Christian group predicts the world will be 'annihilated' on Wednesday

Curtis Cheng, a civilian police employee, was shot by Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old, as he was leaving the New South Wales police headquarters in Australia’s Parramatta business district last Friday 10/9/2015. It is being investigated as terrorism because it occurred immediately after Jabar left the mosque, and it is reported he screamed religious phrases as he opened fire on the 58-year-old IT expert at point blank range. Police officers responded with gunfire, and Jabar too was shot dead at the scene of the crime. Four men have been held in connection with the attack after 200 officers belonging to the State Crime Command Homicide Squad and NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team subsequently raided several properties. Catherine Burn, the Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police said that Jabar is not believed to have acted alone and may have come under some sort of influence, which was religiously, politically or ideologically motivated. Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan of the Australian Federal Police said that they are working with Turkish officials to find Jabar’s sister, who is understood to have flown to Istanbul just before the shooting, although there is no proof of her involvement.

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Curtis Cheng, a civilian police employee, was shot by Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old, as he was leaving the New South Wales police headquarters in Australia’s Parramatta business district last Friday 10/9/2015. It is being investigated as terrorism because it occurred immediately after Jabar left the mosque, and it is reported he screamed religious phrases as he opened fire on the 58-year-old IT expert at point blank range. Police officers responded with gunfire, and Jabar too was shot dead at the scene of the crime. Four men have been held in connection with the attack after 200 officers belonging to the State Crime Command Homicide Squad and NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team subsequently raided several properties. Catherine Burn, the Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police said that Jabar is not believed to have acted alone and may have come under some sort of influence, which was religiously, politically or ideologically motivated. Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan of the Australian Federal Police said that they are working with Turkish officials to find Jabar’s sister, who is understood to have flown to Istanbul just before the shooting, although there is no proof of her involvement.

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Maha Abdo of the United Muslim Women Association felt that it was appalling and hurtful and parents needed to start talking about it because “it could be [their] child next,” while Gosford Anglican Church's Fr. Rod Bower stated that society's combined response to the attack would have a bearing on community relations in the future. Keysar Trad of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia said that those choosing a path of religious extremism could not be counseled by an Imam or a Sheikh. "These young boys who are doing this, we can't reach them and talk to them. They don't listen to us. It's by isolating themselves from us that they have gone to the dark side. Unless you have young leaders stepping outside the office and roaming the streets looking for boys like this, you are not going to find them," says Trad. Jabar is of Turkish-Kurdish heritage and was born in Iran. Malcolm Turnbull replacing Tony Abbott as Prime Minister is said to have resulted in the government having increased and better relations with the Muslim community Down Under.

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Maha Abdo of the United Muslim Women Association felt that it was appalling and hurtful and parents needed to start talking about it because “it could be [their] child next,” while Gosford Anglican Church's Fr. Rod Bower stated that society's combined response to the attack would have a bearing on community relations in the future. Keysar Trad of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia said that those choosing a path of religious extremism could not be counseled by an Imam or a Sheikh. "These young boys who are doing this, we can't reach them and talk to them. They don't listen to us. It's by isolating themselves from us that they have gone to the dark side. Unless you have young leaders stepping outside the office and roaming the streets looking for boys like this, you are not going to find them," says Trad. Jabar is of Turkish-Kurdish heritage and was born in Iran. Malcolm Turnbull replacing Tony Abbott as Prime Minister is said to have resulted in the government having increased and better relations with the Muslim community Down Under.

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Over a week after blood moon doomsday forecasts were proven wrong, eBible Fellowship leader Chris McCann says ‘the world will pass away’ on 7 October

The eBible Fellowship, an online affiliation headquartered near Philadelphia, has based its prediction of an October obliteration on a previous claim that the world would end on 21 May 2011. While that claim proved to be false, the organization is confident it has the correct date this time.
“According to what the Bible is presenting it does appear that 7 October will be the day that God has spoken of: in which, the world will pass away,” said Chris McCann, the leader and founder of the fellowship, an online gathering of Christians headquartered in Philadelphia.
“It’ll be gone forever. Annihilated.”
McCann said that, according to his interpretation of the Bible, the world will be obliterated “with fire”.
The blood moon – a lunar eclipse combined with a “super moon” – occurred without event on 27 September. This was despite some predictions that it would herald the beginning of the apocalypse. Certain religious leaders had said the blood moon would trigger a chain of events that could see our planet destroyed in as little as seven years time.
According to this new prediction, however, there will be no stay of execution. On the day of 7 October, the world will end.
“God destroyed the first Earth with water, by a flood, in the days of Noah. And he says he’ll not do that again, not by water. But he does say in 2nd Peter 3 that he’ll destroy it by fire,” McCann said.
The expectation of the world ending this fall stems from an earlier prediction by Harold Camping, a Christian radio host who was based in California. In 2011 Camping used his radio station, Family Radio, to notify people that the world would end on 21 May of that year. When that turned out to be incorrect, Camping revised his prediction to October 2011. That also turned out to be incorrect, and Camping retired from public life soon after. He died in 2013, at age 93.

“There’s a strong likelihood that this will happen,” McCann said, although he did leave some room for error: “Which means there’s an unlikely possibility that it will not.”
The eBible Fellowship, which McCann was at pains to point out is not a church, is a predominantly online organization. The group does hold meetings once a month, however.
Scientists have several theories about when Earth will be destroyed, although none of the data points to this Wednesday. The most widely accepted theory is that the sun, which is already gradually increasing in temperature, will expand and swallow up the planet. Some scientists believe this could happen as soon as 7.6bn years’ time.
Whether the planet is destroyed next week or several thousand million years in the future, McCann’s plans for the coming week will remain the same. He and his wife, a fellow believer in Wednesday’s end date, had three birthdays in the family before then, which they planned to celebrate.

Curtis Cheng, a civilian police employee, was shot by Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old, as he was leaving the New South Wales police headquarters in Australia’s Parramatta business district last Friday 10/9/2015. It is being investigated as terrorism because it occurred immediately after Jabar left the mosque, and it is reported he screamed religious phrases as he opened fire on the 58-year-old IT expert at point blank range. Police officers responded with gunfire, and Jabar too was shot dead at the scene of the crime. Four men have been held in connection with the attack after 200 officers belonging to the State Crime Command Homicide Squad and NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team subsequently raided several properties. Catherine Burn, the Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police said that Jabar is not believed to have acted alone and may have come under some sort of influence, which was religiously, politically or ideologically motivated. Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan of the Australian Federal Police said that they are working with Turkish officials to find Jabar’s sister, who is understood to have flown to Istanbul just before the shooting, although there is no proof of her involvement.

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Curtis Cheng, a civilian police employee, was shot by Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old, as he was leaving the New South Wales police headquarters in Australia’s Parramatta business district last Friday 10/9/2015. It is being investigated as terrorism because it occurred immediately after Jabar left the mosque, and it is reported he screamed religious phrases as he opened fire on the 58-year-old IT expert at point blank range. Police officers responded with gunfire, and Jabar too was shot dead at the scene of the crime. Four men have been held in connection with the attack after 200 officers belonging to the State Crime Command Homicide Squad and NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team subsequently raided several properties. Catherine Burn, the Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police said that Jabar is not believed to have acted alone and may have come under some sort of influence, which was religiously, politically or ideologically motivated. Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan of the Australian Federal Police said that they are working with Turkish officials to find Jabar’s sister, who is understood to have flown to Istanbul just before the shooting, although there is no proof of her involvement.

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Curtis Cheng, a civilian police employee, was shot by Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old, as he was leaving the New South Wales police headquarters in Australia’s Parramatta business district last Friday 10/9/2015. It is being investigated as terrorism because it occurred immediately after Jabar left the mosque, and it is reported he screamed religious phrases as he opened fire on the 58-year-old IT expert at point blank range. Police officers responded with gunfire, and Jabar too was shot dead at the scene of the crime. Four men have been held in connection with the attack after 200 officers belonging to the State Crime Command Homicide Squad and NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team subsequently raided several properties. Catherine Burn, the Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police said that Jabar is not believed to have acted alone and may have come under some sort of influence, which was religiously, politically or ideologically motivated. Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan of the Australian Federal Police said that they are working with Turkish officials to find Jabar’s sister, who is understood to have flown to Istanbul just before the shooting, although there is no proof of her involvement.

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Curtis Cheng, a civilian police employee, was shot by Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old, as he was leaving the New South Wales police headquarters in Australia’s Parramatta business district last Friday 10/9/2015. It is being investigated as terrorism because it occurred immediately after Jabar left the mosque, and it is reported he screamed religious phrases as he opened fire on the 58-year-old IT expert at point blank range. Police officers responded with gunfire, and Jabar too was shot dead at the scene of the crime. Four men have been held in connection with the attack after 200 officers belonging to the State Crime Command Homicide Squad and NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team subsequently raided several properties. Catherine Burn, the Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police said that Jabar is not believed to have acted alone and may have come under some sort of influence, which was religiously, politically or ideologically motivated. Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan of the Australian Federal Police said that they are working with Turkish officials to find Jabar’s sister, who is understood to have flown to Istanbul just before the shooting, although there is no proof of her involvement.

Read more at World Religion News: "Muslim and Christian Leaders Unite Against Terrorist Shooting" http://www.worldreligionnews.com/?p=19497

Curtis Cheng, a civilian police employee, was shot by Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old, as he was leaving the New South Wales police headquarters in Australia’s Parramatta business district last Friday 10/9/2015. It is being investigated as terrorism because it occurred immediately after Jabar left the mosque, and it is reported he screamed religious phrases as he opened fire on the 58-year-old IT expert at point blank range. Police officers responded with gunfire, and Jabar too was shot dead at the scene of the crime. Four men have been held in connection with the attack after 200 officers belonging to the State Crime Command Homicide Squad and NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team subsequently raided several properties. Catherine Burn, the Deputy Commissioner of the New South Wales Police said that Jabar is not believed to have acted alone and may have come under some sort of influence, which was religiously, politically or ideologically motivated. Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan of the Australian Federal Police said that they are working with Turkish officials to find Jabar’s sister, who is understood to have flown to Istanbul just before the shooting, although there is no proof of her involvement.

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