Questionable calculations involving numbers dug out of the ancient religious text led one conspiracy theorist to the exact date of our doom
THE world will end on 24 June this year, according to a crackpot conspiracist who claims to have decoded a passage in the Bible.
Eccentric theorist Mathieu Jean-Marc Joseph Rodrigue says the holy Book of Revelation predicts the precise date of our armageddon is less than three months away.
Rodrigue's doomsday warning comes as tensions skyrocket between global powers, indicating the end could come as result of nuclear war.
Earlier this year, the Doomsday Clock was moved to two-minutes to midnight, the closest to the apocalypse since the start of the Cold War.
"In this year's discussions, nuclear issues took centre stage once again," said Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
She mentioned new testing by North Korea, an enhanced commitment to nuclear weapons in China, Pakistan and India, and "unpredictability" embodied by the US president in tweets and statements.
The latest Armageddon theory is based on one of the oldest books in the world and predicts 2018 could be Earth's last year.
The supposedly damning passage from the book reads: "He was given authority to act for 42 months."
"I heard a voice in the middle of the four living beings. This is wisdom," Rodrigue said, reports the Daily Star.
"He who has intelligence can interpret the figure of the beast. It represents the name of a man. His figure is 666."
Rodrigue calculated the date of the apocalypse by taking the devil's 666 figure and adding it to his earlier calculations, with those 42 months from the bible.
When they're all added together, he claims it points towards the world ending on 24 June 2018.
The UK's ongoing row with nuclear superpower Russia could also be used by conspiracy theorists to support their claims that we're headed for global disaster.
The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 and its time has changed 20 times since then, ranging from two minutes to midnight in 1953 to 17 minutes before midnight in 1991.
Last year it moved from three minutes before midnight to two-and-a-half minutes.
Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), said we are currently heading to catastrophe.
She said: “The actions and policies of the nuclear-armed states are winding the Doomsday Clock towards midnight.
"We have been lucky to avoid conflict through intentional or accidental means, but recent posturing and the false alarms in Hawaii and Japan show our luck is about to run out if we don’t move quickly.
"A security based on luck is reckless and foolish; it’s exactly what the nuclear states have now."
Rodrigue has not specified exactly how he thinks the world will come to an end, but is certain destruction is coming.
Countless 'end of the world' predictions have been debunked in recent years.
Crackpot David Meade predicted that a giant planet called Nibiru would crash into Earth, killing us all. Despite his claim, life on Earth was not consumed by a massive fireball.
Many were also convinced the end of the world would come in 2012, because the Mayan long-count calendar reached the end of a cycle on 21 December of that year.
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