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{{See also|2012 phenomenon}}
The [[End time|doomsday]] [[apocalypse]] [[prediction]] concerning the year 2012 had wide popular traction in China where the film ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]'' was popular and a few entrepreneurs made a profit building and selling "[[Noah's Ark|arks]]" to survive the putative apocalypse.<ref>Dunn (2016).</ref>
Within the global framework of the [[2012 phenomenon]], based on prophecies attributed to the [[Maya civilization]], The Church of Almighty God was accused of predicting the end of the world for 2012, causing riots and even crimes around China.<ref>Dunn (2016).</ref> Immediately prior to the “Maya” doomsday date of December 21, 2012, the Chinese government arrested 400 members of Eastern Lightning in central China,<ref>Patranobis (2012).</ref> and as many as 1000 from other provinces of China.<ref>Jacobs (2012).</ref> Chinese authorities also claimed that a certain Min Yongjun (閔擁軍/闵拥军, Mǐn Yōngjūn
Australian scholar Emily Dunn, in what was the first scholarly book devoted to The Church of Almighty God in 2015, noted that, like many Chinese, some “members of Eastern Lighting embraced the Mayan prophecy” but they “appear to have done so without sanction from the group’s self-proclaimed authorities,” who in fact declared “Mayan” and other theories about the end of the world as theologically and factually “mistaken.”<ref>Dunn (2015), 95.</ref>
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