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 | The second coming of Jesus Christ, when he returns to earth after almost two millennia. |
| The war of Armageddon -- a massive battle in Israel. |
| The arrival on earth of the Antichrist, an evil political, military leader. |
| The Tribulation, a seven year interval of great suffering and death. |
| The Rapture, when Christians who have been born again -- both living and dead -- will rise into the sky towards Jesus. |
| Some horrendous natural disaster. |
| etc. |
It is worth noting that all of the following predictions have failed. We expect that predictions being made today about our future will also fail.
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.
Failed prophecies - 1990 to 1997:
| About 1990: Peter Ruckman concluded from his analysis of the Bible that the rapture would come within a few years of 1990. | ||||||||
| Early 1990's: In 1992, David Koresh led the Students of the Seven Seals (a.k.a. Branch Davidian) group in Waco Texas. He changed the name of their commune from Mt. Carmel to Ranch Apocalypse, because of his belief that the final all-encompassing battle of Armageddon mentioned in the Bible would start at the Branch Davidian compound. They had calculated that the end would occur in 1995. After a 51-day standoff, on 1993-APR-10, 76 members died as a result of a fire deliberately set by the Branch Davidians. | ||||||||
| 1990-APR-23: Elizabeth Clare Prophet, leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant made a series of statements that many members believed indicated the start of nuclear war on this date. At least 2,000 followers traveled to Montana to take refuge in CUT's fallout shelters. | ||||||||
| 1991: Mother Shipton, a 16th century mystic predicted the end of the world: "...The world to an end shall come; in nineteen hundred and ninety-one." | ||||||||
| 1991: C.M. Edwards reported that he regularly receives messages from God. One series in mid-1991 predicted a heavy judgment for the U.S. 1991-SEP would bring extreme devastation to the mid-west. One message stated, in part: "Before the close of this year you shall see My signs-true signs of My coming." 1 Interestingly, although the messages allegedly come from God, Edwards retains the copyright. | ||||||||
| 1992-OCT-28: Lee Jang Rim, a Korean Christian pastor, taught that the Rapture would occur on this date, at 10:00 AM EST. It didn't happen; many of his followers allegedly committed suicide. | ||||||||
| 1993:
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| 1993-NOV-11: The 1993-JUL-20 issue of the Weekly World News contained an article titled "Doomsday Asteroids." Top scientists allegedly wrote a top-secret document which revealed that M-167, a known asteroid, would hit the earth on NOV-11 and perhaps end all life on earth. The M series of astronomical objects were catalogued by Messier: M-1 is the crab nebula; M-31 is the Andromeda galaxy; M-45 are the Pleiades. There is no M object with a number higher than M-110. | ||||||||
| 1993 to 1997: Rulon Jeffs was spokesperson for the The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon polygamist splinter group. In 1993, he allegedly told high school graduates to not attend college. The reasoning was that the world would end before they could finish. The splinter group was founded in 1929 and was excommunicated from the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of their promotion of polygyny. 26 | ||||||||
| 1994, approximately: There have been continual reports that Jesus and Mary have been appearing in Conyers, GA on the 13th of every month to deliver a message to Nancy Fowler, a homemaker and nurse. Over 1 million pilgrims have visited her prayer site. On 1994-FEB-6, Jesus is recorded as saying: "Conflicts will turn into wars....Then so will the earth tremble in many places. The earth will divide. The earth will divide and take away your riches. Some of you will die suddenly. You will have no warning...The clock continues to tick. The hour is rapidly approaching when one disaster after another will befall you. There will be fighting everywhere. There will be famine and polluted water in many places." Unfortunately, no specific dates were given for these occurrences. 2 | ||||||||
| 1994: A major, though unofficial, Jehovah's Witness prediction date. | ||||||||
| 1994-SEP: Harold Camping, president of Family Radio predicted on his radio programs that the end of the world would happen sometime between 1994-SEP-5 and SEP-27. He said that he did not know the precise day because Matthew 24:36 of the Christian Scriptures says that "no man knows the day nor the hour." He interpreted a reference in John 21:1-14 to the disciples being 200 cubits from the shore in the Sea of Galilee as meaning that there would be 2,000 years between the birth and the second coming of Jesus. He estimates that Jesus was born on 0007-OCT-4 BCE. 8 | ||||||||
| Sometime in 1996: The book "The Return of Jupiter: End of the world in the light of the Bible" Dorrance Publishing, Pittsburgh PA predicted a disaster starting in the Pacific Ocean: "A terrible earthquake is going to break the oceanic earth crust under the Pacific Ocean by the year 1996 AD" | ||||||||
| 1996-OCT-23: Since 1658, many Christians have accepted the calculations of James Ussher, an Irish archbishop, who estimated that the first day of creation occurred on 4004-OCT-23 BCE. This would make the time interval between the creation of the world and a common estimate of the birth of Christ to be precisely 4000 years. Some people believe that Ussher fudged the data to make it come out neatly. He also estimated that the end of the world would occur exactly 6000 years later, in the fall of 1996. This is based on the concept of the "millennial week": that each of the 6 days of creation mentioned in Genesis is linked to a 1000 year time span in the life of the earth. On the 7th millennial day, 1996-OCT-23, Ussher expected that life as we know it will cease. | ||||||||
| 1997-MAR-8: The Vortex of the Star of David religious sect of Luskville, Quebec, Canada was quoted as predicting the end of the world on Saturday, MAR-8. 3 A father, Jean Leon Marcoux, was interviewed; he was worried because his children will be visiting their mother at the sect's commune on that weekend. He approached the Quebec police but was unable to get them to take any action. A spokesperson for the sect stated that they do not follow a doomsday scenario. | ||||||||
| 1997-APR-10: Dan Millar, of Surrey, BC, Canada and Bob Wadsworth of the Biblical
Astronomy newsletter are both religious researchers. They followed the age-old
tradition of looking for signs in the heavens for the arrival of the Antichrist, second
coming of Christ, etc. Ancient prophecies told of heavenly events and even a cross in the
sky in advance of momentous developments. Millar and Wadsworth predicted the arrival of
the Antichrist on APR-10. Dan suggested that we watch news from the Vatican and from
Jerusalem on that day, because he expected some sort of coup by the Antichrist. He was
expected to come to power in the Vatican as Pope Peter II. One heavenly indicator was the intersection by two comets of the star Algol in the constellation Perseus. Comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp intersected the star on the same date (APR-11) on two adjacent years (Hyakutake in 1996 and Hale-Bopp in 1997). Plotting the two comets' trajectories over the period APR-1 to APR-30 on the two years forms an almost perfect cross. They intersected between the eyes of the Medusa head that Perseus is holding in his left hand. "Algol" means "Demon Star" in Arabic. The head is known as Rosh Satan (the head of Satan) in Hebrew. There was one further heavenly sign: on the evening of APR-10, there will be a lunar occultation of the star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus. | ||||||||
| 1997-OCT-20: A Jewish group, called the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement were expected to attempt to place the cornerstone of a new temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This is a small piece of real estate that is the most sacred spot in the world to Jews, and one of the most sacred to Muslims. The Rapture Ready home page has predicted that the "Tribulation" would be triggered by that event. Previous attempts had failed either because of riots, or police action. There was one report that they were going to try to airlift the stone by helicopter this time. On OCT-20, several thousand police officers were deployed throughout Jerusalem; they successfully prevented access to the Temple Mount. | ||||||||
| 1997-NOV-27: The Sacerdotal Knights of National Security report that "A space alien captured at a UFO landing site in eastern Missouri cracked under interrogation by the CIA and admitted that an extraterrestrial army will attack Earth on November 27 with the express purpose of stripping our planet of every natural resource they can find a use for -- and making slaves of every man, woman and child in the world!" | ||||||||
| 1997: Superdave the Wonderchemist took the magic
number 1331 and added it to 666 the "Number of the Beast" from the Book of
Revelation to get the year of the arrival of the Antichrist and the end of the world.
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is 1331 a magic number?
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| 1997-DEC-31: The 1997-JUL-29 issue of the Weekly World News reported that the biggest end of the world scare since the Cuban missile crisis was circulating through Washington. President Clinton called a secret meeting with leading Bible scholars for the week of JUL-27. A confidential Pentagon memo sparked the scare; it predicted a worldwide cataclysm of unprecedented proportions. Earthquake activity was allegedly on a rise and will peak at year-end; the earth's crust was believed to have been shifting ominously. | ||||||||||||
| Sometime in late 1997 or early 1998: The 1997-JUL-29 issue of the Weekly World
News carried a statement by a spokesperson of the International Association of
Psychics. 92% of their 120,000 members have had the same "end time" vision.
Spokesperson Madame Vredeau predicted:
If almost all psychics believed that, then one can conclude that their predictions are generally quite unreliable. |
References:
- C.M. Edwards, "Heavy judgment coming to the U.S.A.," at: http://www.geocities.com/
- Appearances of Jesus and Mary in Conyers, GA, are described at: http://www.conyers.org/
- Global TV network newscast, 1997-MAR-4
- "Superdave the Wonderchemist's" estimate is at: http://www.math.gatech.edu/
- S.J. Gould, "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown.", Harmony Books, (1997) You can read a review and perhaps buy this book from amazon.com online bookstore
- "Harold Camping," at: http://bibleandscience.com/
- Peter Levenda, "Unholy Alliance: A history of Nazi involvement with the occult," Continuum, (2003), Page 284.
- Edmund D. Cohen, "Harold Camping and the Stillborn Apocalypse." Free Inquiry 15 (Winter 1995)Pages 35-40. Back copies of Free Inquiry can be ordered at: http://www.secularhumanism.org/
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