Christian group predicts the
world will be 'annihilated' on Wednesday
Adam Gabbatt 6 October
2015 The Guardian
Over a week after blood moon doomsday forecasts were proven wrong,
eBible Fellowship leader Chris McCann says ‘the world will pass
away’ on 7 October
While our planet may
have survived September’s “blood moon”, it will be
permanently destroyed on Wednesday, 7 October, a Christian
organization has warned.
The eBible Fellowship, an online affiliation headquartered near
Philadelphia, has based its prediction of an October obliteration
on a previous claim that the world would end on 21 May 2011. While
that claim proved to be false, the organization is confident it has
the correct date this time.
“According to what the Bible is presenting it does appear that 7
October will be the day that God has spoken of: in which, the world
will pass away,” said Chris McCann, the leader and founder of the
fellowship, an online gathering of Christians headquartered in
Philadelphia.
“It’ll be gone forever. Annihilated.”
McCann said that, according to his interpretation of the Bible,
the world will be obliterated “with fire”.
The blood moon – a lunar eclipse combined with a “super moon” –
occurred without event on 27 September. This was
despite some
predictions that it would herald the
beginning of the apocalypse. Certain religious leaders had said the
blood moon would trigger a chain of events that could see our
planet destroyed in as little as seven years time.
According to this new prediction, however, there will be no stay
of execution. On the day of 7 October, the world will
end.
“God destroyed the first Earth with water, by a flood, in the
days of Noah. And he says he’ll not do that again, not by water.
But he does say in 2nd
Peter 3 that he’ll destroy it by
fire,” McCann said.
The expectation of the world ending this fall stems from an
earlier prediction by Harold
Camping, a Christian radio host who was based in
California. In 2011 Camping used his radio station, Family Radio,
to notify people that the world would end on 21 May of that year.
When that turned out to be incorrect, Camping revised his
prediction to October 2011. That also turned out to be incorrect,
and Camping retired from public life soon after. He died in 2013,
at age 93.
McCann believes that Camping’s 21 May 2011 prediction did have
some truth, however. That day was declared to be “judgment day”
because it was actually the day God stopped the process of
selecting which churchgoers will survive Wednesday’s massacre,
McCann said.
Following 21 May 2011, God turned his attention to deciding
which non-churchgoers to save, according to McCann. The eBible
Fellowship believes that God said he would devote 1,600 days to
this task – bringing us to 7 October 2015.
“There’s a strong likelihood that this will happen,” McCann
said, although he did leave some room for error: “Which means
there’s an unlikely possibility that it will not.”
The eBible Fellowship, which McCann was at pains to point out is
not a church, is a predominantly online organization. The group
does hold meetings once a month, however.
Scientists have several theories about when Earth will be
destroyed, although none of the data points to this Wednesday. The
most widely accepted theory is that the sun, which is already
gradually increasing in temperature, will expand and swallow up the
planet. Some scientists believe this could happen as soon as 7.6bn
years’ time.
Whether the planet is destroyed next week or several thousand
million years in the future, McCann’s plans for the coming week
will remain the same. He and his wife, a fellow believer in
Wednesday’s end date, had three birthdays in the family before
then, which they planned to celebrate.
harryopal
Gee, I hope that wasn't last Wednesday that would
mean I missed it. Bugger!