End of the World - Doomsday

Since time immemorial, people have thought about the end of the world and make predictions about when and how it could happen. Most major religions have their own theories on the subject, which often include fateful battle between the forces of natural good and evil and catastrophe.

According to a 2007 article in The New York Times, agnostics foretold the imminent arrival of the kingdom of God from the first century. The Shakers thought the world would have been over in 1792, while the Jehovah Witnesses presents different years between 1914 and 1994 as an end date. Recently, some apocalyptic predictions focused on the year 2012. Referring to the conclusion of a long cycle of ancient Mayan calendar, some theorists have predicted the end of life we know, December 21, 2012. These theorists believe that December 21, 2012, Earth will experience unprecedented disasters: devastating earthquakes and tsunamis massive collapses nuclear reactor. To prepare for these events, some supporters of the 2012 prophecy already started sourcing equipment for survival.

Major religions of the world each have their individual beliefs about the world ending, the victory of good over evil and the Day of Judgement. In Christianity, the last chapter of Revelation in the Bible, New Testament mentions Armageddon, the final battle on Earth between the forces of God and Satan. Armageddon would be the Hebrew word "mountain of Megiddo." Located in the current Israel, Megiddo, the ancient, strategically located in the city, was present at many battles. Some Christians construe the book of Revelation as a road diagram that creates the way the world ends. They argue that the Day of Armageddon will take place and Jesus will save the believers, while non-believers are left behind to suffer.

In Islam, the end of the world called time and involves Jesus' return to Damascus to kill an anti-Christ, who put the planet at risk. Anti-Christ taken out of the picture, a period of harmony will take place. Jesus later died a natural death, leading to an era of destruction that leads directly to an hour. In Judaism there is no designation of Armageddon, but there are references in the Hebrew Bible to events that could be compared to Armageddon, including the Lord's day (where God is causing death and destruction to people who deserve to be punished) and the war of Gog and Magog (where Israel and its God fight their enemies, rather than as an anti-Christ).

In Hinduism Vishnu is the story of return to the last round of a figure of a name is gone, riding a white horse, carrying a sword and destroy the comet appears to the forces of evil. Some Buddhist prophecies, Armageddon is equivalent to Shambhala, where good triumphs over evil, but the planet has been surrendered or destroyed, so that people can achieve enlightenment.

Despite the many theories and interpretations of religion, the only thing that is certain about the end of the world is that nobody can know with certainty what will happen. And until that day - if it happens - people will probably continue to speculate endlessly about when it is finished.