A friend Raphael Ogar Oko post this and i thought it worth sharing on nl..

Some centuries ago, if you ask the people when will the new year come? They will respond by saying that 'no one knows, except God' but they can give some hints of the changes in season to confirm a new year.

With a careful observation, those with open and eyes realized that the seasons followed a certain consistent pattern, which led to the realization that the earth was engaged in consistent rev...olution.

The calendar came as a human expression of the invisible natural revolution and rotation of the earth. From this discovery, human beings today can predict exactly when the new year will come and when the old year will end. Through the innovative work of the calendar, everyone is able to know precisely when the new year 2014 will come and when year 2013 will end.

In the same way, the clock is an expression of the daily rotation of the earth and everyone knows through the clock when today will end and when the new day of tomorrow will come. This is how the calendar and clock has provided answers to the invisible and unknown past issues of the coming of the new year and new day.

Through the Gregorian calendar, a significant population of the world has realized that the year 2013 began yesterday as 2012 ended. This is a special benefit of our age that most people who lived about 2000 years ago did not get easily.

For the past 2000 years, there have been a consistent message of a new world is coming and this old world shall pass away. Jesus spoke about and some great thinkers speculated same idea. When asked about the age and time of the coming of the new world, Jesus said 'no one knows the date or hour except God'.

The invisible coming of the new world has remained unknown to men and women and until this day, the sermon of no one knows remains with us. Shall we remain with the same old thinking despite the benefits of our age?

From my reflection on the coming of year 2013 which brought 2012 to an end and the manner in which the people of world welcomed the new year, I have been wondering if the coming of the new world will be in same manner.

On December 31, people around the world gathered in several places with high positive expectations and were looking forward to welcome the new year. As it has turned out now, there were no calamities to end the old year for the new year to come. It was a smooth transition from the old year 2012 to the new year 2013.

I therefore do not see why the expectations for the coming of a new world will be characterized by destruction, calamities and suffering of human beings by a 'loving God'. The new world will be a similar smooth transition from the present world and all people shall celebrate and welcome the new world transcending their religions, regions and resources. The new year celebration was open to all and each celebrated as much as he can.

Even though it is believed that no one knows, God will surely inspire some to examine the pattern of past old world becoming new world and guide the people of this generation to understand the exact moment of transition. Surely, the Lord God does nothing without first revealing to his servants the prophets on earth (Amos 3.7).

In this age God will reveal to his children, the citizens

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