VisionTV greets Hollywood’s new end-of-the-world blockbuster 2012 with an evening of “Apocalyptic Visions,” Nov. 20

The world will end on December 21, 2012.

That’s the premise, anyway, of 2012, a big-budget, CGI-laden disaster flick from Independence Day director Roland Emmerich, which premieres this Friday.

From the Book of Revelation to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (also hitting the multiplexes just in time for Christmas), tales of the apocalypse are woven into our cultural fabric. The annihilation of humankind and its works is both an element of some Christian theology and the stuff of big-screen blockbusters. It seems we never get tired of watching the world burn.

On Friday, Nov. 20, Canada’s VisionTV considers the end of the world, with an evening of specials that offer a faith-based take on global cataclysm and the fall of civilization. The fun begins at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.

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Apocalyptic Visions – A VisionTV Special Presentation

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End Times:  How Close Are We?
Friday, Nov. 20, 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT

Many Christians believe the signs of the world’s ending are all around us. What do science and technology have to say about the predictions of Biblical prophets? This documentary, hosted by archaeologist and author Randall Price, offers a Christian perspective on so-called “End Times” prophecies.

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I Prophesy: 2012
Friday, Nov. 20, 11 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT

On Dec. 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar ends. Could this be a prediction of the world’s doom? There are those who believe that this seemingly insignificant date will indeed bring global catastrophe. Coincidentally, science has revealed patterns of seismic activity and storms, triggered by the forces of the sun – a phenomenon that is expected to reach its peak in 2012. In this episode, VisionTV’s original documentary anthology series I Prophesy asks whether an ancient people actually foretold the end of the world.

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ideaCity: Ronald Weinland
Friday, Nov. 20, 11:30 ET / 8:30 p.m. PT

Ronald Weinland, controversial pastor of the Church of God, is one of North America’s foremost “End Times” prophets. In his best-selling book 2008: God’s Final Witness, he warns that humankind has reached the end of its age of self-rule, and soon will be thrust by God into a worldwide nuclear conflagration – a cataclysmic chain of events that will climax in 2012. This half-hour special documents his provocative presentation at the 2009 ideaCity conference.

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Left Behind
Friday, Nov. 20, Midnight ET / 9 p.m. PT

The best-selling success of the Left Behind series of novels is a publishing phenomenon on a par with Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code. The books, by authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, offer up a Christian view of the End Times in the form of a pulse-pounding suspense thriller. In this Canadian-made feature film adaptation of the first book in the series, airline pilot Rayford Steele (Brad Johnson) is confronted by shocking evidence that the Rapture has occurred, with the taking of millions of faithful believers up to heaven. Meanwhile, ambitious TV journalist Buck Williams (Kirk Cameron) investigates a charismatic Romanian politician (Gordon Currie) who may well be the Antichrist. Canadian Vic Sarin (A Shine of Rainbows, Partition) directed.