Thousands of people have bet that Jesus Christ will make his long-awaited return to Earth and that the second coming will be here before the end of 2025.
Both Christianity and Islam teach that Jesus will return once again, having already returned once when he came back from the dead after that whole crucifixion business.
According to the Bible, he didn't stick around on Earth for very long after that and instead ascended to heaven, and the second coming is when we get the proper sequel to Jesus.
There are many things which have been claimed to herald the second coming, but few would have expected that a crypto-betting website might get rolled into the speculation.
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The bets are being placed on a site called Polymarket, where people can put money on whether or not something will happen, with the outcome people think is more likely costing more to invest in.
There's currently over half a million dollars bet on the second coming happening in 2025, though the vast majority of the money that's been put down has gone into the 'no' pile.
At time of writing only around three percent of people have put their money down on it happening, though that's still enough for thousands of dollars in bets that would pay off should Jesus return.
Given that they're buying a 'yes' share for just three cents at time of writing that's still an awful lot of people who've decided to take the bet.
Some of this betting is based on the 'Millennial Day Theory', which claims that the second coming will occur 6,000 years after the creation of mankind and usher in a millennium of peace.
The idea behind it is that each millennium corresponds to day and that we're currently in the 1,000 year span of Friday (this week started on Sunday), and once we hit that 6,000 milestone it will tick over into Saturday which will be the time of peace.
Of course one of the main problems with this theory is that humans have been around for much longer than 6,000 years.
Scientists have found evidence for humans in our current form, that is homo sapiens, which dates back about 300,000 years as the bones of the first recorded humans are from around that time.
There's also the fact that there have been dozens of predictions of the second coming, with some people giving specific dates and others providing vaguer answers.
The Bible does say that 'no one knows the day or the hour' of the second coming, so perhaps trying to guess isn't the best idea and Jesus doesn't seem like the sort of guy who would approve of gambling on religious events.
Despite all the predictions, Jesus Christ has not made his long-awaited appearance in the first five months of the year, so this latest claim that he's on his way could be filed away with the others.
We'll know by the end of the year, and then some people are in for a payday.
Topics: Religion, Conspiracy Theory, Money, Technology, Weird
Joe Harker