30 Ways the World Could End?

“Orthodox” 16th Century Representation of the “Apocalypse”

A secular writer has a list of 30 ways he claims the world could end:

30 Ways the World Could End

Crank up the gloom and doom: Global apocalypse could be just around the corner, and you might never see it coming—unless you read this article.

Discover magazine – October 2010 issue by Corey S. Powell…

For DISCOVER’s 30th anniversary, the time seemed right to revisit the science of doomsday. http://discovermagazine.com/2010/oct/30-ways-the-world-could-end

Here is part of one of the 30 items he listed previously:

19 Divine intervention Judaism has the Book of Daniel; Christianity has the Book of Revelation; Islam has the coming of the Mahdi; Zoroastrianism has the countdown to the arrival of the third son of Zoroaster. The stories and their interpretations vary widely, but the underlying concept is similar: God intervenes in the world, bringing history to an end and ushering in a new moral order. (http://discovermagazine.com/2000/oct/featworld)

And while some of the items in his list could not cause the world to end, the reality is that the prophecies of the Bible are being fulfilled and events that need to occur for others in the Books of Daniel and Revelation are starting to come to pass.

For one small example, notice what Daniel was told:

4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” (Daniel 12:4)

Certainly, with the advent of airline travel and the internet, two unheard of concepts in Daniel’s time (over 2500 years ago), this biblical prophecy is now capable of being fulfilled.

Other events, leading to the end, are as well. But the end (meaning the Great Tribulation) is still not yet (cf. Matthew 24:6). But there will be religious deception, wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes prior to the Great Tribulation (cf. Matthew 24:4-7) and some of these seem to have been happening. These “are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:8) and are followed by a worse time known as the “great tribulation” (Matthew 24:21).

Perhaps I should add that despite the claims of certain false prophets, the Great Tribulation has not began and Jesus will not return May 2011 nor May 2012.

Some articles of related interest may include the following:

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Can the Great Tribulation Begin in 2010, 2011, or 2012? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before in the “beginning of sorrows”? What happens in the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord?
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2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect This is a link related to a book by Bob Thiel (COGwriter). This also has YouTube videos related to 2012. The book is for those truly interested in understanding how prophecies inter-relate and who want to see a real sequence of end time events.