THERE is some fantastic news for all of us to celebrate today — because it turns out we will not be seeing the end of world on Monday.

But before you get too excited, David Meade, the Christian conspiracy theorist who reportedly made the apocalyptic prediction, says it will happen this year.

Although he has no exact date, he now believes the “rapture” — when Jesus will appear and save his followers, rejecting the rest — is set to occur between May and December 2018.

This means we could all potentially meet out maker within two weeks, according to Meade, who has made a number of incorrect predictions about the end of the world.

Many news organisations reported this week that Meade believed it would all come to an end on Monday, April 23, but the theorist has slammed the reports as “fake news”.

He has written 14 books, in which he prophesied that a mysterious “Planet X” — also known as Planet Nibiru — with no gravity would crash into the Earth ending life as we know it.

But he says this won’t be an immediate wipe-out of all life on the planet. Instead he believes that Jesus will appear and save his followers but turn away unbelievers.

This will bring in seven years of “tribulation”, followed by 1000 years of “peace and prosperity”, before the world is ultimately destroyed.

“So the world isn’t ending anytime soon — in our lifetimes, anyway!” Meade told The Guardian yesterday.

It isn’t the first time Meade has changed the date. The Christian numerologist got cold feet in September when he said the beginning of the end would occur and postponed the date — claiming his prediction was misunderstood.

Based on verses and numerical codes in the Bible, he then claimed Doomsday would arrive on October 21, 2017. But obviously that didn’t materialise either.

Space agency NASA has dismissed the Planet X theory as a hoax.

“Various people are ‘predicting’ that (the) world will end September 23 when another planet collides with Earth,” NASA said. “The planet in question, Nibiru, doesn’t exist, so there will be no collision.”

NASA also stated the “story of Nibiru has been around for years, as has the ‘days of darkness’ tale and is periodically recycled into new apocalyptic fables.”

Nibiru — a mythical “wandering” planet, lost in our solar system — is supposed to have hit us before. It has been tied to the 2012 Mayan “Year Zero” apocalypse, which never happened either.

The planet has never been seen by astronomers, who have in recent decades completed several full-sky surveys. As it gets closer, it should at least be blocking out the stars behind it — if not reflecting some of the Sun’s light.

Nor has its gravitational pull been observed on other celestial bodies — something that would enable astronomers to figure out where to look.

Also sometimes called “Planet X” and tied to the real astronomical mystery of “Planet IX” — whose existence is inferred by the way its gravity appears to be tossing about asteroids far beyond Pluto in the Kuiper belt — the idea of such a world gained popularity in the 1976 book The 12th Planet.

Author Zecharia Sitchin said it was the home of an ancient race of aliens — though how they could survive such an erratic orbit was overlooked.

But Meade pins the planet’s existence on the Old Testament — Isaiah 13:9-10, “See, the day of the Lord is coming — a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger — to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.

“The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.”