'Murderous' five-mile asteroid will 'wipe out life on Earth' claims doomsday preacher

A FIVE-mile "murderous" asteroid will crash into the Earth - wiping out life on the planet as we know it, according to the latest doomsday prophecy.

Pastor Ricardo Salazar claims God has warned him the monsterous space rock, made largely of ice, will land in the sea bringing devastating tsunamis that will ravage continents and kill millions of people.

Pastor Salazar, from the Global Church of the King of Israel, in Tokyo, Japan, claims in an online video that is going viral that the horrific event on May 16 2016 will initially kill 1,200million people and leave a world at the mercy of famine and disease for four years before the Anti-Christ descends to Earth. 

In a doomsday video the preacher, known as 'the pastor of Japan" said: "The Earth is coming to the last steps as we know it.

"Brethren you know what we have been in a party the whole time we have fun the whole time and we only have God as a reference

"We don't want this party to end, but seek God right now, the party is over you have to be serious."

He said the impact in an undisclosed ocean strike would send huge tsunamis across the globe, killing millions of people.

He added: "Also the consequence will be famine in the world, infection, cholera…they will die and good neighbours will kill each other for food.

"The asteroid that is coming to earth at 30,000 km per hour, that is made mainly of ice, is 9km in diameter and it is a murderous one - it is going to hit the ocean."

Pastor Salazar claimed God had foretold him of the event and said: "The Lord told me most houses in the world will fall by the earthquake from the impact.

"In 2020 the Anti-Christ will come in the middle of a destroyed world that desperately will seek for peace."

Pastor Salazar is the latest in a long line of prophets who have (hopefully) got their dates wrong. 

Harold Camping predicted the end of the world was coming in 2011.

In 2015, we had incorrect claims that went viral online that an asteroid would hit us last month and the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse on September 28 was the beginning of the end.

Fears over last month's asteroid were so high that Nasa was forced to release statements saying it knew of no large asteroid which could even remotely hit he planet for hundreds of years, and it still stands by that today.

But bizarrely, Pastor Salazar took a swipe at previous doom prophets, branding them false prophets and hypocrites, who were not given details from God and said they must repent or face the Lord's wrath.

So why do people, particularly fringe religious leaders like to predict the end of the world so often?

Research in the US suggests around 40 per cent of people believe the rapture will happen by 2050.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/612342/End-of-the-world-asteroid-apocalpyse-doomsday-Earth