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“”Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
—Jesus, according to Matthew 24:35-36
“”"The world [will] end"
"Yeah. People keep saying that, but it never seems to happen."
—"Watchmen" – Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof

There's always been good business predicting the end of the world. The "end" of the "world" is pretty badly defined by most supernatural predictions. The rapture, for instance, is really just the beginning of the end, and signals civilization being sent back to the Stone AgeWikipedia for a bit. During all this The Chosen are whisked up to heaven. Meanwhile, predictions of the end of the world in 2012 were wide-ranging, from a comet just tearing Earth in half (the rest of the universe spinning on as usual) to the complete and total end of everything ever. The latter is less scary because it's not like anything will be around afterwards to care.

In the case of some of the science-based predictions for how the universe will go on according to our knowledge of physics, there's no "end" as such. Matter and energy still exist, but in their lowest energy and most uniform state: the rub being that this state precludes the interactions needed to produce emergent structures. This includes stars, planets, and intelligent entities capable of experiencing the universe.

Here are some examples, with the predicted date of the end of all things.

Unspecified date[edit]

When the world is going to end it's a good idea to have a timetable of what will happen. Do not miss the last lunch and last supper. Both will be BBQ.
“”I saw one, one time, that said, "The next week, the world is ending." And in the next week's paper, they said, "We were miraculously saved at the zero hour by a koala-fish mutant bird." Crazy shit.
—Tabloid-reading customer in Clerks
  • Zoroastrianism claims that the end of the world will happen when a comet, called Gochihr, strikes the earth. It will cause all the world's metals to melt and will burn up the world. At the same time, sinners and the pious will pass through this river of molten metal. Sinners will have their sins burnt away and the pious will feel like they're "passing through warm milk."[1]
  • Biblical pinpointing of the end of the world: it had already started during the earthly life of Jesus circa first century CE: "in the end of the world hath [Christ] appeared".[2]
  • Norse myths say that Ragnarök will involve a battle between the gods, killing all but two of the humans, who will then repopulate the earth.[note 1]
  • A number of scientific disasters have been suggested throughout the years. For example: epidemics,[3] various asteroids/comets, super-volcano eruptions,[4] and global warming. Note that these, like many other "end of world" predictions, would only be the end of humanity, or at most, of much/most/all life on Earth. The world itself would hardly notice the change.
  • 2009 – whenever he dies: Barack Obama takes over as the Antichrist. He may not be President anymore, but people will do anything to make him fit to this day.[5]
  • Walter M. Chesnut: In time, the COVID-19 spike protein in both infected and vaccinated will turn into AIDS bringing humanity into extinction unless treatments can be found.[6] Has argued this based on his research with Luc Montagnier[7]
  • Kevin W. McCairn: retired neuroscientist PhD and homophobic and antisemitic shitposter, suggests that HIV sequences in the spike protein for COVID-19, largely centered from a discarded preprint that still has a following,[8] and its vaccines will lead to widespread prion disease, which will lead to a population bottleneck.[9][10][11] How long this will play out is generally unknown to him and his followers.
  • Geert Vanden Bossche (Since March of 2021): A Belgian PhD veterinarian and vaccinologist, has been suggesting that mass vaccination for COVID-19 will lead to an immune escape, in the vein of Marek’s disease,[12] that will kill large portions of vaccinated populations, while the unvaccinated will be protected via cell-based innate immunity from the virus.[13][14] While many of the dates suggested by him and his followers failed to materialize, they acknowledge it and insist that it will happen in the near future.[15][16][17][18] He and his followers are now suggesting that COVID has reached a transmission bottleneck which will be the final sign before a highly virulent variant finally hits.[19][20]
  • Fast Eddy: Obscure Substack user takes Bossche's hypothesis to the next level. Eddy states that it will kill all COVID-19 vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals,[21][note 2] and those who survive will starve, resort to cannibalism, and eventually die out as unchecked nuclear spent fuel pools boil emitting radiation globally. The reasoning behind this is that the elites knew that civilization will collapse due to peak oil, leading to mass violence and eventual extinction, and opted to create COVID-19 to shorten mankind’s suffering.[22][23]
  • Gastroenterologists are suggesting a possible human extinction event if microbiomes in the gut aren’t saved.[24][25]
  • Kerry Ann Gidden (During Trump’s second term): According to her, Donald Trump will be assassinated and Barack Obama (Antichrist) will takeover after a sham election and the End Times will ensue.[26]
  • Radagast: Obscure Dutch blogger and shitposter behind Rintrah, foresees massive catastrophe as a result of H5N1, and vaccinating will make it worse.[27][28][29] He also has a shitpost for billionaires.[30] That and he also anticipates disaster with monkeypox.[31]

1st century CE[edit]

4th century[edit]

  • Bishop and theologian Hilary of PoitiersWikipedia predicted the world would end in 365 CE. Hilary's name means cheerful.[33][34]
  • Hilary's disciple, the popular saint, cloak-wearer, and hammerer Martin of Tours,Wikipedia predicted the end would be around 400 CE.[34]

5th century[edit]

  • 500: In what's considered the first prediction involving round numbers in the Christian calendar (hence prefiguring a lot of Y2K bullshit), Hippolytus of RomeWikipedia (170-235 CE) used the dimensions of Noah's Ark and the idea of 1000-year days starting at the world's creation in 5500 BCE to predict Christ's coming in this year, writing in 234 CE. Sextus Julius Africanus had come up with something similar but without the same numerology.[35]

7th century[edit]

  • Muslims believed in the Qiyamah (Last Judgement), during which time Jesus[note 3] 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, though hopefully there won't be any wars between the lot in heaven. Presumably God will actually do something to stop fighting within his heavenly realm, unlike on Earth, so that celestial wars would seem unlikely.

8th century[edit]

  • 800: Another prediction from Sextus Julius AfricanusWikipedia (c 160-c 240 CE), who had suggested 500 CE as an alternative.[36][37] If only he'd predicted the coronation of Charlemagne, which did occur on December 25, 800 CE, but same difference, yeah?

12th century[edit]

16th century[edit]

A little grandiose, eh?
  • Circa 1504: Painter Sandro Botticelli believed he was living during the End Times/Tribulation,Wikipedia according to an inscription on his painting The Mystical Nativity.
  • 1524: The Great Flood of 1524 was predicted for February 4 which would coincide with a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, predicted by several astrologers including Johann Stöffler in 1499 and Johannes Carion in 1521. It was popularised by a vast number of pamphlets in the early 16th century, which has led to it being described as the first mass-media panic in history. Many people feared the worst, building boats and moving to higher ground; nothing happened, and in London, where some of the most extreme panic had manifested, it didn't even rain.[38][39]
  • 1533: Michael Stifel, Judgement Day.[40] A common saying in German for PIDOOMA is to "calculate" or "talk a Stifel."[41]
  • 1583: Another Great Conjunction (of Saturn and Jupiter), especially auspicious as the last in a water sign for several hundred years, it nonetheless failed to presage the end of the world. The only consequence was Pope Sixtus V issuing a papal bull, Coeli et terrae, in January 1586, condemning astrological predictions.[42]
  • 1600 or before: Martin Luther was a keen student of the Book of Revelation, and predicted the end of the world was imminent, possibly within his lifetime (he died in 1546) and certainly by 1600.[43][44]

17th century[edit]

  • 1666: The presence of the Number of the Beast in this date meant many people assumed it would see the end of the world, with outbreaks of bubonic plague in the years before adding to millenarian feeling.[45] The Fifth Monarchists,Wikipedia a millenarian English sect that sprung up during the English Civil War, believed the world would end in 1666 or before. They were influential in the radical politics of the 1650s and tried to set up a council of saints to form the fifth monarchy (following the Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman) which they predicted would bring the end of the world, based on Daniel 2:37-44. But the Restoration of Charles II reduced their influence, and even plague and fire couldn't help.[46]
  • 1688: First prediction by mathematician and "wizard" John NapierWikipedia (1550-1617), another keen student of the Book of Revelation.[47]
  • 1697: First of many predictions by Puritan clergyman, scientist, and witchfinder Cotton MatherWikipedia, who later changed his prediction to 1736, 1716, and then 1717.[48]
  • 1700: Second prediction by mathematician and "wizard" John Napier.[47]

18th century[edit]

  • 1719: Jacob Bernoulli: a comet seen in 1680 would return and collide with the Earth.[49] Said comet hasn't been seen since.[50]
  • 1780: An unusual darkening of the daytime skyWikipedia caused by forest fires was interpreted by some religious people as sign of such day being Judgement Day.
  • 1792: One of a few dates advanced by the Shakers, an 18th century Protestant apocalyptic sect.[51]

19th century[edit]

  • 1806: A scam in Yorkshire involved a hen supposedly laying eggs with "Christ is coming" on them. The perpetrator, Mary Bateman, was executed shortly after.[52]
  • 1833: The massive display by the Leonid meteor shower turned the night sky into what looked like morning light, causing some people to think that the world was about to end, including Joseph Smith who thought Armageddon was near.[53]
  • 1836: Various theologians, including German theologian Johann Albrecht BengelWikipedia and Methodist John Wesley,Wikipedia suggested this year would see the start of the Millennium (1000 years of bliss), to be followed by 1000 years of rule by Satan and then Christ's Second Coming.[54]
  • 1843: The "Great Disappointment": William Miller predicts the end would come in 1843... then 1844... oh. His many thousands of followers reacted in different ways to his utter failure: some wised up and gave up on his predictions, while others became Seventh Day Adventists. They're still waiting. Still others became the Jehovah's Witlesses, who badly retconned Miller's prediction so they could claim it actually did happen, just not the way he predicted.
  • 1865: predicted by Edward Bishop Elliott, a Victorian Biblical scholar; he later revised this to 1941.[55][56]
  • 1867: John Cumming, a popular anti-Catholic clergyman who preached in Covent Garden, London, in the mid-19th century and wrote about 180 books, interpreted Biblical prophecies to predict the glorious end days would come around 1867.[57]
  • 1873: One of several predictions by the Adventist Jonas Wendell (1815-1873); this date was contained in his 1870 book The Present Truth, or Meat in Due Season; he had previously predicted the second coming in 1868.[58]
  • 1881: According to an 1862 edition of the prophecies of Mother Shipton, who allegedly wrote "The world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty one."[59] (Seems she was no better at poetry than she was at prediction.)
  • 1890 or 1891: Native Americans involved in the Ghost DanceWikipedia movement:[60][61] All the whites are gonna get thrown back to Europe really soon!

20th century[edit]

1900s[edit]

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1910s[edit]

Halley's Comet (1910) : the tail did not wag the dog
  • 1910: Halley's Comet's tail crosses the Earth and people think that the world will be gassed to death by cyanogen gas.[62] Mark Twain predicted that he would die when it arrived, and he passed on the day after its perihelion.[63]
  • 1914: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[64] Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Bible Student movement which evolved into the Jehovah's Witnesses, predicted the destruction of all world governments in October 1914 (he believed Jesus had secretly returned and had been ruling the world since 1874).[65]
  • 1915: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[64]
  • 1918: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[64]

1920s[edit]

  • 1920: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[64]
  • 1923: Wilbur Glenn Voliva: Flat Earth to end[66]
  • 1925: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[64]
  • 1927: Wilbur Glenn Voliva[66]

1930s[edit]

1940s[edit]

  • 1941: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[64]
  • 1941: Victorian scholar Edward Bishop Elliott, based on his interpretation of the Book of Revelation, came up with this date after his earlier predictions in the 1860s proved untrue.[68]
  • 1943: Herbert W. Armstrong

1950s[edit]

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1960s[edit]

  • 1969: Charles Manson predicted an apocalyptic race war would engulf the US in the summer of 69.[69]
  • October 19th, 1969: Ray Bradbury predicted a calm, quiet and peaceful end to it all in the short story "The Last Night of the World", included in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated ManWikipedia.[note 4]

1970s[edit]

1980s[edit]

  • 1980: Pat Robertson: "A year of sorrow and bloodshed that will have no end soon, for the world is being torn apart, and my[note 5] kingdom shall rise from the ruins of it."
  • 1981: Hal Lindsey: Pre-tribulational rapture. Chuck Smith,Wikipedia founder of the Calvary Chapel movement, shared this view in a 1978 book.[74]
  • 1982: Pat Robertson: Great Tribulation.
  • 1982: R.E. McMaster: World War III and/or economic depression, based on cyclical theory.[75]
  • 1985: Pat Robertson: Worldwide economic collapse.
  • 1988: Hal Lindsey: Second Coming.
  • September 11-13, 1988: Edgar Whisenant: Second Coming.[76]
  • 1988: Colin Deal: Second Coming.[77]
  • 1988: Jack Chick considered the possibility of the Rapture, followed by World War III, would take place forty years after Israel became a nation.[78][note 6]
  • 1989: Edgar Whisenant: Second Second Coming.[79]

1990s and 2000[edit]

  • 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."
  • 1991: Jack Chick again. The Great Tribulation would begin "soon".[80]
  • 1992 (September 28): Rollen Stewart: Second Coming.
  • 1992: Mission for the Coming Days: Second Coming.[note 7]
  • 1992: First end of the world prediction from collision with the Pleiades star cluster (a.k.a., "photon belt")
  • 1994: Harold Camping: Second Coming.[81]
  • 1994: Some Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[82]
  • 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.
  • 1997: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.[70]
  • 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. (Recent writings have inverted the year to "8661.")
  • 1999: according to some interpretations of Nostradamus[83]
  • 1999: A now little-known collision with Planet X
  • August 18, 1999: Armageddon, according to Jeron "The Amazing Criswell" King[84]
  • 1999-2000: David Wilkerson: Worldwide economic depression.[85]
  • December 31, 1999: Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of GodWikipedia, a Ugandan millenarian Christian sect; after the failed prediction was exposed, the leaders brutally killed hundreds of their followers in March 2000.[86]
  • January 1, 2000: Y2K: Collapse of civilisation. Christian preachers in Papua New Guinea predicted the end.[87] Hal Lindsey failed on this one again.
  • May 5, 2000: Cataclysmic crust displacement predicted by Richard W. Noone, due to a combination of build-up of Antarctic ice and planetary alignment. We're lucky that the ice is melting.[88]

21st century[edit]

2000s[edit]

Harold Camping was a perennial favorite. Oopsie!
Skeptics trolling for the rapture
2007 (November 1): Mario will trigger a meltdown in a massive galaxy reactor and will cause the universe to turn into a freakish dual tornado and subsequently explode.
  • ≤2001: Cataclysmic crust displacement predicted by William Hutton.[89]
  • 2002 (December 8th): Survivalist Bruce Beach (of Ark Two fame) predicted it on a Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode that was not aired until 2003.[90]
  • 2003: On the track BBF3 by Godspeed You! Black EmperorWikipedia, an interview of the self-named "Blaise Bailey Finnegan III" states: "I don't wanna answer that question because... I haven't even got a mind that's that...that inhumane" when asked about what America would look like in 2003.
  • 2003: May 2003 was supposed to have Earth cataclysmically smash into Nibiru/Planet X, according to ZetaTalk.
  • 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.[91]
  • 2006 (September 12th): Yisrayl Hawkins, pastor and overseer of The House of Yahweh, predicted in his February 2006 newsletter that a nuclear war would begin on September 12th, 2006.[92]
  • 2007: Hal Lindsey – the Second Second Coming.
  • 2007: Pat Robertson – the Great Tribulation.
  • 2007 – "the future is open": Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Cassiopaean channeling predicted in 1994 that 94% of humanity would be totally consumed by evil aliens by around 2007, but "the future is open" and the goalposts are moved from time to time.
  • 2008 – whenever she dies: Sarah Palin's church believes that they are the "Final Generation" and will see the End Times during their lifetime.[93]
  • May 2008: Followers of Pyotr Kuznetsov, 31 adults and 4 children (one 18 months old), went into a cave in Russia in November 2007 thinking they would be safe from an apocalypse occurring in the spring. Kuznetsov did not join them, was later committed and attempted suicide when some had left the cave in the spring. By the time all the followers had left the cave in the spring, two adults had died.[94]
  • 2008 – whenever it shuts down: The Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world with black holes, strangelets, or something similarly scary and science-y.[95] You can keep up to date with whether this has happened yet.[96][97])
  • 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.[98]

2010s[edit]

  • 2010: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which existed from 1887 to 1903, predicted the world would end during this year.[99][100]
  • 2011: Harold Camping tries again – Third Second coming/rapture. May 21st, to be precise.[101] He put up billboards![102] Later postponed to October 21st, but again nothing came of it. Camping might hold on to the money people sent him if he weren't dead now, though he evidently blew a bundle on billboard advertisements.[103] though followers were encouraged to drain their savings for Camping's campaign funds and many are deeply disappointed.[104]
  • 2011: Ronald Weinland: Second Coming on the 29th of September. Strike one!
  • 2012: Ronald Weinland – Second Coming on the 27th of May. Strike two!
  • 2012: Jose Luis de Jesús - End times occur with earthquakes and civilization collapsing, while he will gain the ability to fly through walls.[105]
  • 2012: Last known end of the world prediction from collision with the Pleiades star cluster[citation needed]
  • 2012: But of course! Un-naturally failed apocalypse, NASA pushed away space rock expected to hit in series of attempts to bombard asteroids in previous years.[106] (They even did this to the moon!) The following trail fell to/passed Earth in early 2013.[107] ;)
  • 2012 (December 21st): Eastern Lightning cult predicted the end of the world.[108]
  • 2012: Permanent global blackouts will lead to civilization collapsing according to Guy McPherson by 2012 due to peak oil.[109]
  • 2013: 2012 was just a warm up, the real bad stuff starts 2013 or something and it seems Isaac Newton predicted it.[110]
  • 2013: Ronald Weinland – Second Coming on the 9th of May. Strike three, you're out! (see 2019 for strike 4)
  • 2014 (February 22nd): Ragnarok – the end of the present world according to Norse mythology.[111]
  • 2014 (March 21st): Asteroid (143649) 2003 QQ47Wikipedia?[112]
  • 2014: World War III, another attempt to interpret Nostradamus's prophecy of a fire in the North for the reference of the end of the age of the fifth sun,[113] believed to be a specific Northern region of a country, current speculation is North Korea, as relative to the resolution of a Pope prediction.[114] Oh, and the Rapture.[115] And a giant asteroid hitting the Caribbean.
  • between April 2014 and October 2015: A tetrad of lunar eclipses (or blood moons) will signal the start of the end times, according to megachurch pastor John Hagee.[116]
  • Unspecified time during the reign of Pope Francis, the pope succeeding Benedict XVI. Mediaeval Saint Malachy supposedly predicted Peter the Roman (Petrus Romanus) would be the last pope, Rome would be destroyed and a terrible judge would judge his people, The end.[117] Doomsayers have already started shoehorning the new pope into the prediction.[118]
  • 2015: Solar flare.[119][120]
  • 2015 (September 23rd): (some references give a margin of September 18th to September 25th) Asteroid.[121]
  • 2015 (October 7th): eBible Fellowship, an organization vaguely related to the late-Harold Camping, is confident they've got the date right this time.[122]
  • 2016 (April 6th): Warren Jeffs, in no way due to a contemporaneous arrangement.[123]
  • 2016 (May 16th): Pastor Richardo Salazar was allegedly told by God that an asteroid fully made of ice, with a 9km diameter, traveling at 30,000km per hour would strike earth killing 1,200 million people. As you probably can tell, that definitely happened and those totally dead 1,200 million people will be forever missed.[124]
  • 2016 (June 3-4): Modern scholars got the Mayan date wrong. It was never 2012, rather it was June 2016 and there are plenty of numbers involved.[125]
  • 2016 (June 14th-August 19th): According to this super reliable, super honest, super definitely-NOT-bullshiting "NASA scientist", there was meant to be a magnetic reversal between June and August which would cause the Van Allen belt to fall killing 80% of life on Earth. He got this information from aliens via HAARP. Yup, aliens told our good 'ol uncle Dr. Sal that the sky is falling.[126]
  • 2016 (October 31st): Walid Shoebat alleges that the world is "100% certain" to end on this exact arbitrary nutjob date. As the basis for this claim, he refers to his own science of "Futurology 101".[127]
  • 2016 (Fall): Bible student and computer scientist Nora Roth on MarkBeast.com claims as much through a lot of numerology surrounding seventy "sevens".[128]
  • Past November of 2016: Obscure and extreme Nigerian Black Hebrew Israelite states that Satan will put Hillary Clinton into office, and she will start WWIII.[129]
  • 2016 (December): Bible student and computer scientist Nora Roth subsequently revised her claim to December.[130]
  • 2016: Tom Wattkins:[131] He had a vision of the Great tribulation claiming to have met the beast of revelation, etc. Turns out the same day is a solar eclipse,[132] though of course he'll mention that.[131]
  • September 23, 2017: Nibiru/Planet X will again collide with Earth, the second prediction by David Meade.[133] Plus a rare constellation alignment will start the Rapture[134]
  • October 2017: Initial forecast made by David Meade[135][136]
  • October 15, 2017: The third time's a charm by David Meade.[137]
  • November 19, 2017: The fourth time is not so charming, David Meade.[138]
  • 2017: Various Christians say we'll be chipped, and the Great Tribulation will begin.[139]
  • 2017 to 2113: Asteroids, according to the Daily Express, exaggeration based on Nasa estimates of asteroids passing near the earth.[140]
  • 2018: YouTube crackpot gevte[141] has predicted the Rapture multiple times, and his predictions have all failed. One time it was April 18,[142] and he continues today. He always changes the date on his videos when his predictions pass and would scold people for not watching the signs.[143] As if anyone has read Deuteronomy 18:22.
  • 2018: 23th of April, David Meade strikes back... and fails again[144]
  • 2018: The Bible guarantees May 20, 2018 Pentecost, or your money back.[145]
  • 2018: 24th of June, obscure crank Mathieu Jean-Marc Joseph Rodrigue ensures that doom is upon us, based on some middle school math.[146]
  • 2018: Hal Lindsey – the Third Second Coming.
  • January 21st, 2019-2021: Before behind the 4chan, An Internet meme "Clown World" begins now to insanely cause rewriting our history until 2021, based on the F. Kenton Beshore's prediction.[147]
  • 2019 (From April 5): Tribulation begins according to revelation2012.ch website; to be followed by Rapture, destruction of most of the earth. In May the Antichrist begins his 3 1/2 year reign.[148]
  • 2019 (September 20th): "Area 51: They Can't Stop All Of Us" Event, Also known as "Aliens incoming arrive to earth until 2021 & the Google Earth photos caught UFOs based on the F. Kenton Beshore prediction."[149]

2020s[edit]

  • 2020 (January 3rd): Another World War III, starting following Donald J. Trump attacking Iran and the situation then escalating. Again, according to the Daily Express.[150]
  • January 21st, 2020-February 21st, 2020/2021: Coronavirus spreads worldwide and then until 2021, there was a zombie apocalypse based on the F. Benton Beshore, Nostradamus & the bible prophecy, very insanely causing to happen.[151][152]
  • Whenever a vaccine ends up being produced for COVID-19, numerous Christians believe it will institute the Mark of the Beast.[153]
  • 2020: Self-acclaimed psychic and astrologer Jeane Dixon has predicted the world will end in 2020. She previously said it would end in 1962. No doubt the 2020 date seemed distant enough back then that no one would notice it was bollocks.[154]
  • 2020: Guy McPherson stated in 2012 that humanity will be extinct by 2020.[155]
  • Weeks after March 8th, 2021: Geert Vanden Bossche suggested that mortality would significantly incline a few weeks after mass vaccination for COVID-19.[156]
  • May 18th 2021: Gematria analyzer, Mark Chiswell, views a Pre-Wrath Rapture some time after Prince Harry (Antichrist) takes over and tries to chip everyone.[157] At least he admitted it was wrong.[158]
  • 2021: In a 2012 press release, F. Kenton Beshore, president of the World Bible Society, predicted the Rapture by 2021, with the Second Coming seven years later.[159]
  • May 15-16 2022: Last Blood Moon of the 80 Year Fig Tree Generation[160]
  • Late summer of 2022: Geert Vanden Bossche suggested we would be living in a “completely different world”, when the immune escape hits.[161]
  • September 24, 2022: QAnon followers and other nuts believed this date to be, well… anything.[162]
  • September 25, 2022: Another Feast of Trumpets, another Rapture.[163]
  • October 2022: A Seventh-day Adventist splinter group in Papua New Guinea[164]
  • October 16, 2022: Pro tip for apocalypse predictors: Lock out archive.org.[165]
  • Winter 2022: H1N1 re-emerges and kills a lot of people.[166]
  • 2022: The AnunnakiWikipedia are returning! Look Busy![167]
  • 2022: Russian invasion of Ukraine leads to... well, you get the idea.[168]
  • Night of January 11/12, 2023: What time zone, dammit! – [169]
  • Late summer or early fall of 2023: Geert Vanden Bossche has made what was at the time, his final message, suggesting that a wave of autoimmune disorders and excess deaths would culminate in an "immune-escape" variant which he expected in the summer or fall.[170][note 8] He also has a book that is $50.[171]
  • End of 2023: John Hagee cites the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas warWikipedia as evidence that the apocalypse is coming soon.[172]
  • 2023: Either Jesus is returning or a retired engineer made a mistake on their spreadsheet. It's hard to tell which.[173]
  • 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.[174]
  • Winter 2023-24: During an interview with Steve Kirsch on December 14th, Bossche stated that the immune escape would emerge in the coming days or weeks and kill up to 40% of all vaccinated people.[175] He also considers JN.1 to be the final major variant with the highly virulent one being next.[176][19] So stock up on his suggested antivirals for prophylaxis or you’ll pay the price.
  • April 8, 2024: Solar eclipse with a path that follows various places sacred to Mormonism will end the "Tribulations".[177] Either that or the Antichrist.[178]
  • Some time in early 2024:, A surge of mRNA vaccine deaths that will kill billions.[179]
  • By the end of June 2024: Geert Vanden Bossche continues his hypothesis. In March of 2024, he suggested in an interview with James Howard Kunstler, that Long COVID cases will overtake turbo cancers in the coming weeks after March 31st, culminating in a variant that he calls "Hivicron" that will cause people to collapse from multi-organ failure in less than 24 hours.[note 9][180] He has suggested, when hospitalizations surge, that the vaccinated take ivermectin as a prophylaxis, and that the government will mandate its use. Update: By April 10th, he suggested that the variant will hit the world in "the coming months" as temperatures get higher,[181] and that it would hit "before the end of June"[182][183] That and he still advises the vaccinated to take ivermectin (and have up to 3 months worth of it) as soon as hospitalizations and deaths surge in a highly vaccinated country.[184]
  • By the end of the summer of 2024: Geert Vanden Bossche then suggested that the end of the summer could see the immune escape by the end of the summer.[185][186] He said he would a break from Substack and is now hosting a forum behind a paywall.[187] A decision in which he would immediately change his mind about.[188] However, you can only view most of his new posts by becoming a paid subscriber.
  • 2024 (October 2nd): Ghosts619, Call of Duty YouTuber turned Christian predicted that the Rapture would happen on October 2nd during the Feast of Trumpets.[189] He did later apologize.[190]
  • 2024 (October 9th): Daniel Larimer assumed that the Rapture would take place on this date.[191] He then recognized something was wrong, while still stating something could happen due to tensions in the Middle East.[192]
  • 2024 (November 13): Daniel Larimer changes calculations to say that it will happen on the 13th.[193]
  • 2024 (December 16/17): Daniel Larimer changes his prediction yet again to say that it will happen on either the 16th or 17th.
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  • 2024 (December 24): A now very desperate Daniel Larimer again changes his prediction to say that The Rapture will occur on Christmas Eve 2024.
  • Winter 2024-25: Radagast suggests that glycans in mutating SARS-COV-2 will give it a full glycan shield, that will cause a massive surge in either immunodeficiency or mortality similar to Geert Vanden Bossche’s predictions.[12][18][194]
  • Winter 2024-25: Dr. Phillip McMillan interprets UK NHS emergency data,[195] and reports in California,[196] as strong possibilities of a COVID surge along with other diseases en masse, or what he calls a STORM (Spike Triggered Autoimmune Response Mechanism).[197][15][198][199]
  • 2025: Per Manly P. Hall, we will all become slaves to the God of Freemasonry.[200]
  • 2025: Massive population decline in Western nations forecasted by Deagel is interpreted by some as part of a depopulation scheme.[201]
  • 2025: According to this lovely article, the SPARS pandemic scenario from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security[202] is actually a cover up for prions caused by mRNA COVID vaccines.[203]
  • 2025: The Honest Sorcerer foresees the beginning of civilization’s collapse as a result of peak fossil fuels.[204]
  • By the end of 2025: Baba Vanga, a famous blind mystic from Bulgaria (the "Nostradamus of the Balkans"), said a conflict in Europe will lead to the end of the world by the end of the year.[205]
  • 2026 (September 3rd): The Second Coming on Messiah, signalled by the opening of the 7th Seal, according to Christian Gaviria Alvarez, based on the Book of Revelation. That is the beginning of the millennial Shabbath of the Earth, during which the Messiah will rule the Earth for 1,000 years. Rapture on Sept 20th.[206]
  • 2026 (September 26): Mark Corneillie talks about the Second Coming on his website,[207] while offering his version of the Bible for $23.50 without shipping.[208]
  • 2026 (November 13th): Heinz von FoersterWikipedia predicted this date to be the end of humanity because of overpopulation, in a 1960 article for ScienceWikipedia[209].
  • 2026: Guy McPherson states that humanity will go extinct by 2026 as a result of climate change.[210]
  • 2027 (February 22th): The Final Judgment and throwing of unsaved persons into the Lake of Fire in the Valley of Jehoshaphat on the south side of Jerusalem will occur, according to Christian Gaviria Alvarez.[211]
  • 2028: Fred Clark – a tongue-in-cheek offer guaranteeing 15 years of Bible-prophecy hucksterism for four easy payments of $39.99.[212]
  • 2028: Gabriel Ansley Erb has an entire channel and website dedicated to why the Second Coming will happen in 2028, called 2028 END. He’s also unironically used our article on 101 evidences to prove a young earth creation.[213]
  • 2028: Our old pal Kent made a dissertation in which 2028 could be the end of the world called What on Earth is about to happen... for Heaven's Sake? It's also about $51.[214]
  • 2028: Can we save the earth by jamming as many question marks as possible into a book summary?[215]
  • 2028: The end point of a vaccine prion catastrophe related to SPARS. Complete with fake statements from Luc Montagnier.[203]
  • 2029: Asteroid 99942 Apophis "could" hit the earth on Friday 13 April, 2029, according to initial observations made in 2004, publicized at various times since then including in 2019 by Paul Begley, a Christian preacher. Later, more accurate estimates of its course show we're safe.[216][217]
  • By 2029: Obscure Mexican evangelist, Abner Ramos, suggests there won’t be a 2030.[218]

2030s[edit]

  • 2030 (By March 30th): Paco Smith – Rapture where you are unable to die during the Tribulation in some capacity.[note 10] This means that between 2023 and 2030, the rapture could happen.[219][note 11][220]
  • 2030: According to an anonymous Long Island doctor, all mRNA vaccinated people will be dead by 2030.[221]
  • 2030: Approximate date of a mass extinction event predicted by Bob Geldof. Myles Allen of Oxford University claims "Competing hyperbole" are unhelpful in understanding real climate change.[222]
  • 2030: Lope Columna – Second Coming. If people don't repent, it would come by 2240, which is the year 6000 in the Hebrew calendar.[223]
  • 2031: World's end by way of irreversible climate change if there is insufficient mitigation, according to a United Nations report by climate scientists.[224][225][226]
  • Sep 6-7 2032: Special two day Rapturepalooza for people that are really good at math. Reserve your spots now.[227]
  • 2033: Plot twist! It's the Jewish people that will be raptured.[228]
  • 2034: A pastor "had a short dream which I believe was from God." Sure; why not? Points for being low key about it.[229]
  • 2035: Even more asteroids.[230]
  • 2036: Apophis returns.[231]
  • August 12 2036: According to Squidward "Loudward" Tentacles in an AI generated SpongeBob SquarePants parodyWikipedia, this is when the heat death of the universe will happen.[232]
  • 2037: Hal Lindsey – First Third Coming.
  • 2038: Deterioration of the fundamental older technology that still underlies the most crucial systems today, aka Year 2038 problem.Wikipedia
  • 2039: End of life, the universe and everything. Also known as the Ascension.

2040s[edit]

  • 2040: Still more asteroids.[233] This seems to be a fan favourite.
  • 2040: One of Newton's predictions. (An alternative prediction by him is 2060.[234]) Much later, MIT researchers in the 1970s created a model which placed societal collapse in 2040.[235]
  • 2041: March 35th (sic) Not another asteroid.[236]
  • 2042: June 13, 5:02 pm (Unknown time zone): Alexa is never wrong. If necessary, Jeff Bezos will make it happen to save face.[237]
  • 2043: Either they're very good at math or very bad at it. It's hard to tell.[238]
  • 2044: Yet another Second Coming. As predictions go, it gets a B-. Needs more sweaty fervor; doesn't stick the landing. [239]
  • 2045: In 2005, based on Moore's Law, Ray Kurzweil, known for his failed predictions, predicted that by 2045 computers will advance to the point that humans will no longer matter.[240]
  • 2046: On the plus side, if the world doesn't end, it will free up "Nostradamus and the Planets of the Apocalypse"[241] for a band name.
  • 2047 (September 14th): According to The Church of !BLAIR!, the human race will probably be terminated at 3:28 AM (Soho, UK 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 time, 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.[242]
  • 2048: Salt-Water fish extinction, according to Boris Worm, PhD, of Dalhousie University.[243]

2050s[edit]

  • 2052: Calculators out! [244]

2060s[edit]

  • 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.".[242][234]

2070s[edit]

  • 2070-2250: Kermit Zarley, a lay biblical scholar and former PGA Tour professional golfer, wrote a book in 2006 titled: "The Third Day Bible Code", He uses the "third day" motif that appears throughout the Bible, couples it with the belief that "one day is like a thousand years" for God, and interprets 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90:4 to predict that Jesus' return will be sometime between the years 2070 and 2250.[242]
  • 2076: Bede the Venerable, an 8th century Christian theologian computed Jesus birth as 3,942 years after the world's creation. The Earth's 6,000 year millennial week will thus end in this year & Some Sufi sects expect, which is the year 1,500 in the Muslim calendar.[242]

2080s[edit]

  • 2085: The original prediction for Nibiru's collision with Earth, later deprecated to 2012 for more profits prophets.[245]

2090s[edit]

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22nd century[edit]

  • Before 2100: Dr. M.H. Kahn believes that all of all other predictions in the past are invalid. He cites pasages from the Qur'an; they imply that some time in the future, the current expansion of the universe will reverse. This will cause time and gravity to reverse. He writes:

"The contraction of the universe with reversal of time and gravity will commence the beginning of the end which will last for thousands and possibly millions of years. We will be removed from the regressing effects of reversed time as we come back alive in our own time. We will the be taken across many dimensions to beyond this universe. A beautiful natural mechanism that is based on the laws of physics will cause all that to happen. This real end has nothing to do with wishful thinking and predictions of priests or shamans."[246]

  • 2101: War was beginning.
  • 2106: Asteroids never seem to stop and on this particular date 50 billion asteroids will hit the earth.
  • 6/26/2116: An asteroid according to some will hit the earth.[247] This prediction has been discredited as sensationalist fearmongering.[248]
  • Sometime in the 2100s: The Ethical Skeptic believes in a societal collapse in 100 years.[249]

23rd century[edit]

  • 2239: Classical Jewish tradition holds that the Messianic Age must begin at the latest in Year 6000 in the Jewish calendar, which runs 29 September 2239 to 16 September 2240.[250]
  • 2240: Lope Columna - Second Coming if it isn't in 2030.[223]

26th century[edit]

28th century[edit]

  • 2740: In UN's update from 2022, The United Nations said that after the human population reached at least 10.35 billion by 2100, humans would go extinct by this date. In the matter of less than 700 years, they'll need lower demand for resources such as water, wood, and energy, ultimately alleviating pressures on ecosystems.

29th century[edit]

  • 2880: This Asteroid thing is outta hand![251]

39th century[edit]

  • 3836: Second Coming according to John Wesley, after 2000 years of end times.[54]

87th century[edit]

  • 8661: Updated end of the world date for the Church of the SubGenius (from the original 1998).

112th century[edit]

  • 11103: The Doomsday argument, first stated in 1983, predicts that there is a 95% chance that the human species will go extinct within 9120 years.[252] N.B., the nature means that every year that passes without a doomsday advances the estimated doom ahead by 2 years. The world itself will still be here, of course – just not us.

400th century[edit]

8,000,000th century[edit]

  • According to current models, the Sun is expected to increase in luminosity by 10% in the next 800 million years. This will cause several changes to the climate that will make the continued existence of life on Earth impossible, starting with photosynthetic organisms and eventually killing off all life.[253]

40 millionth century[edit]

  • The galaxy Andromeda (currently 2.5 million light years away) is expected to collide and merge with our galaxy, the Milky Way. This is unlikely to have much of an effect on whatever life is around, as galaxies are mostly empty space, although for any given planet, there is a tiny chance that its orbit could be disrupted due to gravitational tugs from passing stars.

50 millionth century[edit]

  • 5 billion years from now: According to accepted models of stellar evolution, the Sun will run out of hydrogen in its core to fuse into helium and will transition to a red giant as a result, expanding massively.[254] The Sun will swallow Mercury and Venus, and may get large enough to swallow Earth as well. Even if it doesn't, Earth will be roasted to a cinder crisp.[citation NOT needed] One school of thought predicts that the drag from the Sun's outer gas envelope will cause the Earth to spiral into the Sun, but as with all things scientific, there is another school of thought that says this won't happen.[255] If it isn't swallowed, Earth will either get flung out into interstellar space due to tidal interactions with the Sun and the Sun's gradual loss of mass once it enters the red giant stage or will keep orbiting the dead Sun, perhaps reduced just to its core, for a long time to come. Never again will Earth see another day.

200 millionth century[edit]

  • 20 billion years from now: If the current rate of expansion of the universe grows, in 20 (or 22) billion years, the universe could be expanding so rapidly that atoms will no longer be able to hold on to their electrons. This predicted event is known as the "Big Rip." Blame dark energy.[256]

3×1041 st century[edit]

  • 3×1043 years from now: estimated maximum time for all nucleons in the observable universe to decay, if protons are unstable. Whether they are is currently an unresolved question in physics. Exasecond and longerWikipedia and Future of an expanding universeWikipedia have a pile of similarly apocalyptic events that actually have some scientific basis. This is the Total Existence Failure of the entire universe; anything complex enough to be considered life that would care about it would likely have evaporated to nothing long before this. Out of all the above, this is the most likely.

∞th century[edit]

  • The heat death of the universeWikipedia ("Big Freeze") is a scientific prediction that eventually the universe will expand so much it will no longer contain any thermodynamic free energy with which to do work. At this point the universe will be cold, dark, and essentially empty forever. That is, unless quantum fluctuations or some other phenomena eventually cause something to occur, like a new Big Bang. Forever is a long time, and this kind of physics is poorly understood at present.

No prediction of the end of the world[edit]

It is widely believed that there were prophecies in the 10th century CE that the world would end in 999 CE or 1000 CE. However, this seems to have been first mentioned by Johannes TrithemiusWikipedia around 1500 and popularised in the 17th and 18th centuries by Cardinal Baronius,Wikipedia William Robertson,Wikipedia Charles Mackay,Wikipedia Jules Michelet,Wikipedia and others; sources from the 10th and 11th century show little evidence of a panic.[257] Still, it's no more inaccurate than any other prediction on the list.

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Just forget about the genetic bottleneck and that this may have been a Christian-inspired later addition, though. What's important is the story.
  2. ↑ Given how Marek’s disease kills all unvaccinated chickens
  3. ↑ Yes! That Jesus.
  4. ↑ In the original version of "The Last Night of the World", published in the February 1951 issue of Esquire magazine, Bradbury gave the date of the end of the world as February 30th, 1951.
  5. ↑ God's, not Pat's, we hope
  6. ↑ He did address the possibility of being wrong stating "Note: Many Bible scholars contend a generation is 40 years; others say 70 years. As to the Second Coming, the Bible says "But of that day and hour knoweth no man....but my father only." Matthew 24:36"
  7. ↑ This was the South Korea-based Hyoo-go (rapture) movement, who put billboards up all over the U.S. predicting October 28, 1992.
  8. ↑ He suggests that the unvaccinated, those who have received only one dose, and those who were infected prior to getting vaccinated are at low risk.
  9. ↑ His term he called "highly virulent omicrion".
  10. ↑ This is a somewhat common doctrine among Charismatics in the third world, when talking about the Antichrist’s rule. It is somewhat based on Revelation 9:6, which is taken out of context.
  11. ↑ The video is in Spanish, BTW.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Chap 30 of the Bundahishn
  2. ↑ '[...] but now once in the end of the world hath [Christ] appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." – Hebrews 9:26
  3. ↑ 5 diseases that could wipe out humanity
  4. ↑ What if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts?
  5. ↑ 8-13-15: The Next Election & Hidden Spaceships by At The Door Revelation 1:18-19, YouTube
  6. ↑ https://x.com/parsifaler/status/1424904783761117185?s=46&t=lcxc9K19d7wdnUEzeKviLw
  7. ↑ The Spike by Clayton Fox, April 20, 2023, Tablet Magazine
  8. ↑ Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag by Prashant Pradhan, Ashutosh Kumar Pandey, Akhilesh Mishra, Parul Gupta, Praveen Kumar Tripathi, Manoj Balakrishnan Menon, James Gomes, Perumal Vivekanandan, and Bishwajit Kundu, January 31st, 2020, BioRxiv
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  14. ↑ 2. Only Trained Cellular Innate Immunity Yields Durable Protection During An Immune Escape Pandemic by Geert Vanden Bossche, 8 June, 2023, YouTube
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Vaccinated Populations STILL Can't Reach Herd Immunity (Shocking Stats!) by Vejon Health, September 22, 2024, YouTube
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  17. ↑ Is Geert Vanden Bossche Cassandra? by Fast Eddy, October 3, 2024, Substack
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  22. ↑ The Ultimate Extinction Plan (UEP) by Fast Eddy, April 7, 2024 Substack
  23. ↑ What Cannot Continue Will Stop by Fast Eddy, September 25, 2024, Substack
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  30. ↑ Sorry Billionaires by House of Rintrah, October 14, 2024, YouTube
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  42. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Great conjunction.
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  44. ↑ 2012 apocalypse: A brief history of end of times, Brian Whelan, Channel 4 (UK), 2012
  45. ↑ Top 10 End-of-the-World Prophecies: The Great London Fire of 1666, Nate Rawlings, Time, Friday, May 20, 2011
  46. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Fifth Monarchists.
  47. ↑ 47.0 47.1 See the Wikipedia article on John Napier.
  48. ↑ Apocalypses That Weren't, History Channel
  49. ↑ Jacob Bernoulli Deciphered
  50. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Great Comet of 1680.
  51. ↑ Religions on the End of the World, History Channel
  52. ↑ The Prophet Hen of Leeds by Dan Lewis, February 26, 2013, Now I Know
  53. ↑ The massive meteor shower that convinced people the world was ending by Dave Kindy (December 13, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST) The Washington Post.
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  59. ↑ Mother Shipton, Mysterious Britain
  60. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Wovoka.
  61. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Ghost Dance.
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  104. ↑ Suckers.
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  115. ↑ IMMINENT Rapture REPENT on YouTube.
  116. ↑ Tuesday’s ‘blood moon’ eclipse signals the end of the world
  117. ↑ Are We About To Witness The Rise Of Petrus Romanus?; Petrus Romanus: 900 Year Old Prophecy Says Next Pope Will Oversee End of Days; Is the last pope waiting in the wings? St Malachy seems to have said so.
  118. ↑ Peter the Roman and Pope Francis. Above Top Secret. 2013 March.
  119. ↑ plus Earth Will Only Have 12 Hours To Prepare For Massive Solar Storm by Kate Solomon, July 29, 2015, Yahoo!
  120. ↑ on the webshite collapse.news
  121. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiUrevq2Ko0
  122. ↑ Christian group predicts the world will be 'annihilated' on Wednesday: Over a week after blood moon doomsday forecasts were proven wrong, eBible Fellowship leader Chris McCann says ‘the world will pass away’ on 7 October by Adam Gabbatt (Tuesday 6 October 2015 07.30 EDT) The Guardian.
  123. ↑ Rumors of apocalypse ahead of FLDS leader’s detention hearing
  124. ↑ Pastor Ricardo Salazar: Life on Earth will be wiped out in 2016 – VIDEO October 16, 2015, Mirrorspectrum
  125. ↑ The End of the World is This Week, Say “Scholars” Who Were Wrong About It All Those Other Times
  126. ↑ https://youtu.be/gFSPWC8TKnk Dr. sal's warning
  127. ↑ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=epk40SC3wNI
  128. ↑ http://www.markbeast.com/endworld/jubilees-end-world.htm
  129. ↑ Hillary Clinton Shows How Evil The Americans Are by Coming Kingdom of Heaven Broadcast, November 5, 2016, YouTube
  130. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4002130/Will-world-END-month-Computer-programmer-claims-Jesus-return-destroy-planet-latest-bizarre-claim.html
  131. ↑ 131.0 131.1 "The Tribulation has began. The Anti-Christ is here. The Two witnesses are here." uploaded by Bride in the Wilderness on May 23, 2014
  132. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2016Mar09Tgoogle.html
  133. ↑ The world as we know it is about to end – again – if you believe this biblical doomsday claim by Kristine Phillips (September 17, 2017 at 3:52 PM) The Washington Post.
  134. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQxZCAPNP5Y
  135. ↑ Will the mysterious shadow planet Nibiru obliterate Earth in October? No. by Ben Guarino (January 5 at 5:25 AM) Washington Post.
  136. ↑ Planet X – The 2017 Arrival by David Meade (2016) Ebookit.com. ISBN 1456626922.
  137. ↑ The man who had people worried about a Sept. 23 apocalypse is peddling a new doomsday date by Kristine Phillips (September 25, 2017 at 5:20 PM) The Washington Post.
  138. ↑ Acts of Faith: Armageddon via imaginary planet has been pushed back – yet again – to November by Avi Selk (October 28, 2017 at 12:40 PM) The Washington Post.
  139. ↑ NBC Prediction That We Will All Have an RFID Chip Under Our Skin by 2017. Imbeffie, YouTube, 28 May 2010.
  140. ↑ SHOCK ASTEROID WARNING: Planet earth faces 100 YEARS of killer strikes starting in 2017, Nathan Rao, Daily Express (London), Sep 5, 2014
  141. ↑ gevte
  142. ↑ Lord Snow Presides Over Yet Another Rapture Scare (LSP #37) patheos.com, 9 April 2018.
  143. ↑ Can the date of The Rapture be known? gevte, YouTube, 14 February 2020.
  144. ↑ Biblical prophecy claims the Rapture is coming April 23, numerologist says. Fox News, 11 April 2018.
  145. ↑ The Bible guarantees May 20 2018 Pentecost. Archived from a post on Facebook, 21 April 2016.
  146. ↑ Fin du monde 24 juin 2018. Archived from 24juin2018findumonde.e-monsite.com.
  147. ↑ Know Your Meme: Clown World
  148. ↑ Tribulation timeline 2019-2022
  149. ↑ The Guardian: 1.5 million people have signed up to storm Area 51. What could go wrong?
  150. ↑ WW3: Is World War 3 about to happen? Will there be another war?, Daily Express, Jan 12, 2020
  151. ↑ YouTube – Coronavirus Outbreak!!! Biblical End Times Prophecy!!!! by The Sage Up North
  152. ↑ NYTimes.com (A.K.A. The New York Times): As New Virus Spreads From China, Scientists See Grim Reminders
  153. ↑ Ba'al Gates – Mark Of The Beast: A.I. Biosensors – DARPA Hydrogels Nephilim DNA/mRNA Modifier. Tabla Smagdarina, YouTube, 4 May 2020.
  154. ↑ Dixon, Jeane (1971). The Call to Glory. New York: Bantam Books. pp. 170–172.
  155. ↑ We're Done by Guy McPherson, June 20, 2012, Nature Bats Last
  156. ↑ https://perma.cc/DN9N-QARM
  157. ↑ Daniel's 70th Week ~ Parallel Timeline. chisza7, YouTube, 13 January 2019.
  158. ↑ Rapture Date Busted: Pentecost 2021 by Mark Chiswell, 15 March, 2021, Dropbox
  159. ↑ World Bible Society President Says 'Rapture' Likely to Occur by 2021, World Bible Society, Christian News Wire, Oct 24, 2012
  160. ↑ Rapture 2022: The Last Blood Moon of The 80yr Fig Tree Generation MAY 15-16th on Second Passover!!!
  161. ↑ https://x.com/tinfoilskull/status/1541834835047718912
  162. ↑ https://www.insider.com/september-24-qanon-conspiracy-theories-german-speech-global-crisis-doomsday-2022-9?amp
  163. ↑ WARNING! The rapture is september 25,2022 by jeremiah the Messenger, 11 July, 2022, YouTube
  164. ↑ Religious Sect on Watch List (October 22, 2022) Papua New Guinea: Post-Courier.
  165. ↑ This time Jesus is returning for sure.
  166. ↑ https://x.com/Harvard2H/status/1586061147538612225
  167. ↑ 10th Edition. 2022: What Will Happen To Us When The Anunnaki Return To Earth In 2022?
  168. ↑ Ukraine and Bible Prophecy (With Greg Laurie)
  169. ↑ The Church Rapture, The Saints Entry into Heaven
  170. ↑ Assuming my predictions are correct, who will be at risk and who will not? by Voice For Science and Solidarity, July 14, 2023, rumble
  171. ↑ The Inescapable Immune Escape Pandemic by Geert Vanden Bossche, June 8, 2023, Amazon
  172. ↑ ‘This war is prophetically significant’: why US evangelical Christians support Israel by Adam Gabbatt, October 30, 2023, The Guardian
  173. ↑ Is Jesus Christ Coming Back to Earth in XXXXIII (2023)?
  174. ↑ Predictions that the end of the world will happen after the year 2020 Religious Tolerance
  175. ↑ VSRF Live #106: Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche on “White Lung” Pneumonia by Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, December 14, 2023, rumble
  176. ↑ Geert's Concern about the New Covid Variant (JN.1) by Vejon Health, 21 December, 2023, YouTube
  177. ↑ [1] 7 Year Tribulation in the SEVENTH Seal TIMELINE
  178. ↑ Antichrist Arriving With The Solar Eclipse by Two Witnesses Live, March 6, 2024, YouTube
  179. ↑ https://x.com/joshwhox/status/1743047477937271021?s=46&t=lcxc9K19d7wdnUEzeKviLw
  180. ↑ KunstlerCast 398 — Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche and the Coming Acute Crisis of Covid among the Vaccinated March 31, 2024, PlayerFM
  181. ↑ Society in highly C-19 vaccinated countries will be caught off guard! by Geert Vanden Bossche, April 10, 2024, Voice for Science and Solidarity
  182. ↑ Will Geert's Fears be Proved Correct? by Vejon Health, April 6, 2024, YouTube
  183. ↑ The quieter it gets around the acute cases of (severe) Covid-19 disease, the more worried I become... by Geert Vanden Bossche, March 22nd, 2024, Substack
  184. ↑ This is what I would do if I were vaccinated against Covid by Geert Vanden Bossche, April 22, 2024, Voice for Science and Solidarity
  185. ↑ Note by Geert Vanden Bossche, July 4, 2024, YouTube
  186. ↑ Like SARS-CoV-2, I'm ready for a major change… by Geert Vanden Bossche, July 4, 2024, Substack
  187. ↑ THANK YOU!! by Geert Vanden Bossche, July 6, 2024, Substack
  188. ↑ For your information by Geert Vanden Bossche, July 8, 2024, Substack
  189. ↑ The Rapture is Going to Change Your Life (Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah?) by Ghosts619, September 22nd 2024, YouTube
  190. ↑ No Rapture on The Feast of Trumpets This Year? by Ghosts619, October 4th, 2024, YouTube
  191. ↑ Preparing for Feast of Trumpets and Rapture on October 9th by Blow the Shofar, 25 August 2024, YouTube
  192. ↑ Farewell October 9th, What Now? by Blow the Shofar, October 12, 2024, YouTube
  193. ↑ Nov 13 - Nuclear War Rapture - Days of Noah III by Blow The Shofar, November 13, 2024, YouTube
  194. ↑ SARS2 vaccination is encouraging steadily more virulent new Omicron variants to evolve by Radagast, February 28, 2024, Rintrah
  195. ↑ Busiest ever summer for accident and emergency departments 12 September, 2024,NHS
  196. ↑ ‘A much more infectious’ COVID variant fueling California’s relentless surge by Rong-Gong Lin II, August 19, 2024, Los Angeles Times
  197. ↑ Rising Wave of COVID Deaths Likely This Winter by Vejon Health, September 24, 2024, YouTube
  198. ↑ Geert is right - The Covid Storm is happening! by Vejon Health, 20 August, 2024, YouTube
  199. ↑ COVID STORM McMillan Research
  200. ↑ [2] Zeitgeist 2025: Countdown to the Secret Destiny of America… The Lost Prophecies of Qumran, and The Return of Old Saturn’s Reign
  201. ↑ Deagel 2025 forecast August, 2021, NobulArt
  202. ↑ The SPARS Pandemic Johns Hopkins University
  203. ↑ 203.0 203.1 GMO-Vaccine for Dummies by OGYNU June 5th, 2021
  204. ↑ 2025: A Civilizational Tipping Point? by The Honest Sorcerer, January 22, 2024 Substack
  205. ↑ The end of the world as we know it: Famous soothsayer Baba Vanga’s prediction for 2025 is terrifying. Euro News. 10/07/2024.
  206. ↑ Predictions that the end of the world will happen after the year 2020 Religious Tolerance
  207. ↑ The Great Invitation
  208. ↑ THE NEW COVENANT Paleo Signature Edition: The Standard Restored - Revealing Yahweh's Salvation to Mankind by Mark Corneillie, August 7, 2017, Amazon
  209. ↑ Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026
  210. ↑ "Humans will be extinct by 2026" – 'doom and gloom prophet' Prof McPherson on abrupt climate change by BizNewsTV, January 19, 2023, YouTube
  211. ↑ [http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl21.htm Predictions that the end of the world will happen after the year 2020
  212. ↑ The money-making opportunities of Bible prophecy
  213. ↑ Age of the Earth 2028 END
  214. ↑ What On Earth Is About To Happen For Heaven's Sake: A Dissertation on End Times According to the Holy Bible by Kent Hovind, Amazon
  215. ↑ The Rapture 2028: America's Countdown to Apocalypse! by Dave Netherton, January 2, 2015, Amazon
  216. ↑ Asteroid WARNING: Asteroid Apophis 'headed right for Earth' could hit on Friday 13, 2029, Daily Express, July 8, 2019
  217. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on 99942 Apophis.
  218. ↑ ¡REVELACION!!! ÚLTIMA SEÑAL Antes De La Venida De Cristo - Sierva Elda Bustos by Abner Ramos, YouTube
  219. ↑ fui llevado por el señor Jesucristo al año 2030.hno. Paco Smith by Paco Smith, 18 August, 2021, YouTube
  220. ↑ 2030 AND THE RAPTURE. by Heavenly and Revelatory Encounters, 20 May, 2022, YouTube
  221. ↑ https://x.com/nycliusa/status/1819384322136195251?s=46
  222. ↑ Why do people make bold predictions of doom?
  223. ↑ 223.0 223.1 WHAT YEAR IS THE END OF THIS WORLD AND CHRIST'S RETURN, ACCORDING TO YOUR BIBLE? Now, God The Father Revealed 2030 As The Secret Year of The Glorious Return of Christ And End of The World! Prepare Yourself On or Before 2030! lopecolumna.blogspot.com, 5 October 2016.
  224. ↑ Ocasio-Cortez: 'World will end in 12 years' if climate change not addressed, The Hill, Jan 22, 2019
  225. ↑ Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty by V. Masson-Delmotte, et al. (2018) IPCC Special Report
  226. ↑ We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN: Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC by Jonathan Watts (8 Oct 2018 02.23 EDT) The Guardian.
  227. ↑ [3]he rapture 6th and 7th of September 2032 and Jesus return 1st of October 2036!
  228. ↑ The Mystery of the Jewish Rapture 2033!
  229. ↑ Jesus Is Returning In 2034, Part 1
  230. ↑ Russian Scientists Warn Of Asteroid Impact Hazard In 2035
  231. ↑ Business Insider says so
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  233. ↑ Big Asteroid's Chances of Hitting Earth in 2040 Overblown, NASA Says, Space.com, Mar 5, 2012
  234. ↑ 234.0 234.1 In 1704, Isaac Newton Predicts the World Will End in 2060, Open Culture, Oct 14, 2015
  235. ↑ MIT predicted society would collapse by 2040. New data tells how we’re doing, The Hill
  236. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYxzPlNzEbU
  237. ↑ 2042 IS THE END OF THE WORLD ?
  238. ↑ 2043ad.com - A Christian Site for ALL Students of Scripture
  239. ↑ My Calculation for When Jesus Returns
  240. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on The Singularity Is Near.
  241. ↑ Nostradamus and the Planets of the Apocalypse
  242. ↑ 242.0 242.1 242.2 242.3 Predictions that the end of the world will happen after the year 2020, ReligiousTolerance.org
  243. ↑ Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048, CBS News, Nov 2, 2006
  244. ↑ When Will the End of the World Occur? Chistian Resources
  245. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Planet X.
  246. ↑ Predictions that the end of the world will happen after the year 2020 Religious Tolerance
  247. ↑ We have 93 years left till the next End of the World: killer asteroid to hit Earth in 2106 by Yulia Zamanskaya, February 12, 2013, Space Daily
  248. ↑ No, An Asteroid Is NOT Going to Hit Earth in 2106
  249. ↑ https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1705438826133385667
  250. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Year 6000.
  251. ↑ Meet the Asteroid That Might Hit Earth in 2880, Seeker
  252. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Doomsday argument.
  253. ↑ Future of the Earth — Climate impact
  254. ↑ The Sun's death
  255. ↑ Red Giant Sun May Not Destroy Earth
  256. ↑ Big Rip: how the universe could tear itself to shreds, Wired, 7 March 2015
  257. ↑ The Year 1000 A.D. and the Millennial Panic, Edward P. Wallner, NESS: New England Skeptical Society, July 1998
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