In verse five, “And when the messengers returned back unto the king, he said to them: Why are ye now turned back? And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you and say to him. Thus saith the Eternal, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And he asked them; what manner of person was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words? And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.” The next few verses are something you can read yourself about some marvelous miracles that were performed by God to protect Elijah because the king was very angry with that man.

           
Now, verse 16, Elijah goes to the king. “And he said to him, Thus, saith the Eternal, forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? Therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die. And the king died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son (no heirs).”

           
Now, notice very carefully. This king fell and was injured, was hurt, and he went to inquire of a foreign god rather than inquiring of the Eternal God, his own God. He is condemned by God through the prophet for doing this. There is absolutely nothing in this that has anything to do with physicians or healing. Notice this king is not sending for physicians.

           
There is nothing at all to do with medicine or physicians involved in the story. It is simply that this king is calling on foreign gods and is seeking input from foreign religions and strange religions and false prophets instead of standing on the things of God and on the Word of God.

If he had gone to the Eternal, if he had gone to God's true prophet Elijah, if he had done those things instead of relying on false prophets and seeking out foreign gods who are not gods at all, then he would have been respected by the Eternal God of Israel. We are commanded not to let anything come between us and our God. When we inquire of foreign gods or study the teachings of pagan religions, foreign religions, we are allowing those things to come between us and our God because we are offending our God when we try and graft paganism onto His Word, onto His religion, onto His teachings.

           
When we try and marry paganism to the Word of God, when we try and marry the prophets of God rejecting, commandment-hating people; who have absolutely no understanding of the things of God; and we try and marry these doctrines of demons with the Word of God, God doesn’t like it. He gets very upset because we are adding lies to truth and creating a mixture which is going to lead us into disaster. We are saying, “I don’t trust the Word of God. I don’t trust God's Spirit to reveal these things to me. I don’t trust the Holy Scriptures. I need all of these other teachings of God rejecting, commandment-hating men to somehow confirm my beliefs.”

           
In other words, you are seeking after false prophets and you yourself, if you teach others to do that, have become a false prophet. We are not to seek out the teachings of the heathen. We are not to seek out the teachings and prophecies and guidance and wisdom of gods that are not gods, and are in fact, demons and we are not to seek them out, turning our back on the Word of God. That cannot be justified. We are not to study the pagan teachings, of pagan false religions that do not keep God's commandments and will not submit to the Eternal God.

           
That is spiritual adultery. That is consorting with foreign religions. That is not being faithful to our husband to whom we committed ourselves in the marriage relationship through our committment at baptism to the new covenant. That new covenant is a marriage relationship between us and our God, us and Jesus Christ. And if we then go and seek out all of these teachers of other doctrines and false religions and inquire of them, We are consorting with other gods and we are not being faithful to our baptismal covenant to our God, our husband.

           
This is adultery. It is emotional. It is mental. It is spiritual adultery; and as such it is disloyalty to our God, to our espoused husband. This is sin and our espoused husband and His Father will not take the matter lightly; we will be judged for doing such things. And the first part of the judgment is that false religions, and false teachers, and false prophets know nothing of the things of God; therefore, we would be learning false things and basing our beliefs on false things, and we would be led thoroughly astray and we would fall into the traps that these other people have fallen into. Satan has laid these traps and he's got these people deceived into believing what they believe. And if we consort with these religions and these false teachings, we will also fall into the same false teachings. We will be led astray; we will be deceived into error; and we will end up coming under the yoke of Satan again, the yoke from which we were delivered.

           
Going and inquiring of false gods amounts to seeking out their false teachings, their false religion, and it amounts to turning our backs on our God. That is the lesson of King Ahaziah. He was not seeking healing, he was inquiring of a strange god, a foreign god. That is what this is about. That is the lesson. Do not go and inquire of strange gods. Do not turn your back and be disloyal to the One to whom you have made your baptismal commitment. You are not to seek after strange gods nor to seek out and study their prophecies or their teachings.

            
We are to remain faithful and loyal to the Eternal and to the Holy Scriptures which He inspired. We are not to try and interpret the Holy Scriptures of God through the eyes of the heathen. We are not to try and understand the Holy Scriptures by mixing them up with prophecies and teachings of the heathen. That is the lesson here.

Brethren, it is a great sin to come up with some personal supposition and then not finding enough backing in the scriptures; to then go and seek out support for our pet ideas in the prognostications and teachings of astrologers and false teachers.  This is the sin that I have warned Dr Thiel against.  God’s Word is TRUTH; let us stand on the TRUTH of our God and not seek out the errors of wicked men.

Robert Thiel says that a final false prophet will make a seven year treaty involving Israel, which allows for the start of a Daily Sacrifice which will last for 3 ½ years. After which the treaty will be broken. That is his take on the 70 Weeks Prophecy.  For our position: see the 70 Weeks Prophecy, and the Daily Sacrifice.

This position is in direct contradiction to the Holy Scripture, for it is written 1 Thes 5: 2: For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3: For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.  

It is entirely possible that a seven year treaty will be made. It is even possible that an agreement to start sacrifices might be made.  Nevertheless that will be a GREAT DECEPTION; for when the declaration of Peace is made; sudden, immediate destruction will come: GOD SAID SO!!!

Please see the Signs Heralding the Tribulation page. The tribulation will not begin until all the Biblical signs are fulfilled; regardless of any date set by anyone.

Relying on anything other than the Holy Scriptures is to rely on a deception that will result in personal destruction. FIRST: because we have turned away from God, and we are separated from him by this sin. SECOND: because these ignorant Commandment Defying men are themselves deceived and have become blind; leading the blind to their destruction.  If we follow the spiritually blind we shall surely fall into the same ditch.

When a man like Robert is so enamored with his pet ideas that he will seek support from the heathen astrologers of the Maya, and the false teachings of TRADITION, rather than be open to God’s word; when such a man is so enslaved by false concepts that he feels that he must lie about others to protect his position; he is in trouble.

I have no ill will toward Robert. I have extended the hand of friendship to him many times, only to be rejected and condemned.  Thousands who have read this site know that what I say is true. Robert, I ask only that you stop bearing false witness and that you turn back to exclusively relying on God’s IMMUTABLE WORD. Turn to him and He will accept you. Keep your back to him and he will correct you.  The choice is really yours alone.

The man who put 2012 on the map as a pivotal date for world history was José Arguelles, a Mexican-American, who authored a mystical book in 1987 titled The Mayan Factor.⁴ He was also instrumental that year in organizing a worldwide event called the Harmonic Convergence.⁵ During two days in August, people were urged to gather at sacred sites to awaken the "energy grid" of the world and thus initiate a 25-year era of spiritual growth that would culminate in 2012.

Since that time, a man by the name of Christian John Meoli has been organizing and conducting 2012 conferences that have the flavor of a Star Trek convention. He plans to hold the final conference on December 21, 2012 at the Mayan pyramids in Mexico. He describes 2012 as "the shift," and the slogan for his conferences is "Shift Happens."⁶

Meanwhile, the History Channel on television has promoted the 2012 craze with a zeal, broadcasting a whole series of programs focused on the date: "Mayan Doomsday Prophecy" (2006), "Last Days on Earth" (2006), "Doomsday 2012: The End of Days" (2007), "Seven Signs of the Apocalypse" (2009), and "Nostradamus 2012" (2009).

GALATIC ALIGNMENT
Regarding galactic alignment, again it appears that all the predictions of cataclysmic events are based on junk science. Academic astronomers have pointed out that the alignment will span a period of 36 years. That period began in 1998 with a convergence that was even more precise than what it will be in 2012, yet there have been no dire consequences

NOSTRADAMUS
The Nostradamus "prophecies" are hardly worth mentioning. This man was a demon possessed practitioner of witchcraft. His so-called prophecies are poetic quatrains that are so obtuse as to be unintelligible. They have therefore never been used to prophesy any event before it happens. Instead, the Nostradamus groupies apply a quatrain to an event after it happens, and even these applications require a vivid imagination. In fact, the writings of Nostradamus are often doctored to make them more applicable as "prophecies." There is nothing in any of his published writings that has reference to the year 2012.

THE BIBLE CODE
Drosnin's Bible Code prediction about the earth being annihilated in 2012 must be considered in reference to the fact that when he published his book in 1997 he claimed that the codes predicted a nuclear war in 2000 or 2006 and a comet strike on the earth in 2006. These events failed to take place

THE WEB BOT PROJECT
That leaves us with the Web Bot Project, which is the silliest bit of evidence that could possibly be presented. All this system does is catalogue the consensus Internet opinion on any given topic. It amounts to prophecy by majority opinion, and that opinion is derived from the Internet rumor mill!

You judge, whether it is better to stand on this foundation; or is it better to stand upon the word of God?  Acts 5:29