I’ve been thinking of the story of Henny-Penny lately. I can almost hear her words, “the sky is falling.”
Henny-Penny was a hen, who was out in the corn fields when something hit her on the head, and of course she thought, the world is ending! As a good and responsible citizen of her community, she then purposed to go tell the king. On her way she told her story to many of her neighbors, the rooster, duck, goose, turkey and fox who offered to show them the way to the king. Well Foxy-Woxy was a sly one, and led them all into his dark hole, resulting in a beheading of each of the neighbors, except for Henny-Penny, who had been warned and was able to run away … without telling the king that the world was ending.
Apparently there are Henny-Pennys in human form too, and not just in today’s society, but all the way back to 
the Mayans. According to the Mayan Calendar the world, as we know it will end tomorrow (for those of you who know me, NO, this is not why were are so late getting our Christmas tree!).
“The sky is falling …”
Declarations of the world ending, complete with days and times have been made time after time, and yet, we are still here, plodding along. I wrote, just a year and a half ago about the world ending on May 11, 2011 (it didn’t).
The Bible is clear about one thing regarding the end of the world, that “no one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matthew 24:36)
Just like in the story of Henny-Penny, the Bible told us that these world-ending declarations would come and what to think about them, “if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it. For false Christ’s and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. So if anyone tells you, ‘There He is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here He is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.” (Matthew 24:23-26)
And just like the story of Henny-Penny, those who follow that sly fox into the darkness, might just lose their heads life.
“I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles.
I am sending you to them
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan to God,
so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place
among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”
Acts 26:17-18
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