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The End of the World as we know it!

The world we live in today is predicted by some to becoming to a horrific end.  May 31^st to be exact.  What is the truth of this statement? The end of the world has been predicted before and we survived.  The bible is said to be the source of this doomsday prediction and yet the bible states that no-one will know when the apocalypse will occur.  For those who have been “sucked” into the apocalypse theory, it is simply because they are seeing more natural disasters with the technology available today.

Over the last 30 years TV’s have become an everyday part of life for many countries across the world.  Worldwide news is broadcasts throughout the world with natural disasters often being the main feature.  With channels dedicated to news alone these natural disasters are becoming more apparent to everyday people.  Unlike many years ago, use of the internet has become widespread and has a wide range of resources at its disposal such as You Tube that shows all kinds of natural disasters such as the Christchurch and Japan Quakes, Hurricanes and Tornados. They clearly give access to the human factor of disasters.  It is technologies like these that were not around years ago, that bring the reality of worldwide disasters to people in their homes. As a result people believe that natural disasters are occurring more often leading to the theory that the end of the world is close.

Harold Egbert Camping, an 89yr old religious broadcaster from USA claims the world will end in 2011.  He has said that he unlocked the secret code of the bible, telling him that the world will begin to end on May 21^st 2011 at Christmas Island.  Christmas Island still exists today.  Camping believes the bible has given him the secret code but in Matthew 24:36 it states, “but about that day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son but only the father”. Camping therefore places himself in the role of God.  Critics believe that Camping is an old and confused man.  He uses the bible to defend his predictions but the bible itself states that only God, not Camping can determine the truth.

On 6^th September of 1994 a similar prediction was made by the same man, Harold Camping.  Many people believed him and said there would be a massive, “world wide earthquake”, with horrible “destruction and death”.  September 6^th of 1994 passed and everyone was left untouched, in a world unscarred.

As we begin to relise that the world is not going to end anytime soon we must take note that everyday could be our last. Therefore you must treat everyday as the end. Live life to the fullest!!! The end of the world as we know it! No