm stated in a release.
As of January 2012, floods in Brazil have severely affected 116 cities, an unprecedented out-of-season tornado occurred in North Carolina, and 2.6 million Mexicans remain without drinking water due to extreme drought.
Searching for Answers
Everyone wants to know the future. There is no end of fortune tellers, tarot-card readers, and numerologists who claim to know what will occur this year.
Others searching for answers rely on self-professed religionists claiming the world will end. Even though these so-called prophets cannot prove their theories, they generate fear with terms such as “Armageddon,” “end of the world,” and “end of days.”
This is a crucial part of the “2012 phenomenon.” Because most see world events becoming increasingly dire, some wrongly assume theories regarding that particular date explain the why behind what they see in daily headlines.
The disciples that lived during Jesus Christ’s time were equally curious about what they called the “end of the age.” The book of Matthew records, “And as He [Christ] sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world [age]?” (24:3).
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences [disease], and earthquakes, in diverse places” (vs. 4-7).
Christ made clear that there would be an “end of the world”—properly translated “age”—yet He said it would not involve Earth’s complete destruction.
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