Electronic Bible Fellowship is a Christian group based in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. The group is also known online as EBibleFellowship or simple EBF. Its founder and leader, Chris McCann claimed to have studied the Bible extensively and predicted the correct date when the world will end - Oct. 7, 2015. The apocalyptic date is said to be linked to the recent blood moon which took place last Sept. 5, 2015.
The same prediction is linked to the books of two other highly influential ministers John Hagee and Mark Blitz. In their predictions, an astronomical phenomenon known as 'tetrad' will signal the judgment day. In astronomy, a tetrad is the occurrence of four consecutive total eclipses with six month intervals.
The first blood moon in the said tetrad happened during the Passover, April 14, 2014. The second blood moon appeared on the Feast of the Tabernacle, Oct. 8, 2014. The third blood moon showed during another Passover, April 4, 2015. The fourth blood moon took place on Sept. 27/ 28, 2015.
The ministers referred to a Bible passage for to support their claim, "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord comes."
"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 McCann.
The late Christian radio host Harold Camping made announced on air that the world would come to an end on May 21, 2011. Camping and his Christian media empire spread the news, spending millions of dollars. Some of the funds were donated by followers who resigned from their jobs to prepare for the said judgment day. May 21, 2011 came and went and the world remained the same. Camping countered and announced that the end was sometime in October the same year.
When the May 2011 prophecy failed, Camping suffered a stroke three weeks later. Again, he made an announcement that the May 21, 2011 was a 'spiritual' Judgement Day and not the believed biblical rapture wherein the faithful was supposed to ascend to the heavens. Oct. 2011 came and went and the world did not end. Camping admitted that his prophecy had been wrong. In 2013, the 92-year-old Camping died of old age.
McCann based his judgment day theory on Camping's original date, May 21, 2011. The church leader believes that the world will be annihilated on Oct. 7, 2015, exactly 1,600 days from the original date. McCann strongly believes that the Lord gave him exactly 1,600 days to 'decide' which non-churchgoers will be saved.
Doomsday theories have become prevalent in recent years. In June 2015, the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was forced to speak and deny the Doomsday prediction linked to an asteroid collision. The prediction came from a biblical theorists who announced online that a massive asteroid will wipe out life on Earth between Sept. 15 and 28, 2015.
