[rwfromkansas]

Dec. 2012 is coming. I have had a morbid fascination with that date since several ancient societies predict something big to happen then, exactly what is a bit unclear.

But, as for predictions like this, I don’t take them seriously.

Every month somebody online is detailing some vision of a major disaster.

It never actually happens.

Wilkerson, you just had a bad dream. It’s not a prophecy. I guarantee it.

[Obadiah]

Dec. 2012 is coming. I have had a morbid fascination with that date since several ancient societies predict something big to happen then, exactly what is a bit unclear.

Yeah, me too. See my tag line.

[Huck]

Dec. 2012 is coming. I have had a morbid fascination with that date since several ancient societies predict something big to happen then

Using what calendar?

[Defiant]

Dec. 2012 is coming. I have had a morbid fascination with that date since several ancient societies predict something big to happen then, exactly what is a bit unclear.

What will happen is that the Mayan calendar will roll over to the next long cycle. We have plenty of real calamities to worry about, natural and man-made, but an artificial date on a calendar is not one of them. It will make an excellent excuse for a party, though, just as the artificial date of January 1, 2000 made a great excuse. It is 2000 years AD, plus or minus 5 years, and the exact day of the year is unknown. So why December 31 would have any significance, except to note the passage of a period of time since the last year, decade, century, is unclear.

[ChocChipCookie]

I'm not so sure this can be so easily dismissed. In 1975, Wilkerson wrote a book called The Vision. I remember reading it a couple of times as a teenager. Right now on Amazon it's selling for around $60 and more. I read a couple of reviews of the book, and this one astonished me:

Kooky or Not?, August 28, 1999 By A Customer

I am a big critic of modern day prophets and doomsayers. I found this book lying around my mom's house (world's biggest sucker for so-called prophets)began to read this 1970's book. Mr. Wilkerson apparently was based on a vision from God to him about the future of America. By reading the book you could tell Wilkerson believed his vision would come true no later than the seventies. Here it is 1999 and the US is still here as prosperous as ever, however, some of Wilkerson's predictions are eerily becoming true.

Here are the ones that caught my attention.

1. Pornography will become available inside households through means of technology.

2. Children will become filled with anger and begin doing highly publicized acts of violence and all of the country would be trying to figure out why.

3. Natural diasters will greatly increase in the United States.

Those were the predictions that I thought were frightenly accurate. The vision is filled with many other predictions which have not happened (I suppose Wilkerson would say at least not yet.) He talks about our economic collapse, fires across the country, some 1984ish type of government emerging. So although I would not spend more than a few bucks on this 1970's book, I would recommend you check it out to see what you make of this guy's predictions which seem to becoming true.

Those three prophecies I bolded have come true just recently. I wish I still had the book so I could go back and read it all for myself. Back in 1975 the world was such a different place that there's no way Wilkerson could have just invented it all. Time will tell if his latest prophecy comes true.