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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:25:52 GMT, MZ <mark@mdz.no-ip.org> wrote:
copyright 2005 John Weatherly all rights reserved; no portion of this
article can be reproduced anywhere else without expressed written
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I think just perhaps you are missing a very important point here,
Terrell. The Bible says that God will send all sorts of signs of
His impending Coming, and yet the world will turn a deaf ear.

So you're the guy with the sign, then?

???

lol...

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/sea0317l.jpg

http://www.atheistalliance.org/aaw/the_end_is_near.gif

http://anesthesia.duhs.duke.edu/education/aig/images/cartoon1.jpg

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/cga/lowres/cgan9l.jpg

And the best one
http://www.londonstimes.us/toons/cartoons/patrick_procto.jpg

No, I am not a person with a sign.

I believe I am one of many who is able to see or "read" the signs of
the End.

And I see them almost daily. But then, I'm looking.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
Failed prophecies:
About 30 CE: The Christian Scriptures (New Testament), when
interpreted literally, appear to
record many predictions by Jeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) that God's
Kingdom would arrive within a very short period, or was actually in the
process of arriving. For example, Jesus is recorded as saying in Matthew
16:28: "...there shall be some standing here, which shall not taste of
death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." In Matthew
24:34, Yeshua is recorded as saying: "...This generation shall not pass,
till all these things be fulfilled." Since the life expectancy in those
days was little over 30 years, Jesus appears to have predicted his second
coming sometime during the 1st century CE. It didn't happen. More details.
About 60 CE: Interpreting the Epistles of Paul of Tarsus literally,
his writings seem to imply
that Jesus would return and usher in a rapture during the lifetime of
persons who were living in the middle of the 1st century. More details.
About 90 CE: Saint Clement 1 predicted that the world end would occur
at any moment. 2nd Century CE: Prophets and Prophetesses of the
Montanist movement predicted that Jesus would
return sometime during their lifetime and establish the New Jerusalem in
the city of Pepuza in Asia Minor.
365 CE: A man by the name of Hilary of Poitiers, announced that the
end would happen that year.
It didn't.
375 to 400 CE: Saint Martin of Tours, a student of Hilary, was
convinced that the end would
happen sometime before 400 CE.
500 CE: This was the first year-with-a-nice-round-number-panic. The
antipope Hippolytus and
an earlier Christian academic Sextus Julius Africanus had predicted
Armageddon at about this year.
968 CE: An eclipse was interpreted as a prelude to the end of the
world by the army of the
German emperor Otto III.
992: Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this
had long been believed to
be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times
events foretold in the book of Revelation. Records from Germany report
that a new sun rose in the north and that as many as 3 suns and 3 moons
were fighting.
1000-JAN-1: Many Christians in Europe had predicted the end of the
world on this date. As the
date approached, Christian armies waged war against some of the Pagan
countries in Northern Europe. The motivation was to convert them all to
Christianity, by force if necessary, before Christ returned in the year
1000. Meanwhile, some Christians had given their possessions to the Church
in anticipation of the end. Fortunately, the level of education was so low
that many citizens were unaware of the year. They did not know enough to
be afraid. Otherwise, the panic might have been far worse than it was.
Unfortunately, when Jesus did not appear, the church did not return the
gifts. Serious criticism of the Church followed. The Church reacted by
exterminating some heretics.
1000-MAY: The body of Charlemagne was disinterred on Pentecost. A
legend had arisen that an
emperor would rise from his sleep to fight the Antichrist.
1005-1006: A terrible famine throughout Europe was seen as a sign of
the closeness of the end. 1033: Some believed this to be the 1000th
anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
His second coming was anticipated. Jesus' actual date of execution is
unknown, but is believed to be in the range of 27 to 33 CE.
1147: Gerard of Poehlde decided that the millennium had actually
started in 306 CE during
Constantine's reign. Thus, the world end would happen in 1306 CE.
1179: John of Toledo predicted the end of the world during 1186. This
estimate was based on the
alignment of many planets.
1205: Joachim of Fiore predicted in 1190 that the Antichrist was
already in the world, and that
King Richard of England would defeat him. The Millennium would then begin,
sometime before 1205.
1284: Pope Innocent III computed this date by adding 666 years onto
the date the Islam was
founded.
1346 and later: The black plague spread across Europe, killing one
third of the population.
This was seen as the prelude to an immediate end of the world.
Unfortunately, the Christians had previously killed a many of the cats,
fearing that they might be familiars of Witches. The fewer the cats, the
more the rats. It was the rat fleas that spread the black plague.
1496: This was approximately 1500 years after the birth of Jesus.
Some mystics in the 15th
century predicted that the millennium would begin during this year.
1524: Many astrologers predicted the imminent end of the world due to
a world wide flood. They
obviously had not read the Genesis story of the rainbow.
1533: Melchior Hoffman predicted that Jesus' return would happen in
1533 and that the New
Jerusalem would be established in Strasbourg, Germany. He was arrested and
died in a Strasbourg jail.
1669: The Old Believers in Russia believed that the end of the world
would occur in this year.
20 thousand burned themselves to death from 1669 to 1690 to protect
themselves from the Antichrist.
1689: Benjamin Keach, a 17th century Baptist, predicted the end of
the world for this year. 1736: British theologian and mathematician
William Whitson predicted a great flood similar to
Noah's for OCT-13 of this year.
1792: This was the date of the end of the world calculated by some
believers in the Shaker
movement.
1794: Charles Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism, thought
Doomsday would be in this year. 1830: Margaret McDonald, a Christian
prophetess, predicted that Robert Owen would be the
Antichrist. Owen helped found New Harmony, IN.
1832: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon movement, heard a voice
and interpreted it as
implying that if he lived to the age of 85, Jesus would return. This would
be the year 1890. Unfortunately, by that year, Smith had been dead for
almost a half century.
1843-MAR-21: William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement,
predicted that Jesus would come
on this date.
1844-OCT-22: When Jesus did not return, Miller predicted this new
date. In an event which is
now called "The Great Disappointment," many Christians sold their property
and possessions, quit their jobs and prepared themselves for the second
coming. Nothing happened; the day came and went without incident.
1850: Ellen White, founder of the Seven Day Adventists movement, made
many predictions of the
timing of the end of the world. All failed. She made one on 1850-JUN-27
that only a few months remained before the end. She wrote: "My
accompanying angel said, 'Time is almost finished. Get ready, get ready,
get ready.' ...now time is almost finished...and what we have been years
learning, they will have to learn in a few months." 10
1856 or later: At Ellen White's last prediction, she said that she
was shown in a vision the
fate of believers who attended the 1856 SDA conference. She wrote "I was
shown the company present at the Conference. Said the angel: 'Some food
for worms, some subjects of the seven last plagues, some will be alive and
remain upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus." 11 That
is, some of the attendees would die of normal diseases; some would die
from plagues at the last days, others would still be alive when Jesus
came. "By the early 1900s all those who attended the conference had passed
away, leaving the Church with the dilemma of trying to figure out how to
explain away such a prominent prophetic failure." 12
1891 or before: On 1835-FEB-14, Joseph Smith, the founder of the
Mormon church, attended a
meeting of church leaders. He said that the meeting had been called
because God had commanded it. He announced that Jesus would return within
56 years -- i.e. before 1891-FEB-15. (History of the Church 2:182)
1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war
of Armageddon by the
Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They computed
1914 from prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred
to "seven times". The WTS interpreted each "time" as equal to 360 days,
giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing
2520 years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as
the target date. When 1914 passed, they changed their prediction; 1914
became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule.
1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc. were other
dates that the Watchtower
Society (WTS) or its members predicted. Since late in the 19th century,
they had taught that the "battle of the Great Day of God Almighty"
(Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn't.
The next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine
predicted: "The year 1925 is a date
definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than
that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful
follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during
that year." 6
The Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main
prediction. This was based on the
estimate "according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the
year 4026 BCE, likely in
the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." 8 They
believed that the year 1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as
it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam's creation. Exactly 1,000 years was
to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also failed.
The current estimate is that the end of the world as we know it
will happen precisely
6000 years after the creation of Eve. 9 There is no way of knowing when
this happened.
More details on the WTS predictions.

1919: Meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that the conjunction of 6
planets would generate a
magnetic current that would cause the sun to explode and engulf the earth
on DEC-17.
1936: Herbert W Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God,
predicted that the Day of
the Lord would happen sometime in 1936. When the prediction failed, he
made a new estimate: 1975.
1940 or 1941: A Bible teacher from Australia, Leonard Sale-Harrison,
held a series of prophesy
conferences across North America in the 1930's. He predicted that the end
of the world would happen in 1940 or 1941. 7
1948: During this year, the state of Israel was founded. Some
Christians believed that this
event was the final prerequisite for the second coming of Jesus. Various
end of the world predictions were made in the range 1888 to 2048.
1953-AUG: David Davidson wrote a book titled "The Great Pyramid, Its
Divine Message". In it, he
predicted that the world would end in 1953-AUG.
1957-APR: The Watchtower magazine quoted 6 a pastor from California,
Mihran Ask, as saying in
1957-JAN that "Sometime between April 16 and 23, 1957, Armageddon will
sweep the world! Millions of persons will perish in its flames and the
land will be scorched.'
1959: The Branch Davidians of Waco TX believed that they would be
killed, resurrected and
transferred to heaven by APR-22.
1960: Piazzi Smyth, a past astronomer royal of Scotland, wrote a book
circa 1860 titled "Our
Inheritance in the Great Pyramid." It was responsible for spreading the
belief in pyramidology throughout the world. This is the belief that
secrets are hidden in the dimensions of the great pyramids. He concluded
from his research that the millennium would start before the end of 1960
CE.
1967: During the six day war, the Israeli army captured all of
Jerusalem. Many conservative
Christians believed that the rapture would occur quickly. However, the
final Biblical prerequisite for the second coming is that the Jews resume
ritual animal sacrifices in the temple at Jerusalem. That never happened.
1970's: The late Moses David (formerly David Berg) was the founder of
the Christian religious
group, The Children of God. He predicted that a comet would hit the earth,
probably in the mid 1970's and destroy all life in the United States. One
source indicated that he believed it would happen in 1973.
1972: According to an article in the Atlantic magazine, "Herbert W.
Armstrong's empire suffered
a serious blow when the end failed to begin in January of 1972, as
Armstrong had predicted, thus bringing hardship to many people who had
given most of their assets to the church in the expectation of going to
Petra, where such worldly possessions would be useless." 3
1974: Charles Meade, a pastor in Daleville, IN, predicted that the
end of the world will happen
during his lifetime. He was born circa 1927, so the end will probably come
early in the 21st century.
1975: A major Jehovah's Witness prediction date.
1978: Chuck Smith, Pastor of Calvary Chapel in Cost Mesa, CA,
predicted the rapture in 1981. 1980: Leland Jensen leader of a Baha'i
World Faith group, predicted that a nuclear disaster
would happen in 1980. This would be followed by two decades of conflict,
ending in the establishment of God's Kingdom on earth.
1981: Arnold Murray of the Shepherd's Chapel taught an
anti-Trinitarian belief about God, and
Christian Identity. Back in the 1970's, he predicted that the Antichrist
would appear before 1981.
Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church
predicted that the Kingdom of
Heaven would be established in this year.

1982: Pat Robertson predicted a few years previously that the world
would end in the fall of
1982.
1982: Astronomers John Gribben & Setphen Plagemann predicted the
"Jupiter Effect" in 1974. They
wrote that when various planets were aligned on the same side of the sun,
tidal forces would create solar flares, radio interruptions, rainfall and
temperature disturbances and massive earthquakes. The planets did align,
as seen from earth, but nothing unusual happened.
1984 to 1999: In 1983, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, later called Osho,
teacher of what has been
called the Rajneesh movement, is said to have predicted massive
destruction on earth, including natural disasters and man-made
catastrophes. Floods larger than any since Noah, extreme earthquakes, very
destructive volcano eruptions, nuclear wars etc. will be experienced.
Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bombay will all disappear.
Actually, the predictions were read by his secretary; their legitimacy is
doubtful.
1985: Arnold Murray of the Shepherd's Chapel predicted that the war
of Aramageddon will start
on 1985-JUN 8-9 in "a valley of the Alaskan peninsula."
1986: Moses David of The Children of God faith group predicted that
the Battle of Armageddon
would take place in 1986. Russia would defeat Israel and the United
States. A worldwide Communist dictatorship would be established. In 1993,
Christ would return to earth.
1987 to 2000: Lester Sumrall, in his 1987 book "I Predict 2000 AD"
predicted that Jerusalem
would be the richest city on Earth, that the Common Market would rule
Europe, and that there would be a nuclear war involving Russia and perhaps
the U.S. Also, he prophesized that the greatest Christian revival in the
history of the church would happen: all during the last 13 years of the
20th century. All of the predictions failed.
1988: Hal Lindsey had predicted in his book "The Late, Great
Planet Earth" that the Rapture
was coming in 1988 - one generation or 40 years after the creation of the
state of Israel. This failed prophecy did not appear to damage his
reputation. He continues to write books of prophecy which sell very well
indeed.
Alfred Schmielewsky, a psychic whose stage name was
"super-psychic A.S. Narayana,"
predicted in 1986 that the world's greatest natural disaster would hit
Montreal in 1988. Sadly, his psychic abilities failed him on 1999-APR-11
when he answered the door of his home only to be shot dead by a gunman.

1988-MAY: A 1981 movie titled "The man who saw tomorrow" described
some of Nostradamus
predictions. Massive earthquakes were predicted for San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
1988-OCT-11: Edgar Whisenaut, a NASA scientist, had published the
book "88 Reasons why the
Rapture will Occur in 1988." It sold over 4 million copies.
About 1990: Peter Ruckman concluded from his analysis of the Bible
that the rapture would come
within a few years of 1990.

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:25:52 GMT, MZ <mark@mdz.no-ip.org> wrote:
copyright 2005 John Weatherly all rights reserved; no portion of this
article can be reproduced anywhere else without expressed written
consent of the author

I think just perhaps you are missing a very important point here,
Terrell. The Bible says that God will send all sorts of signs of
His impending Coming, and yet the world will turn a deaf ear.

So you're the guy with the sign, then?

???

lol...
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mba/lowres/mban11l.jpg

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/sea0317l.jpg

http://www.atheistalliance.org/aaw/the_end_is_near.gif

http://anesthesia.duhs.duke.edu/education/aig/images/cartoon1.jpg

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/cga/lowres/cgan9l.jpg

And the best one
http://www.londonstimes.us/toons/cartoons/patrick_procto.jpg

No, I am not a person with a sign.

I believe I am one of many who is able to see or "read" the signs of
the End.

And I see them almost daily. But then, I'm looking.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
Failed prophecies:
About 30 CE: The Christian Scriptures (New Testament), when interpreted literally, appear to
record many predictions by Jeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) that God's Kingdom would arrive within
a very short period, or was actually in the process of arriving. For example, Jesus is recorded as
saying in Matthew 16:28: "...there shall be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till
they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." In Matthew 24:34, Yeshua is recorded as saying:
"...This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." Since the life expectancy

in those days was little over 30 years, Jesus appears to have predicted his second coming sometime
during the 1st century CE. It didn't happen. More details.
About 60 CE: Interpreting the Epistles of Paul of Tarsus literally, his writings seem to imply
that Jesus would return and usher in a rapture during the lifetime of persons who were living in the
middle of the 1st century. More details.
About 90 CE: Saint Clement 1 predicted that the world end would occur at any moment.
2nd Century CE: Prophets and Prophetesses of the Montanist movement predicted that Jesus would
return sometime during their lifetime and establish the New Jerusalem in the city of Pepuza in Asia
Minor.
365 CE: A man by the name of Hilary of Poitiers, announced that the end would happen that year.
It didn't.
375 to 400 CE: Saint Martin of Tours, a student of Hilary, was convinced that the end would
happen sometime before 400 CE.
500 CE: This was the first year-with-a-nice-round-number-panic. The antipope Hippolytus and
an earlier Christian academic Sextus Julius Africanus had predicted Armageddon at about this year.
968 CE: An eclipse was interpreted as a prelude to the end of the world by the army of the
German emperor Otto III.
992: Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to
be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times events foretold in the
book of Revelation. Records from Germany report that a new sun rose in the north and that as many as
3 suns and 3 moons were fighting.
1000-JAN-1: Many Christians in Europe had predicted the end of the world on this date. As the
date approached, Christian armies waged war against some of the Pagan countries in Northern Europe.
The motivation was to convert them all to Christianity, by force if necessary, before Christ
returned in the year 1000. Meanwhile, some Christians had given their possessions to the Church in
anticipation of the end. Fortunately, the level of education was so low that many citizens were
unaware of the year. They did not know enough to be afraid. Otherwise, the panic might have been far
worse than it was. Unfortunately, when Jesus did not appear, the church did not return the gifts.
Serious criticism of the Church followed. The Church reacted by exterminating some heretics.
1000-MAY: The body of Charlemagne was disinterred on Pentecost. A legend had arisen that an
emperor would rise from his sleep to fight the Antichrist.
1005-1006: A terrible famine throughout Europe was seen as a sign of the closeness of the end.
1033: Some believed this to be the 1000th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
His second coming was anticipated. Jesus' actual date of execution is unknown, but is believed to be
in the range of 27 to 33 CE.
1147: Gerard of Poehlde decided that the millennium had actually started in 306 CE during
Constantine's reign. Thus, the world end would happen in 1306 CE.
1179: John of Toledo predicted the end of the world during 1186. This estimate was based on the
alignment of many planets.
1205: Joachim of Fiore predicted in 1190 that the Antichrist was already in the world, and that
King Richard of England would defeat him. The Millennium would then begin, sometime before 1205.
1284: Pope Innocent III computed this date by adding 666 years onto the date the Islam was
founded.
1346 and later: The black plague spread across Europe, killing one third of the population.
This was seen as the prelude to an immediate end of the world. Unfortunately, the Christians had
previously killed a many of the cats, fearing that they might be familiars of Witches. The fewer the
cats, the more the rats. It was the rat fleas that spread the black plague.
1496: This was approximately 1500 years after the birth of Jesus. Some mystics in the 15th
century predicted that the millennium would begin during this year.
1524: Many astrologers predicted the imminent end of the world due to a world wide flood. They
obviously had not read the Genesis story of the rainbow.
1533: Melchior Hoffman predicted that Jesus' return would happen in 1533 and that the New
Jerusalem would be established in Strasbourg, Germany. He was arrested and died in a Strasbourg
jail.
1669: The Old Believers in Russia believed that the end of the world would occur in this year.
20 thousand burned themselves to death from 1669 to 1690 to protect themselves from the Antichrist.
1689: Benjamin Keach, a 17th century Baptist, predicted the end of the world for this year.
1736: British theologian and mathematician William Whitson predicted a great flood similar to
Noah's for OCT-13 of this year.
1792: This was the date of the end of the world calculated by some believers in the Shaker
movement.
1794: Charles Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism, thought Doomsday would be in this year.
1830: Margaret McDonald, a Christian prophetess, predicted that Robert Owen would be the
Antichrist. Owen helped found New Harmony, IN.
1832: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon movement, heard a voice and interpreted it as
implying that if he lived to the age of 85, Jesus would return. This would be the year 1890.
Unfortunately, by that year, Smith had been dead for almost a half century.
1843-MAR-21: William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement, predicted that Jesus would come
on this date.
1844-OCT-22: When Jesus did not return, Miller predicted this new date. In an event which is
now called "The Great Disappointment," many Christians sold their property and possessions, quit
their jobs and prepared themselves for the second coming. Nothing happened; the day came and went
without incident.
1850: Ellen White, founder of the Seven Day Adventists movement, made many predictions of the
timing of the end of the world. All failed. She made one on 1850-JUN-27 that only a few months
remained before the end. She wrote: "My accompanying angel said, 'Time is almost finished. Get
ready, get ready, get ready.' ...now time is almost finished...and what we have been years learning,
they will have to learn in a few months." 10
1856 or later: At Ellen White's last prediction, she said that she was shown in a vision the
fate of believers who attended the 1856 SDA conference. She wrote "I was shown the company present
at the Conference. Said the angel: 'Some food for worms, some subjects of the seven last plagues,
some will be alive and remain upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus." 11 That is,
some of the attendees would die of normal diseases; some would die from plagues at the last days,
others would still be alive when Jesus came. "By the early 1900s all those who attended the
conference had passed away, leaving the Church with the dilemma of trying to figure out how to
explain away such a prominent prophetic failure." 12
1891 or before: On 1835-FEB-14, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church, attended a
meeting of church leaders. He said that the meeting had been called because God had commanded it. He
announced that Jesus would return within 56 years -- i.e. before 1891-FEB-15. (History of the Church
2:182)
1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war of Armageddon by the
Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They computed 1914 from prophecy in the
book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred to "seven times". The WTS interpreted each "time"
as equal to 360 days, giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing 2520
years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as the target date. When 1914
passed, they changed their prediction; 1914 became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule.
1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc. were other dates that the Watchtower
Society (WTS) or its members predicted. Since late in the 19th century, they had taught that the
"battle of the Great Day of God Almighty" (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn't.
The next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine predicted: "The year 1925 is a date
definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would
be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is
going to do during that year." 6
The Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the
estimate "according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in
the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." 8 They believed that the year
1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam's
creation. Exactly 1,000 years was to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also
failed.
The current estimate is that the end of the world as we know it will happen precisely
6000 years after the creation of Eve. 9 There is no way of knowing when this happened.
More details on the WTS predictions.

1919: Meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that the conjunction of 6 planets would generate a
magnetic current that would cause the sun to explode and engulf the earth on DEC-17.
1936: Herbert W Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, predicted that the Day of
the Lord would happen sometime in 1936. When the prediction failed, he made a new estimate: 1975.
1940 or 1941: A Bible teacher from Australia, Leonard Sale-Harrison, held a series of prophesy
conferences across North America in the 1930's. He predicted that the end of the world would happen
in 1940 or 1941. 7
1948: During this year, the state of Israel was founded. Some Christians believed that this
event was the final prerequisite for the second coming of Jesus. Various end of the world
predictions were made in the range 1888 to 2048.
1953-AUG: David Davidson wrote a book titled "The Great Pyramid, Its Divine Message". In it, he
predicted that the world would end in 1953-AUG.
1957-APR: The Watchtower magazine quoted 6 a pastor from California, Mihran Ask, as saying in
1957-JAN that "Sometime between April 16 and 23, 1957, Armageddon will sweep the world! Millions of
persons will perish in its flames and the land will be scorched.'
1959: The Branch Davidians of Waco TX believed that they would be killed, resurrected and
transferred to heaven by APR-22.
1960: Piazzi Smyth, a past astronomer royal of Scotland, wrote a book circa 1860 titled "Our
Inheritance in the Great Pyramid." It was responsible for spreading the belief in pyramidology
throughout the world. This is the belief that secrets are hidden in the dimensions of the great
pyramids. He concluded from his research that the millennium would start before the end of 1960 CE.
1967: During the six day war, the Israeli army captured all of Jerusalem. Many conservative
Christians believed that the rapture would occur quickly. However, the final Biblical prerequisite
for the second coming is that the Jews resume ritual animal sacrifices in the temple at Jerusalem.
That never happened.
1970's: The late Moses David (formerly David Berg) was the founder of the Christian religious
group, The Children of God. He predicted that a comet would hit the earth, probably in the mid
1970's and destroy all life in the United States. One source indicated that he believed it would
happen in 1973.
1972: According to an article in the Atlantic magazine, "Herbert W. Armstrong's empire suffered
a serious blow when the end failed to begin in January of 1972, as Armstrong had predicted, thus
bringing hardship to many people who had given most of their assets to the church in the expectation
of going to Petra, where such worldly possessions would be useless." 3
1974: Charles Meade, a pastor in Daleville, IN, predicted that the end of the world will happen
during his lifetime. He was born circa 1927, so the end will probably come early in the 21st
century.
1975: A major Jehovah's Witness prediction date.
1978: Chuck Smith, Pastor of Calvary Chapel in Cost Mesa, CA, predicted the rapture in 1981.
1980: Leland Jensen leader of a Baha'i World Faith group, predicted that a nuclear disaster
would happen in 1980. This would be followed by two decades of conflict, ending in the establishment
of God's Kingdom on earth.
1981: Arnold Murray of the Shepherd's Chapel taught an anti-Trinitarian belief about God, and
Christian Identity. Back in the 1970's, he predicted that the Antichrist would appear before 1981.
Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church predicted that the Kingdom of
Heaven would be established in this year.

1982: Pat Robertson predicted a few years previously that the world would end in the fall of
1982.
1982: Astronomers John Gribben & Setphen Plagemann predicted the "Jupiter Effect" in 1974. They
wrote that when various planets were aligned on the same side of the sun, tidal forces would create
solar flares, radio interruptions, rainfall and temperature disturbances and massive earthquakes.
The planets did align, as seen from earth, but nothing unusual happened.
1984 to 1999: In 1983, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, later called Osho, teacher of what has been
called the Rajneesh movement, is said to have predicted massive destruction on earth, including
natural disasters and man-made catastrophes. Floods larger than any since Noah, extreme earthquakes,
very destructive volcano eruptions, nuclear wars etc. will be experienced. Tokyo, New York, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Bombay will all disappear. Actually, the predictions were read by his
secretary; their legitimacy is doubtful.
1985: Arnold Murray of the Shepherd's Chapel predicted that the war of Aramageddon will start
on 1985-JUN 8-9 in "a valley of the Alaskan peninsula."
1986: Moses David of The Children of God faith group predicted that the Battle of Armageddon
would take place in 1986. Russia would defeat Israel and the United States. A worldwide Communist
dictatorship would be established. In 1993, Christ would return to earth.
1987 to 2000: Lester Sumrall, in his 1987 book "I Predict 2000 AD" predicted that Jerusalem
would be the richest city on Earth, that the Common Market would rule Europe, and that there would
be a nuclear war involving Russia and perhaps the U.S. Also, he prophesized that the greatest
Christian revival in the history of the church would happen: all during the last 13 years of the
20th century. All of the predictions failed.
1988: Hal Lindsey had predicted in his book "The Late, Great Planet Earth" that the Rapture
was coming in 1988 - one generation or 40 years after the creation of the state of Israel. This
failed prophecy did not appear to damage his reputation. He continues to write books of prophecy
which sell very well indeed.
Alfred Schmielewsky, a psychic whose stage name was "super-psychic A.S. Narayana,"
predicted in 1986 that the world's greatest natural disaster would hit Montreal in 1988. Sadly, his
psychic abilities failed him on 1999-APR-11 when he answered the door of his home only to be shot
dead by a gunman.

1988-MAY: A 1981 movie titled "The man who saw tomorrow" described some of Nostradamus
predictions. Massive earthquakes were predicted for San Francisco and Los Angeles.
1988-OCT-11: Edgar Whisenaut, a NASA scientist, had published the book "88 Reasons why the
Rapture will Occur in 1988." It sold over 4 million copies.
About 1990: Peter Ruckman concluded from his analysis of the Bible that the rapture would come
within a few years of 1990.