According to the illustrious House of Yahweh, the world was set to end on September 12th,2006, in a worldwide nuclear conflagration. Says the HOY, “…the world will experience nuclear war in and around the great river Euphrates that will involve two great armies and kill a third part of man over a fourth part of the earth.”

A third part of man over a fourth part of the Earth will be killed in a war that occurs “in and around the great river Euphrates” ? Well, the total population of the Middle East in 2000 was just about 139,000,000 people. If we are generous, and grant them North Africa as well, that bumps the number up to about 415,000,000. A third of the Earth (.33 x 6,500,000,000) equals approximately 2,145,000,000 people, leaving about 1.73 billion casualties unaccounted for. As for the “over a fourth of the Earth” part — all the dry land on the planet only makes up about 29% of the total surface area. So if by “in and around the great river Euphrates,” HOY meant “everywhere but Antarctica,” I suppose they may have something there. Good point. We’ll have to look into it. As of September 14th, there have been no mushroom cloud sightings in the area of the Euphrates River. All other parts of the globe also appear to be sans nuclear holocaust. I can’t help but think that HOY may have been slightly off on this one.