The World Will Be ‘Annihilated Forever’ Today, Claims US Christian Group
As if we have not had enough prophecies about Earth meeting its doom already this year, an online Christian group has made the remarkable claim that Wednesday is going to be our last day on earth.
This latest apocalypse prophecy comes on the heels of “Blood” moon annihilation theories, wherein several Christian groups had interpreted the unusual pairing of a lunar eclipse with a supermoon as the surest sign yet that our end was near. And while the ‘Blood’ moon came and passed, giving the world a cosmic spectacle that it will remember for years, nothing significant of an apocalyptic proportion transpired at all.
But now, only a week after “Blood” moon prophecies were debunked for all to see, a Philadelphia-based online Christian group, eBible Fellowship, has made the claim that the world is going to end on October 7. According to The Guardian, this is not the first time that the Christian group has made a warning about the doomsday. Their previous warning came more than four years ago when their leader, Chris McCann, had earmarked May 21, 2011 as the day when the world was going to end.
That prophecy never came to fruition, of course, but this time McCann is certain that his group’s calculations are correct.
“According to what the Bible is presenting it does appear that Oct. 7 will be the day that God has spoken of, in which the world will pass away. It’ll be gone forever. Annihilated.”
Interestingly enough, unlike some of the doomsday prophecies which claim that the rising water levels in the world are omens for an impending apocalypse, eBible Fellowship believes that civilization will not be wiped out by a flood, but will burn to its end.
“God destroyed the first Earth with water, by a flood, in the days of Noah. And he says he’ll not do that again, not by water. But he does say in 2nd Peter 3 that he’ll destroy it by fire.”
McCann’s prediction about the impending apocalypse stems from a prophecy made by Christian radio host Harold Camping back in 2011, International Business Times reports. Camping had told his listeners that he believed the world was going to end on May 21, 2011, after reading and decoding “hidden” messages in the Bible. McCann was one of his followers who took to the idea wholeheartedly.
When the day came and passed, however, McCann was forced to change his opinion. According to him, Camping’s prediction was never about the doomsday, but the “judgment day.” God had given himself exactly 1,600 days from that date in May 2011 to decide which non-churchgoers would be saved when the apocalypse finally did arrive on October 7, claim McCann and his Christian group’s followers.
As can be expected, the latest apocalypse theory has left many people wondering in the dark. A Facebook group, comprising of more than 15,000 people who believe the world will end today, has already started churning out moral lessons before what they believe will be mankind’s eventual departure from our planet.
Others of a more cynical disposition believe McCann’s prediction is just a cheap way at gaining publicity for his Christian group. It is worth noting that some church-going Christians have debunked the theory altogether, saying the Bible has never fixed a date for the world’s end.
“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only God’s word clearly states no one knows when but one thing we can be sure of is that Jesus will return then the believers and the un-believers will see Jesus and then will the end come.”
If science is to believed, today is certainly not the day when the world will end. Scientists believe that the sun, which is gradually increasing in temperature, will expand and swallow up Earth, and unlike McCann’s prediction, that is going to take another few billion years at the very least.
So should we be worried about the world ending today based on a prophecy made by a remote Christian group? Surely not, right?
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