Five Ways the World Can End

Posted by on 7 January 2009 | 0 Comments

An artist's view of a large asteroid hitting the Earth. An artist's impression of three stages of a star like our sun being devoured by a black hole.

In the News...

Fox News.  By Paul Wagenseil.  January 7, 2009

How many ways can the world end? We can think of at least five.

But before we get into detail, let's dismiss two things that won't cause the demise of the planet.
Global warming is bad for people who live in low-lying coastal areas and at the edges of deserts, but the truth is that Earth been much warmer throughout most of the past 500 million years, and life did just fine.
On the other side of things, a new ice age would end most human habitation of Canada, northern Europe, the northern U.S. and Russia, but the tropics would stay about the same — and there'd be a lot more land to go around in south Florida as sea levels dropped.
Since we're currently in the second half of an interglacial period, it's a pretty safe bet that the glaciers will indeed advance again within the next 10,000 years.
But at any given time, four of the five following scenarios really could cause the end of life on Earth — and the fifth almost certainly will.  Read More

Donnie's Remarks...

Bible prophecy is written to help us find out what God has in store for us.  Regardless of the many scenarios that could cause the end of life on earth, this world is not going to end.  In fact, God has a wonderful plan for the future and all eternity.

 

Romans 8:18-25 (NIV)
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.


Jesus Christ secured 'the kingdom to come' when he died and rose from the dead.  All who believe in Him have a future hope that will be fulfilled when He returns to this earth to set up His heavenly kingdom, exactly as prophesied in Matthew 24.  Matthew 24 is one of the key prophetic passages in the entire Bible and focuses on the Tribulation along with the signs that will precede the Second Coming.  My friend, Mike Andrus, Senior Pastor of E Free Wichita, recently preached two thought-provoking sermons on the "Signs of the Second Coming"  and "Stage Four: Delivery."  He divides the Second Coming into four stages and employs the 'labor metaphor' that Jesus mentions in Mt. 24:8: "All these things are the beginning of birth pains."   Stage one is connected with the four signs of "Early Labor."  Stage two signs are referred to as "Transition."  Stage three introduces us to 'Heavy Labor." The signal for the beginning of this stage is the Abomination of Desolation.  It is the sign that starts the last 3 1/2 years, often called the 'Great Tribulation.'  Stage four is "Delivery" and the glorious return of the King.  

"Five Ways the World can End?"  Don't you believe it!


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