When Is the End of the World?

Are you ready for the end?

Have you packed your clothes and booked a spaceship that will bring you to another planet?

How the end of the world will come?

Will it be demolished by the World War III? Look at the negotiation between North Korea and USA that failed. Nothing can stop the reclusive communist country to do what they want, to reign the full power nuclear seat. This is the next test to Obama administration after gradually brought its nation recover from economic crisis. But the risk is no way to compare. The fail of USA economic will result in depression but the fail of diplomacy with NK will most probably exterminate my life (I live in South Korea) and yours (if you are living in this planet).

There will be no winner or loser. The only curtain that separate peace and war, life and death is humility. When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom (Proverb 11:2, NIV). The poisonous pride and arrogance will destroy this planet and humankind but those who have wisdom will avoid a harmful action.

But that isn’t the only way we’ll meet our end. How about Global Warming? Go to Al Gore and ask more about it. He must be busy to save two of his staffs detained in North Korea right now, but at least you can watch his award winning movie “The Inconvenient Truth”. It tells that without participate in serious actions, the humankind perhaps will sink in the 2nd floodwaters when the arctic meltdown. If not the rainbow that remind us about God’s promise to not let the world destroyed in such event -Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again (Genesis 9:11), we will believe that is how the end comes.

Enviromentalists say the only ways to prolong the age of this planet are by mitigation (reducing further emission), adaptation (reduce the damage) and geoengineering (to reverse)* The procedures used by many women to fight aging. Let say mitigation is using anti aging cream, adaptation is having botox injection and geoengineering is face-lifting. While maintaining a younger look will not give us extra years but we are hopeful that the similar effort can prevent the world from dying young.

These two are not the only ways intelligent people think will destroy the earth. Astronomers have other concern rather than World War and Global Warming because they believe the universe will find its destiny in the same way it came to exist, by a big bang.  They live to believe that the earth will collide with another planets and they get paid well to prove it.

Recently a striking phenomenon emerges. Experts believe a stellar explosion will soon happen in our galaxy. A star named Betelgeuse which very close to the earth is shrinking and will apparently cause another supernova. A supernova can radiate enormous energy that the sun could emit over its life span. Of course it will cause more damage than North Korean, Iran and all the earth’s nuclear weapon combined. Compare to this blast, suddenly the World War III is seems just like a game. It means that migration to another planet is not an option too.

Whether these are facts or myths, all to remind that we are mortal. Even the most intelligent people think that our lives are vulnerable.  Therefore we must humbly accept the existence of the Ultimate Being that prevail our mortality. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:11), and how it will end? I believe we are the generation to see. 

* source: wikipedia