End of Days by Sylvia Browne

Posted by admin_akashic on Aug 9th, 2022 in Stories

over other people, neither of which perpetuates God’s intended global unity. Salvation doesn’t involve God’s judgment but instead is a journey toward nearness to God, who is the only source of true, complete happiness. Nearness to God is the Baha’i definition of “heaven,” which they don’t believe is an actual physical place, and “hell” is the soul existing in distance from Him through its own ill-conceived choices.

The general Baha’i belief about the end of the world is that there will be no literal cataclysmic destruction of this planet but that instead there will be a major global transformation to the divine unity God intended when He created us. This transformation began in the middle of the nineteenth century, when the Prophetic Cycle evolved into the Cycle of Fulfillment—the era in which the apocalyptic prophecies of the world’s great religions would be fulfilled and God’s kingdom would come to pass.

“One day the earth will be changed to a different earth, and so will be the heavens,” the Baha’i scriptures read. “And the earth shineth with the light of her Lord … Praise be to Allah, Who hath fulfilled His promise unto us and hath made us inherit the earth.” And from the tablets of Baha’u’llah, “The day is approaching when we will have rolled up the world and all that is therein, and spread out a new Order in its stead. The day is approaching when [civilization’s] flame will devour the cities, when the tongue of Grandeur will proclaim: ‘The Kingdom is God’s, the Almighty, the All-Praised. ’ ”

The Baha’i Faith is one of the world’s most widespread religions, with more than six million followers, or adherents, worshipping from India to Iran to Vietnam to the United States to the Baha’i headquarters in Haifa, Israel.

Jehovah’s Witnesses

TEOTWAWKI. An acronym for The End Of The World As We Know It. The Watchtower Society, founded in the early 1870s by Charles Taze Russell, predicted a variety of dates for

TEOTWAWKI. Not once have their predictions been accurate, so they’ve now begun stating simply that it will occur “in the near future.”

Also known as Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Watchtower Society believes that The End Of The World As We Know It— which they actually prefer to call “the conclusion of a system of things”—will be heralded by Jesus Christ reappearing to claim his kingdom on Earth. Other biblical prophets, including Abraham, Jacob, Elijah, and Isaac, will be resurrected to participate in the glorious perfecting of humankind. God, in the meantime, will wage the great war of Armageddon, a global genocide in which billions of people will die. The only survivors of God’s war will be adults who are in good standing with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which by definition requires obedience to the teachings of Pastor Charles Russell. Whether or not children and adults who are mentally and psychologically challenged survive the genocide will be God’s decision on a case-by-case basis. Disenfranchised Jehovah’s Witnesses, the vast majority of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims—in other words, all other religions—will be eliminated and never experience the Rapture of ascending to meet Jesus in the clouds.

Pastor Russell, as he was called by his followers, never claimed to be the messiah and, for that matter, never claimed to have founded a religion. Instead, he considered himself to be utterly and wholly committed to God’s service and, because of that, he was granted divine permission to fully understand the Bible and to fulfill the Lord’s promise that the devoutly obedient, restored to the perfection of mind, body, and character, will spend eternity in paradise.

Pastor Russell’s intensive studies and interpretations of the Bible, combined with his studies of such spiritually historic wonders as the Great Pyramid, resulted in a variety of predictions about the date of Armageddon, or TEOTWAWKI. At the core of his calculations was Daniel 4:13-16: