The horrifying forecast is being made by some Christian groups who predict the “Rapture” phenomenon will bring about a global Apocalypse before 2021.
Traced back to ancient Biblical texts, believers claim warnings of the impending Armageddon also signal the second coming of Jesus.
They say similar events have been charted in ancient history including the Biblical Flood of 2,348 BC, told in Genesis, and the Three Plagues of Egypt.
Though dismissed by some, others insist such calamitous theories are true and warn the impending catastrophe will destroy the planet.
Dr F. Kenton Beshore, President of the World Bible Society, says the “Rapture” is likely to occur between now and 2021 before the Second Coming between 2018 and 2028.
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“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
He warns the human race to be prepared for the return of “our Lord and Saviour” and be ready for “His return at all times” stating it is written in the book of Matthew.
He claims messages hidden in the Bible give warnings of when to expect the “End Times”.
The book of Matthew states: “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
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Dr F Kenton Beshore has spoken of the day the Earth will come to an end
“They may have set them aside, but they will read them, turn to the Lord and lead billions and billions to Jesus.
“Now, we are all going to be gone.”
Believers of the Rapture theory also quote the book of Corinthians which states: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality.
He said at a time when people are leaving religion in their droves, such warnings are made to scare people into following a certain doctrine.
He said: “These are just imaginative, fantastical and illusionary stories people use to try to express the concept of judgement, their original purpose was perhaps to make people take stock of their lives.
“The Bible is written in apocalyptic language and people hang on to it to gain power over others particularly at a time when religion is failing.
“The hold of religion over populations is dwindling so they think scaremongering stories will bring people back under their power, but they were wrong as we now live in an enlightened age.
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The world could end any time between now and 2021, according to Dr Kenton Beshore
“It is also quite distasteful, especially in the the current climate.”
Dr Beshore says the Bible says God has issued warnings of destruction throughout history including 100 years before the Great Flood.
He says Lot and his family were warned before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah while Jesus warned of the destruction of Jerusalem decades in advance.
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“The word imminence means the Rapture can take place any day.
“The Bible does not teach that.
“The Bible teaches that certain events must take place before the Rapture.”
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Any real Christian, meaning someone who actually reads the Bible (the whole thing, not just the catastrophic-parts) knows that the world will not end till Jesus comes back, and for that to happen the Anti-Christ has to first take up residence in the new Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, which hasn’t been built yet. It hasn’t even been started yet.
That’s not to say that a lot of really catastrophic things won’t happen first; they will. There are lots of prophecies about major earth-changes that will happen long before The Return/the real End. For instance, there are the prophecies about the “mountain of fire cast into the sea and 1/3rd of Mankind will die in a day”. For that to happen, according to today’s population estimates (over 7 billion people on the planet), that would mean about 2.5 billion people. An asteroid impact in say the Atlantic Ocean would describe this prophecy perfectly. An asteroid traveling at 26,000 miles an hour landing in the middle of the ocean will create a tsunami the likes of which has never been seen by modern man. And if you consider all the countries that border the Atlantic and all the major cities along those coasts, an impact and resulting tsunami of that magnitude would indeed killl 2.5 billion people in a single day’s time.
And that is just one prophecy that will happen before Jesus’ Return. So while that will be the end for all those people, it won’t be The End. The start of the end maybe. But lots more will hgappen long before that.