Hi Arcturus,
Thinking about this topic, that the Maya's are looking for;
Earth cleansing and the prelude for a global renewal or the world is looking for the return of Christ. But people are looking for this new age or the return of Christ or whatever as something or somebody coming to physically change things in this world, so it will be a better place for people to live. As you said they think they are ready for this;
I believe they neither fear God and they feel prepared to meet God when He comes.
But the world is only as bad or messed up as the people have made it. It's not the world that must be cleansed, but the wickedness of the people.
As you were saying;
We who experience going out to Him for pardon and peace and refuge from the assaults of the flesh that painfully produces our experiences of imperfection because it is weak, deceived and inadequate and naked, are already meeting with Him via repentance. This is which is part of the plan for the few not the many at this time.
It is the few who are being cleansed and prepared spiritually, this is an internal renewal of the mind. We must "put on Christ" first, now while we are physical.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
I think everybody is looking for Christ to return or the new age thing in a outward way, thinking if the world/earth is changed then it will be a better place to live. When actually it is the people that must be changed on the inside, spiritually, and as a consequence the physical world will be changed too.
Luke 17:20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation;
v. 21 nor will they say, "See here!' or "See there!' For indeed,
the kingdom of God is within you."
It starts when Christ becomes indwelling, the begettal of the spirit now while we are physical.
Rom 8:19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God;
v. 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of Him who subjected it in hope;
v. 21 because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.
mercy, peace and love
Kat