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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.
Alternately, you could wait until after 2011-SEP when the book will probably
be a lot cheaper. |
| 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. |
| 2001-NOV-22: We received an Email from "F" who expects the end of the
world on this date. She/he said: "what the angel told me was the following: 'Child is at home in 2011 will be the end, for 3 days close in doors and windows? don't let anyone enter or leave the house, an old order is reborn and with it the pain and suffering.' Then the angel showed me the bodies of people crowded the cities were burning and the streets deserted grass grew high, we throw people also saw blood in the mouth, as if a virus is up. What I saw in Europe was perhaps France, or in Flanders." |
| 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:
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| 2014:
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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/ |
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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 |
| Predictions for times during or after 2020 |
| Premillennialism and other competing Christian theories about the end of the world. |
References used:
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/
- "III Chapter and Verse Divisions," Bible-Researcher, at: http://www.bible-researcher.com/
- 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/
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