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posted by martyb on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the "this-end-up" dept.

If you had big plans this weekend, David Meade regrets to inform you that the world will be ending Saturday.

Meade, a Christian numerologist and self-described "researcher," says Sept. 23 is foretold in the Bible's Book of Revelation as the day a series of catastrophic events will begin, and as a result, "a major part of the world will not be the same," the Washington Post reports.

The Bible prophecies a woman "clothed with the sun" and a "crown of 12 stars" giving birth to a boy who will "rule all the nations" while she fights off a seven-headed dragon. The woman, Meade says, is the constellation Virgo, which on Saturday will be positioned under nine stars and three planets, per Popular Mechanics.

The baby boy will be the planet Jupiter, which will be moving out of Virgo on that night.

According to Meade, who says he studied astronomy at an unspecified university in Kentucky, the great change in our world will be the result of the arrival of Nibiru, a planet famous in conspiracy circles but which astronomers say doesn't exist.

http://wnep.com/2017/09/20/researcher-says-this-saturday-will-be-the-end-of-the-world/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/ (soft paywalled)


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:20PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:20PM (#571157) Journal

    In this passage Luke 21:5-37 [biblegateway.com], Jesus is talking about the end.

    See verse Luke 21:25 in particular:

    “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.

    There in a single verse is mentioned signs in the heavens, and signs like the nations perplexed by powerful storms. It can also be observed that Luke 21:25 has the numbers 21 and 25. On Aug 21, there was a solar eclipse in the US. On Aug 25, hurricane Harvey made landfall in the US. Two highly unlikely events in a single week. A description of two such events in a single verse.

    Trump must be aware of this important information in order to make good policy decisions.

    OMG, major update: earthquakes mentioned in verse 11 of the same chapter! That must mean, um. . . oh, I know! . . . that must mean Mexico should have paid for the wall!

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