Next Week Will Be 12-12-12

Next Week Will Be 12-12-12

In the calendar month of December 2012 a phenomena will occur that will not be repeated for nearly one thousand years. For the past twelve years the monthly calendar has reflected consecutive dating with year, month and day. On January 1, 2001 the date read 01-01-01 and with each year moved through the calendar until next week when the final count of the twelfth day of the twelfth month in the twelfth year of the second millennia will complete the cycle. For the pundits of trivia this will have an exciting air of conclusion as the mathematical formulas of the universe display its sage. As for most folk this will only be a side note of disinterest. But there is something amazing about the thumbprints of the Creator we find in this unimpressive fact.

There is order in the universe created by the “finger of God” (Luke 11:20). In Genesis 1 Moses describes the hand of God bringing into creation every part of our universe. There is order in the days building upon one another with light being created before plants (who could not survive if created before light) and so forth. The whole of creation cries forth in simple design and reflects the majestic wisdom of the Master Creator. King David declared, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well” (Psalms 139:14). Man has yet to unravel the mystery of the human body, the oceans filled with abundant life, the heavens shining forth the radiant power of God’s design. “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him” (Psalms 8:3-4)?

NASA has proven there is a Creator every time they send a rocket into space. The order of the universe allows them to calculate with precise measurements the speed of space craft and direction sending many probes into the depths of worlds beyond. Medical advancements establish the organized makeup of the human body that allows man to perform incredible surgeries and save thousands of lives. Technology is based upon the simple mathematical structure of a world that is not designed by chance or random events but an orderly arrangement of mathematical calculation. 12-12-12 is a time stamp from the hand of God that tells us He is real.

The most important thumbprint of next week will be the reality of time. This will be the final day in the second millennia that reflects the unique pattern of year, month and day. Will there be another 01-01-01? The year 3001 seems impossible but the year 2001 would have been as improbable to those living in years past. There is no promise of tomorrow and not even a promise that 12-12-12 will happen. “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit’; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away” (James 4:13-14).

No one living today will see 3001 but everyone living today will see the Lord. The twelfth day of the twelfth month in the twelfth year of any millennia is only important as much as the lesson is taught that life is not about today but about the unending millennia that all men will find themselves (John 5:28-29; Matthew 25:31-46).