List of predictions of the end of the world

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*'''2003:''' [[George W. Bush]]: Operation Iraqi Freedom is part of God's plan to wipe out the bad guys and herald in a "new age".<ref>http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5 Gog, Magog, and George W. Bush]</ref> (plan still in progress)
 
*'''2003:''' [[George W. Bush]]: Operation Iraqi Freedom is part of God's plan to wipe out the bad guys and herald in a "new age".<ref>http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5 Gog, Magog, and George W. Bush]</ref> (plan still in progress)
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*'''2005-2026:'''  [[William Strauss and Neil Howe]]: a crisis period in the U.S. comparable in effect to the American Revolution, Civil War, and Great Depression/WWII.<ref>Strauss, William and Howe, Neil.  ''The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy'', Broadway Books, 1997.  Dates are approximate and based on their analysis of social cycles.</ref>
 
* '''2007:''' Hal Lindsey: second coming.
 
* '''2007:''' Hal Lindsey: second coming.
 
* '''2007:''' Pat Robertson: great tribulation.
 
* '''2007:''' Pat Robertson: great tribulation.

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There's always been good business in predicting the end of the world. Here are some examples, with the predicted date of the end of all things.

Contents

1st century

  • Early Christianity: Second coming. Any day now![1]
  • Revelation: Armageddon.

7th century

  • Muslims believed in the Qiyamah (Last Judgement) during which time Jesus[2] will come to earth, end all wars, and kill ad-Dajjal - the Muslim anti-Christ. Then every person who ever lived will be bodily resurrected, before being judged by God. The faithful go to heaven, and the rest to hell. Apparently there's also room for some "People of the Book", i.e. Jews and Christians.

17th century

  • 1680: Jacob Bernoulli: a comet seen that year would return and collide with the Earth. (The comet hasn't been seen since that date.)

19th century

20th century

  • 1914: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[citation needed]
  • 1915: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[citation needed]
  • 1925: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[citation needed]
  • 1941: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[citation needed]
  • 1975: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[citation needed]
  • mid-1970s: David Wilkerson: worldwide economic depression.[3]
  • 1977: William Branham: destruction of the U.S., termination of all governments into a world government, second coming.[4]
  • 1977: Pyramidologist Adam Rutherford: Beginning of the Millennium[5]
  • 1978: Jim Jones (who took his cult with him)
  • 1980: Pat Robertson: "a year of sorrow and bloodshed that will have no end soon, for the world is being torn apart, and my[6] kingdom shall rise from the ruins of it."
  • 1981: Hal Lindsey: pre-tribulational rapture.
  • 1982: Pat Robertson: great tribulation.
  • 1985: Pat Robertson: worldwide economic collapse.
  • 1988: Hal Lindsey: second coming.
  • 1988: Edgar Whisenant: second coming.[7]
  • 1988: Colin Deal: second coming.[8]
  • 1989: Edgar Whisenant: second coming.[9]
  • 1990: Elizabeth Clare Prophet: global thermonuclear war.
  • 1991: Louis Farrakhan: the looming Gulf War would be the "War of Armageddon which is the final war."
  • 1992: Rollen Stewart: second coming.
  • 1992: Mission for the Coming Days: second coming.[10]
  • 1994: Harold Camping: second coming.[11]
  • 1997: Heaven's Gate: Earth changes and a UFO abduction coinciding with the Hale-Bopp comet. Mass suicide in the hopes of hitching a ride on said UFOs.
  • 1998: The Church of the SubGenius: the Rupture. Every year on July 5th, they meet and party in reverence, certain that it will happen this year.
  • 1999-2000: David Wilkerson: worldwide economic depression.[12]
  • 2000: Y2K: collapse of civilisation.

21st century

  • 2003: George W. Bush: Operation Iraqi Freedom is part of God's plan to wipe out the bad guys and herald in a "new age".[13] (plan still in progress)
  • 2005-2026: William Strauss and Neil Howe: a crisis period in the U.S. comparable in effect to the American Revolution, Civil War, and Great Depression/WWII.[14]
  • 2007: Hal Lindsey: second coming.
  • 2007: Pat Robertson: great tribulation.
  • 2008: Ronald Weinland: start of the final years of Man's rule on Earth.
  • 2008: Sarah Palin: believes she is of the "Final Generation" and will see the End Times during her lifetime.[15][16]
  • 2009: David Wilkerson: Earth-shattering calamity engulfing the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America experiencing riots and blazing fires.[17]
  • 2011: Harold Camping: second coming.
  • 2012: But of course!
  • 2018: Hal Lindsey: second coming.
  • 2037: Hal Lindsey: second coming.

300000000000000000000000000000000000000000th century

  • 3×1043 years from now: estimated time for all nucleons in the observable universe to decay, if the proton half-life takes the largest possible value (1041 years)[18].

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
  2. Yes! That Jesus.
  3. Wilkerson, David. The Vision. Spire Books 1973
  4. Branham, William. The Seven Church Ages, p. 322.
  5. http://answers.org/CultsAndReligions/pyramid.html
  6. God's, not Pat's, we hope
  7. Whisenant, Edgar. 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be In 1988, World Bible Society 1988.
  8. Deal, Colin. Christ Returns By 1988: 101 Reasons Why. Self published, 1979.
  9. Whisenant, Edgar. The Final Shout: Rapture Report, World Bible Society, 1989.
  10. This was the South Korea based Hyoo-go (rapture) movement, who put billboards up all over the U.S. predicting October 28, 1992.
  11. Camping, Harold. 1994? Vantage Press 1992.
  12. Wilkerson, David. God's Plan to Protect His People in the Coming Depression, 1998
  13. http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5 Gog, Magog, and George W. Bush]
  14. Strauss, William and Howe, Neil. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy, Broadway Books, 1997. Dates are approximate and based on their analysis of social cycles.
  15. The End Times and Sarah Palin
  16. When atheists attack
  17. http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=91097
  18. wp:Exasecond and longer and wp:Future of an expanding universe have a pile of similarly apocalyptic events that actually have some scientific basis.
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