Are We Nearing The End of Civilization?

Which ''Extinction Level Events'' is Earth likely to experience in the next 5 years?

  • Nuclear Disaster

  • Climate Shock (cataclysmic)

  • Earth Changes (disasters)

  • EMPs (from the sun or man-made)

  • Comet Ison

  • Planet X

  • Unknown disaster near the Eastern Seaboard


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Paxton25

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There are multiple ways that civilization suffer calamity, some of which could happen very soon.

The least critical of these is the economic collapse that many believe is already slowly in progress. Of greater concern are the potential “Extinction Level Events” (ELEs) that we are facing.

Nuclear Disaster
The Fukushima nuclear meltdown demonstrates how vulnerable nuclear facilities are to disaster. The radiation levels are so high in Japan that 30 million people may need to be moved. Even so, their health has already been seriously harmed.

Climate Shock
While those with incomplete knowledge debate whether there is overall global warming or cooling, and whether climate change is due to human activities emitting too much carbon dioxide or not, the ongoing release of methane from deep ocean reserves threatens a rapid change to an unlivable atmosphere.

Earth Changes
You are undoubtedly aware of the increased severity of natural disasters around the world.

Major earthquakes and volcanic events as well as sinkholes have manifested in the last few years. There is a major sinkhole currently expanding in Louisiana that has received minimal media coverage. These disasters have disrupted the lives of many thousands of people.

Within the last few years a huge number of structures and/or crops have been damaged by storms, high winds, tornadoes, tsunamis, massive floods, drought, wild fires, extreme temperatures, deep snow, ice storms, etc., ravaging many areas. In some instances, millions have found themselves suddenly without power for days or weeks.

EMP
With the changes in our magnetic shield, it is more likely than ever that a charged blast occasionally shot from the sun, a coronal mass ejection (CME), may get through into our planet's atmosphere if directed our way.

What if all power and communications were knocked out for days, weeks or months by a major storm, a large solar flare or an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) generated by an enemy producing an explosion in the atmosphere with an effective weapon?
An EMP could fry the power grids of much or all of the United States or other areas of the planet, and also damage satellites we rely on for communication.

Research has revealed that a major solar CME has occurred previously about every 75 to 120 years. We are way overdue for a really large event.

Comet Ison
Comet Ison is a large comet already visible to many on Earth in the night sky. As it comes closer to its nearest point in November, it is expected to become obvious to everyone. It is reported that it may appear as large as the moon.

Ison may have a debris field with it that could pummel the Earth with meteors. There are currently astounding numbers of fireballs being reported in the skies all over the world. These may be the smaller advance pieces of debris burning up in the atmosphere.

Planet X
Ancient texts from various cultures indicate that there is a celestial body or group of bodies that passes through our solar system on a long cycle. Most sources suggest an approximate 3600 year time frame for this period.

A large space object is usually very influential on other bodies it comes near. The ancient Sumerians referred to what is today called Planet X as ''Nibiru.'' Other cultures had different names.

Planet X is thought to be on an extended elliptical orbit that takes it far beyond the sun, where it may be hidden from view until its return to our part of the solar system. Most Planet X theorists believe that this will be very soon. Many have tried to photograph what looks like a second smaller body near the sun at sunrise and sunset.

Procurement of Emergency Supplies & Disaster Drills
FEMA has been preparing for a possible disaster in their Region III, which includes Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware, with a deadline of October 1 for delivery of supplies and training of personnel.

Similar emergency preparedness actions are reportedly going on in Puerto Rico and other east coast areas, as well as in the New Madrid Fault - Mississippi River area and Texas.

Meanwhile establishment insiders are said to have vast, well-stocked underground facilities to escape to where they expect to wait out the havoc, while most of those on the surface of Earth perish.

We are living in interesting times.
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To the OP

No

But the end of the current condition of human self rule of the nations is going to be changed dramatically .... and mortal human existence will go on for another 1000 years

Then the end will come and only immortal humans will exist in the Lord's eternal creation

I didn't interpret that these “Extinction Level Events” would eradicate Earth's entire population, only the affected areas. I hope that others won't interpret that poll question the same way you have. It's going to be a pointless exercise otherwise.
 
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Bible prophesy tells us exactly what will happen to 'reset civilization' - Isaiah 30:26...the sun will shine with seven times its normal strength... And in Malachi 4:1That Day will 'burn like a furnace'... This can only be explained by a coronal mass ejection of unprecedented magnitude. This would literally fulfil all the prophesies about the great and terrible Day of the Lord's vengeance and wrath, which is NOT the Return in glory, but the Lord's punishment of the nations. Hab 3:12, Psalm 110:5-6, Luke 3:12 and many others.
A close approach of a comet is known to affect the sun, it seems to me that our leaders know this and have made preparations for their safety, while feeding dis-information to the masses. Sadly for them, Amos 9:2 will apply.
 
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Doesn't an "Extinction Level Event" by it's very nomenclature infer that it would wipe out our species? Not to mention the thread title asking if we're nearing the end of civilization, which is worldwide.

At any rate, none of the above. I don't think we're near the end of civilization and I don't believe there is any sort of "Extinction Level Event" in the near or distant future, barring the inevitable destruction of the sun in another 5-5.5 billion years or so.
 
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Paxton25 said in post 1:

Nuclear Disaster

Mark 13:20 can mean that all flesh on the earth would die if the Lord hadn't already shortened, as in "he hath shortened" (Mark 13:20b), the number of days of the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18, Matthew 24, and Mark 13. The Lord could have already determined, from the beginning of Creation (cf. Isaiah 46:10), that he will return on the 1,335th day after the abomination of desolation (possibly a standing, android image of the Antichrist) is set up in the holy place (the inner sanctum) of a 3rd Jewish temple (Matthew 24:15, Daniel 12:11-12, Revelation 16:15). And the Lord will return "immediately after the tribulation" (Matthew 24:29-31), immediately after its final event, the worldwide destruction during the 7th vial (Revelation 16:19, Revelation 19:2 to 20:6). So Mark 13:20 can mean that if the Lord hadn't shortened the number of days of the tribulation, then all flesh on the earth would die during the 7th vial's aftermath, which could be a nuclear-winter scenario (which the Lord will miraculously prevent at his return) brought on by the 10 kings of the Antichrist's empire nuking the cities of the earth at the 7th vial (Revelation 17:16-17a, Revelation 16:19).

Paxton25 said in post 1:

Nuclear Disaster
The Fukushima nuclear meltdown demonstrates how vulnerable nuclear facilities are to disaster.

The tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, which Jesus will return immediately after (Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6) hasn't started yet. It will begin with a horrible war, which, with its aftermath of famines and epidemics, will end up killing 1/4 of the world (Revelation 6:4-8). The "great sword" of this war (Revelation 6:4) could be Israel's nuclear weapons. After this war, there will be a terrible series of natural disasters historically unprecedented in their magnitude, such as a gigantic volcanic eruption (Revelation 6:12-14), possibly of the Yellowstone Caldera, and then the collapse into the ocean of another erupting volcano (Revelation 8:8-9), possibly one of the Canary Islands, the collapse of which could set up a huge tsunami which could destroy the eastern seaboard of the U.S.

If such a tsunami occurs, it could cause a string of awful, Fukushima-type, nuclear-meltdown radiation disasters in the nuclear power plants and their nuclear-waste storage facilities all along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. Also, if the tsunami breaks open the germ-containment structures on Plum Island, just off the coast of Connecticut, especially-deadly viruses and bacteria could be washed inland and spread across the U.S. and Canada as they infect animals and people.

After the volcanic activity and possible tsunami, a comet will strike the earth (Revelation 8:10-11), possibly in the U.S. and Canadian Great Lakes region. As the comet falls from the sky, it will look like a great star, or like a burning lamp in the sky (Revelation 8:10). It will strike a region of the earth which contains 1/3 of the world's fresh surface water (Revelation 8:10b), and it will contain some poisonous element which will poison that water so that many who drink from it will die (Revelation 8:11b). Sometime after that, weird locust-like beings will swarm up from the bottomless pit of the earth to torment mankind with excruciating stings for 5 months (Revelation 9:2-10). The world could see them as "aliens" who had been hibernating for thousands of years in a cavern deep underground. The locust-like beings won't kill anyone, but they will make those they sting want to die, the pain will be so bad (Revelation 9:5-6).

After that, an army of 200 million weird horse-like beings and their (possibly fallen-angel) riders will come upon the earth (Revelation 9:16-19). If they descend from the sky in spaceships, the world could see them as aliens. But they and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of the beast) could (falsely) say that they're YHWH God's main army. In fact, they could be loyal to Lucifer (Satan, the dragon, Revelation 12:9). The 4 fallen angels now bound at the Euphrates who will lead this army (Revelation 9:14-16) could employ it to make mankind completely desperate before its complete takeover by Lucifer and the Antichrist mid-tribulation (Revelation 12:9 to 13:18). For when the army starts killing 1/3 of mankind (Revelation 9:16-19), then could also begin one of the biggest deceptions ever wrought upon mankind. For the Antichrist, who by that time could have managed to have been elected as the Prime Minister of a Mediterranean Union formed by the joining of the European Union with an Arab Union stretching from Oman to Morocco, could announce to the world that he has sent a mental distress call to (what he could call) "My Father, our Lord Lucifer, to come with his legions of angels, and rescue mankind from this murderous army of YHWH".

(And all of this will be part of only the first half of the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24.)

Paxton25 said in post 1:

With the changes in our magnetic shield, it is more likely than ever that a charged blast occasionally shot from the sun, a coronal mass ejection (CME), may get through into our planet's atmosphere if directed our way.

That may not happen until the world experiences the 7 last plagues of the 7 vials of God's wrath (Revelation chapters 15-16), the 4th and final stage of the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24. I.e., the vials won't occur until after the never-fulfilled Revelation chapters 6 to 15 have been fulfilled. At the first vial, an awful sore will appear on only those people who will have received the Antichrist's mark and worshipped his image (Revelation 16:2). At the 2nd vial, the sea will become like the blood of a dead man, and every living creature in the sea will die (Revelation 16:3). At the 3rd vial, all surface sources of fresh water will become blood (Revelation 16:4). At the 4th vial, men will be scorched with fire shot out from the sun (Revelation 16:8). This would be a solar-flare coronal mass ejection of solar plasma, which could make its way down to the surface of the earth due to the earth's magnetic field being disrupted during a magnetic-pole reversal which could occur near the end of the future tribulation.

At the 5th vial, the whole world will be plunged into literal darkness (Revelation 16:10). At the 6th vial, unclean spirits like frogs will come out of the mouths of Lucifer (the dragon, Satan: Revelation 12:9), and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of the beast), and the False Prophet (Revelation 16:13). And these unclean spirits like frogs will go forth and perform amazing miracles to convince the world's armies to gather together in an attempt to defeat YHWH (Revelation 16:14, Revelation 19:19). The Euphrates will dry up so that the armies of "the kings of the east" (Revelation 16:12) (i.e. the vast armies of China, India, Pakistan, Japan, Iran, Indonesia) can easily cross the riverbed and gather at the "place" called Armageddon (Revelation 16:16) (Har Megiddo: Mount Megiddo in northern Israel). Once they've gathered there, as only a staging area, with all the other armies of the world (Revelation 16:14,16), they won't wage battle there (that's why the Bible doesn't refer to a "battle" of Armageddon). Instead, they will travel south to pillage Jerusalem, right before Jesus returns and defeats them (Zechariah 14:2-21, Revelation 19:19-21).

At the 7th vial, right before Jesus returns (Revelation 16:17,19, Revelation 19:2-21), there will be a huge earthquake which will affect the whole world (Revelation 16:18-20), and 100-pound hailstones will pummel the earth (Revelation 16:21). The 7th vial will also be when Revelation's symbolic (and worldwide) "Babylon" (Revelation chapters 17-18) will be destroyed (Revelation 16:19).
 
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Doesn't an "Extinction Level Event" by it's very nomenclature infer that it would wipe out our species? Not to mention the thread title asking if we're nearing the end of civilization, which is worldwide.

At any rate, none of the above. I don't think we're near the end of civilization and I don't believe there is any sort of "Extinction Level Event" in the near or distant future, barring the inevitable destruction of the sun in another 5-5.5 billion years or so.
Actually, we're in the middle of an extinction level event. Unfortunately, its us. Humans have been responsible directly and indirectly for more extinctions in the shortest time than any other factor since Chixalub. Seems we might be getting our act together now, but there are plenty of otherwise viable species that would still be around if it weren't for us.
 
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Actually, we're in the middle of an extinction level event. Unfortunately, its us. Humans have been responsible directly and indirectly for more extinctions in the shortest time than any other factor since Chixalub. Seems we might be getting our act together now, but there are plenty of otherwise viable species that would still be around if it weren't for us.

You're not wrong.
 
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