A self-declared Bible “researcher” and conspiracy theorist who has predicted a number of failed doomsday dates is trying a new tack. Instead of giving a date, he’s giving a range.
David Meade, whose views fall well outside mainstream Christianity, told the Guardian that the biblical “rapture” will take place at some point between May and December of this year. When that happens, the world won’t end but rather the faithful will be plucked off the Earth, leaving the rest behind for seven years of tribulation. Then, he said, there will be 1,000 years of peace and prosperity before the world actually ends, which would occur by the year 3025, give or take.
“So the world isn’t ending anytime soon – in our lifetimes, anyway,” Meade assured the Guardian.
Meade previously predicted the world would end on Sept. 23, 2017. At the time, he didn’t offer a specific form of apocalypse. In the past, however, Meade has used “numerical codes” found in the Bible and claimed that a secret planet called Nibiru was on a collision course with Earth.
Mainstream Christians have also distanced themselves from Meade.
“Whenever someone tells you they have found a secret number code in the Bible, end the conversation,” Ed Stetzer, director of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, wrote last year in Christianity Today. “Everything else he or she says can be discounted.”
100,000 Cosmic Dots -- All Stars-Suns, With Planets Too Small To See
We begin here with a LOT of cosmic dots -- about 100,000 of them. Hubble Space Telescope snapped this 2009 image of a panoramic colorful assortment of 100,000 stars in the core of a giant star cluster called Omega Centauri -- which is just one of about 200 star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. According to NASA project scientist and planet-hunter Natalie Batalha, "Every star in the sky has at least one planet, so instead of seeing stars in the sky, we're looking at other solar systems."
First Image Of Earth Showing Our Home World As A Disc
Not quite a dot, this is the first picture (from May 8, 2003) of Earth that actually shows our home world as a planetary disk. Image was taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft at a distance of 86 million miles from Earth.
Earth Viewed Through Saturn's Rings 2006
This beautiful image of Saturn and its rings was captured by Cassini's wide angle camera on Sept. 15, 2006. It's a composite of 165 separate pictures and, wouldn't you know it -- Cassini also caught Earth almost a billion miles away visible through the ice and dust of Saturn's rings. Earth is that tiny dot to the left of the rings. The next slide is a close-up of our home.
Earth Viewed Through Saturn's Rings 2006 (2)
In this close-up of the previous slide, little planet Earth is seen in the far distance.
The Planet Earth Dot Beyond Saturn's Rings (1 of 2)
In this rare image taken by the wide angle camera of NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 19, 2013, Earth (denoted with an arrow) is pictured with Saturn's rings in the foreground.
The Planet Earth Dot Beyond Saturn's Rings (2 of 2)
In this close-up of the previous slide, the moon can be seen as a faint appendage off Earth's right side.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Tiny Earth From Mars
Just after sunset on Jan. 31, 2014, the Curiosity Rover on Mars captured Earth and the moon 99 million miles away.
The Pale Blue Dot Of Earth (1of 2)
This is perhaps the most famous image of Earth that could liken it to the vision of an exoplanet. On Feb. 14, 1990, as the Voyager 1 spacecraft was about to leave our planetary neighborhood, astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that mission engineers have Voyager 1 (about 4 billion miles away) take one last picture of Earth which was captured in the center of scattered solar light rays. Our planet appears as the tiniest possible point -- not even a dot of light. If you have trouble seeing Earth, the next slide is a close-up.
The Pale Blue Dot Of Earth (2 of 2)
This close-up of the previous slide depicts Earth as a tiny speck of dust photographed by Voyager 1 as it left our cosmic neighborhood. Astronomer Carl Sagan wrote: "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives... Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
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