Comforting Alternative Perspectives on End-times Conspiracies & Prophecies

Is the Great Tribulation getting set to plunge us into seven years of global chaos? Is Planet Niburu going to collide with Earth? Is an evil shadow government spinning out deadly hurricanes? Sincere and thoughtful people believe these theories and some think that Saturday, September 23rd, 2017, will mark the end of the world as we know it. Surely the current problems facing humanity are serious. How will we respond? Do we resign to being powerless and hoping that God ends it all? Where's the hope and faith in that? Consider this quote from The Urantia Book: "Jesus portrayed the profound surety of the God-knowing mortal when he said: "To a God-knowing kingdom believer, what does it matter if all things earthly crash?" Temporal securities are vulnerable, but spiritual sureties are impregnable. When the flood tides of human adversity, selfishness, cruelty, hate, malice, and jealousy beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance that there is one inner bastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is absolutely unassailable; at least this is true of every human being who has dedicated the keeping of his soul to the indwelling spirit of the eternal God." Or this one: "Urantia is now quivering on the very brink of one of its most amazing and enthralling epochs of social readjustment, moral quickening, and spiritual enlightenment." Or this: "Urantia society can never hope to settle down as in past ages. The social ship has steamed out of the sheltered bays of established tradition and has begun its cruise upon the high seas of evolutionary destiny; and the soul of man, as never before in the world's history, needs carefully to scrutinize its charts of morality and painstakingly to observe the compass of religious guidance." If the world doesn't end tomorrow, it'll be a great to discuss the hope and encouragement of science, religion, and philosophy of The Urantia Book.