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 | 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). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store. |
| 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 another 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:
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| 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:
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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."
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Related essays:
| Will the world end in the near future? |
| The end of the Millennium: What people thought would happen: The Y2K Problems: Social, Economic, and Spiritual Aspects |
| Past end-of-the-world scenarios which have failed |
| Predictions that the end of the world will happen between now and 2010 |
| Predictions for 2007-DEC-21 or so |
| Premillennialism and other competing Christian theories about the end of the world. |
References:
The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.
- "Church Shooter Said Upset Over Sermon," EarthLink, 2005-MAR-13, at: http://start.earthlink.net/
- Bill Michelmore, "Niagara Falls prophesied as site of Second Coming," The Buffalo News, 2007-OCT-28, at: http://www.buffalonews.com/
- Mike Foster, "Chilling Prophecies found in 1847 Time Capsule", Weekly World News, 1997-MAY-20, P. 8-9
- "The Sword of God Brotherhood: Warriors of the Apocalypse," is at: http://www.putpeel.net/
- "Daniel's Timeline Report," at: http://www.danielstimeline.com/
- Bill Joy, "Why the future doesn't need us," Wired Magazine, 2000-APR. Online at: http://www.wired.com/
- Asteroid 1997 XF11 has its own web page at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Jonathan Petre, "Newton set 2060 for end of world," Telegraph.co.uk, 2003-FEB-22, at: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/
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