Photography: The end of the world by gadl
I wouldn’t normally choose to write about this, but I met an interesting person last Sunday. This person was just like any other half sane stranger you might meet in the greater Los Angeles area. Except he had a greater knowledge than most of Bible passages, specifically prophecies and symbolism for the end of the world. He told me that the world would end on August 2, 2008 and within 6 days from then, not a soul would be alive on the planet. If that wasn’t an odd enough claim, the thing that really made him stick out was that he said he was the “Son of Man” and that God would soon come and inhabit his body and begin to rule the world (or something like that) from him. Basically, that he was or would soon be God.
I’ve read that it is not uncommon for someone with mental problems to believe they are God, but this is the first time someone has tried to tell me that (and he did seem to sincerely believe everything he was telling me). They say it has to do with the ego. It goes something like “each individual is the biggest thing in their own world.” So since we are all the biggest thing in our own little world, when some things backfire in the mental area, one may conclude he (or she) is God somehow in someway. It sounds like a reasonable theory to me.
As far as the end of the world is concerned, I believe it’s near, but as close as August 2, 2008? Well, actually it is possible that it could be sooner than that. Jesus said…
Matthew 24:36
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
And with things like the Burma massacre and worse going on in the world today, it sure seems like the end of the world. If I was in Burma about to be massacred, I know I would be feeling like it was the end of the world.
