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The world will end this Saturday - Christian researcher

The Washington Post reported earlier that David Meade calculated that the rapture would occur 33 days after last month’s eclipse

There have been several predictions about when the world will come to an end that never came to pass. Even, religious leaders are divided as to when exactly the rapture that the Bible talks about will happen for true Christians to be carried to heaven and unbelievers left on the earth to face the wrath of God.

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However, a Christian researcher named David Meade’s calculation that the rapture would occur 33 days after last month’s eclipse, as reported by The Washington Post is creating fear and panic across the globe.

What has actually worsened the panic situation is the emergence of some videos about the supposed imminent catastrophe that are going viral with similar claims, showing some kind of space queen giving birth in front of a seven-headed moon lizard.

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But some people are also skeptical about the prediction due to lessons from previous predictions in the past that proved to be untrue.

David Meade -told the Washington post that, “Jesus lived for 33 years. The name Elohim, which is the name of God to the Jews, was mentioned 33 times [in the Bible].”

He emphasised that, “it’s a very biblically significant, numerologically significant number. I’m talking astronomy. I’m talking the Bible … and merging the two.”

The Christian researcher is of the firm belief that the rapture will be caused by a secret planet called Nibiru passing the Earth on Saturday. The world won’t end, “but the world as we know it is ending,” he told the Washington Post.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA has however punched holes into the doomsday prediction, saying Nibiru doesn’t exist.

“Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax,” the space agency said on its website a few years ago when similar doomsday predictions went viral.

NASA emphasised that, “there is no factual basis for these claims.”

The latest prediction has got even fellow Christians criticizing Meade and others over the latest end of the world predictions.

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Ed Stetzer of Christianity Today wrote as reported by Fox News that, “Meade’s views are not endorsed by Roman Catholic, Protestant or eastern Orthodox branches of Christianity.

“Meade is a made-up leader in a made-up field, and should not be on the front page of anything, let alone Fox News.”

Stetzer stressed further that, there were no “secret numerical codes that require a profession called ‘Christian numerology.’”

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