A Christian group has declared that the end of the planet is most definitely nigh and sent out a public warning of the imminent apocalypse which they claim has been foretold in the Book of Revelation. While most theologians take the Book of Revelation as an allegorical tale of the conflict between good and evil, for some it clearly contains prophecies that can apply to life in the present. One passage in Revelations refers to a woman 'clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet', who will become hunted by a Satanic seven-headed dragon that wants to devour her unborn child. When this happens, it will spell the end of the world. NEW DOOMSDAY: 21ST AUGUST, 2017 Many interpret the woman in this passage as the Earth and believe that the reference to the Sun and the Moon refer to the planet being engulfed in a total eclipse (when the Sun, Earth and Moon move into a perfect alignment with one another). This is an interpretation of this particular Christian group who have extrapolated further