I'll see your verses and toss a couple back your way:
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. Matthew 24:14
And the gospel must first be published among all nations. Mark 13:10
I remarked on these verses in the remembrance service for 911 after the announcers made the comment that the service was being televised "to every nation of the world." Billy Graham outlined the Gospel that night.
Exactly, these have already been fulfilled for the most part.
I think what we will be sssing is subtle things happening in the next few years and then the *End* of this system of things on earth not the destruction of our planet.
I often wonder if *Scripture along with Science and ancient prophecy* is somehow all colliding together...
2012.. FROM THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
2012: Super Sunspot Cycle Peak!
Increasing sunspot activity was clearly visible as our star approached its latest maximum, in 1999.
The next 11-year sunspot cycle will be late but strong according to a new computer prediction. The model used was virtually spot on when applied retrospectively to "forecast" the last eight solar cycles.
"We predict the next cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the last cycle," says the model's creator, Mausumi Dikpati, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, US.
The Sun is currently near its minimum activity, at the tail end of a solar cycle, numbered 23. "Onset of the next cycle will be delayed by six to 12 months, to late 2007 or early 2008," Dikpati says. She expects the next peak to hit in 2012.
The Ancient Mayan Prediction regarding year 2012:
When it came to mathematics, time and calendars, the Maya were geniuses. Believing that time repeated itself in cycles, they devised two calendars, one ritualistic, which was used for religious celebrations and astrological predictions, and the other a solar calendar
End of the Mayan Great Cycle: December 21st, 2012 A.D.
Matthew 24: 25
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.