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     The end of the world will occur some time in the next 100,000 years or so science has concluded. 

     Over the past two millennia, there have been thousands of predictions made concerning the end of the world.  The majority are based on interpretations of the Bible. They typically predict an event would occur at a specific date in the future, an event that would completely change the world. Some of the more notable cases, predict that most or all life on Earth will be destroyed.

  "About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition." Sir Isaac Newton mathematician, physicist (1643-1727 AD)  who, himself, predicted that the end of the world would occur in 2060.

    So far, all predictions have failed to come to pass. We expect more predictions, and more failures, to continue on into the forseeable future.

      Let us address these Bible-based prophecies:

      It is the result of an error in translation. The Bible texts are not speaking of the end of the world, but the end of an age.  The word world is translated from one of these two Greek words:  either kosmos, or aeon.

     Kosmos means the system of things, how society is ordered .

     Aeon means an age, a period of time.

     Neither means the planet we live on. When they were speaking of the globe, the land on which we live, they used the word gae. That word was never used in these prophecies.

     For thousands of years astrologers have known that there are ages, periods of time of about 2000 years. The end-of-the-world prophecies always coincided with the end of one age and beginning of the next  one, the cusp. For example: 7 BC-30 AD and 1981-2012.

     All the Bible prophecies were referring to the first cusp period 2000 years ago. They had some interesting ideas as to what would happen. But that is the time period they were referring to. This is especially clear in the 24th chapter of Matthew, where Jesus is explaining what would happen as the world (aeon) would end. And all those things occurred. But the world (gae) did not end.

Science tells us that the world WILL come to an end. several million years from now. There will be "earthquakes, wars and rumors of wars" but the Earth will abide for many millenia to come

                             End time prophecies:
"The prophecies are ... unintelligible to the ungodly but intelligible to those who are properly instructed." Blaise Pascal mathematician, physicist( 1623 - 1662 AD)