End of the world?

Question

My freind told me that the world was going to end in 5 years. I don't wanna belive it, but also hasn't it suppose to end along time ago?

Answer 1

Forget all the silly religious and apocalyptic blather. She is referring to the Mayan calendar.

On 21 December 2012, the Mayan calendar reaches "the end". The Mayan calendar is not like Western calendars, which are linear and infinite in extent. The Mayan calendar is circular and resets to zero every 5000 years or so. The next time that the Mayan calendar resets to zero is on 21 December 2012. The Maya believed that this would be a time of catastrophic change for the planet. New Age neo-Indians (white Americans with too much time on their hands) have taken this in an apocalyptic sense and talk about the end of the world.

Answer 2

Ah, your friend is referring the stupid 2012 Apocalypse predictions. Basically, some people believe that the End of the World will come in 2012, because supposedly various cultures and religions all predicted the same year. (Though, the only real source of that prediction I could find was from the Mayans [their calender completes itself in 2012, I think]. Which I'm not to keen on believing, anyway, since it's coming from the people who also believed that the sun wouldn't rise if they didn't offer a human sacrifice each day.)

I wouldn't sweat it. I believe in the End of Days and all of that stuff, but throughout history, predictions of the End have been made over and over again (even ones that were thoroughly convincing, and fit the Book of Revelation to a T), and yet they have never, ever come true.

Besides which, if you believe the Bible's tale of the End of Days, it doesn't just end so suddenly within a span of five years. There's years and years and years of what Jesus called the "birth pangs" of the End (meaning that it was the beginning of the beginning of the hell on earth to come, and not the ACTUAL End) before anything major even begins to take place. And then there's all the other prophecies and events that come afterwards, and the 7-year peace treaty, etc. etc., none of which has occurred at the moment.

Just remember: we were all supposed to die in 2000, as well. XD

Answer 3

The end of the world as we know it will happen. When? Only God knows the time and the exact hour when He will take His children home. Those left behind to suffer the their fate at the hands of the Anti-Christ will remain in a terrible tribulation for seven years. The Bible says three and a half years will be a false peace orchestrated by the Anti-Christ to gain the trust and allegiance of the people left here. Then he will reveal his true person and torment the world with his power and laws. Oppression like never before seen. At the end of these seven years This Anti-Christ will declare war on God Himself and the REMNANT of Israelites that are on earth doing God's will, and God will come down from heaven and destroy the Anti-Christ and the false prophet in the Lake of Fire. There is so much more to this truth than can be put here but it will happen and the world is ripe for it. The signs are already in place. JESUS said you will know when the end of the world is near because of he season. Season meaning a state that the world is in. And it's in that state now.

Answer 4

People have been saying that since Jesus. But The Lord said that nobody knew when, only His Father knew.
The first Christians believed that it would happen soon after Jesus resurrected. Later, people thought that it would happen at the end of the first millennium.
Later, when the Black Plague, in 1348.
Later, in other occasions.
In the USA, a guy named Miller, in 1840, I think, said the same. He won the 10% of the population of the usa at the time.
People really went nuts. But... nothing happened. Miller said again that it would happen. Again... nothing happened.
Some other people have found followers that really believed that. Poor, ignorant people

Answer 5

Since recorded human history, we've felt the "end days" were fast upon us; I chalk it up to a part of what I call the natural "human condition" of things.

Earth has been threatened scores of times over and over on--and we haven't seen anything to come and wipe out our very blue ball planet.

Relax, I don't forsee any sudden global planet endings soon.....purportedly, scientists are working on protecting us from the 2037 asteroid. I have faith they'll succeed.

Answer 6

What if the world ends in 5 years or less?. It won't matter to me, in fact people of Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan etc would like the world end faster and sooner so they don't have to deal with YOU.

Answer 7

everyone always says the worlds going to end! it may or may not happen anytime soon but one day it will. if a giant meteor hit the earth and killed of the dinosaurs...whats to say an even bigger rock from space couldn't hit our planet like, tomorrow and kill the planet completely?

Answer 8

A massive chunk of rock that stood whole for 3.7billion years wont just go, boosh! After 5yrs, she/he is just lieing, and needs to get their facts straight.

Answer 9

y some people believe in such things
i know there is no one can tell when will the world end
because no one knows

Answer 10

What does this have to do with languages? Huh?

Oh, never mind.