Sales of freeze-dried food, flashlights, blankets and tents have soared in Utah in recent weeks as some Mormons have begun to prepare for the end of the world. The so-called preppers believe the world is ending this month based on biblical prophecies, the Hebrew calendar, an unstable economy, world politics and astronomical occurrences, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Sunday.
?There is a sense of urgency, like something is up. A lot of people are mentioning things about September, like a financial collapse," said customer service representative Ricardo Aranda at American Fork?s Thrive Life, which sells mostly freeze-dried food.
The Mormon apocalypse believers claim the Jewish High Holy Days that began this week will trigger a financial crisis based on the United States? ?wickedness.? They predict the full moon Sept. 28 is the next sign the world is ending.
Some of these speculations stem from Julie Rowe?s books, ?A Greater Tomorrow: My Journey Beyond the Veil? and ?The Time Is Now.? Rowe, a Mormon mother of three, published the books in 2014 to detail a ?near-death experience." Her two books have sold more than 20,000 copies each.
Officials with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said they do not endorse the books or their teachings. The late Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer said in a 2011 LDS General Conference that the end was not near and called on young Mormons to plan for long, productive lives.
?You can look forward to doing it right,? Packer said, "getting married, having a family, seeing your children and grandchildren, maybe even great-grandchildren.?
Officials have had to debunk end-of-days predictions in the past. Last month, NASA confirmed the world would not end in September because of an imminent asteroid strike.
?There is no scientific basis ? not one shred of evidence ? that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates,? said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA?s near-Earth object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at the time. ?If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now.?
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She's the married Arizona mother-of-three whose prophecies of impending doom have inspired thousands of people to sell their possessions and prepare for disaster.
Now followers of Julie Rowe, 42, are claiming that Monday's Utah flooding disaster is one of the events predicted by Mrs Rowe - who says the beginning of the end of the world will start this month.
Mrs Rowe has written two books about visions she had in September 2004 during which she was shown a catalog of disasters, ranging from floods to war, that would lead to the apocalypse and the Second Coming of Christ.
But while Mrs Rowe has amassed a sizable following, not everyone believes in her prophecies and her work has proved anathema to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where elders have publicly condemned it as 'spurious'.
For her followers, however, who thought to number around 10,000, her views are to be taken very seriously indeed.
Indeed, convinced her claims are true, many have begun stockpiling dried food and everyday essentials from specialist shops such as Emergency Essentials.
'Our online sales have seen a steady increase as a result of these floods,' said Emergency Essentials marketing manager Kevan Allbee.
'The California drought, the Blood Moon eclipse coming to North America on September 28th, Middle East unrest, US Presidential elections - all have created a sense of uncertainty and anxiety.
He added: 'As we always say, however, whether it is for "the Big One" or the "100 Little Ones" that continually threaten our lives and lifestyles, it?s always time to prepare.'
Mrs Rowe's prophecies have been published in two books, the first of which, entitled A Greater Tomorrow, details her foray into the 'Spiritual World' in 2004.
There, she writes, she was met by an ancestor named John who agreed to be her guide and allowed her to read from 'the Book of Life' which showed her a vision of Earth's past, present and future.
'The heavens will let loose and the powers of darkness will rage. There will be natural disasters on a massive scale unlike anything the earth has experienced before. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, plagues, droughts, famines, pestilence and all manner of disasters will be upon the earth in such a deep and broadened scale that mankind cannot even imagine what it will be like.
In it, she elaborates on the contents of the Book of Life, writing of impending wars, famines, plagues and, crucially, tsunamis - many scheduled for this month.
'Within a matter of a few years, it is my belief that the Saints will be called to gather,' she writes. 'It will not be long before foreign troops will invade America and the earth will erupt in chaos.
'The heavens will let loose and the powers of darkness will rage. There will be natural disasters on a massive scale unlike anything the earth has experienced before.
'Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, plagues, droughts, famines, pestilence and all manner of disasters will be upon the earth in such a deep and broadened scale that mankind cannot even imagine what it will be like.'
She continues: 'The world as we know it will cease to exist.'
Mrs Rowe says she has now given up eating fish after one vision showed the world's seas being poisoned by the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
'I was shown that the contamination from the Japanese nuclear waste would continue to be spread through the ocean,' she writes.
'I was shown that this nuclear waste would continue to be spread throughout the ocean. I was shown this nuclear waste has and will continue to radiate and contaminate sea life.'
Although the 2011 disaster did not result in a nuclear spill, Japan did announce on Monday that 850 tonnes of 'decontaminated' ground water from the plant have been released into the sea.
Other claims include her belief that 'conspiring men' will 'continue to lie' to people about safety issues concerning food, water and disease.
She also writes of the 'tent cities' in which the righteous will live as they await the Second Coming and plans to move herself and her family, husband Jeff and three children Ethan, Spencer and Aubrianna, into one by June next year.
'I was shown various scenes pertaining to life in the camps and elsewhere,' she explains. 'I witnessed my family and others living in these tent cities.
'I saw that we were camping year-round and that the circumstances required us to utilize both cool weather and warm weather clothing.'
Mrs Rowe, who grew up in a military family of 10 and had a peripatetic childhood in 10 different states as well as Heidelberg in Germany, also offers advice for those preparing to follow her example.
'You would focus on food, water and possible sanitation issues,' she advises.
'It is very likely that you would also encounter the need for other basic survival gear and skills in the event that electricity and other modern conveniences are no longer an option.'
She also discusses physical preparation, telling of her dedication to walking in a bid to 'get the extra weight off'.
The 42-year-old, who is currently refusing to speak to the media, certainly appears to have taken her own advice, leaving her modest white-washed Tuscon home behind and canceling her cell phone.
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Why would she cancel her cell phone if the end if nigh? That wouldn't be high on my priority list. I bet it's so nobody can contact her when nothing actually happens.