2012 Transit Of Venus: Doomsday?
June 6, 2008 – 5:41 amThe transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth - similar to a solar eclipse by the moon. During this time, Venus can be seen from Earth and appears as a small black dot moving across the face of the sun. The transit of Venus occurs in a pattern that repeats every 243 years: 2 transits 8 years apart, separated by long gaps of 105.5 years and 121.5 years (105.5 + 8 + 121.5 + 8 = 243 year pattern). The latest Venus transit occurred June 8, 2004 (lasting roughly 6 hours). Prior to 2004, the previous 2 transits occurred December 1874 and 1882. The next Venus transit will take place June 5-6, 2012.
In the past, the most notable pair of transits was in 1518 and 1526. This was the period when Hernan Cortes lead the Spanish conquest through Maya/Aztec territories. Due to the timing of Cortes’s arrival, the Maya considered him to be either a messenger of Quetzalcoatl (Kukulkan) or Quetzalcoatl himself, the primary Mayan/Aztec god. The ancient Maya called Venus “Noh Ek”, meaning “the Great Star”. They personified Venus as a form of the god Quetzalcoatl (Kukulkan).
The Maya began their Long Count calendar on what they referred to as the “Birth of Venus”. The Mayan Long Count calendar identifies a date by counting the number of days from August 11, 3114 BC (3114 + 2012 = 5,125 year Great Cycle). December 21, 2012 represents the end of the 5,125 year “Great Cycle” in the Mayan Long Count calendar.
Mayan day keepers explain we are living in the time of the 5th sun, approaching the end of a major cycle. Mayan prophecies also point to this time as filled with earth changes and transformation. 5 Great Cycles, or suns, equals 25,625 years, which is amazingly close to what modern astronomers count as one cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, 25,920 years.
In Latin, the word “Lucifer” is a name for the “Morning Star”, planet Venus. In the Bible, a celestial body is described as bringing an end to the world. The book of Revelation repeatedly mentions cosmic catastrophes, great earthquakes, and fire and brimstone falling from the skies:
Revelation 6:12-14
6:12 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood; 6:13 and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind. 6:14 And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
The Bible does not provide a date when this disaster will occur. The only warning we have is that these events begin with the return of anti-Christ; Lucifer, representing Venus. Could this relate to the transit of Venus in 2012? The end of 5 cycles/suns/seals, opening/beginning the 6th seal (as explained in Revelation) may be doomsday! It’s a common belief that the Mayan Long Count calendar holds a prophecy that the world will end in 2012. Now, it’s looking like the Bible aligns with this Maya prophecy.
Aside from the Bible, from a scientific standpoint, many believe that the 2012 transit of Venus will trigger “doomsday” by interfearing with the Sunspot cycle, impacting the Sun-Moon-Earth-Venus system at a time of near galactic alignment. NASA predicts that a terrific solar storm will hit the earth in 2012 which will be 30-50 percent greater than anything before it. We’ll cover solar flares in another article that will be published soon.
