End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the end of the World

149 Pages·2009·1.172 MB·English

by  Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE - The End of Days: Why This Book Now?
CHAPTER TWO - Ancient Beliefs About Doomsday
CHAPTER THREE - Christians, Jews, and Catholics on the End of Days
CHAPTER FOUR - Other Great Religions and the End of the World
CHAPTER FIVE - The Prophets Speak on the End of Days
CHAPTER SIX - Doomsday Cults
CHAPTER SEVEN - The End of Days Through My Eyes
CHAPTER EIGHT - Humankind at the End of Days

About the Author
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INTRODUCTION
I’m tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn’t a lot to be scared of in this
world today, between the nonstop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and
assassinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane
weather and an environment that’s becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it’s too
much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a
cold cloth on your head.
Then, just when you’re already on enough overload, someone feels compelled to mention that
according to the Mayan calendar, the world is going to end in 2012 anyway, so what difference does
anything make, really? Or they heard, or read somewhere, that the book of Revelation, or the book of
Daniel, or Nostradamus, or something, or someone says we’ll all be dead in the next two years, or
five, or ten, or whatever, or that there are “obvious signs” that the end of the world is right around the
corner. And of course it reminded them of some horrible movie they saw in which only a handful of
people are left alive on Earth because of a giant asteroid, and these zombielike survivors are
wandering around deserted cities trying to kill each other over a crust of bread.
It’s almost enough to make you skip lying down on your bed and to opt for hiding underneath it
instead. Almost. But before you do that, I can’t encourage you enough to ask a few questions about
these dire end-of-the-world predictions. Who were the Mayans, for example, and how did they arrive
at a calendar that ends in 2012? What specifically do the books of Revelation and Daniel say that
“prove” this impending doom, and what do we know about the circumstances in which they were
written in the first place? Who was Nostradamus, why is he credited with any more expertise about
the end of the world than the rest of us, and is it true that his writing is so filled with symbolism that
it’s impossible to tell what he was talking about anyway? What are these “obvious signs” that our
time on Earth is almost up—and just out of curiosity, have those same obvious signs ever cropped up
before in the history of this planet and maybe been misinterpreted? As for this movie, did it claim to
be a documentary? Is there really a legitimate reason to believe that an asteroid gigantic enough to
destroy our world is headed toward us, or might be headed toward us any time soon?
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the answer to any or all of these questions will be, “I have no
idea.”
If you’ve seen my television or personal appearances and/or read my books, you know how
strongly I believe that knowledge is power and that the first thing to do when you’re afraid of
something is to educate yourself about it as thoroughly as possible. I would never say, “Don’t be
frightened about the end of the world,” because, as you’ll learn throughout this book, we humans are
almost genetically predisposed to thinking about it and worrying about it. But I will say, very
enthusiastically, learn all you can, form your own opinions, and maybe above all, find out if there’s a
choice to be made between ending this planet or saving it.
This book, then, is devoted to replacing fear with fact, to proving that knowledge is power, and to
offering the sincere reassurance that, even if the world should end tomorrow (and it won’t), God will
still keep us safe for all eternity, just as He promised when He created us.
Sylvia C. Browne