Dooms Day Concept Paper

Doomsday

The earth is shaking, the clouds are moving crazily and people are screaming and shouting towards nowhere. Everything seems not quite logical anymore. People are shouting, "Dooms day!!… Doomsday!!!" hysterically. Is it the end of the world as people have said throughout the years? Or is it just a natural disaster that occurs once in certain parts of the world that have not experienced any major disasters?

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Introduction (  Explanation of your concept)

Judgement day or more famously known as Doom's Day is speculated to be the day when everything in the universe will be destroyed.  Scientists give scientific reasons, and clergy say that it has already being predicted in holy books such as the Bible and the Koran. In addition, we should include the predictions made by some famous psychics about Doom's Day. All of these claims seem that human civilization will move towards its destruction.

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  The Christian religion, one of the oldest religions,  claims that the end of the world is near. It warns their followers about the Judgement Day. In the bible itself, all information about  Doom's Day have been gathered and presented to their followers in order to help them to prepare for the terrifying day. Most of these predictions comes from the last book of the Bible; The Revelation.

 

Basically, the signs of the final day are divided into several parts of periods. Each period takes about 7 years ( Jraines 2 ) or a millennium in Hebrew books  Long ). According to Lisa Merakis, the beginning of the period began when four horsemen of Apocalypse appeared on earth. Each representing Death, Famine, War and Deliverance (21).

 

From the Christian's point of view, some of these signs have already passed and some still have not appeared. However, signs that already passed or are continuously happening prove to be very devastating. For example, the rate of volcanoes' eruptions and earthquakes suddenly become out of hand. We do not know whether the next disaster will become more terrifying than ones that already occurred.

  Islamic religion does include its predictions in the holy Koran, which was made as a reference for their followers.  Muslim's scholars have gathered the information about the final day from the Koran and prophet's sayings (Hadith). 

The signs are divided into two, minor signs and major signs. In minor signs, first event that has taken place was the coming of Muhammad (SAW) who is the last prophet send by God that marks the final chain of prophets. Thus, this event has already happened in 6^th century ( Chronological ). Another sign is that most of the Muslim leaders of Islamic countries are ruled by those who are recognized on their political or military strength instead of their religious knowledge. As in the Bible, earthquakes will also increase dramatically, followed by an increasing rate of people killing each other. Moreover, the most virtual signs is where women will exceed men by the ratio of fifty to one (Ibrahim ).

 

 The major sign which shows that the destruction day is really around the corner is when Isa or Jesus (May peace be upon him) will be send back to earth. His role is to summon all the followers and non believers to the way of Islam. On the next event, two hidden tribes whom were kept prison somewhere will appear and savage the earth and mankind as well. In addition, three parts of the earth in the west, the east and the Saudi Arabian peninsula will be swallowed and sunk. Finally, the most important signs which will conclude the previous major and minor signs is when the sun rise from the West instead of East. At this moment, a smoke will cover the entire earth and a cold wind will kill all the believers. Those unbelievers will be spared to witness the destruction and they will suffer a painful death during the moment where the trumpet will be blown which marks the resurrection day has begun ( Ibrahim ).

 

Although some of the signs in those religions seem to be irrelevant from the scientific point of view, it is interesting to find that those signs are also parallel to the geological and astronomical evidence found in the present day.  Some geological evidence shows that some parts of the earth have risen above sea level and some parts are swallowed beneath the sea level (Donnelly, 26 ). Our climate also shows that the rise of temperature is due to the destruction of the ozone layers. Consequently, from the global warming of the earth, has resulting in the melting of some parts of the Arctic's region (Livermore,25. ). In addition, the famous physician theorist, Stephen Hawkings with his Big Bang theory concludes that the universe will eventually face the big crush again. It seems that earth that we live in is breaking apart after several millenniums from the day it have been created.

 

Finally, of all the claims that I wrote here regarding the Islamic, Christians, Jewish, Science, and Psychic point of views on doom's day, we can see one narrated point. The suggested point is sooner or later we will face the destruction day, only the question is when?. Spiritually, we do not have any idea when it could be happening, but theoretically we can see that the way our civilization is going right now based on the signs that have already happened, including the sciences' facts. Although science does not speak about paradise and hell, that is what we have to seek spiritually. Nevertheless, the counting down towards the destruction has begun and it will keep ticking until we finally realize that… "Gosh… is it the time?".