Here is and article I found on the Mayan Calendar. I had heard they believe the current world ends in 2012, but I didn’t know why until I read this. What they describe could very well be what is described in Revelation when Christ returns. There are some who say it ends on the 21st, some say the 23rd. At any rate, if you subtract the 2520 days of tribulation, that gives a date in Jan of 2006. Most believe the tribulation starts with the signing of the peace treaty, so that gives plenty of time for events to unfold whether it is a spring or fall rapture. If you add another half a year as some think the trib will be 7 and a half years, then it brings us to late august, early sept as start of trib, still plenty of time for a treaty from early may. Are there any significant dates on the Jewish calendar that might coincide with on of these. I don’t necessarily believe the Mayans are prophetic, but they were able to predict an alignment of the milky way with the winter solstice a few thousand years ago
End of the Mayan Great Cycle: December 21st, 2012 A.D.
Scholars today are recognizing that Mayan mythology is intimately related to the celestial movements of stars, the Milky Way and certain constellations. The sources of Mayan mythology are found in the sky, and the timetable of Creation Day is pinpointed by the end date of the Mayan Great Cycle. My research into the nature of this date reveals that a rare celestial alignment culminates on it. Generally speaking, what occurs is an alignment between the galactic and solar planes. Specifically, the winter solstice sun will conjunct the Milky Way, which is the edge of our spinning galaxy as viewed from earth. Furthermore, the place where the sun meets the Milky Way is where the "dark-rift" in the Milky Way is - a black ridge along the Milky Way caused by interstellar dust clouds (See Diagram 1).
Diagram 1:
The sky on December
21st, 2012 A.D.
showing a rare
astronomical alignment -
the winter solstice
sun is right in the
"dark rift"
in the Milky Way.
This is a feature of the Milky Way anyone can see on a clear midsummer's night, away from the light pollution of industrial society. At dawn on the winter solstice of A.D. 2012, the sun will be right in this dark-rift, and the orientation is such that the Milky Way rims the horizon at all points around. Thus, the Milky Way "sits" on the earth, touching it at all points around, opening up the cosmic sky portal. The galactic and solar planes are thus aligned. "Sky portal" is just a term to describe the "opened sky" scenario apparent when the Milky Way rims the horizon. This is not to be confused with the "dark-rift" itself.
In Mayan myth, the winter solstice sun corresponds to the deity One Hunahpu, also known as First Father. The Mayan Sacred Book, the Popol Vuh, is all about setting the stage so that the Hero Twins' father (One Hunahpu) can be reborn, thus beginning a new World Age. The dark rift has many mythic identities: it is the Black Road; it is the xibalba be (the Road to the Underworld); it is a crevice in the branches of the cosmic tree (the Milky Way); it is the mouth of the Cosmic Monster (often portrayed as a frog, jaguar or snake with tree-like features); it is the birth canal of the Cosmic Mother.
Overall, the dark-rift is best understood as the birth canal of the Cosmic Mother, who we may call First Mother, to complement First Father. In this way we can trace how these various metaphors are found in Mayan Creation Mythology. And the date of this alignment is, again, the end date of the 13-baktun Great Cycle - a cycle of approximately 5125 years. This all suggests that the ancient Maya were aware of the impending alignment and considered it to be of such importance to be a major transition point, the Creation of a new World Age. In mythological terms, this event is about the union of First Father with First Mother or, more accurately, the birth of First Father (the winter solstice sun - the new World Age ruler) from First Mother (the dark-rift in the Milky Way). The headline appropriate for the upcoming event is: "Cosmic Mother Gives Birth to The First God."
World Ages: The Future, Millennial or Mayan?
The slow process by which the winter solstice sun comes to conjoin the dark-rift in the Milky Way is a function of a phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes. This involves the slow wobbling of the earth's axis, which causes the stellar frame to slowly shift. To observers on earth, it causes the position of the winter solstice sun to slowly move in relation to celestial background features such as the Milky Way. A full cycle is completed in roughly 26,000 years. Approximately 2100 years ago, when both the Long Count calendar and the Popol Vuh were devised by the early Maya, the dark-rift in the Milky Way could be observed some 30 degrees above the dawning winter solstice sun (See Diagram 2).
Diagram 2:
Winter solstice
sunrise from the early
Mayan site of
Izapa, 50 B.C. Notice
the dark rift
in the Milky Way, the
celestial birth
canal of Cosmic
Mother, some
30 degrees
above the rising
sun.
When these early skywatchers discovered precession, they realized that every winter solstice the cosmic birth canal was moving closer and closer to the dawning sun. The winter solstice sun was called the First Sun, the First Lord or First Father, because it is the first day of the year, the beginning of the sun's annual rebirth into increasing daylight. They calibrated the process, and fixed their Creation Mythology to the future alignment as described. Monuments from the early Mayan site of Izapa clearly portray, by way of mythological iconography, the anticipated astronomical alignment of the Long Count end date (See Diagram 3).
Diagram 3:
Stela 11 from
Izapa shows Cosmic Father
in the "mouth"
of Cosmic Mother, the
"dark rift"
or "birth canal" in the
Milky Way. This
is an image of
the celestial
alignment which
culminates in
A.D. 2012.
Based upon these simple facts, ancient
skywatchers in