So the end time prognosticators are at it again. I remember as far back as 1987 that there was a guy Named Edgar C. Whisenantwho wrote a book on the subject,“88 Reasons Why Jesus is Coming in 1988”. Needless to say, Yeshua didn’t come that year, so he wrote a sequel,“89 Reasons Why Jesus is Coming in 1988”. I don’t think the second book sold as well. The one thing I do know is that end-time prophecy is a good business. False prophets and cults have been predicting the Lord’s coming since the day He left, and as much as I hate wasting my time on their dribble, for the sake of those good folks who read my rantings, I probably should say something.
While I do believe that we are in some very critical days, I am not of the belief that we are able to discern the signs of the time using their ridiculous formulas. I really believe that the Scriptures make it clear what we should look for in relation to the end times. There are enough Biblical signs that we should be heeding. We don’t need to be making up erroneous signs from every natural phenomenon. The go-to verse that most of these recent false prophets reference is found in Genesis.
Gen 1:14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;
The only problem is that they never quote the rest of the verse.
Gen 1:15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
Gen 1:16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
Gen 1:17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
Gen 1:18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
These end-time prophet wannabes say that this passage declares that these celestial lights were given as a sign for the end times. While it is true that there are verses that speak of signs in the heavens during the end times, those happen at the end of the tribulation period, as I will point out later. As for this passage, it is in the creation narrative that they are placed, not the end times. It is simply stating that the Lord gave the sun, moon and stars as signs to mark the day, night, seasons, days and years. Hey, and guess what? That’s what they do! Quite well, I might add.
This is what the Word says concerning the approach of the end times.
Signs of the End of the Age
Mat 24:3 As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.
Mat 24:5 "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.
Mat 24:6 "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
Mat 24:7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
Mat 24:8 "But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
So based on this passage we are not there yet. I would go so far as to say that we are in the birth pangs. It will get much worse.
Mat 24:9 "Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Mat 24:10 "At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
Mat 24:11 "Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
Mat 24:12 "Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.
Mat 24:13 "But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.
Mat 24:14 "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
After the birth pangs comes tribulation. Many will fall away because of that tribulation. Guess what?The believers are still here during this tribulation period.
The Abomination of Desolation
Mat 24:15 "Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Mat 24:16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.
Mat 24:17 "Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house.
Mat 24:18 "Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.
Mat 24:19 "But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Mat 24:20 "But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.
Mat 24:21 "For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
Mat 24:22 "Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Mat 24:23 "Then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or 'There He is,' do not believe him.
Mat 24:24 "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Mat 24:25 "Behold, I have told you in advance.
Mat 24:26 "So if they say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or, 'Behold, He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe them.
Mat 24:27 "For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Mat 24:28 "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.
The abomination of desolation that Matthew is speaking about was prophesied in Daniel 7 and 9.
Dan 7:23 "Thus he said: 'The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it.
Dan 7:24 'As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings.
Dan 7:25 'He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
Dan 7:26 'But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.
Dan 7:27 'Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.'
Dan 7:28 "At this point the revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were greatly alarming me and my face grew pale, but I kept the matter to myself."
For a time, times and half a time–3-and-a-half years–the saints will be given into his hand. The Hebrew word used here is from the root word Moed, which means Season, and is usually used in the context of a period of time that equals one year. It is used like that in the 70 weeks of Daniel. He will wear down the saints. Who are these saints? According to many, the saints will be raptured out of this world before the Tribulation.
The Seventy Weeks
Dan 9:24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
Dan 9:25 "So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.
Dan 9:26 "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
Dan 9:27 "And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."
This same one who wears down the saints is the one who commits the abomination of desolation.
The Coming of the Son of Man
Mat 24:29 "But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Mat 24:30 "And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 "And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Then we come to the place where Yeshua comes again, when we see the signs in the heavens. When does it happen, immediately after the tribulation?It is not until the end of the tribulation that we see the Son of Man coming in the clouds. It is after the tribulation that Yeshua sends forth His angel with the great trumpet.
So let’s sum it up.
- Many false prophets shall come in His name claiming to be the Messiah.
- Many shall be misled.
- There will be wars and rumors of wars.
- There will be famines and earthquakes.
- These are not the end, just the birth pangs.
- There will be tribulation and many will die.
- Many will fall away.
- More false prophets will come and lead many away.
- Lawlessness is increased; only the one who endures to the end will be saved.
- The Gospel is preached throughout the entire world,then the end comes.
- Matthew backtracks to give us more details.
- We are instructed to look for the abomination of desolation.
- Instructions are given to the believers during this time.
- Then comes the greatest tribulation that has ever been.
- Those days are cut short for the sake of the elect.
- He again reminds us of the false messiahs and prophets to come.
- Then, after the Tribulation, we see the sign of the sun, moon and stars.
- Now comes the Son of Man in the clouds.
- The great trumpet is blasted and the saints are raised.
Now we deal with the issue of what some of the end-time prophets are saying we should be looking at. I took this from an article on Wikipedia. I don’t often use this website, but I found it to be fair in defining this issue.
“The Revelation 12 Sign is an apocalyptic belief heralding that the time of Jacob's Trouble—also known as the Tribulation Period—may begin on September 23, 2017. This theory, which has been promoted by a number of people and news organizations, proposes that a literal fulfillment of the prophecy made in the Book of Revelation 12:1-2 will occur on this date over Jerusalem.
This passage of scripture in the New Testament metaphorically describes ‘a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.’ (NIV). Many people worldwide believe that an astronomical alignment involving the constellations Virgo and Leo, the sun, moon, and planets Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter occurring in September 2017 will fulfill this prophecy word-for-word.”
The Woman and the Dragon
Rev 12:1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;
Rev 12:2 and she was with child; and she *cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.
Rev 12:3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.
Rev 12:4 And his tail *swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
Rev 12:5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
Rev 12:6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
Boy, I wish I had the gift of interpreting the end-time prophecies like they do. I understand that this event most likely alludes to Yeshua and his incarnation. As for the remainder it, it is rather foolish of them to assume that the rest of this event is fulfilled in the “astronomical alignment involving the constellations”. I simply have to say the end time significance of this prophecy is rather ambiguous, to say the least.
There are also a number of other holes in their interpretation that cannot be filled, no matter what theological putty they use as filler.
As I said above, most of their predictions are based on a pre-tribulation rapture theory. In just a very short time, using only a few Scriptures in context, that theory can be blown out of the water, and there are many more passages. I have addressed that issue in other articles and I would be happy to send those to anyone who might be interested.
I Thess 4:13-18 are the quintessential verses showing the pre-trib rapture.
The Coming of the Lord
1Th 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
1Th 4:15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Very simply in this verse it says the dead in Messiah will raise first – hence the first resurrection. The pre-tribbers say that this proves that the saints will be translated from the earth before the tribulation.
But Rev 20:1-6 says:
Rev 20:1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
Rev 20:3 and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.
Rev 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Those who are raised in this first resurrection were beheaded because they would not worship the beast or his image. They would not receive his mark. I could be wrong, but it sounds like they went through the tribulation. It also says they were raised first. How could those first resurrection folks in 1 Thess 4 be raised in a pre-trib rapture, while the saints in Revelation are also raised first, yetthey go through the Tribulation?
Here the dilemma is solved; anyone who declares a sign from the Lord about His coming that is based on a pre-trib rapture theory is a false prophet, no ifs, ands or buts about it.
So in conclusion to this short little rebuttal about the September 23rd alignment of the stars and those who declare it as a sign of the coming of the Lord, i.e., the rapture, be careful! For you are standing in a dangerous place. There are more than enough Biblical prophecies that warn us about what to look for when He comes. We don’t need to make up any others.
Deu 18:20 'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'
Deu 18:21 "You may say in your heart, 'How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'
Deu 18:22 "When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
Godlessness in the Last Days
2Ti 3:1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2Ti 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
2Ti 3:4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2Ti 3:5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
Some Will Depart from the Faith
1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
1Ti 4:2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,
We are not lacking Biblical information concerning His coming again. Let’s not get caught up in the feeding frenzy of end-time false prophecies.
As an addendum to my little article I want to post a short time line of some of the false prophets that have presented themselves to their non-discerning adherents. In my lifetime alone there has been approx 78 major false end time prophecy events. I am sure there are more events that only affected smaller groups of people.
From the website
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
1959 Apr 22
Florence Houteff
The 2nd Prophet of the Branch Davidians predicted the apocalypse foretold in the Book of Revelation would proceed on this date. The failure of the prophecy led to the split of the sect into several subsects, the most prominent led by Benjamin and Lois Roden.
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1962 Feb 4
Jeane Dixon, various Indian astrologers
Dixon predicted a planetary alignment on this day was to bring destruction to the world. Mass prayer meetings were held in India.
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1967 Aug 20
George Van Tassel
This day would mark the beginning of the third woe of the Apocalypse, during which the southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet nuclear attack, according to this UFO prophet, who claimed to have channeled an alien named Ashtar.
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1967
Jim Jones
The founder of the People's Temple stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967.
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1969 Aug 9
George Williams
The founder of the Church of the Firstborn predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
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1969
Charles Manson
Manson predicted that an apocalyptic race war would occur in 1969.
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1972
Herbert W. Armstrong
The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true.
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1974 Jan
David Berg
Berg, the leader of Children of God, predicted that there would be a colossal doomsday event heralded by Comet Kohoutek.
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1975
Herbert W. Armstrong
Armstrong's fourth and final prediction.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
From 1966 on, Jehovah's Witnesses published articles which stated that the fall of 1975 would be 6000 years since man's creation, and suggested that Armageddon could be finished by then.
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1976
Brahma Kumaris
The Brahma Kumaris founder, LekhrajKirpalani, has made a number of predictions of a global Armageddon which the religion believes it will inspire, internally calling it "Destruction". During Destruction, Brahma Kumari leaders teach the world will be purified, all of the rest of humanity killed by nuclear or civil wars and natural disasters which will include the sinking of all other continents except India.
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1977
John Wroe
The founder of the Christian Israelite Church predicted this year for Armageddon to occur.
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William M. Branham
This Christian minister predicted the Rapture would occur no later than the year 1977.
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1980
Leland Jensen
In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in God's Kingdom being established on Earth.
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1981
Chuck Smith
The founder of Calvary Chapel predicted the generation of 1948 would be the last generation, and that the world would end by 1981. Smith identified that he "could be wrong" but continued to say in the same sentence that his prediction was "a deep conviction in my heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that belief."
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1982 Apr–Jun
Tara Centers
Full-page ads in many newspapers April 24–25, 1982, stated that "The Christ is Now Here!" and that he would make himself known "within the next two months".
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1982 Mar 10
John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann
Predicted in their 1974 book The Jupiter Effect that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault.
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1982 Jun 21
Benjamin Creme
Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times stating that the Second Coming would occur in June 1982 with the Maitreya announcing it on worldwide television.
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1982
Pat Robertson
In late 1976 on his 700 Club TV programme, Robertson predicted that the end of the world would come in this year.
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1985
Lester Sumrall
This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985.
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1986 Apr 29
Leland Jensen
Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on April 29, 1986, causing widespread destruction.
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1987 Aug 17
José Argüelles
Argüelles claimed that Armageddon would take place unless 144,000 people gathered in certain places across the world in order to "resonate in harmony" on this day.
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1988 Sep 13, Oct 3
Edgar C. Whisenant
Whisenant predicted in his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988 that the Rapture of the Christian Church would occur between September 11–13, 1988. After his September predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to October 3.
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1989 Sep 30
Edgar C. Whisenant
After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day.
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1990 Apr 23
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Prophet predicted a nuclear war would start on this day, with the world ending 12 years later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with supplies and weapons. Later, after Prophet's prediction did not come to pass, she was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.
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1991 Sep 9
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the Jewish New Year.
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1991
Louis Farrakhan
The leader of the Nation of Islam declared that the Gulf War would be the "War of Armageddon which is the final war."
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1992 Sep 28
Rollen Stewart
This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day.
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1992 Oct 28
Lee Jang Rim
(이장림 or 李長林)
Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission church, predicted the rapture would occur on this day.
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1993
David Berg
Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993.
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1994 May 2
Neal Chase
This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that New York would be destroyed by a nuclear bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days later.
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1994 Sep 6/29, Oct 2
Harold Camping
Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on September 6, 1994. When it failed to occur he revised the date to September 29 and then to October 2.
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1995 Mar 31
Harold Camping
Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011.
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1996 Dec 17
SheldanNidle
Californian psychic SheldanNidle predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels.
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1997 Mar 26
Marshall Applewhite
Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide was "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so that the cult members' souls could board the supposed craft and be taken to another "level of existence above human". Applewhite and 38 of his followers committed mass suicide.
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1997 Aug 10
Aggai
The 1st-century bishop of Edessa predicted this date to be the birth date of the Antichrist and the end of the universe.
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1997 Oct 23
James Ussher
This 17th-century Irish archbishop predicted this date to be 6000 years since Creation, and therefore the end of the world.
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1998 Mar 31
Chen Tao
(陳恆明)
Hon-Ming Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult God's Salvation Church, or Chen Tao – "The True Way" – claimed that God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date. Moreover, God would have the same physical appearance as Chen himself. Chen chose to base his cult in Garland, Texas, because he thought it sounded like "God's Land." On March 25, God was to appear on Channel 18 on every TV set in the US.
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1999 Jul
Nostradamus
A quatrain by Nostradamus which stated the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" was frequently interpreted as a prediction of doomsday in July 1999.
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1999 Aug 18
The Amazing Criswell
The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for predictions.
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1999 Sep 11
Philip Berg
Berg, dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre, stated that on this date "a ball of fire will descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all vegetation, all forms of life."
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1999
Charles Berlitz
This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would occur, stating that it might involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other Earth changes.
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Hon-Ming Chen
The leader of the cult Chen Tao preached that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe and Asia in 1999.
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James Gordon Lindsay
This preacher predicted the great tribulation would begin before the year 2000.
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Timothy Dwight IV
This President of Yale University foresaw Christ's Millennium starting by 2000.
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Nazim Al-Haqqani
Predicted that the Last Judgment would occur before the year 2000.
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2000 Jan 1
Various
During and before 1999 there was widespread predictions of a Y2K computer bug that would crash many computers on midnight of December 31, 1999 and cause malfunctions leading to major catastrophes worldwide, and that society would cease to function.
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CredoniaMwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere
An estimated 778 followers of this Ugandan religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.
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Jerry Falwell
Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgment on the world on this day.
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Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
These Christian authors stated that the Y2K bug would trigger global economic chaos, which the Antichrist would use to rise to power. As the date approached, however, they changed their minds.
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2000 Apr 6
James Harmston
The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
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2000 May 5
Nuwaubian Nation
This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust," pulling the planets toward the sun on this day.
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2000
Peter Olivi
This 13th-century theologian wrote that the Antichrist would come to power between the years 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgment would take place around the year 2000.
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Isaac Newton
Newton predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John.
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Ruth Montgomery
This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.
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Edgar Cayce
This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.
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Sun Myung Moon
The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year.
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Ed Dobson
This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.
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Lester Sumrall
This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000.
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Jonathan Edwards
This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year.
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2001
Tynnetta Muhammad
This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year.
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2003 May 27
Nancy Lieder
Lieder originally predicted the date for the Nibiru collision as May 2003. According to her website, aliens in the Zeta Reticuli star system told her through messages via a brain implant of a planet which would enter our solar system and cause a pole shift on Earth that would destroy most of humanity.
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2003 Nov 29
AumShinrikyo
This Japanese cult predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between October 30 and November 29, 2003.
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2006 Sep 12
House of Yahweh
Yisrayl Hawkins, pastor and overseer of The House of Yahweh, predicted in their February 2006 newsletter that a nuclear war would begin on September 12, 2006.
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2007 Apr 29
Pat Robertson
In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction.
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2010
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
This order predicted the world would end during this year.
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2011 May 21
Harold Camping
Camping predicted that the Rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on May 21, 2011 with God taking approximately 3% of the world's population into Heaven, and that the end of the world would occur five months later on October 21.
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2011 Sep 29
Ronald Weinland
Ronald Weinland stated Jesus Christ would return on this day. He prophesied nuclear explosions in U.S. port cities by July 2008 as the blowing of the Second Trumpet of Revelation. After his prophecy failed to come true he changed the date for the return of Jesus Christ to May 27, 2012.
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2011 Oct 21
Harold Camping
When his original prediction failed to come about, Camping revised his prediction and said that on May 21, a "Spiritual Judgment" took place, and that both the physical Rapture and the end of the world would occur on October 21, 2011.
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2011 Aug–Oct
Various
There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenintraveling almost directly between Earth and the Sun would cause disturbances to the Earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes and tidal waves. Others predicted that Elenin would collide with Earth on October 16. Scientists tried to calm fears by stating that none of these events were possible.
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2012 May 27
Ronald Weinland
Ronald Weinland stated that Jesus Christ would return and the world would end on this day.
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2012 Jun 30
José Luis de Jesús
José Luis de Jesús predicted that the world's governments and economies would fail on this day, and that he and his followers would undergo a transformation that would allow them to fly and walk through walls.
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2012 Dec 21
Various
The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion; or a supernova. Mayanist scholars stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecasted impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture. Scientists from NASA, along with expert archeologists, stated that none of those events were possible.
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2013 Aug 23
Grigori Rasputin
Rasputin prophesied a storm would take place on this day where fire would destroy most life on land and Jesus Christ would come back to Earth to comfort those in distress.
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2014 Apr – 2015 Sep
John Hagee and Mark Biltz
The so-called Blood Moon Prophecy, first predicted by Mark Blitz in 2008 and then by John Hagee in 2014. These Christian ministers claimed that the tetrad in 2014 and 2015 may allegedly represent prophecies given in the Bible relating to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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2016 Jul 29
End Time Prophecies
A viral video from the YouTube channel "End Time Prophecies" claimed that the world would end with the Earth undergoing a "polar flip", which would apparently cause the Earth's atmosphere to be pulled to the ground as the surface reels like a vacuum, causing a "rolling cloud" to cover the planet. They also claimed that a worldwide "megaquake" would ensue.
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2017 May 13
Horacio Villegas
Villegas claimed that the world would descend into nuclear war on May 13, 2017, due to increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula. He also said this date coincided with the hundred-year anniversary of the visitation of Our Lady of Fátima.
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So as you can see we are not lacking examples of false prophets in our lifetime. No need to give room for anymore. Be discerning and look only to the signs found in the Scriptures.
Shalom uvrachab’Yeshua Rabbi Henry
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