In connection with the dissemination in the media of rumors that December 21, 2012 will be the end of the world, because of what society forced panic, Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine Filaret gave a comment in which dispel unfounded fears and calls not to trust the false prophecies.

From the Holy Scriptures and Tradition of the Church we know for certain that the end of the world will be there, and he will come at the time of the second coming of Christ and the last Judgment. Then all the dead will be resurrected and living - will change, and all people will stand before God to give an answer for his life. The righteous are blessed eternity with God, sinners will go to eternal torment. The earth and everything on it will burn, and will be a new heaven and a new earth.

From this doctrine that we have from Divine Revelation, that is, from God Himself Who speaks only the truth, everyone should understand a few things.

First of all, the end of the world will not be the result of natural causes, including all astronomical phenomena. So, the approaching end of the world will be accompanied by an increase in natural disasters, signs from heaven, famine, war and other disasters. But the cause of the end of the world will be moral downfall of the people, not the so-called parade of planets or the end of the Mayan calendar".

This moral collapse will lead to the fact that humanity will fall in the worst sins and iniquities. And the result of this fall will be the coming Antichrist - man, with the help of the devil shall have power over the world, and which will be worshipped as God. His reign will last three and a half years, if the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, will put an end to the antichristian power and the power of sin at all.

Therefore have no meaning neither the Soviets nor the attempts to survive the end of the world". Because the end will come with everything and everyone, and all men shall stand before the Judgment of God.

It should be remembered that the Lord says: "but Of that day and hour no one knows, only My Father in heaven." That is, any attempt to pre-announce the date of the end of the world, call it the year, month and day, is patently false. It's false prophecy that people have repeatedly embarrassed. Only in our memory a few dozen times "appointed" end of the world - and all this was always apparent confusion.

So now, when in the media and in conversations among people say about the exact date of the end of the world, the Church can say only one thing - don't believe and don't be embarrassed! Because all this talk is a lie and come from the evil one.

From the spread of such rumors warned even the Apostle Paul, Recalling that the second coming of Christ will occur only once in the world will reign of the Antichrist. And from the book of the Apocalypse (incidentally, many people think that the word means "end of the world", although in fact it means the Revelation we know that the reign of the Antichrist will be three and a half years.

Now a lot of sin and evil in the world, but no one can truthfully say that the Antichrist, which predicts the Scripture, really began to reign. Therefore, to believe in the false prophecies about the date of the "end of the world" there is no reason.

And still it is necessary to pay attention to the following. When will this end of the world - we do not know. But for each of us the world would end at death. When we die is familiar to us from the world ceases to exist, because we are moving into the world of the supernatural.

Therefore, Christians and all people have to worry about looking to give a General end of the world and not about finding ways to survive or to avoid, and that after death to enter into the blessed eternal being with God. To do this, need to live a godly life, to listen to the voice of conscience, and to do good to others. For he who lives with God, and is not afraid of natural disasters or evil deeds of people, no death, no end of the world, because he knows that he lives not just temporarily, but for eternity.

So once again urge everyone not to believe a lie and be not afraid of approximation appointed false dates "end of the world"!