On December 21st, doomsayers believe the end of the world will occur due to the world colliding with an asteroid, an alien invasion or possibly a supernova. As NASA cannot detect that any of these are nearing our planet, we can continue planning the Christmas holidays along with New Year’s Resolutions destine to fail like an End of Times prophecy.
As for the Mayan calendar signifying the end of the world, that reading of the calendar was a misinterpretation. December 21st marks the end of the Mayan ‘long calendar’ which is a 5,000 year era and a time of great celebration in Central America…a slightly different interpretation than promoted here in the United States in movies, numerous books and a few houses of worship.
In the last two years, there have been six end-of-the-world predictions.
Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda aka Jesucristo Hombre is the leader of Growing In Grace International Ministry, Inc. which is based in Miami, Florida. Miranda preached that on June 30th, all of the world’s governments and economies would fail and his followers would experience a transformation that would give them superpowers like flying and walking through walls. Unless Miranda and his followers were took LSD, his vision of things was a contrived hallucination.
Only a month earlier, Kentucky televangelist Ronald Weinland of the Church of God Preparing for the Kingdom of God said that Jesus Christ would return on May 27th and the world would end that same day. Besides this being an awful homecoming for The Lord, it was a date correction of his failed prediction of September 29, 2011. Last month, Weinland was sentenced to 42 months in jail for federal tax evasion (not his first run-in with ‘The Man’). I wonder if he saw that coming?
I think we all remember Harold Camping of Family Radio’s prediction of the Rapture and devastating earthquakes on May 21, 2011 and again on October 21st. His company made tens of millions from his bogus predictions.
Looking forward, Dr. F. Kenton Beshore, 86, President of the World Bible Society of Costa Mesa, believes that the end is near. Beshore, who states that he has been a preacher since the age of eight, preaches that The Rapture will happen by 2021 and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will be between 2018 and 2028.
If you thought that only religious leaders with economic interests benefitting from their dyer predictions make such dyer predictions, you’d be wrong. The well-known and deceased psychic Jeane Dixon (born Lydia Emma Pinckert) predicted the End of Times on February 4, 1962. What actually happened on that day was that philosopher Samael Aun Weor proclaimed the dawning of the ‘Age of Aquarius’ known by Americans as the first sighting of hippies. Dixon recalibrated and predicted that Armageddon would occur in 2020 and Jesus would defeat an Antichrist, Satan and false prophet by 2037. She also predicted the end of all cancers by 1967 and peace on earth by 2000.
Scientists believe the end is coming as well. James Kasting, a geoscientist as Penn State University feels that carbon dioxide levels will drop so low that the world will become uninhabitable. While that is a dire prediction, he doesn’t see it happening until the year 500,000,000, a mere 25 million generations from now.
Other scientists time the end of the Earth to the end of the Sun in 5 billion years. Many think it could happen in ‘only’ 1 billion years as the demise of the Sun will cause it to expand causing the Earth to heat to uninhabitable levels.
By then, it is hoped that mankind will colonize the galaxy as it did this planet.
