A massive asteroid is also set to smash into the Earth, triggering Earthquakes across the globe and more than 1.2billion deaths, according to Pastor Ricardo Salazar - the latest in a line of doomsday religious prophets.

Pastor Ricardo Salazar is claiming to be a new Nostradamus with predicted dates for asteroid strikes, WWIII and the even the second coming of Christ.

He is so confident he is right, where all other self-styled prophets have failed before him, he has put together a specific timeline of events from this year until the second coming of Christ in 2023.

If you were hoping for a better 2016, it does not look good if Pastor Ricardo Salazar's premonitions are to be trusted.

A video, urging people to panic buy food, water and medicine for at least a year, has been posted to YouTube.

The narrator of the video, published by Profecias Personales, said: "We pray oh Lord that this video may awaken many people throughout the world about the judgement you are about to perform on the world.

There have been a glut of online wannabe Nostradamus copy cats of late, with End of World predictions ranging from asteroids, to Earthquakes and volcanoes to the CERN Large Hadron Collider creating a black hole that will swallow the planet.