The End IS Near, but you don't know about it.

It is time, once again, to stick my neck out there. A very good friend posted something on Facebook today, and apparently the world will end on May 21. The good news about that is, I won't have to go to work on May 22. Seriously- this pastor has taken a scripture from the book of Genesis along with a scripture from 2 Peter in which he talks about Noah, and makes the conclusion that includes doing some math to reason 5/21/11 as Judgment day. Intelligent, to a point. However, there is one thing wrong with that.
Some parts of the Bible are intended to illustrate a point without being literal.
This was the verse in 2 Peter:  "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (6-8)."
 To take that literally, you would have to say that God has a calendar, and that after 1,000 years passes, He says "OK- Wednesday." That is not how God works. What it is supposed to mean is this: time does not matter to God. He exists outside of time.God is Spirit (see John 4). His world has no time.
Another thing this preacher said is this: The Church Age ended on May 21, 1988. To quote the site:
"On May 21^st, 1988, God finished using the churches and congregations of the world.  The Spirit of God left all churches and Satan, the man of sin, entered into the churches to rule at that point in time."
(Quoted from http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/may21/)
Problem: if the Spirit of God left the churches, how are/were people still getting saved? Why are people still coming to Christ if the Spirit of God is not still convicting of sin? Why would Satan allow people to come to Christ if he is in charge of the churches now? Lastly, what is your church? If there is not Spirit of God in the church, what are you teaching? Why are you warning people?
Oy. Here is Matthew 24:36 (NKJV): “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only."
Think about how many times people have declared the end of the world. Someone in Garland, TX tried it in 1988. Jehovah's Witnesses  have made a religion out of it. REM even tried it once.
So when is the end of the world? I don't know. Only God knows. All I can tell you is that it is coming, and each one of us needs to be prepared. You may have only a month, you may have several years. It may not be in your lifetime. But it is coming.
I let this blog get away from me, but I needed to rant.