Doomsday is more than a DC Comics character seeking to destroy Superman and the Human Race. It’s a term we use whenever there’s an existential threat to our species.
In 1968 Professor Paul R. Ehrlich of Stanford University published a book entitled ‘The Population Bomb,’ in which he predicted that world food production would not be able to keep up with exponential population growth and therefore millions would starve. To deal with the crisis he floated the idea of adding sterilants to the water supply and staple foods. But while population has tripled since then - food production has also kept pace, foiling his Doomsday prediction.
We all remember the Y2K Doomsday prediction that failed to bring about the world’s doom - And the 2012 Maya Calendar scare in which Nibiru, a mysterious unseen planet was supposed to collide with earth and bring about Doomsday.
But the Nuclear Age ushered in such a real Doomsday scenario, that Albert Einstein and some of the Scientists who had worked with him on the Manhattan project which led to the building of the first Atom bomb, created the Doomsday Clock in 1947, set at 5 minutes to midnight.
A few months ago, the committee that monitors this clock, moved the hands to 90 seconds before midnight, because of hints given by Vladimir Putin about possibly invoking the Nuclear option in his war against Ukraine, because of Climate Change concerns, and because of the fear of a new Pandemic.
For Christians throughout history however, Doomsday has been linked to a statement made by Jesus and recorded in the Gospels: “So when you see standing in the Holy Place (Jerusalem), ‘the Abomination that causes desolation…’ then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains… For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, NO ONE WOULD SURVIVE, but for the sake of the Elect those days will be shortened.” (MATTHEW 24:15-22) This unparalleled time of trouble, according to your Bible, will involve all of the major determinants brought forth by famous doomsdayers of the past: Famine, war, pestilence, Celestial catastrophes and Natural disasters.
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, and United Nations official, recently made this alarmist statement: “The world is facing a gathering storm of extinction level consequences, exacerbated by the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and the threats are even more acute, and the failures of leadership even more damning. We live today in a world of interlocking crisis, each illustrating the unwillingness of leaders to act in the true long term interests of their peoples.”
Your Bible says, “When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules the people groan.” (PROVERBS 29:2) There’s a whole lot of groaning going on around the world today because of wicked men and women who are in the seat of Political power, either as Kings, Presidents or Prime Ministers. This is true of Legislatures as well, whom God gives this stern warning: “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees.” (ISAIAH 10:1 NIV) And God doesn’t give the Judicial branches of Governments a pass either: “God stands in the assembly of the gods. He stands as Judge among the judges. He says, ‘How long will you judge unfairly and show special favors to the wicked?’ (PSALM 82:1,2)
Corrupt leadership has contributed to the fall of empires, countries and cities throughout history! Wickedness brings doom: “Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; yes he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood. That’s why your Bible says, “…the wicked are reserved for ‘the Day of Doom.’” (JOB 21:30)
God says, “If a Country sins against ME by being unfaithful and I stretch out MY hand against it to cut off its food supply, and send famine upon it, and kill its people and their animals, even if these 3 men - Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could only save themselves… Or if I bring a sword against that Country and say, ‘Let the sword pass through that land,’ and I kill its people and their animals, as surely as i live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if these 3 men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters.” (EZEKIEL 14:13,14,17,18)
The greatest contributor & determinant of DOOMSDAY is SIN or WICKEDNESS - whether among the leaders of a people - or the people themselves. The only way to avoid Doomsday then - is for everyone to repent: “Now therefore, amend your ways and doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will relent concerning the doom that HE has pronounced against you.” (JEREMIAH 26:13)
As we saw in the words of Jesus Himself, the only reason Doomsday is not allowed to come fully to this world is because of the Elect - who have amended their ways & doings - are you one of them?