Just another day

All the hype about today being 6/6/06 is nothing but hype. The Holy Bible does mention "666" as the number of the beast ("the Anti-Christ"), but it's not tied to a time but rather the man's name. The number will also be tied to commerce.

"So that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name."

– Revelation 13:17 (New International Version)

Further, the Bible does not say when the end of the world will begin, the Anti-Christ will rise, Jesus will return to Earth for 1,000 years of rule and then the curtain closes on terrestrial mankind.

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come."

– Mark 13:31-33

This quote from Jesus was also witnessed by Matthew (see Matthew 24:35-37). It's not meant as a warning that the end is near, but rather to do the duties to which we were created by God to do. Now. Don't wait!

Let's say you don't believe in Jesus, or that the Bible is truth (which is silly, because if you think something hideous will happen today, you have to believe that there's some outside universal force controlling things. Um, which there is. This isn't a political thing (or shouldn't be), people, it's life).

Think about the calendar. It's an arbitrary, manmade tool to keep track of time. It has been adjusted (Leap Years), tweaked through the ages and isn't perfect (we even mess with the hours with Daylight Savings Time). So we are the only beings who know it's 6/6/06. The squirrels don't know, and they don't care. Same goes for the supersititions that crop up on Halloween and Friday the 13th. Just like The Da Vinci Code, it's pure fiction to distract us from our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Anything that does that is not of God, but of the devil (spooky echo sound effects when you read "devil").

Throughout time, religions, would-be prophets, naysayers, world leaders and hyperactive hermits have predicted that the end of the world will happen on a specific date. Guess what? They've all been wrong, and will continue to be.

So, have a nice day today. You have the option to make it count for something, but that something can be for the good.