Thursday, May 19, 2011

The End of the World

Cataclysm Expansion
The anticipation for Blizzard's patches and expansions can be nerve racking! I remember quite vividly leaving for my mission just after the Icecrown Citadel patch had launched, and thinking that the next expansion would be released in a couple three months tops. It had probably ended up being eight or nine months later, and the Cataclysm finally happened. The World of Warcraft as I had known it had known it had completely changed, and the old Azeroth had come to an end.

We can't say for certain when MoP will come out!
Blizzard seems to work in mysterious ways, and on their own time frame. If I were to ask you when the next WoW expansion were to come out, you might be able to give me a  reasonable guess. This would probably be based on how the expansion is doing at the moment, the length of other expansions, arena seasons, etc. There are of course going to be signs that the next expansion will be in the near future...
 The release of Icecrown Citadel, and the ability to fight the Lich King are great clues that the expansion is coming to an end. Also the release of the test realm and patch notes are great signs that the end of the world is near. Similarly you could probably guess when patches will launch based on the same criteria, and when server restarts are.
Um... I don't think so
Our Heavenly Father works similarly to Blizzard. Recently there have been a lot of people saying that the end of the world is near, some even giving dates as to when they suppose it will happen. We were driving through Helena en route to a meeting, and I saw this billboard that said the end of the world was coming May 21, 2011. One other thing that caught my eye was the phrase "the bible guarantees it". As far as I know, in the Bible, Jesus Christ says, " But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." (Matthew 24:36) In further revelation to Joseph Smith, the Lord states "Ye say that ye know that the end of the world cometh; ye say also that ye know that the heavens and the earth shall pass away; And in this ye say truly, for so it is; but these things which I have told you shall not pass away until all shall be fulfilled." (D&C 45:22-23) So I ask "Is all fuflfilled?"... No. And how can Christ come "as a thief in the night" if the date of his coming is known? Logic and the scriptures prove that the end is near, but not on a day in which men predict. They obviously do "...err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." (Matthew 22:29)

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