Decoding Doomsday: The 2012 Prophecies, the Apocalypse, and the Perilous Days Ahead; An Astonishing Analysis of Today's Prophetic Topics in Light of Judeo-Christian Apol

by Woodward, S. Douglas; Lapin, Daniel

ISBN13: 9780984630004

ISBN10: 0984630007

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2011-01-30

Publisher(s): Defender Pub Llc

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Summary

Do megalithic monuments and books of ancient wisdom predict the date the world ends? Dozens of books have been published on the topic of 2012, mostly reflecting a "new age" perspective, proposing that their "pop" point of view is authoritative and reliable. This opinion is shaped by Mayan scholars, pseudo-archeologists, channelers, mediums, shamans, and alternative historians. Likewise, these pundits draw upon ancient sources which range from the Mayan calendar, the I Ching, The Kolbrin Bible, to Plato's Atlantis. The key to our future appears connected to the study of the past. However, upon a deeper look, today's pop apocalyptic writers continue an esoteric tradition thousands of years in the making. Is there a common thread running through the meaning of monuments, alien abductions, UFOs, crop circles, the New Age Movement, conspiracy theories, Freemasonry, and Pyramidology? Decoding Doomsday argues that by studying the claims of the 2012 enthusiasts in light of apocalyptic history, we can make sense of the current clamor. Furthermore, flying in the face of conventional wisdom, the author asserts that the expectation of the Apocalypse can actually be a healthy concern, essential to the position of authentic Christianity. Finally, he maintains Doomsday is already decoded. History's last day is plainly disclosed in the Bible.

Author Biography

S. Douglas Woodward has been a student and teacher of biblical topics for almost 40 years. He has extensively studied Christian Apocalyptic topics throughout this period and recently published his first book, Are We Living in the Last Days? - a historical study of the meaning of the apocalypse from the perspective of the three primary Protestant schools of thought. Doug has served as a minister in the Methodist and Reformed Churches and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. Most of his career, Doug has worked as an information technology executive and management consultant for a number of prominent companies including Ernst Young, Oracle and Honeywell. Doug has also been active in building numerous successful startups.

Table of Contents	p. i
Table of Figures	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Overview of this Book	p. xix
The History of Doomsday	p. 1
A Culture Obsessed With the End of Time	p. 2
The Eve of Destruction	p. 2
2012 - The Movie Is Released Today	p. 3
Recent Movies of the Apocalypse - a Fan Favorite	p. 3
The Impact on Television	p. 6
The Inevitable Doomsday - Going Viral	p. 7
How the World Has Changed	p. 8
Old Voices - New Messages	p. 11
Dead Civilizations Speak from the Grave	p. 11
The Mayan Calendars and Their Knowledge of the Heavens	p. 12
The I Ching	p. 14
Time Wave Theory	p. 15
The Hindu Calendar and Civilization's Genesis	p. 18
The Bible Code	p. 21
Chapter Summary	p. 24
Tracing the Origins of Apocalypse	p. 28
Atlantis and Alternate History	p. 28
The Worldwide Flood	p. 34
Daniel's Prophecy - 70 Weeks in Jewish History	p. 36
Messianic and Apocalyptic Times	p. 38
The Most Celebrated Messiah of this Troubled Time	p. 41
Apocalyptic Thinking, a Trademark of Authentic Christianity	p. 46
A History of Failed Dates and False Hopes	p. 50
Classifying Methods for Decoding Doomsday	p. 50
The Predictions for the Messianic Event before 1000 AD	p. 52
The End of the First Millennium to 1500 AD	p. 54
The Messianic Predictions from 1500 to 1700 AD	p. 55
Millerites and Millenarians of the 19^th Century	p. 57
The Jehovah's Witnesses - Record Holders for Failed Dates	p. 59
Doomsday Predictions -1980 to 2000	p. 61
Dates in the 20^th Century Often Used for Doomsday Markers	p. 63
Doomsday Prophets	p. 67
Science Predicts the End of the World	p. 68
Recent Doomsdays Just Discovered	p. 68
The Last Ice Age and the Younger Dryas Event	p. 69
Super Volcanoes and Nuclear Winter	p. 72
The Eruption of Thera and the Destruction of the Minoans	p. 74
Solar Cycles, the Solar Maximum and 2012	p. 77
Conspiracy Theory-Underground Building Programs	p. 80
Shooting Stars and ôWhen Worlds Collideö	p. 83
Planet X and the Kolbrin Bible	p. 86
Catastrophism - How the Earth Shapes Up	p. 89
Chapter Summary	p. 90
End Time Prophecies of the Americas	p. 94
The Mayan Calendar and 2012	p. 94
Mayan Religion and the New Age	p. 97
Mayan Prophecies	p. 98
Hallucinogens and the Maya	p. 100
The Aztec Myth of the Tzitzimime	p. 104
The Testimony of Daniel Pinchbeck	p. 105
Other North American Indians Weigh In	p. 107
Commonalities in the Prophecies of the Americas	p. 109
Circular Revelations in England	p. 112
Roundabouts - Learning to Drive in the Mother Country	p. 112
Circles and Henges - What Was Their Real Purpose?	p. 113
The Megalithic Yard	p. 116
Measuring the Circumference of the Earth	p. 117
English Crop Circles-The Mowing Devil	p. 122
The Crabwood Glyph	p. 125
The 2012 Crop Circle	p. 128
Are Crop Circles Mandalas?	p. 129
Crop Circles and the Meta-Conscious Mind	p. 130
33 Degrees of Separation	p. 134
Chapter Summary	p. 136
Esotericism, UFOs, and the Last Days	p. 141
What's Old is New Again	p. 141
The New Age Movement	p. 142
Madam Blavatsky, Theosophy, and Nazi Anti-Semitism	p. 145
Alice Bailey and the Externalization of the Hierarchy	p. 148
Benjamin Crème and Flying Saucer Cults	p. 151
Where is All This Heading?	p. 153
Close Encounters of the Ultimate Kind	p. 155
Nostradamus and His Predictions for the Last Days	p. 164
The First Prophet to Make a Profit	p. 164
Encoding Predictions in the Quatrains	p. 167
Nostradamus and the Three Antichrists	p. 169
The Missing Book of Nostradamus, Is it Authentic?	p. 177
The Succession of Popes	p. 179
When Does Nostradamus Predict His Prophecies Conclude?	p. 185
The Prophecies of the Popes	p. 186
Sir Isaac Newton, the Temple, the World	p. 190
The World's Greatest Thinker	p. 190
The Search for Ancient Wisdom	p. 191
Metrology and Numerology	p. 194
The Temple at the Center of Time and Space	p. 199
Newton's Prediction of 2060 as the End Date	p. 200
Newton's Importance to Decoding Doomsday	p. 201
The Knights Templar, Freemasonry, and America's Role in the Apocalypse	p. 206
Dan Brown, Pop Historian of the 21^st Century	p. 206
These Secret Societies are All Intertwined	p. 209
What Really Happened to the Knights Templar?	p. 210
Illuminati - Radical Republicans of the 18^th Century	p. 213
Freemasonry and Egyptian Paganism	p. 215
The Plan for America	p. 219
America's Symbols Disclose the Religion of the Founders	p. 221
The Great Plan and the Great Seal of the United States	p. 223
The Resurrection of Apollo, the Coming of Antichrist	p. 226
The Timing of the Masonic Messiah	p. 228
Summary and Conclusions	p. 223
The Spirit of the Antichrist	p. 240
A Philosopher Prophet of the Modern World	p. 240
The Two Faces of Evil	p. 243
The Beast From the Sea	p. 246
Nietzsche and the Übermensch	p. 251
Genetic Reengineering in the Bible	p. 255
Demon Seed and the Antichrist	p. 257
The Mark of the Beast	p. 259
The Resurrection of the Spirit of Apollo	p. 262
Yeats and His Poem, The Second Coming	p. 265
Countdown to Doomsday	p. 271
The Three Wars of World War III	p. 272
The Valley of the Dry Bones	p. 272
War I - The Battle of Those Who Know God by Another Name	p. 278
War II-Gog and Magog	p. 282
When Does the War between Gog and Magog Occur?	p. 285
War III: The Grand Finale-Armageddon	p. 288
Clarifying the Battles of the Last Days	p. 289
Armageddon and the Battle for Jerusalem	p. 290
The Return of the King	p. 297
The Olivet Discourse	p. 297
The Rapture	p. 302
The Signal for the Rapture-The Trumpet (The Voice of God)	p. 303
Rosh Hashanah, Pentecost, and the Jewish Holidays	p. 305
No Man Knows the Day nor the Hour	p. 309
What Comes After the Rapture?	p. 310
The Jewish Calendar Compared to the Mayan Calendar	p. 311
The Last Generation	p. 312
Drawing Conclusions about Doomsday	p. 317
Doomsday-A Personal Experience	p. 317
Prophesy vs. Predict	p. 318
Probabilities vs. Certainties	p. 319
Can We Interpret Prophecy Accurately?	p. 320
Evaluating the 2012 Prophecies	p. 324
Science Weighs In	p. 326
Mysticism and the Search for Meaning	p. 329
The World Religion to Come is Already Here	p. 332
Connecting Biblical and 2012 Prophecies	p. 333
The Denial of Doom	p. 337
Ernst Becker and the Denial of Death	p. 337
How Doomsday Exposes Meaning - or Meaninglessness	p. 340
Avoiding the Consequences of What Could Happen	p. 342
The Meaning Behind Our Attempt to Decode Doomsday	p. 345
Bibliography	p. 351
Index	p. 357
About the Author	p. 377
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