End of days: predictions and prophecies about the end of the world /
Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE - The End of Days: Why This Book Now?
CHAPTER TWO - Ancient Beliefs About Doomsday
CHAPTER THREE - Christians, Jews, and Catholics on the
End of Days
CHAPTER FOUR - Other Great Religions and the End of the
World
CHAPTER FIVE - The Prophets Speak on the End of Days
CHAPTER SIX - Doomsday Cults
CHAPTER SEVEN - The End of Days Through My Eyes
CHAPTER EIGHT - Humankind at the End of Days
About the Author
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From Sylvia & Lindsay
For Kristen, Misty, Crystal, and Willie
INTRODUCTION
I’m tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that
there isn’t a lot to be scared of in this world today, between the
nonstop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and
terrorists and assassinations and civil unrest and economic
uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and
an environment that’s becoming unhealthier by the day. But a
point comes when it’s too much to deal with, and thinking
about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed
with a cold cloth on your head.
Then, just when you’re already on enough overload,
someone feels compelled to mention that according to the
Mayan calendar, the world is going to end in 2012 anyway, so
what difference does anything make, really? Or they heard, or
read somewhere, that the book of Revelation, or the book of
Daniel, or Nostradamus, or something, or someone says we’ll
all be dead in the next two years, or five, or ten, or whatever,
or that there are “obvious signs” that the end of the world is
right around the corner. And of course it reminded them of
some horrible movie they saw in which only a handful of
people are left alive on Earth because of a giant asteroid, and
these zombielike survivors are wandering around deserted
cities trying to kill each other over a crust of bread.
It’s almost enough to make you skip lying down on your
bed and to opt for hiding underneath it instead. Almost. But
before you do that, I can’t encourage you enough to ask a few
questions about these dire end-of-the-world predictions. Who
were the Mayans, for example, and how did they arrive at a
calendar that ends in 2012? What specifically do the books of
Revelation and Daniel say that “prove” this impending doom,
and what do we know about the circumstances in which they
were written in the first place? Who was Nostradamus, why is
he credited with any more expertise about the end of the world
than the rest of us, and is it true that his writing is so filled
with symbolism that it’s impossible to tell what he was talking
about anyway? What are these “obvious signs” that our time
on Earth is almost up—and just out of curiosity, have those
same obvious signs ever cropped up before in the history of
this planet and maybe been misinterpreted? As for this movie,
did it claim to be a documentary? Is there really a legitimate
reason to believe that an asteroid gigantic enough to destroy
our world is headed toward us, or might be headed toward us
any time soon?
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the answer to any or all
of these questions will be, “I have no idea.”
If you’ve seen my television or personal appearances and/or
read my books, you know how strongly I believe that
knowledge is power and that the first thing to do when you’re
afraid of something is to educate yourself about it as
thoroughly as possible. I would never say, “Don’t be
frightened about the end of the world,” because, as you’ll learn
throughout this book, we humans are almost genetically
predisposed to thinking about it and worrying about it. But I
will say, very enthusiastically, learn all you can, form your
own opinions, and maybe above all, find out if there’s a choice
to be made between ending this planet or saving it.
This book, then, is devoted to replacing fear with fact, to
proving that knowledge is power, and to offering the sincere
reassurance that, even if the world should end tomorrow (and
it won’t), God will still keep us safe for all eternity, just as He
promised when He created us.
Sylvia C. Browne
CHAPTER ONE
The End of Days:
Why This Book Now?
Please don’t leap to the conclusion that there’s something
urgently meaningful about the timing of this book. I promise
you have time to read it more than once before the end of life
on Earth.
Actually, there are several reasons this book was at the top
of my priority list. Many of them I’ll discuss as the book
progresses, in the context of the chapters themselves. But one
