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		<title>The 2010 to 2020 Global Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth.&#34; (Zephaniah 1:18).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United State and the rest of the world are descending deeper into global crisis. Analysis of the prophecies derived from Sister Sharon Roach&rsquo;s visions, John Paul Jackson&rsquo;s visions, and Pastor Lindsey Williams&rsquo; reports reveal that 2012 is the continuation of worldwide geophysical, warfare, political and economic decline. When the dust settles, the international and geopolitical landscape will be completely transformed for the worst. The stage will be set for the United States of Europe to step into its prophetic role (Revelation 17; Daniel 10 and 11). The Mideast will be changed (Obadiah 1:15-21; Psalm 83), while U.S. emerges significantly weaker and unable to lead the world.</p>
<p><strong>Sister Sharon Roach</strong></p>
<p>According to Prophetess Sister Sharon Roach, God showed her Americas&rsquo; future from 2009 to 2018. Her visions revealed that the U.S. economic crisis will worsen in the years 2012 and will introduce the dollar&rsquo;s complete devaluation by 2013. The dollar&rsquo;s death will cause panic in America&rsquo;s streets. The U.S. will experience the greatest riots in history due to hyperinflation. In 2014, God will intervene to stop Satan&rsquo;s plot from completely destroying America. These turbulent times will facilitate great change in the U.S. In 2016, an American leader will emerge and he will rebuild the U.S.&nbsp; From 2017 to 2018, this will be a significant era for U.S. because this leader will lead the country into a celebrated time of prosperity. However, by 2018 world war 3 may have already commenced and the U.S. will enter the tribulation times.</p>
<p><strong>John Paul Jackson</strong></p>
<p>According to Prophet John Paul Jackson, God showed him the future of America and the world from 2008 to 2018. His visions revealed geophysical, terrorism, warfare, economic, political, Rioting, and religious activities. &nbsp;Jackson&rsquo;s geophysical visions revealed that there will be woes in 2012; jet streams will go wild and cause major weather shifts around the world; there will be droughts in some areas and water will become more expensive than oil and some cities will evacuate thousands because there is not enough water to meet their needs and Jesus will make rain in one city and no rain on another city.</p>
<p><strong>Geophysical Actions: </strong>Coastal cities will experience earthquakes and there will be a major earthquake in the mid-west for first time in many years; a volcano will become active and erupt in the U.S. again; thunderstorms with softball size hail and 24 inches of rain will fall in 24 hours; there will be places with 3 feet of snow in 6 hours; tornados will hit with 350 mph winds in unusual places; A hurricane with 180 mph winds will have a diameter of 500 miles and have storm surges 150 miles inland; a blight will hit a type of hybrid seed as a strike of god; the storms will disrupt food harvest and a nation food shortage in food storage; there will be an epidemic that will kill many and it will start from another country and come to America.</p>
<p>There will be signs in the sun moon and stars as the prophet Joel spoke of; the bubble around our solar system will weaken and come in to cause a new form of skin disease; the magnetic field will shift and will form cracks that solar winds will effect weather patterns; this activity will also cause communication problems with plans and cell phones and cable T.V.</p>
<p><strong>Terrorism and Warfare: </strong>Jackson&rsquo;s terrorism and warfare visions reveal that a dirty nuclear bomb will explode in a port city in the United States; Israel will have devastating attacks that will involve nuclear material being released; Israel will respond with missile strikes and will eventually bomb Iran and this will cause fuel prices to rise again; Russia will enhance this tension in the Middle East by creating an oil crisis. Russia will try to take control of Ukraine and continue to give Iran weapons to further ignite the oil crisis because with conflict in the middle east oil will escalate because Russia need the oil to rebuild itself once again as a new mother Russia; when president Hosni Mubarak is no longer the leader of Egypt a new terrorist leadership will take his place and terrorisms will take a higher profile than before; Pakistan will become more terrorist oriented and become more of a harbinger of terrorist.</p>
<p><strong>Economic: </strong>Jackson&rsquo;s economic visions reveal that a bubble of hope in the economy, but it will be short lived and in that period there will be enough time for godly people to make the necessary adjustments, but it will not be a time to take on more debt; commercial paper and credit card problems is a domino that will fall as jobless ness increases and buildings lay empty; shopping malls will lay more than half empty and stores remain closed and strip malls also with this no one is leasing the buildings that the owner needs to service the debt of the building so this will make commercial paper problems also with lending institutions; there will be waves of economic stagflation, deflation, and hyperinflation, but God will guide those investors he can trust; the dollar will lose value and become on par with the paso; a new north American currency is going to be established similar to the euro, which may be called the Amero-Dollar; there will be reports of many new finical corruptions uncovered in the years that lie ahead; people will start to grow their own food in some cities and in 1 or 2 cities he saw men ripping up the streets to try to grow food.</p>
<p><strong>Politics and Rioting: </strong>Jackson&rsquo;s political visions revealed that Christians should pray for president Obama and his protection because there is a plan by Islamic militants to try to take his life to start riots as destabilization to divert attention from their nefarious activities; we will we will see the worst riots in history in America it will be race riots but more economic in nature, these riots will negatively impact many African American people living in the inner city.</p>
<p>Economic difficulty will cause mobs to roam the streets with a robin hood mentality of taking from the rich to give to the poor; there will be many new corruption reports at very high levels; terrorist activity will hit America again as a flaw in the border protection is discovered by our enemies; rural land will become more valuable as people leave the cities to seek the security of a urban lifestyle; social security and retirement accounts will become of little value; as the economic crisis continues America will bring home most of its troops to save finances; because of the economic severity America will cut much of its foreign aid to developing countries and the results of this is a growth of international dictators and Islam will multiply.</p>
<p><strong>Religion: </strong>Islam will force its way into school systems by demanding time to pray; Islam will work to take control of a large American city; it could be Detroit as they begin a multiplication project; Islam will continue to make threats to influence congressional decisions; Islam will initiate a plan to have a president by 2024; medical advances and organ transplants will make it possible for homosexual men to be in vitro fertilized and give caesarian birth; many churches will file for bankruptcy as payments to large buildings cannot be made; large ministries will disband from financial difficulty; house churches will begin to grow as a need for intimacy and spirituality with God increases; hidden sexual perversion will be exposed and the numbers will be shocking.</p>
<p><strong>Pastor Lindsey Williams</strong></p>
<p>According to pastor Lindsey Williams, who worked with the elite on the trans Alaskan oil pipe line for three years, he was shown the hidden plan to kill the U.S. dollar for the purpose of a global government. His account shows that by the end of 2012 the dollar will be dead this will lead to the greatest riots in U.S. history in the year 2013. The Mideast will erupt in apocalyptic violence because this was part of the plan by the global elites. The global elites seek to take away control of the Mideast oil from Muslim dictators. In other words, the elite plan on using the U.S. military to control Mideast resources. The elite will stabilize the economy worldwide with new global currencies, but America must first fall as a superpower.</p>
<p><strong>Future Scenario</strong></p>
<p>Finally, after researching eschatology along with the dreams and visions of the above prophets, this may happen in the near future and this may be the likely order of events. First, the mortgage crisis set off a global recession up to today and it was planned by bankers that gave bad loans to poor U.S. citizens for more debt. &nbsp;The debt has gotten bigger and the 2011 Bilderberg meeting clearly shows that that they want to extend the recession up to 2012 and by the end of that year a financial crisis will hit New York City when Greece default of debt in 2012. The crisis in the Middle East will get worse when it involves Saudi Arabia and it will cause gas to hit $7 and gold $3000 in 2013. The feds will print more money and will cause hyperinflation and many banks will close in 2013.&nbsp; Second, the Middle East crisis will impact Israel in 2013 into the years 2014 to 2015 when red moons appear as a sign of blood and war with Israel. The riots will calm in the years after 2015 into 2016 and America will adopt a new currency that amero.</p>
<p>And third, following the year 2018, the world will never be the same again and there will be a season of preparation before WW III commences as Russia and a coalition of Islamic nations seek to destroy the U.S. and Israel. &nbsp;When the Third World War ends, the U.S. and Russia will be significantly weakened, while Israel increases in wealth, size, and military power and influence. The surrounding Arab nations will disappear, while Europe will replace the U.S. in power and influence. There will be a call for a global religion, economy, government, and military to prevent future wars. The Anti-Messiah will answer the call and he will deceive the whole world.</p>
<p><strong>Sources:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>American in Prophecy; Sister Sharon Roach; 2009</li>
<li>The Perfect Storm; John Paul Jackson; 2008.</li>
<li>The Global Elites Interview; Lindsey Williams; 2011.</li>
<li>Prophecy Blog; John Mcternan; 2012.</li>
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		<title>David Wilkerson&#8217;s Visions for America and The World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 1973, David Wilkerson had a dramatic vision warning America and the world about the coming hour of global persecution and tribulation. David Wilkerson (1931 &#8211; 2011) was a charismatic Christian evangelist, famous for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. He was the addiction recovery program Teen Challenge founder, and the non-denominational Times Square Church in New York founding pastor.

Wilkerson's widely distributed sermons that were known for being frank and direct. He emphasized such Christian beliefs as God's holiness and righteousness, God's love toward humans and especially Christian views of Jesus. Wilkerson tried to avoid categorizing Christians into distinct groups according to the denomination to which they belong. On 27 April 2011, Wilkerson was killed in a car crash in Texas. Before his death, he mentioned that several terrible calamities that will come to America and the world.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First, Wilkerson warned of &#8220;worldwide recession caused by economic confusion.&#8221; He said &#8220;at most a few more fat flourishing years, and then an economic recession that&#8217;s going to affect the life style of every wage-earner in the world. The world economists are going to be at loss to explain what&#8217;s happening. It&#8217;s going to start in Europe, spread to Japan and finally to the United States.&#8221; There will be a move toward a worldwide, unified monetary system. The US dollar will be hit hard and it will take years for it to recover. The only real security will be in real estate (until a somewhat later stage, at which point this apparent security will also disappear).</p>
<p>Second, Wilkerson warned about &#8220;nature having labor pains.&#8221; Environmentalists will come under heavy criticism. There will be major earthquakes. There will be a major famine. Floods, hurricanes and tornadoes will increase in frequency. He said &#8220;a new kind of cosmic storm appearing as a raging fire in the sky leaving a kind of vapor trail.&#8221;</p>
<p>Third, Wilkerson warned &#8220;a flood of filth and a baptism of dirt in America&#8221; Topless women will appear on television, followed by full nudity. Adult, X rated movies will be shown on cable television. Young people will gather at homes to watch this kind of material in groups. Sex and the occult will be mixed. There will be an acceptance of homosexuality, and the church will even say that it is a God-given gift.</p>
<p>Fourth, Wilkerson warned that &#8220;Rebellion in the home.&rdquo; He said &#8220;I see the new number one youth problem in America and the world as hatred towards parents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fifth, Wilkerson warned about &#8220;the persecution madness against truly Spirit filled Christians who love Jesus Christ.&#8221; He said there will emerge a world church consisting of a union between liberal ecumenical Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church, using Christ in name only.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Finally, Wilkerson says that there will be a hate Christ movement. There will be a spiritual awakening behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains. There will be another wave of riots. There will be a fall in moral conduct. There will be a new drug that will be popular with teenagers that will break down resistance and will encourage sexual activity. Homosexual and lesbian ministers will be ordained and this will be heralded as a new breed of pioneer. There will be nude dancing in church, but this will never be widespread. There will be occult practices in churches.</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sources:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>(<a href="http://www.worldchallenge.org/about_david_wilkerson" target="_blank">http://www.worldchallenge.org/about_david_wilkerson</a>)</li>
<li>(<a href="http://davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com/</a>)</li>
<li>(<a href="http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2011/04/david_wilkerson.html" target="_blank">http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2011/04/david_wilkerson.html</a>)</li>
<li>(<a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/david-wilkerson-times-square-church-founder-dies-in-accident-50018/" target="_blank">http://www.christianpost.com/news/david-wilkerson-times-square-church-founder-dies-in-accident-50018/</a>) </li>
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		<title>2012: Could It Really be The End?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So a few days ago my friends and I had a conversation about the whole Mayan apocalyptic prediction and came up with our own reason on how the world could end. &nbsp;But before I go on explaining it please take into consideration we weren&#8217;t serious about it and it probably wont happen (and if it did it would suck). Basically this is what we came up with. On the days leading up to December 21, 2012, there will be mass panic and anticipation. &nbsp;All the people who believe in the prediction will rush to buy food and supplies (yes it&#8217;s guaranteed people will hoard supplies. remember the May 21 &#8220;end of the world&#8221; back in 2011?&#8230; yeah&#8230;). &nbsp;So anyways, being human and having a destructive nature, all the careless people will go into a stage of intense partying spending all their money and shooting stuff and things of the sort. In short they plan to trash the place before they leave. &nbsp;But then, the day after December 21, 2012, we wake up and go &#8220;hey&#8230; we&#8217;re still here?&#8221; But it&#8217;s too late. &nbsp;We spent up everything, go into economic crisis, and fight for survival. &nbsp;So basically its a self fulfilling prophesy. &nbsp;I know its a bit far-fetched and keep in mind that for this whole thing to happen, all 7 billion people on earth would have to be extremely stupid. But hey, in today&#8217;s society&#8230; there&#8217;s no telling what could happen.&nbsp;</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of the world (predicted to occur on December 21, 2012 by the Maya) is fast approaching.  Is this just a rumor or is it time to get serious about my bucket list?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For centuries, people have been obsessed&nbsp;with&nbsp;the end of the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;Not only <em>what</em> will&nbsp;transpire but <em>when</em>it will occur.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a society we have told stories, made movies, and even built bunkers stocked with canned goods (just in case).&nbsp; Thanks&nbsp;to our fantastic journalistic talents in this day and age, we&nbsp;are able to&nbsp;follow every effort around the&nbsp;globe to explore these apocalyptic forecasts.&nbsp;&nbsp;Although mildly annoying, these predictions do hold a certain entertainment value.&nbsp; It seems&nbsp;as if every 6 months&nbsp;a particular religious group&nbsp;concocts a new&nbsp;prediction about <em>when </em>the end of the world will take place-giving us just enough time to either panic or do our research.&nbsp; Despite the fact that every&nbsp;other prior prediction has flopped,&nbsp;they arrogantly&nbsp;claim this time around&nbsp;will be different.&nbsp;&nbsp;I always wonder if&nbsp;these religious groups&nbsp;have secretly found&nbsp;a legitimate oracle or if they&nbsp;just read it&nbsp;on&nbsp;their fortune&nbsp;at&nbsp;&#8221;Hunan Palace.&#8221;&nbsp; It must have&nbsp;read something like this:&nbsp; &#8220;The end of the world will be December 21, 2012; Your lucky numbers are 12, 3, 26, and 7.&#8221;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Many of these religious groups&nbsp;aren&#8217;t afraid to define who&nbsp;will make the&nbsp;cut and who will be left behind.&nbsp;&nbsp;Those&nbsp;doomed to&nbsp;face the apocalypse seem to be out of&nbsp;luck.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, they are now free to initiate plan B and start a&nbsp;business to&nbsp;capitalize on these apocalyptic predictions.&nbsp; After all, it wouldn&#8217;t be America if we didn&#8217;t take advantage of fear in some way or another.&nbsp; My favorite online&nbsp;business offered to take care of&nbsp;pets&nbsp;for those who were&nbsp;projected to&nbsp;make it to the promise land.&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#8217;s a good thing&nbsp;they didn&#8217;t make the cut&nbsp;so&nbsp;they were available to take&nbsp;care&nbsp;of pets for those chosen few while they&nbsp;are on vacation&#8230;permanently.&nbsp; Too bad the&nbsp;fee was nonrefundable.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>The most popular of these doomsday predictions is linked to the end of the&nbsp;Mayan calendar that&nbsp;will allegedly occur on December 21, 2012.&nbsp; This&nbsp;may cause you to&nbsp;frantically recall your bucket list in your head-adding a few things as you go along or you&#8217;re still a little skeptical.&nbsp; Either way&nbsp;it&#8217;s a pretty serious issue-it being the end of the world and everything.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#8217;m sure the&nbsp;individuals who&nbsp;informed us of this rumor researched it extensively or were even part of the Maya culture themselves.&nbsp; I decided to look into it a little&nbsp;further and was shocked by what I found.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I imagined that as popular as this prediction&nbsp;has become,&nbsp;the evidence&nbsp;would be littered across Mayan literature or at least be a buzz in that part of the world.&nbsp; However, according to an episode of the Madeleine Brand Show on Southern California Public Radio (KPCC), &#8220;Guatemalan thinkers insist 2012 is mentioned only once in ancient Mayan texts.&nbsp; They say the writings actually describe it as a time when the gods will return to earth and there will be a big event or party.&#8221;&nbsp;</p>
<p><p>Does that mean this day&nbsp;on the Mayan calendar could bring&nbsp;about a new beginning instead of the end of the world?&nbsp; Why would someone turn something so positive into&nbsp;something so fearful?&nbsp; It sounds like a great party-I wonder if there will be a cash bar.&nbsp;&nbsp;How did this ugly rumor got started in the first place?&nbsp;</p>
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<p>In the article &#8220;My Psychic Powers at Work: Behold the boldest, most Maya-endorsed predictions you will read for 2012&#8243;&nbsp;in <u>Time</u> magazine Joel Stein&nbsp;sheds some light on the subject.&nbsp; He contacted David Stuart a Mayan scholar who received the &#8220;genius&#8221; grant at age 18 to find out the truth.&nbsp;&nbsp;According to Stuart,&nbsp;&#8221;The end of the calendar is completely made up by people who don&#8217;t know anything about the ancient&nbsp;Maya.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jill Replogle of KPBS Public Broadcasting asked Ernesto Arredondo Leiva, a Guatemalan archaelogist,&nbsp;about the&nbsp;doomsday prediction associated with the Maya.&nbsp;&nbsp;According to Leiva, &#8220;This is an Anglo perspective of the world.&#8221;&nbsp; According to Replogle, &#8220;He (Leiva)&nbsp;says a couple of misinterpretations and careless predictions have morphed into a 2012 doomsday tale.&nbsp; That&#8217;s mostly thanks to some pseudo-scientific types looking for spiritual support.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><p>Was this doomsday prediction&nbsp;just a big misunderstanding&nbsp;or&nbsp;clear&nbsp;ploy&nbsp;to&nbsp;boost ticket sales for the next big&nbsp;blockbuster?&nbsp;&nbsp;After all, these end of the world predictions&nbsp;do tend to attract quite a following and it gives people&nbsp;of all ages and backgrounds something to look forward to&nbsp;OR complain about.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be&nbsp;waiting for t-shirts with&nbsp;the&nbsp;date 12-21-12 to&nbsp;hit street venders this fall.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So there you have it-myth debunked.&nbsp; Based on the evidence, December 21, 2012 sounds more like a party than an apocalypse.&nbsp; So how does&nbsp;one go about separating the rumors from the&nbsp;correct predictions about the end of the world?&nbsp; If you have to ask, you probably already have a post apocalyptic plan in place-no need to fret.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Like a bad reality show&nbsp;or high school gossip-the drama associated with these predictions&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;addicting.&nbsp; It&#8217;s important to retain even an ounce of&nbsp;skepticism as you tune in to the news and&nbsp;remember that in the end these&nbsp;predictions&nbsp;will amount to&nbsp;nothing more than a pop-culture trivia question or the next big movie blockbuster.&nbsp;&nbsp;In our society, fear still&nbsp;remains the best way to make a buck, manipulating those who are&nbsp;still susceptible to even the craziest of rumors.&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>THE Story in THE Song Neil Young After THE Goldrush</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knights of old, wartime bombing, Nuclear attack and UFO's - this song has it all, but what does it all mean?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE STORY IN THE SONG NEIL YOUNG AFTER THE GOLDRUSH 1970</p>
<p>The title song to a pivotal album of the 70&rsquo;s, and one of the strangest and most unusual of all musical recordings. The song takes on everything from medieval knights in armour to UFO&rsquo;s saving a lucky chosen group of humans from the apocalypse.</p>
<p>The song is best seen in covering three different periods of time and perception that start to overlap in the mind of the singer. The opening verse is clearly set in a hazily remembered past, with an almost intentionally clich&eacute;d view of a chivalrous pageant, and a sense of a children&rsquo;s story, barely remembered. The knights are in some way associated with a queen, (Genevieve?) and an archer damages a tree (possibly a reference to Robin Hood taking part in an archery contest). There is a sense of someone ageing, reflecting on images from his youthful reading, or random thoughts in the mind of someone getting himself rather high.</p>
<p>The verse adds a fanfare with the image of the trumpets pointing upwards, as though the Sun itself was being worshipped, rather than the fanfare just taking place on a bright sunny day. The closing lines depict nature being destroyed by man in the 1970&rsquo;s &ndash; a prophetic vision given that the song was issued just as the decade was commencing. Young has changed this to the 80&rsquo;s, 90&rsquo;s and Noughties in later releases and performances, keeping the line as contemporary as possible.</p>
<p>The second verse moves to a more realistic depiction of soldiering and violence. The narrator is in the wreckage of a bombed out building. It seems to be the position he has been given orders to maintain, and he is hoping that his replacement will arrive soon to relieve him, but there seems to be some kind of delay. It is night. He can see the Moon, but then he can suddenly see the Sun instead. It seems to be the fire-flash of a large explosion, most likely a nuclear one. The band he imagines himself hearing might be a rock band or a religious one playing a requiem to dying humanity. The singer reflects on a friend&rsquo;s words that he had refused to believe but now fears might be coming true. This might well be a prediction someone gave him of the imminent end of the World, which he had dismissed as unrealistic or just rumour mongering. Now he is seeing it come true.</p>
<p>The final chapter depicts an unusual Judgement Day, in which the spaceships land, arriving as fantastically as the medieval knights of the earlier vision. There are many distressed children, and a select group of humans are given a new start with the aliens. The ships fly off sunwards. We are told that all of this is a dream.</p>
<p>The Sun is a recurring theme, the narrator sees all this as though not a part of it. He has no connection to the stories of his childhood. He sees no romance or chivalry in his burnt out basement, and he seems to be a witness to the extra-terrestrial gods aiding an evacuation rather than anyone invited to go.</p>
<p>The song has become something of an anthem for the Space aliens as God cults that still abound. Erich Von Daniken&rsquo;s claims that ancient monuments such as the pyramids of Egypt were built by aliens and a diet of UFO related science fiction has led some to believe that aliens will arrive like angels to save them from the nuclear holocaust the rest of us will be left to suffer. The song captures some of that mood, with the singer not being one of the fortunate (?) chosen few.</p>
<p>An odd but beguiling song, with even its title unexplained or even referenced in the lyrics. The Klondike gold rushes left many people poor and bereft, and bitterly disillusioned. Humanity&rsquo;s race will ultimately end in death for most, with few people feeling satisfied with what they gained in life. For many, the rush for capital is akin to the hysteria of the gold rush, with all its greed and madness and violence, but few of its rewards.</p>
<p>A haunting song that creeps up on you and stays in your head for a long time after a hearing. Cover versions abound, with cover artists including Prelude, Linda Rondstadt, Radiohead and Dolly Parton.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Song on Youtube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwjsYWGvaJo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwjsYWGvaJo</a></p>
<p>Arthur Chappell</p>
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		<title>Will The World as We Know It, End in 2012?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of conspiracy theories, as people who know me well may attest.  Not in the crazy &#8216;everything in our lives is controlled by others&#8217; kind of way as portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film <em>Conspiracy Theory</em>; but in the excited fascination that &#8216;what we see surely can&#8217;t be all there is to life&#8217; kind of way &#8211; the bubbling under the surface of my normal everyday life that is tapped into with films such as <i>Deep Impact, Armageddon</i> and <i>The Day After Tomorrow</i> among others (including the aptly named, <i>2012</i>).  The fascination that goes along with contemplating the end of the world, or life, as we know it leads me to ponder such questions as “Would I be one of the people to survive?  If so how long would I survive after the event or cataclysm?” given the paucity of services, law enforcement and general order that would ensue (portrayed so stunningly in <i>The Stand</i> by Steven King as an example).  If I was to be one of the humans not slated to set up a new world or survive, would I see the end of the world coming? How would I behave?  How would society behave and how quickly would it break down?  Would the powers that be, governments and the like, inform citizens or keep the truth a secret?</p>
<p>2012 appears set to be a portentous year, if nothing else because of the famous, much-hyped and long-awaited end of the long-count Mayan calendar on 21 December, 2012.  Those who can remember the Y2K hype of 2000 can rest assured that the hype will likely be repeated, possibly on a grander scale this time around.  Google ‘December 21, 2012’ and you will find a plethora of sites dedicated to communicating information about the end of the world as we know it – including phrases such as “The world as we know it is in for some dramatic and devastating changes” and also sites debunking the ‘myth’.</p>
<p>Of course this is not the first time that the end of the world has been prophesized – many people have predicted the end of the world many times before, most recently the American Harold Camping, who surely if he was the boy who cried wolf would have been devoured many times over  <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097462_2097456_2097489,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097462_2097456_2097489,00.html</a> and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-12-greatest-end-of-the-world-prophecy-fails/ivana-wynn" target="_blank">http://www.ranker.com/list/the-12-greatest-end-of-the-world-prophecy-fails/ivana-wynn</a>.  It must be very disappointing to all those who have prophesized and will continue to be into the future that the one time someone gets it right – they and nobody else will be around to appreciate the fact and celebrate their success!</p>
<p>The most interesting aspect of the discussion about December 21, 2012 (the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere) is how it relates to history and the history of ancient people – specifically in this case, the Maya.  The astonishing feats of ancient peoples from throughout history and well-documented and I can’t pretend that I have any expertise in this field.  I can say however, that I’ve spent some time travelling in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Mexico and Guatemala and there are many interesting things about the way these civilizations constructed their landmarks, statues and way of life in synergy with astronomy, the sun and other natural principles including the Fibonacci sequence that are quite astounding for the assumed level of knowledge of their peoples at the time.  John Major Jenkins published a book in 1998 called ‘Maya Cosmogenesis 2012’ in which he claims the meaning of the Mayan long count calendar end date as follows:  the December solstice sun will be at the intersection of the Milky Way (where the Galactic Centre, the origin of the galaxy is located) and the ecliptic (the path travelled by the sun, moon and planets through the sky) on December 21, 2012.  According to Jenkins, this alignment occurs only once every 25,800 years!  This is considered to be one quarter of the precessional cycle (with the last alignment of the autumn solstice sun with the Milky Way being around 4400 BC).  The precession of the equinoxes is caused by Earth ‘wobbling’ on its axis, like a spinning top does <a href="http://www.unisa.edu.au/planetarium/Info/eclip.asp" target="_blank">http://www.unisa.edu.au/planetarium/Info/eclip.asp</a> and apparently several ancient civilizations, particularly the Maya, were familiar with this phenomenon and documented it.  The Maya particularly used the precessional point occurring on 21 December, 2012 as an anchor for the end of their long-count calendar, which is why the culmination of this point is Zero Time in the Mayan Calendar.  Jenkins hypothesises that the precessional point that will occur on December 21, 2012 will result in the solstice meridian crossing the Galatic Equator (I assume possibly a similar process to the top proceeding past the vertical line (Galactic Equator) in the centre of the diagram below and beginning to tip to the right).  Jenkins suggests that given we experience differences in ‘field-effect’ properties on either side of the Earth’s Equator (e.g. hurricanes (Northern Hemisphere) and cyclones (Southern Hemisphere) spin in different directions  as per their location on different sides of the Equator), we may well experience differences in ‘field-effects’ once the Earth passes the Galactic Equator.</p>
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		<title>2012 Apocalypse. (Theory and Facts)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Which 2012 Theory is True?</strong></p>
<p>A lot of people are lead to believe there is just one theory that leads to December 21, 2012 being predicted as the end of the world. It is common belief that 2012 theory is based on the end date of the Mayan calendar. This is where the date December 21 originates from but the longer that the 2012 phenomena is studied, the more knowledge comes to light. At present, there are three main theories involved.</p>
<p>At the end of the Mayan calendar, it is said that it will be the end of days. It will be the end of days in the current Great Cycle, the final moment in this age of man. Many debunk this entire concept insisting that this is ridiculous because the new calendar will start back up on Day Zero. Those who have adopted this stance have forgotten one key point; a calendar is a counting system that can go on into infinity. Just because the calendar exists doesn&rsquo;t mean anyone will be around to watch the on coming go by. Their 2012 theory is that it is all just a bunch of bunk. These people could be wrong, because there are many things going on in space, in humanity and in the Earth itself.</p>
<p>There is the theory that the beginning of the new age of man, the fifth sun, the fifth world will bring an evolved consciousness. This group of people&rsquo;s theory about 2012 is metaphysical and is also founded on the Mayan culture that are looking forward to ascension to the next level of being. The non-Mayan believers of this theory believe that those who are transformed will enter a world of continual peace, love and beauty where no war, no hunger or suffering exists. They call this new age phenomenon Ascension 2012 which while stemming from the beliefs of the Mayas, is founded in New Age religions.</p>
<p>The Christian 2012 theory sees this date as the end of days, end of the world when Christ will return to take the true believers to heaven. First however, the Book of Revelations prophecy must play out. Since there are years that span between one event and the other according to the seven angels and the seven vials, this could not be the end of the world but the beginning of the end when disaster and global suffering begins. Years of famine, disease, war and tribulation of intenseness the world has never before known. The Apocalypse, Armageddon and the Anti Christ are all part of this group&rsquo;s 2012 theory.</p>
<p>Major events entailed in 2012 theory involve the return of Nibiru, massive earthquakes, tsunamis and flooding, volcanoes and solar storms of unprecedented intensity. Global warming is believed to begin increasing to the point that part of the planet will burn up. The Great Galactic Cross will occur on December 21, 2012 with the Earth, the Sun and Venus all in perfect alignment with the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is believed that the effects on Earth by the arrival of this planetary alignment will be catastrophic and cause natural destruction on a global basis. Major scientists say that this isn&rsquo;t possible. It would be wise to remember, that science has been wrong in their assumptions many times in the past.<br /> <em>&#8220;We thought we knew  everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown  unknowns.&#8221;&nbsp; </em>Richard  Fisher, NASA Heliophysics Department (October 2009)</p>
<p>In reality, science is the study of what is above the Earth, on the surface of the planet and beneath the crust. Science controls nothing but tests and discovery. Their debunking of 2012 theory is based on what they know at the moment it is stated and has nothing to do with unknown unknowns. No one on Earth has any control over the solar system which is experiencing planetary warming on all resident plants. Nor do we have any control over the universe which is putting incredible, increasing pressure on the Earth. Whether you choose to believe any 2012 theory or not, the world as we know it is&nbsp; going to change &hellip; the transformation has already started.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at the concept of the end of the world, what religion has on the subject and the scientists' doomsday clock and where humanity fits in with the death of our planet.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>The End of the World</h3>
<p>Religion has preached the <strong>end of the world</strong> for centuries, predicting the end of the world at certain times in their future.&nbsp; The belief in the <i>destruction</i> of the earth along with the unfaithful and the redemption and salvation of the faithful has been the selling points for many a religious <i>leader.</i>&nbsp; <strong>Doomsday</strong> is an ever-present factor for the faithful.</p>
<p>And it would seem now, that <i>science </i>has also taken up the reigns in providing data and facts to point us in the same direction that religion has been preaching all along.&nbsp; Only now the end of the earth is a <i>scientific</i> process based on the number of <i>nuclear weapons</i> on earth, the number of materials for nuclear weapons, <i>the leadership</i> of our world, <i>climate change</i> that can be blamed on the leadership of the world and a collection of <i>natural disasters</i>.&nbsp; The <strong>doomsday clock</strong> was created by scientists to symbolize how close humanity was to self-annihilation (<a href="http://www.reuters.com" target="_blank">www.reuters.com</a>), and now stands at five minutes to <i>midnight</i> &ndash; midnight representing <strong>&lsquo;DOOM&rsquo;</strong> or the end of the world.</p>
<p>The <i>preoccupation</i> with the end of the world concept is fascinating.&nbsp; One would think that the idea of the world coming to an end, and the information as to why such an occurrence is <i>possible</i>, would have people trying to <i>eradicate the causes</i> to <i>save the planet</i> and our <i>own existence</i>.&nbsp; However at this point in time it is sad to note that the scientists may have a point and that the religions may have been on to something.&nbsp; Our planet is <i>dying </i>and humanity poses the greatest <i>threat</i>.&nbsp; Forests and wildlife are <i>disappearing</i>, water is <i>drying</i> up in certain places and the oceans are <i>melting</i>!&nbsp; The <i>atmosphere</i> is heating up and rain is<i> poisonous</i>!&nbsp; No wonder natural disasters are<i> peaking</i> in this era, the condition of the <i>earth is changing</i> and humanity should <strong>stop</strong>, take <strong>stock</strong> and get moving to <strong>heal our planet</strong>, so that maybe the <strong>doomsday clock</strong> and other prophesies on the <strong>end of the world</strong> can be turned back a little more&hellip;</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eschatologists assess that global events will continue to decline during 2012 and beyond because of the many sins related to sexual immorality, abortion practices, and growing international hatred of the Israeli state.&nbsp; In 2011, the Joplin tornadoes and the Japanese earthquakes demonstrated how God responded to national and international attempts to divide Israel&rsquo;s land. If the nations continue their anti-Israeli objectives, pro-abortion programs, and homosexual agenda, then the world will continue to decline geo-physically, economically, militarily, politically, climatically, and environmentally during 2012 and beyond. These actions may accelerate world events to towards the Lord&rsquo;s Day of Wrath.</p>
<p><strong>Mideast War</strong></p>
<p>Prophecy analysts believe that war will irrupt between Israel and the Islamic community within the next few months or years. &nbsp;The Arab uprising will result in the Muslim Brotherhood taking over many Arab states. The Islamic states around Israel will form an Islamic caliphate with the immediate war plans for Israel&rsquo;s destruction. Islamic states will want to destroy Israel and make Jerusalem this newly created caliphate&rsquo;s capital. The move to create this union will accelerate during 2012 because any military action taken by Israel will also accelerate this Islamic union.</p>
<p>Jordan is under tremendous pressure because the Muslim Brotherhood is gaining International support. Jordan will be the key in this caliphate system because the Holy Scriptures show that Jordan will be Israel&#8217;s leading enemy (Obadiah 1:1-21 and Psalm 83). Jordan is going to turn against Israel and this change may happen during either 2012 or shortly afterwards, which will be a dramatic sign that Mideast war is coming.</p>
<p>Prophecy analysts judge that war between Israel and Iran appears imminent. While Iran continues its nuclear weapons development program, the likelihood for war increases between Israel and Iran. &nbsp;The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) will have to attack and destroy Iran&rsquo;s nuclear weapons facilities and installations before Iran nukes Israel. &nbsp;This Mideast war may unify the Islamic community against Israel and could facilitate the caliphate formation overnight.</p>
<p>On 1 January 2012, Obama signed into law severe economic sanctions against Iran. These sanctions will be effective during early March. Iran declares these sanctions are acts of war and stated that it will close the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, which will damage the world&#8217;s oil supply. The US leadership says, it will never permit Iran to do this action. Therefore, the potential for conflict appears likely in 2012 or shortly afterwards..</p>
<p>When the US supports Israel in this coming conflict against Iran, it will be to primarily to defend Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia fears a nuclear Iran. Iran is primarily a Shiite Muslim nation while Saudi is mostly a Sunni Muslim country. In the past, these two religious communities fought deadly wars to control Islam with the Sunnis winning the conflicts.</p>
<p>Iran is now moving to control Islam and Saudi Arabia stands in way. Iran would use the threat of nuclear weapons against Saudi Arabia to gain control of Islam. Obama strongly supports the Sunnis nations. He will protect the Sunnis and use protecting Israel as the cover.</p>
<p>The Middle East is ready for the all-out war that is described in Psalm 83 and Obadiah 1:1-21 and by many other biblical prophets. Today the Islamic caliphate is forming and Iran may have already developed nuclear weapons. Prophecy analysts watching events in the Mideast believe that war may begin over Jerusalem.</p>
<p><strong>Global Economy, Wars, and Natural Disasters</strong></p>
<p>Prophecy analysts assess that the world economy will continue to weaken significantly as the European Union (EU) attempt to divide Israel. God is currently bringing down the global economy in direct connection to dividing Jerusalem. The global economy is under the direct judgment from Israel&rsquo;s Holy God.</p>
<p>In 2011, there were incredible disasters connected to the nations touching Israel. The similar disasters will continue into 2012. The disasters will coincide with the nations violating Genesis 12:3. According to persons within scientific community, there have been many volcanic activities globally and there may be major eruptions this year. When the EU comes against Israel, watch the volcanoes in Iceland as a major eruption would devastate Europe.</p>
<p>While America descends deeper and deeper into national sin, the West and East Coasts may experience more earthquakes and natural disasters. &nbsp;Lately, there have been major earthquakes in the Pacific region, but not on the West Coast. The West Coast appears to be long overdue for major earthquakes. As the homosexual agenda continues to advance, a few eschatologists observe a pattern of earthquakes following major homosexual activities. While God does not hate homosexuals, this particular sexual sin is in violation of God&rsquo;s created covenant between a man and a woman.</p>
<p>When all these events converge, it may appear to some people that these are apocalyptic judgments. &nbsp;The war in the Middle East may kill millions, destroy entire nations and create refugees in the millions. The war may drive oil prices into outer-space and crush the fragile global economy. Food and drinking water will become very expensive and many will die from hunger, thirst, and disease. &nbsp;The horrific war over Israel, the global social unrest from the economic collapse and mega disasters will lead people to think that Armageddon has finally arrived.</p>
<p>Additionally, there are many dramatic movies and pagan prophecies about the world ending in 2012. For example, the Mayan Calendar predicts that the world will end by 31 December 2012. Thus, when these wars and natural disasters increase in 2012, many people who are not grounded in God&#8217;s prophetic word will believe that they are living in Armageddon.</p>
<p><strong>Anti-Missiah&rsquo;s Rise</strong></p>
<p>A few prophecy analysts believe that these coming wars may defeat the religion of Islam permanently. The final end time religion will be worldwide <strong><u>PAGANISM</u></strong>. A military European leader will be the man who defeats Islam. He will be viewed as the savior of all humanity. A global government will form to rebuild the world economy and the nations. This false savior will be equipped with ideas to create peace. He will call for a global religion to bring an end to all religious wars. He will seek to merge all the religions into one. Billions of people will follow him because he is none other than the Anti-Messiah of Revelation 13 and Daniel 11.</p>
<p>While many prophecy analysts do not believe that all these events will happen in 2012, the year 2012 marks the continuation of worldwide calamity. By the year 2020, the world will be completely transformed for the worst. &nbsp;Eschatologists believed that the end time events as described throughout God&rsquo;s Holy Scriptures are now coming into focus because the world is looking for a human savior and not Messiah Yeshua from heaven. When the world populations get their savior, he will be the personification of pure evil. The world has nothing to look forward to but the coming anti-Messiah and another global apocalypse.</p>
<p><strong>References: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prophecy Blog; Dr. Maurice Sklar; 2009</li>
<li>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prophecy Blog; Dr. John Mcternan; 2012.</li>
<li>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prophecy Blog; Bill Salus; 2012.</li>
<li>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prophecy Conference; Dr. Grant Jeffrey; 2009.</li>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The end of the world theory is getting <a href="http://socyberty.com/social-sciences/growing-rumors-about-the-end-of-the-world-in-2012/" target="_blank">more and more intense</a> as we approach the end of 2012.</p>
<p>In the core of that theory is the fact of a Mayan Calendar that ended right in the end of 2012 but also the fact that the Mayan civilization is known as experts in mathematics and predict astronomical events. <br />The fact is Calendars exist for keeping track of the passage of time and this happened for Mayan civilization as well. <br />The Mayan astronomers were clever, and developed a very complex calendar based on astronomical cycles. Therefore, the ending of the Mayan calendar means that 2012 marks the end of a cycle. <a href="http://bizcovering.com/business/solar-storm-predicted-for-2012/" target="_blank">The beginning of 2013 will mark a new solar cycle</a>.<br />The main point to be covered here is that Mayan calendar ended to mark the end of the Mayan long-count period. Just like our calendars end on the 31st of December, every year. It doesn&rsquo;t means the world will end, it just means we will start a new cycle; which in our case is a new 365 days year. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, all the bus about this calendar is also related <a href="http://socyberty.com/social-sciences/growing-rumors-about-the-end-of-the-world-in-2012/" target="_blank">with all doomsday theories</a> such as <a href="http://scienceray.com/astronomy/map-of-the-planets-positions-on-dec-21-2012/" target="_blank">Planet alignment</a>, <a href="http://bizcovering.com/business/solar-storm-predicted-for-2012/" target="_blank">Solar Storms</a>, <a href="http://socyberty.com/history/nibiru-and-the-doomsday-theory/" target="_blank">Meteor collision</a>, all of them <a href="http://socyberty.com/paranormal/the-origin-of-doomsday-prophecy/" target="_blank">associated with the doomsday theory</a>, planed to happen on the 21st of December of 2012</p>
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