Doomsday Clock unchanged at 90 seconds to midnight – amid ‘unprecedented level of risk’

Daily Telegraph, January 23, 2024

Event

The Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight, the experts predicting the likelihood of a global catastrophe have said. It comes after a year that saw conflict in Ukraine rage on and war in the Middle East flare up. Scientists say there is a

“continuing unprecedented level of risk”

from threats including war, the climate crisis and the “dramatic advance” of AI. The countdown is a metaphor for global collapse agreed on by experts at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2023, the clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight – the closest to global collapse it has ever been. While the clock has not edged closer to midnight this year, scientists warned that was not an indication of stability. Rachel Bronson, president of the bulletin, said:

“Make no mistake: resetting the clock at 90 seconds to midnight is not an indication that the world is stable. Quite the opposite.

Comment

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It was created in 1947 after the nuclear bombings of Japan. During the 1980’s with nuclear treaties etc the clock moved back to 17 minutes to midnight.

They now say it is 90 seconds to midnight. It is interesting the end of time is set at midnight.
The Bible talks about midnight in several places in relation to the time of the end. In Matthew 25 it is at midnight that there is a great cry made and the bridegroom is announced as arriving. This event by the way wakes up all the virgins from their sleep! Mark 13 speaks of midnight as being one of the times Jesus could return. The final plague upon Egypt (death of the firstborn) came at midnight.

We are close to midnight.

Bible quote

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. (Matthew 25:5-7)

Andy Walton, Weekly World Watch

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Never has there been a better time to live out Proverbs 3:5-6 in your life!

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding.
⁶ Seek his will in all you do,
and he will show you which path to take.

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Preceding

1. Could it be that we are living in the Last Days
2. Time to be prepared and to put your armour on for the coming battle

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Additional reading

1. Why are the End Times taking so long
2. Mount Olivet ProphecyToday’s thought “I will bring distress …” (December 15)Today’s thought “Remember the predictions of the holy prophets” (December 15)
   Gog
   King of the North
3. US to station nuclear weapons in UK to counter threat from Russia
4. Left in the dark or being in the dark seeing light
5. The Coining of the Lord Draweth Nigh
6. The Sign of the Son of Man
7. Signs of the last days when difficult times will come
8. Matthew 24 about temples or Houses of God and the end of the age
9. Matthew 24:36-41 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: About That Day and Hour
10. Separation of local judgment regarding 70 CE from the global ultimate-coming prophecies of the Second Coming and Final Judgment
11. Matthew 24:42-51 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Stay Awake!
12. The no one or nothing in the darkness
13. Making sure to be ready and to belong to the escaped ones

 

Unprecedented Danger”: Russia-Ukraine War Pushes Iconic Doomsday Clock Closest to Midnight Ever in its History.

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