Dooms day clock to be moved?
By pukaprat2
@pukaprat2 (442)
United States
January 12, 2010 5:34pm CST
Read an artical that says the famous Doomsday Clock minute hand is set to move this thursday and that you could watch it on the internet. The event happens at 10am.
The last time the clock hand moved was in 2007. The hands are in respose to current events. with the idea that humans are just minutes away from total destruction by neclear devises.
It has moved only 18 times since it debut in 1947.
Okay that's great but is anyone ever going to push it to midnight? I mean really what is the point? Once the devise is launched everyone on the planet will know. I mean you can see the cloud from space. And there are alot of satilights way up there.
But more realistically- why would anyone want to keep track of such things? I know one thing, I want that job. The person who moves the clock to midnight. Only cause it seems like that will be the only person still healthy enough after such event that would be able to move it.
What are you thoughts? Do you think that the clock is irrelavate or does it still serve some purpose? Don't you think that if such a thing accured you would be able to miss it?
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3 responses
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 May 11
This is the Doomsday Age (maybe there has never been another age, i dunno). Each person's Doomsday is like rain in a rainfall ... all the raindrops don't all fall at once, but when it's time for each.
The Doomsday Clock isn't any more-relevant to that than any other publicly visible clock.
@PastorP (1170)
• United States
12 Jan 10
Howdy pukaprat.
Well, from what I see from the Holy Bible once the Antichrist signs an agreement with Israel for 7 years, then the real clock starts ticking off something just over 1007 years to when the world will be burned--then there will be a new earth.
Nonetheless, the clock serves the purpose of making people think about the future. That is what in part nudged me to make a commitment to Christ back in 1970--not the clock, but stuff I heard about the future. One shocker was there would be an ice age (not global warming) around 2015.
@pukaprat2 (442)
• United States
13 Jan 10
you might have a few things confused. but that's okay we all get our facts mixed up from time to time.
There is going to be a peace tready that will establish some kind of truce between Isreal and the rest of the Middle East. This tready will signify the remaining 7 years. During which 3 1/2 of those years will be peaceful and things will seem like they are turning around. But at the end of the 3 1/2 the antichrist will make himself known and cause the desolation in the temple by declaring he is God.
but the whole topic that i had started was in fact that what is the point to a doomsday clock when no one will be there to push the minute hand forward when the bombs drop?
@PastorP (1170)
• United States
13 Jan 10
sure Owlwings. It might be pukaprat2 thinks I am confused because I did not elaborate. I crammed a lot in one paragraph.
The Antichrist arises. According to Daniel 9:27 he signs an agreement with the Jews for 7 years. In that same verse we see he breaks that covenant in the middle of the 7, and, imo, what pukaprat2 has in his response is accurate.
At the end of that 7, Christ returns as we see in Revelation 19. Revelation 20 then tells us those that trusted Christ will reign with Him 1000 years. After that, Gog and Magog rise up. 2 Peter indicates the fervent heat will destroy the world. Rev. 21 indicates a new heaven and earth, corresponding with the statement in 2 Peter.
So, the rise and fall of the Antichrist is 7, the reign of Christ 1000. That would be 1007 before the world is destroyed.
My initial response indicate the doomsday clock was still helpful to get people to think of where they are going.
