It's The End Of The World As We Know It.... *insert music here*

At work the other night, Lisa and I were talking about the oil spill and end of the world predictions. With oil still gushing and further cracks appearing leaking oil into the gulf as well it seems like this situation will never be repaired.

Lisa mentioned that in Revelation, there is a passage that many people believe the BP oil spill reflects. Here it is, Revelation 8:8-11

(8) The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all
ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, (9) a third
of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were
destroyed.
(10) The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star,
blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the
springs of water— (11) the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
(12) The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

So, to decode what is being said, the mention of the sea turning into blood is something that many people see as a reference to the oil spill since the oil on the water does make the Gulf look like blood on the water.

Then we have the creatures of the sea dying, obvious with all the dolphins, turtles, fish, and other Gulf animals washing ashore dead and dying.

Finally, for the second part of verse 9, we have the ships being destroyed. To go back to the Gulf situation, there is a bubble of methane building up beneath the surface that, if it bursts, could create a massive tsunami that could go 200 miles inland (Louisiana, Texas, and other Gulf regions would be wiped out). For another option, the sea floor under which plenty of oil had previously inhabited, could cave in because of the pressure of the water on top of it, and cause a massive tsunami. Or maybe we'll have two. Either way, I'm kind of glad we live in the middle of Illinois. And, either way, a lot of ships will be destroyed.

Verse 10, comet or meteorite? The alignment of the plants back in the dinosaur age happened around the same time that a massive meteorite struck the earth possibly killing off all the dinosaurs and other prehistoric life. As we speak (or you read this), the planets are started a partial alignment (Uranus, Jupiter, Mercury, the Sun, Venus, Mars, and Saturn with Earth perpendicular) that will culminate around July 11th (Happy Birthday Zoe!). This will cause water swelling, earthquakes and other similar fun things. P.S. Full planetary alignment will happen in 2012.

And for the rest of the portion of Revelation posted above... well, I'll let you use your imagination.

So, as to the part where I believe all this stuff? I don't know. Maybe in part because the planetary alignment and effects of all the geological changes, there have to be some effects but to say the end of the world? I guess we'll find out. But, either way, Hold on to your butts.

Oh, and to make you feel a little better about the whole situation, there has been an idea to nuke the oil leak area to help stop it. Reminds me of the whole "Good Idea, Bad Idea" with Mr. Skullhead bit on Animaniacs.