The Coming Convergence

They say we were made in God's image.

I believe it.

Our achievements surpass imagination.

How creations marveled...

but our hearts are not pure.

So in the pursuit of greatness

we built our empires upon death and suffering

but the world we shaped could never last.

In the end, we brought wrath upon ourselves

to cleanse the corruption

and I was there.

When the skies opened and fire rained down from the heavens.

I witnessed a new leader rise from the ashes,

promising peace,

but only death came.

Now as the world wages war,

I hide as the innocent are slaughtered.

But there are those that knew these days were coming,

speaking of prophesies and signs.

We will be moving toward a one world government.

Maybe that's why I'm still here,

to warn you how the world really ends.

This may be a lot to take in but for me,

the world has already ended.

Well, the world you know, anyway.

I remember the whispers about new world orders

and the end of days.

Of course, who could believe in such nonsense

or so I thought.

The world wanted change.

It wanted a new age of peace.

Who knew that this pursuit

would usher in the very things we feared the most?

Now, everything I loved is gone

and I am left with one purpose,

to deliver a message,

to testify to the truth.

I know just telling you isn't enough,

it never was.

Truth, who was it that once asked,

what is truth as it stood before him?

Nothing ever changes.

So, I'll tell you what your future holds

and I'll do my best to prove it is the truth.

Not long ago, where you are now,

there was a message,

a warning that still haunts me to this day.

More should have listened.

This is how it began.

How will the world end?

This very debate has been saturated

by endless views and opinions,

consumed within a single noise.

For some, the topic is nonsensical.

For others, the answer is clear,

as millions look to ancient biblical prophesy

as the answer to what lies in wait for humankind's fate.

Regardless of what you believe, the very debate

has seen a resurgence due to

unprecedented global conflicts and instability.

With this, however, comes new claims

that the long-awaited convergence

of prophesied events

destined to trigger the end of our age

is not only entirely real

but have finally begun.

Most people agree,

the world as we know it will come to an end one day,

just not in their lifetime

and even if the end was near,

it could never be proven, right?

So why is it that millions of people all over the world

still insist that the end is upon us?

Are they naive or misled by skewed religious views

or is there a deeper understanding?

Whispers of truth that have been buried in this generation

that are so profound

it would change the way we understand everything?

But even if such evidence existed,

its warnings will likely fall on deaf ears.

Often, when one hears about biblical prophesy

or the end of days as it is found within ancient scriptures

such as the Book of Revelation or the Dead Sea Scrolls,

many already have deeply ingrained preconceived notions.

After all, haven't we heard all this before?

Anything new would no doubt just be another claim

regarding some astrological event or rare date

as a harbinger for the end.

And it's not difficult to see

why so many have this perception,

as endless streams of information and media

are absorbed into a desensitized

and instant gratification society.

News organizations and corporations compete

to capture greater market share

through sensationalized headlines and claims

that result in complex topics

being broken down into eight second explanations,

replacing genuine prophetic discussions

into viral-worthy predictive claims

that often look like this.

Nations begin a new arms race

in preparation for global nuclear war.

Prophesy experts point to a celestial sign

as the harbinger for the end.

Beginning of the end.

Survival bunkers are now big business

as preppers see the end.

Experts say that the solar flare

will bring down the grid.

Ending life as we know it.

Sources report that a massive radiation...

Millions prepare for Y2K.

This computer bug will collapse...

Breaking news from channel...

Eclipse could trigger the beginning of the end.

The threat of a global pandemic

is at an all time high.

Collapsed society. Astrophysicists

discover Planet X, some say that--

Millions look to the sky.

Divine implications.

The Mayan calendar

predicts the world will end in 2012.

Up next, how to make apocalypse puppy cookies.

The Mayan prophesies, obviously 2012,

the world didn't end.

So you look at these things and they're so vague

and so general a lot like astrology charts.

And there's the problem.

The endless stream of claims that have been ingrained

in the minds of the public

as billions watch predicted events and dates come and go,

yet life marches on as usual.

And then there are claims from infamous individuals

such as Nostradamus, a French apothecary

that lived during the 15th century

that many today attribute credit for predicting

the rise of Hitler.

Surely, he lends some form of credibility

to the idea of genuine prophesy.

At the very least, the same level of credibility

that popularized much of biblical prophesy, right?

Actually, most experts disagree.

In any, let's say Nostradamus, for example.

He speaks in very broad generalities of, you know,

things are gonna happen and I can say the same thing.

You know, in the future, some man's gonna rise up

and he's gonna have all this incredible power

and he'll do this and that and if I get, you know,

50% close, which the odds are probably pretty good,

they say, "Oh well see, he prophesied that."

But the Bible doesn't do that.

The Bible gives you the specifics

about what's going to happen.

There's a lot of prophesies that are out there.

There's the Mayan prophesy, there's Nostradamus,

there's prophesies about dead popes.

There's all types of prophesies that are out there.

What makes biblical prophesies so different

is their accuracy and we find them in the Bible.

What's interesting about this in teaching the Bible prophesy

is you're able to find out some things.

Many of the prophesies have already come to be

and when we look at the predictions

or the so-called prophesies of these other religions.

Sure, you can have a prediction here, a prediction there,

one out of a hundred, two out of a hundred,

maybe three out of a hundred.

And that's the amazing thing about biblical prophesy,

is that biblical prophesy is something

that you can actually study scientifically.

It's actually called eschatology,

where what the Bible has claimed to be prophetic,

in fact, 27% of the Bible is prophetic,

that the claims that it makes, do they come to pass?

Is it true what the Bible has to say?

So, is it?

What is the difference between the predictions

that have come and gone without fulfillment

versus what has been foretold

in the ancient biblical scriptures?

Non-biblical predictions, which is what most

are familiar with, are often made by individuals

with heightened public attention

due to their sensational and simplified approach

to claims regarding a specific approaching date

or signs in the cosmos.

In addition to the previous examples,

there were also those that believed the world would end

during the turn of the 19th century

and yet again just a few years later in the year 1910

with the appearance of Haley's Comet,

that was publicized as a divine signal

for the end of the world.

But does any of this have anything to do

with biblical prophesy?

Actually, no.

Unlike the countless vague predictions