Tom McKayToday 12:20am

Silly fringe theories about Planet X—an imagined planet typically named Nibiru that is on course to hit or pass by Earth with disastrous consequences—are the kind of thing normally relegated to vanity press-published books or those tabloids you browse in the supermarket checkout aisle. On Wednesday, they made it into Fox News, with the added caveat that maybe some other Biblical catastrophe could surprise us instead.

The Planet X theory first emerged in 1995 and is usually evidenced by tortured interpretations of religious texts, with vague suppositions that NASA either hasn’t detected this ominous celestial body or is actively covering up its existence to prevent widespread panic. In an article filed to Fox’s website on Wednesday, this time the prophesied doomsday comes courtesy of an article in British rag the Daily Express citing numerologist David Meade’s interpretation of the Bible’s Revelation 12:1-2:

Is The Rapture finally here? One Christian numerologist says a biblical sign strongly suggests it.

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The passage reads: “And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.”

In the passage, the woman is represented as Virgo.

According to Meade, the alignment represents “the Lion of the tribe of Judah,” marking the Rapture, the belief that Christ will bring the faithful into paradise prior to a period of tribulation on earth that precedes the end of time.

(Incredibly, while the Express article introduces Meade as a conspiracy theorist, the Fox News one does not.)

Meade is apparently telling every gullible soul with the time to listen that Planet X will appear above the Earth on April 23rd, 2018. This will trigger the Rapture, because the planet’s massive gravitational forces will cause volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and all that other bad stuff you see in Roland Emmerich movies.

1. What is the Rapture?
2. Is the Rapture biblical?
3. Does Revelation 12:1-2, signals or endorses the "Rapture?"
4. Is this a scare tactic to force people to have "come-to-Jesus Moments?"
5. Where did such teaching originate?
6. Who or what organizations are proponents of such teachings?

These and other questions will debunk David Meade’s conspiracy theorist but reaffirm biblical truth of the "endtime" and the return of Christ. Prophecy can and should be understood without being entangled with "conspiracy theorist" of any stripes. What say ye? Please, biblical answers are needed. We don't need another theory to replace a "conspiracy theorists'." CM