29 predictions that "the end"
will come after the year 2010
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Overview:
Christians have predicted several events that many believe are
related: the second coming of Jesus, the war of Armageddon, the arrival on earth of the
Antichrist, the Tribulation, the Rapture, some horrendous
natural disaster, etc. Jewish, Islamic, psychic, occult
and other predictions have been offered as well.
We have listed over 7 dozen past
predictions of
the end of the world which have one factor in common: none ever came true. There is every
likelihood that most (perhaps all) of these future predictions will not materialize either.
We have been criticized by some of our readers for whipping up hysteria about the end
of the world. Our intent is the exact opposite: we want to dampen the level of panic. We
hope that by listing many dozens of past predictions -- all of which have
failed -- that people will realize that some very important individuals have
been totally wrong when they predicted the end of the world. End of the world predictions have been
common throughout Christianity and other religions for
almost 2000 years. It is probable that none of the following predictions of the date of
the end of the world will come true. We will be very surprised if they do.
Disclaimer:
We offer no guarantees that the prophets listed below
actually made these predictions. We have described their alleged predictions as they were
reported on the Web, in newspapers, books, etc. We do not have the resources to track down
original source material.
Predictions of TEOTWAWKI (The end of the world as we know it):
2010+ In early 2005, Roderick C. Meredith, leader of the
Living Church of God wrote in his church's magazine Tomorrow's
World that the end of the world is near. He said that events
prophesied in the Bible are "beginning to occur with increasing
frequency....We are not talking about decades in the future. We are
talking about Bible prophesies that will intensify within the next five
to 15 years of your life." This prophecy, or a local sermon based on
it, may have been partly responsible for triggering a mass murder in
Brookfield WI on 2005-MAR-12. Church member Terry Ratzmann, who was
experiencing serious depression and facing unemployment, shot 11 people,
killing 7, and then killed himself at a church service. 1
2011-SEP-29: Harold Camping, president of Family Radio
is reported as predicting that the end of the world will occur sometime
during the eight day Feast of Trumpets in 2011. This is an eight day
festival each fall in the 5th day of Ethanim, the seventh month. He has
completed a book "Time Has an End: A biblical History of the World
11,013 BC – 2011 AD," Vantage Press, (2005).
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2011: Ric Steiner sent us an Email suggesting that the date of the end
is embedded in Luke 21:11. Not in the text, but in the chapter and verse
designation. "21" refers to the 21st century; "11" refers to the 11th year.
The problem with this prophecy is that the chapter designations in the Bible
were only created in the 13th century CE; the verses in
the Christian Scriptures (a.k.a. New Testament) were only assigned in the
16th century CE. 9
2011-NOV-11: We received an Email from "A.H." who believes
that the end of the world will happen on 11/11/11. His reasoning is that
"...this is the only date until the next millennium that has the same
number "1" in the date." Actually, it is the only date until 3011
which is made up of the repetition of pairs of the same digit. We are
skeptical. Recall that the Gregorian Calendar is based on the year 1
CE having being arbitrarily chosen. It occurred
four to seven years after Jesus birthday, when nothing much of world
impact was happening. With an arbitrary beginning, it doesn't make a lot
of sense to assume that the end of the world would happen at some
magical combination of numbers in the Gregorian date, like the first day
of the year 2000, or 11.11.11.
2012:
This year seems to be a major focal point for many prophecies. We discuss them
in a separate essay.
2012-2019: Damon_051572, who describes himself as "the
physical and spiritual Jew," distributed an Email widely on
2006-AUG-19. It it titled: "Message from God: Some events of the end of
the world." He of the events that he predicts will happen sometime
before 2019 are:
The Two Witnesses mentioned in Revelation will issue prophecies and send
plagues.
144,000 Jewish virgins convert many to Christianity.
People will be required to receive a mark on their hand or forehead. Any
that accept the mark "will be cast into the lake of fire forever to
experience unimaginable suffering forever."
Satan and his angels attack God's kingdom.
Nuclear war begins.....
2014:
According to Sun magazine for 1999-DEC-21, Pope Leo IX
(1513-1522) wrote on 1514: "I will not see the end of the world, nor
will you my brethren, for its time is long in the future, 500 years hence."
Isaiah Robertson predicts that Jesus' second coming will happen in
Niagara Falls. He said: "Niagara Falls is a holy place, like
Jerusalem. The sound of the water going over the falls is the voice of
God." He expects that the water at the base of the falls will turn
into a "lake of fire." He said that a cross in his home came "straight
from God. It’s not man’s work. This cross is telling you that the coming
of the Lord is at hand. If you walk away from this cross and don’t
accept Christ, then you’re lost forever." 2
2016: An article in Weekly World News describes a find by a Professor
Lloyd Cunningdale of Salt Lake City who was excavating with his students at the site of
the famous Donner party disaster of 1847. The latter were a group of settlers bound for
California who became trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Cunningdale and
students have found a time capsule left by the settlers which contains many predictions
for the future. They predict that nations will abandon traditional methods of conflict and
resort to the use of biological warfare. In 2016, one such disease will spread and kill
all of the humans on the planet. 3
2017:
The "Sword of God Brotherhood" believes that
Armageddon will occur in 2017. The Prophet Gabriel has told them this. Only their own
members will survive to repopulate the world. All of the others (including you and me)
will "perish in hellfire."4
Daniel's Timeline bases their calculation onthe concept of
Jubilee years which occur every 50 years. The most recent three Jubilees
were:
1867 when the Jews were emancipated in Austria and Hungary.
1917 when the Ottomon rule ended and the Balfour Declaration was created.
1967 when the Six Day War occurred.
They predict that the next and final Jubilee year will be 2017 "the time
of the restitution of all things." 5
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Before 2018: The web site "A Nightmare for Everyone and the
Countdown to 2000," predicts that an asteroid and comet will hit the earth,
sometime between the re-creation of Israel in 1948 and 2018. See: http://www.geocities.com/
2020s or 2030s: Bill Joy, co-founder and chief scientist
of Sun Microsystems predicted the end of humanity in within 20
or 30 years, in an article in the 2000-APR issue of Wired Magazine.
He wrote that leading-edge technologies such as robotics, genetic
engineering and nano-tech may soon lead to the extinction of human
society. 6
2023: According to an Email from Clarence D'Souza, Daniel
12:12-13 predicts the end of the world and of the
Universe during this year.
Before 2024: A web site titled "Fire from the sky: Meteors and
Biblical Prophecy,"predicts that a meteor (actually a
meteorite) "could" hit the earth sometime between 1998 and
2023. This would cause
fireballs of debris, tidal waves, supher [sic] dioxide, a "red tide" in the
oceans, and a dust cloud.
2028-OCT: Asteroid "1997 XF11" will approach close
to earth. At first, scientists were concerned that there was a small
probability that it might impact earth. However, data from 1990 has
indicated that it will miss earth by about 600,000 miles. 7 Still,
this is a near miss, as astronomical distances go.
About 2028: A visitor to this web site from Norway has analyzed
biblical chronologies and determined to his satisfaction that "Jesus
became Messiah [about the year 28 CE] exactly 4000 years after Creation."
He believes that God created the world to last 6,000 years. Thus, the end
of the world will happen about 2028. Actually, various theological sources
estimate the date of Jesus' execution between 28 and 33 CE. 30-APR-07 is
a common date. So, the millennium of Jesus' resurrection would occur
between 2028 and 2033, with the most likely date being 2030-APR-07.
2029: Mike Flipp believes that God has been communicating
with him by sending him signs all based on the number 2. He wrote in an
Email: "And then on April 26th, 2005 EXACTLY 2 years worth of getting
signs of 2's, I got the Grandiose Sign of the Aceptable Year of the Lord
- Luke 4:19." The sign is that Jesus will return in the year 2029.
He does not kinow the month, day, or hour. See:
http://www.two.cc
2034: The website 2034AD.com predicts the end of the current age
and the beginning of the Millennium will happen during 2034 CE. They sell a
book "Rest Onto the Land" that describes their conclusions. See:
http://www.2034ad.com/
Before 2038: The environmental group, Greenpeace, predicts massive starvation due to
uncontrolled population
growth. Global warning will melt the polar ice caps and cause massive coastal flooding.
Thousands of plant and animal species become extinct.
2038: The book "The Bible and the Future"
predicts that "large percentage of the world's population will die in a series of
severe punishments from God" at this time. See: http://www.alltheearth.com/
2047-SEP-14: According to The Church of !BLAIR!, the
human race will probably be terminated at 3:28 AM (Soho, England time). The church
teaches, with tongue firmly in cheek, that if the human race does not discard their
plastic conformity, then the Gods will withdraw their protection. The Gods don't want us
to worship them; they don't want sacrifices or even offerings. They just want us to rid
itself of our excessive "Normalcy". At that point, Astro-Lemurs
(extra-terrestrials similar in shape to lemurs, but with rainbow colored bodies) will
attack the entire human race and beat them to death with gigantic burritos. You have been
warned. ;-)
Unfortunately, the Church is no longer online to reinforce their warnings.
2060: Sir Isaac Newton, Britain's greatest scientist, analyzed
the Bible, which he believed contained God's secret laws of the universe.
He concluded that the end of the world will happen on or after the year 2060.
According to Malcolm Neaum, the producer of a TV documentary on Newton: "He
spent something like 50 years and wrote 4,500 pages trying to predict when
the end of the world was coming. But until now it was not known that he
ever wrote down a final figure. He was very reluctant to do so." 8
2076: Bede the Venerable, an 8th century Christian theologian computed
Jesus birth as 3,942 years after the world's creation. The 6,000 year millennial week will
thus end in this year.
2076: Some Sufi sects expect the end of the world in this year, which
is the year 1,500 in the Muslim calendar.
Before 2100: "Magnus" reports that his supernatural friends:
"... were making statements to the effect of earth would
have initiated the major cataclysmic events during the second world war
but Gods authority around me postponed all of that. So in effect all of
who have lived since can thank Gods authority for their life, without
earth would have commenced those cataclysms a long time ago."
"I know it will begin sometime before 2100, so people
will have to live their lives to the fullest from now till then."
