@ SUPREME GOD YAHWEH AND HIS SUPERB NUMBERS AND THE END-TIME ERA @

Dragonblaze

2008-12-04 22:21:00 UTC

Post by O***@aol.com
Have you read my recent post on building time blocks that we can use
to build the end-time era ?

And a quite a few others....

Predicted date Commentary

ca. 2800 BC According to Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979), an
Assyrian clay tablet dating to approximately 2800 BC was unearthed
bearing the words "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There
are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and
corruption are common." This is one of the earliest examples of the
perception of moral decay in society being interpreted as a sign of
the imminent end.

634 BC Apocalyptic thinking gripped many ancient cultures, including
the Romans. Early in Rome's history, many Romans feared that the city
would be destroyed in the 120th year of its founding. There was a myth
that 12 eagles had revealed to Romulus a mystical number representing
the lifetime of Rome, and some early Romans hypothesized that each
eagle represented 10 years. The Roman calendar was counted from the
founding of Rome, 1 AUC (ab urbe condita) being 753 BC. Thus 120 AUC
is 634 BC. (Thompson p.19)

389 BC Some Romans figured that the mystical number revealed to
Romulus represented the number of days in a year (the Great Year
concept), so they expected Rome to be destroyed around 365 AUC (389
BC). (Thompson p.19)

1st Century Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, there be some standing
here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man
coming in his kingdom." (Matthew 16:28) This implies that the Second
Coming would return within the lifetime of his contemporaries, and
indeed the Apostles expected Jesus to return before the passing of
their generation.

ca. 70 The Essenes, a sect of Jewish ascetics with apocalyptic
beliefs, may have seen the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66-70
as the final end-time battle. (Source: PBS Frontline special
Apocalypse!)

2nd Century The Montanists believed that Christ would come again
within their lifetimes and establish a new Jerusalem at Pepuza, in the
land of Phrygia. Montanism was perhaps the first bona fide Christian
doomsday cult. It was founded ca. 156 AD by the tongues-speaking
prophet Montanus and two followers, Priscilla and Maximilla. Despite
the failure of Jesus to return, the cult lasted for several centuries.
Tertullian, who once said "I believe it just because it is
unbelievable" (a true skeptic if ever there was one!), was perhaps the
most renowned Montanist. (Gould p.43-44)

247 Rome celebrated its thousandth anniversary this year. At the same
time, the Roman government dramatically increased its persecution of
Christians, so much so that many Christians believed that the End had
arrived. (Source: PBS Frontline special Apocalypse!)

365 Hilary of Poitiers predicted the world would end in 365. (Source:
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance)

380 The Donatists, a North African Christian sect headed by Tyconius,
looked forward to the world ending in 380. (Source: American Atheists)

Late 4th Century St. Martin of Tours (ca. 316-397) wrote, "There is no
doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. Firmly established
already in his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, achieve
supreme power." (Abanes p.119)

500 Roman theologian Sextus Julius Africanus (ca. 160-240) claimed
that the End would occur 6000 years after the Creation. He assumed
that there were 5531 years between the Creation and the Resurrection,
and thus expected the Second Coming to take place no later than 500
AD. (Kyle p.37, McIver #21)
* Hippolytus (died ca. 236), believing that Christ would return
6000 years after the Creation, anticipated the Parousia in 500 AD.
(Abanes p.283)
* The theologian Irenaeus, influenced by Hippolytus's writings,
also saw 500 as the year of the Second Coming. (Abanes p.283, McIver
#15)

Apr 6, 793 Elipandus, bishop of Toledo, described a brief bout of end-
time panic that happened on Easter Eve, 793. According to Elipandus,
the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana prophesied the end of the world
that day in the presence a crowd of people. The people, thinking that
the world would end that night, became frightened, panicked, and
fasted through the night until dawn. Seeing that the world had not
ended and feeling hungry, Hordonius, one of the fasters, quipped,
"Let's eat and drink, so that if we die at least we'll be
fed." (Abanes p. 168-169, Weber p.50)

800 Sextus Julius Africanus revised the date of Doomsday to 800 AD.
(Kyle p.37)
* Beatus of Liébana wrote in his Commentary on the Apocalypse,
which he finished in 786, that there were only 14 years left until the
end of the world. Thus, the world would end by 800 at the latest.
(Abanes p.168)

806 Bishop Gregory of Tours calculated the End occurring between 799
and 806. (Weber p.48)

848 The prophetess Thiota declared that the world would end this year.
(Abanes p.337)

Mar 25, 970 Lotharingian computists foresaw the End on Friday, March
25, 970, when the Annunciation and Good Friday fell on the same day.
They believed that it was on this day that Adam was created, Isaac was
sacrificed, the Red Sea was parted, Jesus was conceived, and Jesus was
crucified. Therefore, it naturally followed that the End must occur on
this day! (Source: Center for Millennial Studies)

992 Bernard of Thuringia calculated that the end would come in 992.
(Randi p.236)

995 The Feast of the Annunciation and Good Friday also coincided in
992, prompting some mystics to conclude that the world would end
within 3 years of that date. (Weber p.50-51)

1000 There are many stories of apocalyptic paranoia around the year
1000. For example, legend has it that a "panic terror" gripped Europe
in the years and months before this date. However, scholars disagree
on which stories are genuine, whether millennial expectations at this
time were any greater than usual, or whether ordinary people were even
aware of what year it was. An excellent article on Y1K apocalyptic
expectations can be found at the Center for Millennial Studies.
(Gould, Schwartz, Randi)

1033 After Jesus failed to return in 1000, some mystics pushed the
date of the End to the thousandth anniversary of the Crucifixion. The
writings of the Burgundian monk Radulfus Glaber described a rash of
millennial paranoia during the period from 1000-1033. (Kyle p.39,
Abanes p.337, McIver #50)

1184 Various Christian prophets foresaw the Antichrist coming in 1184.
(Abanes p.338)

Sep 23, 1186 John of Toledo, after calculating that a planetary
alignment would occur in Libra on September 23, 1186 (Julian
calendar), circulated a letter (known as the "Letter of Toledo")
warning that the world was to going to be destroyed on this date, and
that only a few people would survive. (Randi p.236)

1260 Italian mystic Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) determined that the
Millennium would begin between 1200 and 1260. (Kyle p.48)

1284 Pope Innocent III expected the Second Coming to take place in
1284, 666 years after the rise of Islam. (Schwartz p.181)

1290 Followers of Joachim of Fiore (the Joachites) rescheduled the End
to 1290 when his 1260 prophecy failed. (McIver #58)

1306 In 1147 Gerard of Poehlde, believing that Christ's Millennium
began when the emperor Constantine came to power, figured that Satan
would become unbound at the end of the thousand-year period and
destroy the Church. Since Constantine rose to power in 306, the end of
the Millennium would be in 1306. (Source: Christian author Richard J.
Foster)

1335 Another Joachite doomsday date. (McIver #58)

1367 Czech archdeacon Militz of Kromeriz claimed the Antichrist was
alive and well and would manifest himself between 1363 and 1367. The
End would come between 1365 and 1367. (McIver #67)

1370 The Millennium would begin in 1368 or 1370, as foreseen by Jean
de Roquetaillade, a French ascetic. The Antichrist was to come in
1366. (Weber p.55)

1378 Arnold of Vilanova, a Joachite, wrote in his work De Tempore
Adventu Antichristi that the Antichrist was to come in 1378. (McIver
#62)

Feb 14, 1420 Czech Doomsday prophet Martinek Hausha (Martin Huska) of
the radical Taborite movement warned that the world would end in
February 1420, February 14 at the latest. The Taborites were an
offshoot of the Hussite movement of Bohemia. (McIver #71, Shaw p.43)

1496 The beginning of the Millennium, according to some 15th Century
mystics. (Mann p. ix)

ca. 1504 Italian artist Sandro Botticelli wrote a caption in Greek on
his painting The Mystical Nativity:
"I Sandro painted this picture at the end of the year 1500 in the
troubles of Italy in the half time after the time according to the
eleventh chapter of St. John in the second woe of the Apocalypse in
the loosing of the devil for three and a half years. Then he will be
chained in the 12th chapter and we shall see him trodden down as in
this picture."
Apparently, he thought he was living during the Tribulation, and that
the Millennium would begin in three and a half years or so, which is
understandable given the fact that he is known to have been a follower
of Girolamo Savonarola. (Weber p.60)

Feb 1, 1524 The End would occur by a flood starting in London on
February 1 (Julian), according to calculations some London astrologers
made the previous June. Around 20,000 people abandoned their homes,
and a clergyman stockpiled food and water in a fortress he built.
(Sound familiar? It's just like the doomsday cultists and Y2K nuts of
today!) As it happened, it didn't even rain in London on that date.
(Randi p.236-237)

Feb 20, 1524 A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen as a sign of the
Millennium by astrologer Johannes Stoeffler. The world was to be
destroyed by a flood on this date (Julian), Pisces being a water sign.
(Randi p.236-237)

1525 The beginning of the Millennium, according to Anabaptist Thomas
Müntzer. Thinking that he was living at the "end of all ages," he led
an unsuccessful peasants' revolt and was subsequently tortured and
executed. (Gould p.48)

1528 Stoeffler recalculated Doomsday to 1528 after his 1524 prediction
failed (Randi p.238)

May 27, 1528 Reformer Hans Hut predicted the end would occur on
Pentecost (May 27, Julian calendar). (Weber p.67, Shaw p.44)

1532 Frederick Nausea (what a name!), a Viennese bishop, was certain
that the world would end in 1532 after hearing reports of bizarre
occurrences, including bloody crosses appearing in the sky alongside a
comet. (Randi p. 238)

1533 Anabaptist prophet Melchior Hoffman's prediction for the year of
Christ's Second Coming, to take place in Strasbourg. He claimed that
144,000 people would be saved, while the rest of the world would be
consumed by fire. (Kyle p.59)

Oct 19, 1533 Mathematician Michael Stifel calculated that the Day of
Judgement would begin at 8:00am on this day. (McIver #88)

Apr 5, 1534 Jan Matthys predicted that the Apocalypse would take place
on Easter Day (April 5, Julian calendar) and only the city of Münster
would be spared. (Shaw p.45, Abanes p.338)

1537 French astrologer Pierre Turrel announced four different possible
dates for the end of the world, using four different calculation
methods. The dates were 1537, 1544, 1801 and 1814. (Randi p. 239)

1544 Pierre Turrel's doomsday calculation #2. (Randi p. 239)

ca. 1555 Around the year 1400, the French theologian Pierre d'Ailly
wrote that 6845 years of human history had already passed, and the end
of the world would be in the 7000th year. His works would later
influence the apocalyptic thinking of Christopher Columbus. (McIver
#72)

Jul 22, 1556 In 1556, a rumor was circulating that the world would end
on Magdalene's Day, as recorded by Swiss medical student Felix
Platter. (Weber p.68, p.249)

Apr 28, 1583 The Second Coming of Christ would take place at noon,
according to astrologer Richard Harvey. This was the date of a
conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, and numerous astrologers in London
predicted the world would end then. (Skinner p.27, Weber p.93)

1584 Cyprian Leowitz, an astrologer, predicted the end would occur in
1584. (Randi p.239, McIver #105)

1588 The end of the world according to the sage Johann Müller (aka
Regiomontanus). (Randi p. 239)

1600 Martin Luther believed that the End would occur no later than
1600. (Weber p.66)

1603 Dominican monk Tomasso Campanella wrote that the sun would
collide with the Earth in 1603. (Weber p.83)

1623 Eustachius Poyssel used numerology to pinpoint 1623 as the year
of the end of the world. (McIver #125)

Feb 1, 1624 The same astrologers who predicted the deluge of February
1, 1524 recalculated the date to February 1, 1624 after their first
prophecy failed. (Randi p.236-237)

1648 Using the kabbalah, Sabbatai Zevi, a rabbi from Smyrna, Turkey,
figured that the Messiah would come in 1648, accompanied by miracles.
The Messiah, of course, would be Zevi himself! (Randi p.239,
Festinger)

1654 In 1578, physician Helisaeus Roeslin of Alsace, basing his
prediction on a nova that occurred in 1572, foresaw the world ending
in 1654 in a blaze of fire. (Randi p.240)

1656 Believed to be a possible date for the end of the world, 1656 is
the number of years between the Creation and the Flood. (Skinner p.27)

1657 Final apocalyptic battle and the destruction of the Antichrist
were to take place between 1655 and 1657, as per the Fifth Monarchy
Men, a radical group of English millenarians who attempted to take
over Parliament to impose their extremist theocratic agenda on the
country. Not unlike the Christian Coalition of modern-day America!
(Kyle p.67)

1658 In his The Book of Prophecies, Christopher Columbus claimed that
the world was created in 5343BC, and would last 7000 years. Assuming
no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658. Columbus was
influenced by Pierre d'Ailly. (McIver #77)

1660 Joseph Mede, whose writings influenced James Ussher and Isaac
Newton, claimed that the Antichrist appeared way back in 456, and the
end would come in 1660. (McIver #147)

1666 As this date is 1000 (millennium) + 666 (number of the Beast) and
followed a period of war and strife in England, many Londoners feared
that 1666 would be the end of the world. The Great Fire of London in
1666 did not help to alleviate these fears. (Schwartz p.87, Kyle p.
67-68)
* Sabbatai Zevi recalculated the coming of the Messiah to 1666.
Despite his failed prophecies, he had accumulated a great many
followers. He was later arrested for stirring up trouble, and given
the choice of converting to Islam or execution. Pragmatic man that he
was, he wisely elected for the former. (Festinger)

1673 Deacon William Aspinwall, a leader of the Fifth Monarchy
movement, claimed the Millennium would begin by this year. (Abanes p.
209, McIver #174)

1688 John Napier's doomsday calculation #1, based on the Book of
Revelation. Napier was the mathematician who discovered logarithms.
(Weber p.92)

1689 Pierre Jurieu, a Camisard prophet, predicted that Judgement Day
would occur in 1689. The Camisards were Huguenots of the Languedoc
region of southern France. (Kyle p.70)

1694 Anglican rector John Mason calculated this date as the beginning
of the Millennium. (Kyle p.72)
* The beginning of the Millennium, as predicted by German
theologian Johann Alsted. (Kyle p.66)

Fall 1694 Drawing from theology and astrology, German prophet Johann
Jacob Zimmerman determined that the world would end in the fall of
1694. Zimmerman gathered a group of pilgrims and made plans to go to
America to welcome Jesus back to Earth. However, he died in February
of that year, on the very day of departure. Johannes Kelpius took over
leadership of the cult, which was known as Woman in the Wilderness,
and they completed their journey to the New World. Fall came and went
and, needless to say, the cultists were profoundly disappointed at
having traveled all the way across the Atlantic just to be stood up by
Jesus. (Cohen p.19-20)

1697 The beginning of the Millennium, according to Anglican rector
Thomas Beverly. (Kyle p.72, McIver #224)
* The notorious witch hunter Cotton Mather was the Ken Starr of
Puritan New England. When he wasn't out hunting witches, he was busy
predicting the end of the world, 1697 being his first doomsdate. After
the prediction failed, he revised the date of the End two more times.
(Abanes p.338)

1700 The end of the world, according to some Puritans. (Kyle p.79)
* John Napier's doomsday calculation #2, based on the Book of
Daniel. (Weber p.92)
* The date of the Second Coming, according to Henry Archer, a
Fifth Monarchy Man. Archer made this prediction in his 1642 book The
Personall Reign of Christ Upon Earth. (McIver #158)

1705 The End, according to some Camisard prophets. (Kyle p.70)

1706 The End, according to some Camisard prophets. (Kyle p.70)

1708 The End, according to some Camisard prophets. (Kyle p.70)

1716 Cotton Mather's end-of-the-world prediction #2. (Abanes p.338)

Apr 5, 1719 The return of a comet was supposed to wipe out the Earth,
said Jacques Bernoulli, progenitor of the mathematical Bernoulli
family. (Randi p.240-241)

1734 Doomsday was to come between 1700 and 1734, predicted 15th
century Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa. (Weber p.82, McIver #73)

1736 Cotton Mather's end-of-the-world prediction #3. (Abanes p.338)

Oct 13, 1736 William Whitson predicted that London would meet its doom
by flood on this day, prompting many Londoners to gather in boats on
the Thames. (Randi)

1757 In a vision, angels supposedly informed mystic Emanuel Swedenborg
that the world would end in 1757. Few took him seriously. Ah, the 18th
century, the Age of Reason! (Randi p.241, Weber p.104)

Apr 5, 1761 Religious extremist William Bell claimed the world would
be destroyed by earthquake on this day. Since there had been an
earthquake on February 8 and another on March 8, he reasoned that the
world must end in another 28 days' time! Again, Londoners gathered in
boats on the Thames or headed for the hills. When his prediction
didn't come true, he was promptly thrown into Bedlam, London's
notorious nuthouse. (Randi p.241)

Feb 28, 1763 Devout Methodist George Bell foresaw the end of the world
on this date. (Weber p.102)

May 19, 1780 On this day in New England the skies mysteriously turned
dark for several hours in the afternoon, causing people to believe
that a biblical prophecy had come true and Judgement Day had arrived.
In reality, the darkness was caused by smoke from large-scale forest
fires to the west. (Abanes p.217)

1789 The coming of the Antichrist, according to 14th century Cardinal
Pierre d'Ailly. (Weber p.59)

1790 The Second Coming, according to Irish orator Francis Dobbs.
(Schwartz p.181)

1792 The end of the world according to the Shakers. (Abanes p.338)

1794 The end of the world according to the Shakers. (Abanes p.338)
* Charles Wesley, brother of Methodist Church founder John Wesley,
predicted Doomsday would be in 1794. (Source: Ontario Consultants on
Religious Tolerance)

1795 The Millennium would begin between 1793 and 1795, claimed retired
English sailor Richard Brothers, who called himself "God's Almighty
Nephew." He was convinced that he would lead the ten lost tribes of
Israel, and once said that God told him he would become king of
England. He was eventually committed to an insane asylum. (Kyle p.73,
McIver #301)

Nov 19, 1795 While campaigning for Richard Brothers' release,
Nathaniel Brassey Halhead proclaimed that the world would end on Nov
19. (McIver #310)

1801 Pierre Turrel's doomsday calculation #3 (See 1537). (Randi p.
239)

1805 Destruction of the world by earthquake in 1805, followed by an
age of everlasting peace when God will be known by all, as foretold by
17th century Presbyterian minister Christopher Love. He eventually
lost his head, literally. (Schwartz p.101)

1814 Pierre Turrel's doomsday calculation #4 (See 1537). (Randi p.
239)

Dec 25, 1814 Jesus was to be re-born on Christmas Day, according to
the 64-year-old virgin prophet Joanna Southcott, who claimed to be
pregnant with the Christ child. Witnesses claimed that she did indeed
appear pregnant. She died on Christmas Day, and a subsequent autopsy
proved that she was not pregnant after all. (Skinner p.109)

Oct 14, 1820 Southcott follower John Turner claimed the world would
come to an end on this day. After this prophecy failed, John Wroe took
over leadership of the cult. (Randi p.241-242)

1832 The beginning of the Millennium, according to John Dilks. (Weber
p.176)

1836 Methodist Church founder John Wesley foresaw the Millennium
beginning in 1836, the same year that the Beast of Revelation was to
rise from the sea. (McIver #269)

1843 Harriet Livermore's Parousia prediction #1. (McIver #699)

Apr 28, 1843 Although this date was not officially endorsed by the
Millerite leadership, it was a popular belief among William Miller's
followers that the Second Coming would take place on this day.
(Festinger p.16)

Dec 31, 1843 Many Millerites expected Jesus to return at the end of
1843. (Festinger p.16)

Mar 21, 1844 William Miller, leader of the so-called Millerite
movement, predicted through careful calculation that Christ would
return sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. He gathered
a following of thousands of devotees. After the failure of Jesus to
show up during this window, the cult experienced a crisis of faith and
in the confusion began reinterpreting the prophecy and aggressively
proselytizing. (Gould p.49, Festinger p.16-17)

Oct 22, 1844 It's Miller time again! Rev. Samuel S. Snow, an
influential Millerite, predicted the Second Coming on this day. The
date was soon accepted by Miller himself. On that day, the Millerites
gathered on a hilltop to await the coming of Jesus. After the
inevitable no-show, the event became known as the "Great
Disappointment." (Gould p.49, Festinger p.17)

1845 The Second Coming according to the Second Adventists, a group
that formed from the remaining hardcore members of Miller's cult. The
Second Adventists were the forerunners of the Seventh Day Adventists
(Kyle p.91)

1846 Another Second Coming according to the Second Adventists. (Kyle p.
91)

1847 Harriet Livermore's Parousia prediction #2. (McIver #699)

Aug 7, 1847 "Father" George Rapp, a German ascetic who founded a sect
known as the Harmonists (aka the Rappites) and established a utopian
commune in Economy, Pennsylvania, was convinced that Jesus would
return before his death. Even on his deathbed he refused to give up
hope for Christ's return, saying "If I did not know that the dear Lord
meant I should present you all to him, I should think my last moment's
come." It turned out that his last moment had indeed come, yet Jesus
failed to show up. Rapp died on August 7, 1847. (Cohen p.23, Thompson
p.283, Encyclopedia Britannica)

1849 Yet another Second Coming according to the Second Adventists.
(Kyle p.91)

1851 You guessed it! Still another Second Coming according to the
Second Adventists. (Kyle p.91)

1856 The Crimean War (1853-56) was seen by some as the Battle of
Armageddon. After all, Russia had plans to wrest control of Palestine
from the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps it was this war that triggered the
popularity of the "Russia invades Israel" scenario so popular among
modern prophecy teachers. (McIver #437)

1862 The end of 6000 years since Creation, and thus the end of the
world, according to John Cumming of the Scottish National Church.
(Abanes p.283)

1863 Southcott follower John Wroe, who in 1823 tried (and failed) to
walk on water and underwent a public circumcision, calculated that the
Millennium would begin in 1863. (Skinner p.109)

1867 The Anglican minister Michael Paget Baxter was an ardent date
setter, a veritable Charles Taylor of the 19th century. In one of his
earliest publications he predicted the End for 1861-1867. (McIver
#348)

1868 In another publication Michael Baxter claimed the Battle of
Armageddon would take place this year. (Abanes p.338, McIver #349)

1869 Another End according to Michael Baxter. (McIver #350)

Jun 28, 1870 The end of the world as per Irvin Moore's book The Final
Destiny of Man, to be followed by Christ's millennial reign on Earth.
He predicted that during this year, France would fall, and Jerusalem
would become the capital of the world. (McIver #746)

1872 Michael Baxter predicted another Armageddon in 1871-72 or
thereabouts. (McIver #351)

1874 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. This
was to become the first in a long string of failed doomsday prophecies
by members of this group. (Gould p.50, Kyle p.93)
* The Parousia according to the newly formed Seventh Day
Adventists, a group founded by former Millerites. (Abanes p.339)

1878 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Kyle
p.93)

1880 Thomas Rawson Birks in his book First Elements of Sacred Prophecy
determined that the end of the world would be in 1880 by employing the
time-honored Great Week theory. (McIver #371)

1881 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Kyle
p.93)
* The end of the world according to some pyramidologists. (Randi p.
242)
* 16th century prophetess Mother Shipton is said to have written
the couplet:
The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty one.
In 1873, it was revealed that the couplet was a forgery by Charles
Hindley, who published Mother Shipton's prophecies in 1862. This did
not stop people from expecting the end in 1881, however. (Schwartz p.
122, Randi p.242-243)

1890 Northern Paiute leader Wovoka predicted the Millennium beginning
in 1890. This prediction came from a trance he experienced during a
solar eclipse in 1889. Wovoka was a practitioner of the Ghost Dance
cult, a bizarre hybrid of apocalyptic Christianity and American Indian
mysticism. (Gould p.56-57, p.69)

1891 In 1835 Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, foresaw the Second
Coming taking place in 56 years' time, or about 1891. (Source:
exmormon.org)

1895 The Millennium, according to Reverend Robert Reid of Erie,
Pennsylvania. (Weber p.176)

1896 Michael Baxter (he's baaaack!) wrote a book entitled The End of
This Age About the End of This Century in which predicted the Rapture
taking place in 1896. According to Rev. Baxter, 144,000 true
Christians were supposed to be summoned to Heaven during this year.
(Thompson p.121)

1899 Charles A.L. Totten predicted that 1899 was a possible date for
the end of the world. Interestingly, the infamous "NASA discovers
missing day" urban legend has its roots in Totten's writings. (McIver
#924)

1900 Father Pierre Lachèze foresaw Doomsday occurring in 1900, eight
years after the Temple in Jerusalem was to be rebuilt. (Weber p.136)
* Followers of Brazilian ascetic Antonio Conselheiro expected the
end to come by the year 1900. (Thompson p.125-126)

Nov 13, 1900 Over 100 members of the Russian cult Brothers and Sisters
of the Red Death committed suicide, expecting the world to end on this
day. (Sources: Portuguese article and this site)

1901 A sect calling itself the Catholic Apostolic Church claimed that
Jesus would return by the time the last of its 12 founding members
died. The last member died in 1901. (Boyer p.87)
* Rev. Michael Baxter foresaw the end of the world in 1901 in his
book The End of This Age About the End of This Century. (Thompson p.
121)

Apr 23, 1908 Once again, it's Michael Baxter. In his book Future
Wonders of Prophecy, the Rapture was to take place on March 12, 1903
between 2pm and 3pm, and Armageddon was to take place on this day,
which is after the Tribulation. (McIver #353)

Oct 1908 Pennsylvanian grocery store owner Lee T. Spangler claimed
that the world would meet a fiery end during this month. (Abanes p.
339)

1910 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Kyle
p.93)

May 18, 1910 Many people believed the arrival of Halley's Comet would
spell the end of the world. Some thought that cyanide gas from the
comet's tail would poison the Earth's atmosphere. In Germany, one
could buy postcards depicting apocalyptic scenes bearing the caption,
"End of the World on May 18". Con artists took advantage of people's
fears by selling "comet pills" to make people immune to the
toxins...or so they claimed. (Weber p.196-198, Abanes p.339)

1911 19th century Scottish astronomer and pyramidologist Charles
Piazzi Smyth concluded from his research on the dimensions of the
Great Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would occur between 1892
and 1911. (Cohen p.94)

Oct 1, 1914 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses.
In fact, they viewed World War I as the Battle of Armageddon. (Skinner
p.102)

1915 The beginning of the Millennium according to John Chilembwe,
fundamentalist leader of a rebellion in Nyasaland (present-day
Malawi). (Gould p.54-55, p.69)

1918 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Kyle
p.93)

Dec 17, 1919 According to meteorologist Albert Porta, a conjunction of
six planets on this date would cause a magnetic current to "pierce the
sun, cause great explosions of flaming gas, and eventually engulf the
Earth." Panic erupted in many countries around the world because of
this prediction, and some even committed suicide. (Abanes p.60-61)

1925 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Kyle
p.93)

Feb 13, 1925 According to Margaret Rowan, the angel Gabriel appeared
before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at
midnight on this date, which happened to be Friday the 13th. (Abanes p.
45)

Spring 1928 J.B. Dimbleby calculated that the Millennium would begin
in the spring of 1928, with the Rapture and Second coming taking place
between 1889 and 1928. But the true end of the world, he claimed,
wouldn't take pace until around the year 3000. (McIver #495)

1934 Final apocalyptic battle was to begin, claimed Chicago preacher
Nathan Cohen Beskin in 1931. (Abanes p.280)

Sep 1935 In 1931, Wilbur Glen Voliva announced that "the world is
going to go 'puff' and disappear in September, 1935." (Abanes p.287)

1936 Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God,
told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936,
and that only they would saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed
he date three more times. (Shaw p.99)
* End of the world according to some pyramidologists. (Randi p.
242)

1938 Gus McKey claimed in a pamphlet that the 6000th year since
Creation would come between 1931 and 1938, signifying the end of the
world. (Abanes p.283)

1941 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Shaw
p.72)
* The end of the world according to Leonard Dale-Harrison. (Kyle p.
111)

1943 Herbert W. Armstrong's Rapture prediction #2. (Shaw p.99)

Sep 21, 1945 In 1938 a minister named Long had a vision of a
mysterious hand writing the number 1945 and a voice saying the world
would be destroyed at 5:33pm on September 21. His prophecy failed,
naturally. (Source: Portuguese article)

1947 In 1889, John Ballou Newbrough (aka "America's Greatest Prophet")
foresaw the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-
apocalyptic anarchy in 1947. I guess he wasn't such a great prophet
after all. Newbrough was the founder of the Oahspe cult. (Randi p.243)

1950 The end of the world, as per Henry Adams. (Mann p.x)

1952 In 1950, a young Billy Graham stated "We may have another year,
maybe two years. Then I believe it is going to be over." (Source:
Article by Hugo McCord)

Jan 9, 1953 The end of the world, according to Agnes Carlson, the
founder of a Canadian cult called the Sons of Light. (Source:
Portuguese article)

Aug 1953 Pyramidologist David Davidson, in his book The Great Pyramid,
Its Divine Message, wrote that the Millennium would begin sometime
during this month. (Source: article by John Baskette)

Dec 21, 1954 The world was to be destroyed by terrible flooding on
this date, claimed Dorothy Martin (a.k.a. Marian Keech), leader of a
UFO cult called Brotherhood of the Seven Rays (a.k.a. The Seekers).
Among the members of this cult were George Hunt Williamson and the
aptly named Charles Laughead. This case became the subject of Leon
Festinger's book When Prophecy Fails, the classic, ground-breaking
case study of cognitive dissonance and the effect that failed prophecy
has on "true believers". (Festinger, Heard p.46-48, McIver #1949)

Apr 23, 1957 According to Mihran Ask, a pastor from California,
"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." (Watchtower, Oct 15, 1958, p.613)

1958 David A. Latimer, in his book Opening of the Seven Seals and the
Half Hour of Silence, predicted that the Second Coming would take
place in 1956 or 1958, right after the Battle of Armageddon. (McIver
#1501)

Apr 22, 1959 Victor Houteff, founder of the Davidians -- an offshoot
of the Seventh Day Adventists -- prophesied that the End would be
coming soon, but he never set a date. After his death, however, his
widow Florence prophesied that the Rapture would take place on April
22, 1959. Hundreds of faithful gathered at Mount Carmel outside Waco
to await the big moment, but it was not to be. (Thompson p.289)

1960 Pyramidologist Charles Piazzi Smyth (see the 1911 entry) claimed
that the Millennium would begin no later than 1960. (Source: article
by John Baskette)

Feb 4, 1962 A planetary alignment on this day was to bring destruction
to the world. Incidentally, the Antichrist was supposed to have been
born the following day, according to pop psychic/astrologer Jeane
Dixon. (Abanes p.340)

1966 Between 1965 and 1966, an apocalyptic battle was to occur,
resulting in the fall of the United States, claimed the Nation of
Islam. (Kyle p.162)

1967 The establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven, according to Rev. Sun
Myung Moon. (Kyle p.148)
* A young Jim Jones, who later became guru of the Kool-Aid cult
People's Temple, had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take
place in 1967. (Weber p.214)

Aug 20, 1967 The beginning of the third woe of the Apocalypse, during
which the southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet nuclear
attack, according to UFO prophet George Van Tassel, who claimed to
have channeled an alien named Ashtar. (Alnor p.145)

Dec 25, 1967 Danish cult leader Knud Weiking claimed that a being
named Orthon was speaking to him, saying that there would be a nuclear
war by Christmas 1967 that would disturb the Earth's orbit. His
followers built a survival bunker in preparation for this catastrophe.

Aug 9, 1969 Second Coming of Christ, according to George Williams,
leader of the Morrisites, a 19th century branch of Mormonism. (Robbins
p.77)

Nov 22, 1969 The Day of Judgement, according to Robin McPherson, who
supposedly channeled an alien named Ox-Ho. (Shaw p.154)

1972 Herbert W. Armstrong's Rapture prediction #3. (Shaw p.99)

1973 David Berg (aka Moses David), guru of the Children of God (aka
the Family of Love, or just "The Family"), predicted in his
publication The Endtime News! the United States would be destroyed by
Comet Kohoutek in 1973. (McIver #2095)

Jan 1974 David Berg predicted in his so-called Mo Letters that Comet
Kohoutek would destroy the US during this month. (Kyle p.145)

1975 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Kyle
p.93)
* Herbert W. Armstrong's Rapture prediction #4. (Shaw p.99)
* The Rapture, as per end-time preacher Charles Taylor. This is
the first in a long series of failed predictions. (Abanes p.99)

1976 Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #2. (Abanes p.99)

1977 John Wroe (the Southcottian who had himself publicly circumcised
in 1823) set 1977 as the date of Armageddon. (Randi p.243)
* Fundamentalist cult leader William Branham predicted that the
Rapture would take place no later than 1977. Just before this, Los
Angeles was to fall into the sea after an earthquake, the Vatican
would achieve dictatorial powers over the world, and all of
Christianity would become unified. (Babinski p.277)
* Pyramidologist Adam Rutherford expected that the Millennium
would begin in 1977. (Source: article by John Baskette)

1978 In his book The Doomsday Globe, John Strong drew on scriptures,
pyramidology, pole shift theory, young-earth creationism and other
mysticism to conclude that Doomsday would come in 1978. (McIver #3237)

Sometime in the 1980s In his book Armageddon 198? Stephen D. Swihart
predicted the End would occur sometime in the 1980s.

1980 Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #3. (Abanes p.99)

Apr 1, 1980 Radio preacher Willie Day Smith of Irving, Texas, claimed
that this day would witness the Second Coming. (Source: What About the
Second Coming of Christ?)

Apr 29, 1980 Leland Jensen, founder of the Bahá'ís Under the
Provisions of the Covenant -- a small sect that mixes mainstream
Bahá'í teachings with pyramidology and Bible prophecy -- predicted
that a nuclear holocaust would occur on this day, killing a third of
the world's population. After the prophecy failed, Jensen rationalized
that this date was merely the beginning of the Tribulation. (Robbins p.
73)

1981 The establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven, according to Rev. Sun
Myung Moon. (Kyle p.148)
* Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #4. (Abanes p.99)
* Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel, wrote in his book
Future Survival, "I'm convinced that the Lord is coming for His Church
before the end of 1981." Smith arrived at his calculation by adding 40
(one "Biblical generation") to 1948 (the year of Israel's statehood)
and subtracting 7 for the Tribulation. When 1981 passed by, the group
members experienced a mini version of the Great Disappointment of
1844. (Abanes p.326)

June 28, 1981 Rev. Bill Maupin, leader of a small Tuscon, AZ, sect
named Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation, preached that the world
would come to an end on this day, which they called "rapture day."
Those who were saved would be "spirited aloft like helium balloons."
Some 50 people gathered in a Millerite-like fashion, only to have
their dreams predictably dashed. (Source: Philosophy and the
Scientific Method by Ronald C. Pine)

August 7, 1981 When his June 28 prediction failed, Bill Maupin
claimed that doomsday would take place 40 days later. Maupin said that
just as Noah's ark was gradually raised to safety over a period of 40
days, the same would happen to the world. (Source: a former member of
Maupin's church, who was kind enough to share this information with
me.)

1982 Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #5. (Abanes p.99)
* Jesus was to return and rapture Christians away from the
Tribulation in 1982, taught Canadian prophet Doug Clark. He used the
Jupiter Effect to support his thesis, claiming it would trigger
earthquakes and fires that would kill millions. (Abanes p.91)
* Emil Gaverluk of the Southwest Radio Church suggested that the
Jupiter Effect would pull Mars to out of orbit and send it careening
into the Earth. (Abanes p.100-101)

Mar 10, 1982 When the planets lined up, their combined gravitational
forces were supposed to bring the end of the world. A book called The
Jupiter Effect, by John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann, helped to
spread these fears. An excellent article on planetary lineups can be
found here. (Abanes p.62)

Jun 25, 1982 Benjamin Creme, British artist and founder of Tara
Center, on April 25, 1982 took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times
proclaiming "THE CHRIST IS NOW HERE", referring to the coming of
Maitreya within 2 months. Creme supposedly received the messages from
Maitreya through "channeling." Perhaps his ad should have read, "THE
CHRIST IS NOWHERE"! (Grosso p.7, Oropeza p.155)

Fall 1982 In the late '70s, Pat Robertson predicted the end of the
world would occur in the fall of 1982. "I guarantee you by the end of
1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world," he said in a May,
1980 broadcast of the 700 Club. (Boyer p.138)

1983 Apocalyptic war between the US and the Soviet Union was supposed
to break out by the end of 1983, said the End Times News Digest. (Shaw
p.182)
* Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #6. (Abanes p.99)

Oct 2, 1984 The end of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses.
(Shermer p.203, Kyle p.91)

1985 The end of the world according to Lester Sumrall in his book I
Predict 1985. (Abanes p.99, 341)
* Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #7. (Abanes p.99)
* The Socialist National Aryan People's Party was convinced that
Jesus would return in 1985. (Weber p.209)

Mar 25, 1985 The beginning of World War III, as prophesied by Vern
Grimsley of the doomsday cult Family of God Foundation. This cult was
a small offshoot of the Urantia Foundation, a loosely organized
religious group that uses as its scripture a tedious 2000 page tome
called the Urantia Book. (Sources: here and here)

Aug 1985 Date of World War III, according to the 1977 bestseller The
Third World War: August 1985 by retired NATO General Sir John Hackett.
While not really a prophecy, the book was written as a warning to
world leaders about what could realistically happen based on world
developments at that time.

1986 Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #8. (Abanes p.99)

Apr 29, 1987 Leland Jensen of the Bahá'ís Under the Provisions of the
Covenant predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's
orbit on April 29, 1986, and chunks of the comet would pelt the Earth
for a year. The gravitational force of the comet would cause great
earthquakes, and on April 29, 1987, the comet itself would crash into
the Earth wreaking widespread destruction. When the prophecies failed,
Jensen rationalized the failure as follows: "A spiritual stone hit the
earth." (Robbins p.73, 78)

1987 Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #9. (Abanes p.99)

Aug 17, 1987 The "Harmonic Convergence." New Age author José Argüelles
claimed that Armageddon would take place unless 144,000 people
gathered in certain places in the world in order to "resonate in
harmony" on this day. Apparently, their resonating succeeded: we're
still here. (McIver #2023, Kyle p.156, Wojcik p.207)

1988 Hal Lindsey's bestseller The Late, Great Planet Earth, suggested
that the Rapture would take place in 1988, reasoning that it was 40
years (one Biblical generation) after Israel gained statehood. (Abanes
p.85)
* Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #10. (Abanes p.99)
* Canadian prophet Doug Clark suggested 1988 as the date of the
Rapture, in his book Final Shockwaves to Armageddon. (Abanes p.91)
* David Webber and Noah Hutchings of the Southwest Radio Church
suggested that the Rapture would take place "possibly in 1987 or
1988." (Abanes p.101)
* The Rapture, according to TV prophet J.R. Church in hiss book
Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms. He used a bizarre theory that each of
the Psalms referred to a year in the 20th century (i.e. Psalm 1
represents the events in 1901, etc.), to arrive at this conclusion.
(Abanes p.103)
* Colin Deal wrote a book entitled Christ Returns by 1988: 101
Reasons Why. (Oropeza p.175)

Sep 13, 1988 Edgar C. Whisenant lightened the wallets of many a
believer with his best-selling book 88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be
in 1988. He predicted the Rapture between September 11 and 13 (Rosh
Hashanah). After his prediction failed, he released another book: The
Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989. (Kyle p.121, Abanes p.93)

Sep 15, 1988 After Whisenant's prediction failed, he insisted that the
Rapture would take place at 10:55 am on September 15. (Abanes p.94)

Oct 3, 1988 Incredulous that yet another prediction failed, Whisenant
pushed the date of the Rapture forward to October 3. (Abanes p.94)

1989 Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #11. (Abanes p.99)
* In his 1968 book Guide to Survival, Salem Kirban used Bishop
Ussher's calculations to conclude that 1989 would be the year of the
Rapture. (Abanes p.283)
* In 1978, Oklahoma City's Southwest Radio Church published a
pamphlet entitled God's Timetable for the 1980s in which were listed
prophecies for each year of the 1980s, culminating with Christ's
return and the establishment of his kingdom on Earth in 1989. With the
exception of a couple predictable astronomical events, none of the
predictions came true.

Sep 30, 1989 After his 1988 Rapture prediction failed, Edgar C.
Whisenant pointed to Rosh Hashanah 1989 as a possible date for the
Rapture. (Abanes p.94)
* Hart Armstrong, president of Christian Communications of
Wichita, repeatedly suggested that the Feast of Trumpets 1989 would be
the date of the Rapture. (Abanes p.93)

1990 Baptist preacher Peter Ruckman predicted that the Rapture would
come round about the year 1990. (Source: article by Thomas Williamson)
* Singaporean prophecy writer Kai Lok Chan foresaw Jesus Christ
returning sometime between 1986 and 1990. Armageddon (a war between
the US and USSR) would take place between 1984 and 1988. He argued
that the Jupiter Effect corroborated his claims. (McIver #2195)

Apr 23, 1990 Elizabeth Clare Prophet, leader of the Church Universal
and Triumphant, foresaw nuclear devastation and the end of most of the
human race on this day, and convinced her followers to sell their
property and move with her to a ranch in Montana. (Kyle p.156, Grosso
p.7)

1991 The Rapture, according to fundamentalist author Reginald Dunlop.
(Shaw p.180)
* Louis Farrakhan declared that the Gulf War would be the "War of
Armageddon which is the final war." (Abanes p.307)

Mar 31, 1991 An Australian cult looked forward to the Second Coming at
9:00 am on this day. They believed that Jesus would return through
Sydney Harbour! (Source: Knowing the Day and the Hour)

1992 Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #12. (Abanes p.99)

Apr 26, 1992 On April 26, 1989, prophecy nutcase Doug Clark announced
on Trinity Broadcasting Network's show Praise the Lord that World War
III would begin within 3 years. (Abanes p.92)

Apr 29, 1992 When the LA riots broke out in response to the verdict of
the Rodney King trial, members of white-supremacist group Aryan
Nations thought it was the final apocalyptic race war they had been
waiting for. (20/20, NBC, Dec 12, 1999)

Sep 28, 1992 Christian author Dorothy A. Miller in her book Watch & Be
Ready! 1992 Millions Disappear? predicted the "last trumpet" would
sound on Rosh Hashanah, heralding the Second Coming. (McIver #2923)
* "Rockin'" Rollen Stewart, a born-again Christian who made
himself famous by holding up "John 3:16" signs at sporting events,
thought the Rapture would take place on this day. Stewart went insane,
setting off stink bombs in churches and bookstores and writing
apocalyptic letters in a mission to make people get right with God. He
is now serving a life sentence for kidnapping. (Adams p.18-20)

Oct 28, 1992 Lee Jang Rim, leader of the Korean doomsday cult Mission
for the Coming Days (also known as the Tami Church), predicted that
the Rapture would occur on this date. Lee was convicted of fraud after
the prophecy failed. Lee's cult was part of the larger Hyoo-Go
(Rapture) movement, which took Korea by storm in
1992. (Thompson p.227-228, McIver #2747)

1993 David Berg of the Children of God claimed in The Endtime News!
that the Second Coming would take place in 1993. The Tribulation was
to start in 1989. (McIver #2095, Kyle p.145)

Nov 14, 1993 Judgement Day, according to self-proclaimed messiah Maria
Devi Khrystos (neé Marina Tsvigun), leader of the cult Great White
Brotherhood. Members of the cult planned to congregate in Kiev on that
day to celebrate God's coming to Earth, but their plan was thwarted by
the arrest of many of the cultists. (Alnor p.93)

Dec 9, 1993 James T. Harmon added 51.57 years to May 15, 1949 (the
date the UN recognized Israel) and subtracted 7 to arrive at the date
of the Rapture, approximately December 9, 1993. He also suggested
1996, 2012 and 2022 as alternative rapture dates. (Oropeza p.89)

1994 R.M. Riley, in his book 1994: The Year of Destiny, wrote that
1994 would be the year of the Rapture. (McIver #3098)
* Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction #13. (Abanes p.99)
* Om Saleem, an Arab Christian, prophesied that the Rapture would
take place in 1994, after the Antichrist was to reveal himself.
(Oropeza p.148)
* Dutch authors Aad Verbeek, Jan Westein and Pier Westein
predicted the Second Coming in 1994 in their book Time for His Coming.
(McIver #3348)

May 2, 1994 Armageddon. Neal Chase of the Bahá'ís Under the Provisions
of the Covenant predicted that New York would be destroyed by a
nuclear bomb on
March 23, 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days
later. (Robbins p.79)

June 9, 1994 Pastor John Hinkle claimed that God told him the
Apocalypse would take place on this day. In a cataclysmic event, God
was supposed to "rip the evil out of this world." When the prophecy
failed, he claimed that it's only the beginning and it's taking place
invisibly. (Oropeza p.167-168)

Jul 25, 1994 On July 19, 1993, Sister Marie Gabriel Paprocski
announced to the world her prophecy that a comet would hit Jupiter on
or before July 25, 1994, causing the "biggest cosmic explosion in the
history of mankind" and bringing on the end of the world. Indeed, a
comet did hit Jupiter on July 16, 1994. However, it is important to
note that her announcement was made nearly two months after astronomer
Brian Marsden discovered that Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 would hit
Jupiter. (Skinner p.116, Levy p.207)

Sep 23, 1994 Reginald Dunlop claimed this was the last date encoded in
the Great Pyramid of Giza, meaning that the world would not last
beyond this date. (Oropeza p.128)

Sep 27, 1994 Harold Camping, head of Oakland's Family Radio and host
of the station's Biblical discussion talk show Open Forum, predicted
the end in his book 1994? He calculated that the Tribulation would end
on September 6, followed by the Last Day and the Second Coming of
Christ between Sep. 15 and Sep. 27. (Camping p.526-7, p.531)

Sep 29, 1994 Harold Camping's doomsday prediction #2. (Abanes p.95)

Oct 2, 1994 Harold Camping's doomsday prediction #3. (Abanes p.95)

1995 Armageddon, according to Henry Kresyler, head of the doomsday
group Watchers in the Wilderness. (Shaw p.181)
* The Second Coming of Christ, as foreseen by J.R. Church, using
his Psalms theory (see 1988 above). The Battle of Armageddon would
take place in 1994. (Abanes p. 103)

Mar 31, 1995 Harold Camping's doomsday prediction #4. He gave up
setting dates afterwards. (Abanes p.95)

1996 James T. Harmon's Rapture prediction #2. (Oropeza p.89)

Sep 1996 The Second Coming of Christ, according to Guatemalan preacher
Marvin Byers. (Oropeza p.29)

Nov 1996 The Second Coming of Christ, as foreseen in doomsday author
Salty Dok's book Blessed Hope, 1996. (Oropeza p.48)

Dec 13, 1996 The resurrection of David Koresh, according to the
surviving Branch Davidian cult members. Koresh, of course, never
showed up. (Jordan p.113)

Dec 17, 1996 Famed psychic Sheldon Nidle predicted that the world
would end on this date, with the arrival of millions of space ships.
(Abanes p.341)

1997 Mary Stewart Relfe, claiming that God communicated with her in
her dreams, predicted the Second Coming in 1997, right after the
battle of Armageddon. "America will burn" and be totally destroyed in
1993 or 1994, she claimed. (Kyle p.120, Oropeza p.104)
* The end of the world, as per a tongue-in-cheek numerological
calculation by Superdave the Wonderchemist.

Mar 23, 1997 Richard Michael Schiller, posting under the name
Eliyehowa and a host of other pseudonyms, flooded various Usenet
newsgroups with his prediction that an asteroid trailing behind Comet
Hale-Bopp would bring destruction to the Earth on this date. As the
date drew near, be began backpedalling, claiming the world would be
destroyed 9 months later when the Earth supposedly would pass through
the comet's tail, and anyway there was no way the world would survive
beyond 1997. You can see a characteristic post of his on Google.

Mar 26, 1997 Heaven's Gate suicides. The suicides occurred between
March 24 and March 26, during a window of time that the cultists had
predicted a UFO trailing behind Comet Hale-Bopp would pick up their
souls and save them from the imminent Apocalypse. Notice the
similarity between their prophecy and Schiller's one above? Both claim
that an object is following the comet. This rumor started when amateur
astronomer Chuck Shramek mistook a star for what he thought was a
"Saturn-like object" following the comet. With the help of the
Internet and the Art Bell show, the false rumor that a UFO or asteroid
was trailing the comet spread like wildfire. And we all know how hard
such urban legends are to quash! (Alnor p.13, 38)

May 5, 1997 On this date, the solar system was supposed to enter the
Photon Belt, a mystical energy field floating through space. Once we
enter the Photon Belt, something unusual is supposed to occur.
Depending on the source, the world will end, aliens will land, mankind
will be enlightened or achieve super powers, electrical equipment will
fail...you get the picture. Nothing happened, but that hasn't stopped
people from thinking we're still going to enter the Photon Belt SOON!
Perhaps in 2011. (Sources: The Straight Dope, The Photon Belt Page)

Oct 1997 The Rapture, according to Brother Kenneth Hagin.

Oct 11, 1997 Internet prophet posted in various Usenet newsgroups that
this date would be Judgement Day. His post can be seen on Google.

Oct 23, 1997 6000th anniversary of Creation according to the
calculations of 17th Century Irish Archbishop James Ussher. This date
was a popular candidate date for the end of the world. (Gould p.98)

Nov 27, 1997 According to the Sacerdotal Knights of National Security,
"A space alien captured at a UFO landing site in eastern Missouri
cracked under interrogation by the CIA and admitted that an
extraterrestrial army will attack Earth on November 27 with the
express purpose of stripping our planet of every natural resource they
can find a use for -- and making slaves of every man, woman and child
in the world!" (Source: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance)

1998 Larry Wilson of Wake Up America Seminars predicted the Second
Coming "around 1998". The Tribulation was supposed to start in 1994 or
1995, and during this period an asteroid was to hit the Earth.
(Robbins p.220)
* Centro, a religious cult in the Philippines, predicted that the
end of the world would come in 1998. (Source: Ontario Consultants on
Religious Tolerance)
* The year of the Rapture, claimed Donald B. Orsden in his book
The Holy Bible - The Final Testament: What is the Significance of
666?. "Take your super computers, you scientists, and feed the number
666 into them. The output will be the proof God gives that 1998 is the
year Jesus will take the faithful with him...." (McIver #2986)
* In Ominous Portents of the Parousia of Christ, by Henry R. Hall,
the author pours vitriol on atheists and liberals while praising
Reagan as a "wise man" sent by God for the End Times. An obvious
loony, Hall predicts that the world will end in 1998 because, among
other reasons, 666 + 666 + 666 = 1998. The Rapture was to take place
in 1991. Sorry, Hank! (McIver #2488)

Jan 8, 1998 31 members of a splinter group of the Solar Temple cult
headed by German psychologist Heide Fittkau-Garthe were arrested by
police on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, amid fears that the
cultists were planning a mass suicide. They were convinced that the
world would end at 8:00 pm on this day, but that the cult members'
bodies would be picked up by a space ship. (Hanna p.226 and FACTNet)

Mar 8, 1998 A doomsday cult from Karnataka in southern India claimed
that much of the world would be destroyed by earthquakes on this day,
and the Indian subcontinent would break off and sink into the ocean.
After the destruction, Lord Vishnu would appear on Earth. The leaders
of the cult claimed that El Nino and the chotic weather that
accompanied it was a sign of the coming destruction.

Mar 31, 1998 Hon-Ming Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult God's
Salvation Church, or Chen Tao - "The True Way" - claimed that God
would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date.
Moreover, God would have the same physical appearance as Chen himself.
On March 25, God was to appear on Channel 18 on every TV set in the
US. Chen chose to base his cult in Garland, Texas, because he thought
it sounded like "God's Land." (Shermer p.204, McIver #2199)

May 31, 1998 Author Marilyn J. Agee used convoluted Biblical
calculations to predict the date of two separate Raptures. In her book
The End of the Age, she boldly proclaimed, "I expect Rapture I on
Pentecost [May 31] in 1998 and Rapture II on the Feast of Trumpets
[September 13] in 2007." (Agee) Her homepage is worth a visit just to
see how...how can I put this politely?...interesting these doomsday
prophets can be. She just may have another doomsday prediction posted.
* The Rapture, as per Tom Stewart's book 1998: Year of the
Apocalypse. (McIver #3226)

Jun 6, 1998 Eli Eshoh uses all sorts of numerical games to show that
the Rapture was to take place in 1998. On this page he explains away
the apparent failure of the June 6 Rapture, claiming that it did
indeed occur, but the number of raptees was small enough not to be
noticed.

Jun 7, 1998 Marilyn J. Agee's Rapture prediction #2, which she made on
her website after the failure of her original prediction. A record of
her date revisions can be seen at The Doomsday List, since they're no
longer on her site.

Jun 14, 1998 Marilyn J. Agee's Rapture prediction #3.

Jun 21, 1998 Marilyn J. Agee's Rapture prediction #4.

Jul 5, 1998 The Church of the SubGenius, the only religion worthy of
calling itself the One True Faith, designated this day X-Day. Xists
from Planet X would arrive in flying saucers and destroy humanity on
this day, and only ordained clergy who have paid their dues to the
Church would be "ruptured" to safety! When that didn't come to pass,
XX-Day (July 5, 1999) was declared the true end of the world. Praise
Bob!

Sep 20, 1998 Marilyn J. Agee's Rapture prediction #5.

Sep 30, 1998 Using Edgar Cayce's prophecies, Kirk Nelson predicted the
return of Jesus on this date in his book The Second Coming 1998.

Oct 10, 1998 Monte Kim Miller, leader of the Denver charismatic cult
Concerned Christians, was convinced that the Apocalypse would occur on
this date, with Denver the first city to be destroyed. The cult
members mysteriously disappeared afterwards; but later resurfaced in
Israel, where they were deported on suspicion of planning a terrorist
attack at the end of 1999. Miller had also claimed he will die in the
streets of Jerusalem in December 1999, to be resurrected three days
later. (Sources: Watchman Fellowship, Ontario Consultants on Religious
Tolerance)

Nov 1998 The Second Coming and the beginning of the Tribulation,
according to Ron Reese. He wrote that he had "overwhelming evidence"
that this was true. (McIver #3081)

Dec 12, 1998 The beginning of the end, according to Linda Newkirk of
www.prophecies.org. On her comical site, in which she transcribed
dialogs she supposedly had with God, God told her that the "USA will
be invaded by Russia, China, an Arab Alliance, and even the UN and
NATO. It will take place at around 1:45 AM on this date, and 75
million people will die immediately. Huge cities will be nothing more
than potholes. Places like San Francisco will be eradicated
immediately. Millions more will die of starvation and all kinds of
diseases brought about by chemical, nerve and biological warfare."
This quote disappeared from her site soon after the failure of the
prophecy, whereupun she jumped onto the Y2K doomsaying bandwagon. I
suppose it shouldn't be a surprise to find her site dead.

1999 End of the world according to some Seventh Day Adventist
literature. (Skinner p.105, Mann p.xiii)
* End of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Skinner
p.102, Mann p.xiii)
* Apocalyptic battle, followed by peace, as per a vision of George
Washington. According to this apocryphal tale, the apparition of a
beautiful woman appeared before George saying, "Son of the Republic,
look and learn." Thereupon he saw the world as it would be in 1999.
Black clouds with red lights in the center, representing invading
armies, spewed forth from all around the world and poured into
America. After a massive battle, an angel sprinkled water on the world
and peace is restored. (Uncle John p.2092)
* The height of the Antichrist's power, when a terrible holocaust
will occur, as foreseen by astrologer Jeane Dixon. In The Call to
Glory, Dixon wrote, "As the [Russian] armies begin to move on the
Middle East about 1999, Russian MIRVs and FOBSs will rain down a
nuclear holocaust upon our coastal cities, both east and west." Dixon
also claimed the Antichrist was born on Feb. 5, 1962. Could actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh be the Antichrist? That is her birthday, after
all. (Kyle p.153, Dixon p.168)
* A pole shift will cause natural disasters and World War III, or
so the "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce claimed. (Skinner p.127)
* The end of the world according to linguist/credophile Charles
Berlitz, as predicted in his book Doomsday: 1999 A.D. Any of a number
of scenarios could happen, claimed Berlitz, including nuclear
devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other earth changes. (Kyle
p.194)
* Internut Dore Williamson, who spams various Usenet groups with
claims that she is the incarnation of Christ, claimed repeatedly that
the world would end in 1999, due to varying causes such as a
biological war unleashed by Clinton. She also claimed that Clinton is
the Antichrist. She is still an active Usenet participant. In this
post, Dore is taken to task for her failed prophecy.

Mar 25, 1999 On September 25, 1997, Hal Lindsey predicted on his TV
show International Intelligence Briefing that Russia would invade
Israel within 18 months. Many fundamentalists believe from highly
questionable scriptural interpretation that Russia's invasion of
Israel is predicted in the Bible and that it will lead to Armageddon.
(Abanes p.286)

Apr 3, 1999 The Rapture, according to H.J. Hoekstra. Unfortunately,
his entertaining website is no longer in existence. He believed we
live on the inside of a hollow Earth, and used numerology to calculate
the date of the Rapture. The existence of his website is attested at
Alma Geddon's site.

May 8, 1999 According to an astrological pamphlet circulating in
India, the world was to meet its doom by a series of severe natural
disasters on this date. This prediction caused many Indians to panic.
(Source: BBC News)

May 22, 1999 Marilyn Agee's Rapture prediction #6.

May 30, 1999 Marilyn J. Agee's Rapture prediction #7. This is
"Orthodox Pentecost."

Jun 20, 1999 Marilyn J. Agee's Rapture prediction #8. This is
"astronomical Pentecost."

Jun 30, 1999 "Father" Charles L. Moore appeared on the Art Bell show
November 26-27, 1998, claiming he knew the Third Secret of Fatima.
According to Moore, the prophecy said that an asteroid would strike
the Earth on June 30, bringing about the End.

July 1999 The month made famous by 16th century soothsayer
Nostradamus, the month that people have wondered about for over four
centuries, is now at long last a part of history. And guess what? No
King of Terror! Bummer, eh?

In the following quatrain, Nosty made a grim-sounding prediction
(Source: The Mask of Nostradamus by James Randi):

L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois
Du ciel viendra un grand Roy deffraieur
Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois
Avant apres Mars regner par bon heur.

The year 1999, seven months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror:
To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck. (Quatrain X.72)

But it was not to be. When July passed, the inevitable date
postponement began. The folks on the alt.prophecies.nostradamus
newsgroup and the webmasters of various Nostradamus fan sites extended
the deadline of fulfillment to August 13 (the end of July according to
the Julian calendar used in Nostradamus' day), then September 30
("sept mois" must have meant "September" after all!), then October 10
(the end of the 7th month of the Hebrew calendar), and finally October
22 (the end of the seventh month of the Zodiac). Now some people are
saying Nosty meant the whole year of 1999 plus 7 months, i.e. July
2000! There is no end to the denial!!

Of course, there are those who claim the prophecy was fulfilled. Some
said that the prophecy referred a meteor that exploded over New
Zealand in early July or perhaps the total eclipse of August 11. But
did these events resuscitate the King of the Mongols?

Jul 4, 1999 Despite the fact that Nostradamus never specified a day
for the King of Terror's arrival, rumors circulated through the
Internet and popular culture that the world would end on July 4. This
caused a lot of speculation and apprehension in certain circles of the
Internet.

Jul 5, 1999 XX-day, according to the Church of the SubGenius. But the
Xists and their saucers once again postponed their visit. Now all eyes
are on XXX-day: July 5, 2000. The End has become an annual event!

Jul 7, 1999 The Earth's axis was to shift full 90 degrees at 7:00am
GMT, resulting in a "water baptism" of the world, according to Eileen
Lakes. Her site is still there, but she's deleted all references to
July 7, 1999. The caption above the picture of the Earth originally
read:

7:00 a.m., on Wednesday, July 7, 1999
at the World Greenwich Mean Time
The earth will turn right by 90 degrees very instantly.

Jul 24, 1999 According to a book published in February by the Japanese
author Akio Cho, Nostradamus' "Great King of Terror" was supposed to
descend from the sky at 5:00pm on this date (some sources say July
26). (Source: Rick Ross)

Jul 28, 1999 A lunar eclipse would signify the end of the Church Age
and the beginning of the Tribulation, according to Gerald Vano.
(Source: The Doomsday List.)

Aug 1999 A cult calling itself Universal and Human Energy, also known
as SHY (Spirituality, Humanity, Yoga), predicted the end of the world
in August. (Source: FACTNet)

Aug 6, 1999 The Branch Davidians believed that David Koresh would
return to Earth on this day, 2300 days (Daniel 8:14) after his death.
Sorry, guys! (Source: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance)

Aug 11, 1999 During the week between August 11 and August 18 a series
of astronomical events took place: the last total solar eclipse of the
millennium (Aug 11), the Grand Cross planetary formation (Aug 18), the
Perseid meteor shower (Aug 12), the swingby of NASA's plutonium-
bearing Cassini space probe (Aug 17-18), and Comet Lee's visit to the
inner solar system. Add to this the fact that some of these events are
taking place before the end of July according to the Julian calendar,
and you have a recipe for rampant apocalyptic paranoia. Fashion
designer Paco Rabanne claimed that Mir would crash into Paris on
August 11. It didn't. Others said that a monstrous asteroid or comet,
previously unseen, would become visible during the eclipse and strike
the Earth thereafter. Nothing happened.

Aug 14, 1999 Escape666.com originally proclaimed on their website that
a doomsday comet would hit Earth between August 11-14. (McIver #3362).

Aug 18, 1999 The end of the world, as foreseen by Charles Criswell
King (aka The Amazing Criswell) in his 1968 bestseller Criswell
Predicts: From Now to the Year 2000. As he wrote:

"The world as we know it will cease to exist...on August 18,
1999.... And if you and I meet each other on the street that fateful
day...and we chat about what we will do on the morrow, we will open
our mouths to speak and no words will come out, for we have no
future."

Why August 18? I'm not certain, but it does happen to be
Criswell's birthday. (Abanes p.43)

* Many alarmists were convinced that the Cassini space probe would
crash into the Earth on August 18. Some even went so far as to say it
would poison a third of the world's population with its plutonium,
fulfilling the prophecy of Revelation 8:11 concerning a star named
Wormwood -- supposedly a metaphor for radiation poisoning
("Chernobylnik" is the Ukrainian word for a purple-stemmed subspecies
of the wormwood plant). But as expected, Cassini passed by the Earth
without a hitch.

Aug 19, 1999 The end of the world, according to Prof. Hideo Itakawa.
(Mann p.xi)

Aug 24, 1999 In 1996, Valerie James wrote in The European Magazine,
"The configuration of planets which predicted the coming of Christ
will once again appear on Aug 24, 1999." I'm assuming she pinpointed
this date for the Parousia. (Ontario Consultants on Religious
Tolerance)

Sep 1999 The End, according to Jack Van Impe. (Shaw p.131)
* According to Escape666.com, Nostradamus's King of Terror was to
descend on Earth in September, heralding the beginning of the
Tribulation and the Rapture. Escape666 said, regarding Nostradamus's
infamous quatrain X.72: "now we know EXACTLY when he meant: SEPTEMBER
1999." However, as the end of September approached, they changed their
date to October 12.

Sep 3, 1999 Judgement Day was to be on September 2 or 3, according to
the notorious Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo. Only members of
Aum were to survive. Well, they did survive, but so did the rest of
us. Perhaps this means we're all members of Aum? Thankfully, no sarin
gas attacks occurred.

Sep 9, 1999 9/9/99, touted by some Y2K paranoiacs as a possible day
that computers would crash and bring modern civilization to its knees.
Apparently, some old programs used 9999 as a "terminate" flag. Not a
single computer crashed due to this problem. Fact is, using 9999 to
denote September 9, 1999 is an exceedingly inefficient way to
represent this date. It's more efficient to use 090999, 990909, or
something similar. (Source: SF Gate)

Sep 11, 1999 Bonnie Gaunt used the Bible Codes to prove that Rosh
Hashanah 5760 (September 11, 1999) is the date of the Rapture. Not
surprisingly, her web page promptly disappeared on Sep. 12. However
there is still a newspaper article available online about her
prediction.
* Jason Hommel spammed Usenet with claims that the Rapture was to
take place on this date, and used a plethora of over-imaginitive
numerology and unorthodox scriptural interpretation to arrive at this
conclusion. He used the famous "know not the day nor the hour" verse
to paradoxically pinpoint the date of the Rapture. But in a bit of
honesty rare among doomsayers, Hommel actually admitted he was wrong
and apologized.
* Michael Rood also jumped on the Rosh Hashanah bandwagon. He
claimed that this day is the first day of the Hebrew calendar year
6001, and after it failed, he changed the date to April 5, 2000. In
reality, this day was the first day of 5760, but Michael claimed that
there was a mistake in the calendar.
* Jan Weaver Gindorf posted an email to the webmaster of The
Doomsday List, in which she predicted the Rapture would occur on or
around this date. Please see The Doomsday List for more details.

Sep 23, 1999 Author Stefan Paulus combines Nostradamus, the Bible and
astrology to arrive at September 23 as the date that a doomsday comet
will impact the Earth. (Paulus p.57)
* A Nostradamus aficionado named SmaKYadowN picked September 23 as
a possible date of impact of an asteroid. His website has disappeared,
unfortunately, but a reference to him is preserved at Alma Geddon's
site.

Oct 1999 Apparently, there are still some active members of the Korean
Hyoo-go (see Oct 28, 1992) movement left. These Tami Sect proponents
predict the demise of this earth in October 1999. (Source: Korea
Times)
* Jack Van Impe, one of the more crazed and entertaining end-times
screechers, predicted the Rapture and the Second Coming for October
1999. (Wojcik p.212)

Oct 12, 1999 Escape666.com rescheduled the arrival of the King of
Terror by this day.

Nov 1999 Armageddon to culminate with "wholesale obliteration" as
foreseen by Richard Kieninger in his 1963 book The Ultimate Frontier.
(Abanes p.68)

Nov 4, 1999 Using Nostradamus's famed Quatrain X.72, KingOfTerror, a
regular on alt.prophecies.nostradamus, touted a window within which
the King of Terror (possibly an asteroid) would come from the sky. The
window was from July 1 to November 4, 1999.

Nov 7, 1999 Internet doomsday nut Richard Hoagland, whose homepage is
another that has to be seen to be believed, claims that an "inside
source" called him anonymously and warned of three objects that will
strike the earth on this day. The objects were supposedly seen during
the August 11 eclipse.

Nov 29, 1999 According to a vision he received in 1996, Dumitru
Duduman claims that the destruction of America (i.e. Babylon) will
occur around November 29, 1999.

Dec 1999 Second Coming: Monte Kim Miller of the cult Concerned
Christians claimed he would die in the streets of Jerusalem during a
violent confrontation, and be resurrected three days later. No word on
whether or not he's still alive. (Source: Watchman Fellowship)

Dec 21, 1999 Sometime between November 23 and December 21, 1999, the
War of Wars was to begin, claimed Nostradamus buff Henry C. Roberts.
(Skeptical Inquirer, May/June 2000, p.6)

Dec 25, 1999 The Second Coming of Christ, according to doomsday
prophet Martin Hunter. (Oropeza p.57)

Dec 31, 1999 Hon-Ming Chen's cult God's Salvation Church, now
relocated to upstate New York, preached that a nuclear holocaust would
destroy Europe and Asia sometime between October 1 and December 31,
1999. (Source: the Religious Movements Page)
* Joseph Kibweteere's doomsday prediction #1. See Dec. 31, 2000
for more details.

2000 There's something about those three zeroes that makes 2000 a
favorite year among doomsday prophets. But now that mysterious year,
anticipated and wondered about for centuries, has slipped into realm
of history. There are far too many doomsday predictions to list for
2000, but here are some of the more notable ones: Hal Lindsey, whose
1988 prediction failed, suggests the end in his recently published
book, entitled Planet Earth - 2000 A.D. However, he leaves himself a
face-saving outlet: "Could I be wrong? Of course. The Rapture may not
occur between now and the year 2000." (Lindsey p.306)
* The beginning of Christ's Millennium according to some Mormon
literature, such as the publication Watch and Be Ready: Preparing for
the Second Coming of the Lord. The New Jerusalem will descend from the
heavens in 2000, landing in Independence, Missouri. (McIver #3377,
Skinner p.100)
* 19th century mystic Madame Helena Petrova Blavatsky, the founder
of Theosophy, foresaw the end of the world in 2000. (Shaw p.83)
* Even Sir Isaac Newton was bitten by the millennium bug. He
predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his
book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of
St. John. (Schwartz p.96)
* Ruth Montgomery predicts Earth's axis will shift and the
Antichrist will reveal himself in 2000. (Kyle p.156, 195)
* The establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven, according to Rev.
Sun Myung Moon. (Kyle p.148)
* The Second Coming, followed by a New Age, according to famed
psychic Edgar Cayce. (Hanna p.219)
* The Second Coming, as forecasted in Ed Dobson's book The End:
Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.
* The end of the world according to Lester Sumrall in his book I
Predict 2000. (Abanes p.99, 341)
* The tribulation is to occur before the year 2000, said Gordon
Lindsay, founder of the Christ for the Nations Ministry. (Abanes p.
280)
* According to a series of lectures given by Shoko Asahara in
1992, 90% of the world's population would be annihilated by nuclear,
biological and chemical weapons by the year 2000. (Thompson p.262)
* One of the earliest predictions for the year 2000 was made by
Petrus Olivi in 1297. He wrote that the Antichrist would come to power
between 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgement would take place around
2000. (Weber p.54)
* According to American Indian spiritual leader Sun Bear, the end
of the world would come in the year 2000 if the human race didn't
shape up. (Abanes p.307)
* 18th century fire-and-brimstone preacher Jonathan Edwards
concluded that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in 2000.
(Weber p.171)
* The world will be devastated by AIDS in the year 2000, according
to Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Afterwards, the world will be
rebuilt by a peaceful matriarchal society. (Robbins p.164)
* William Kamm, aka Little Pebble, is the leader of the Australian
doomsday cult Order of St. Charbel, predicts that a comet will destroy
the Earth before the dawn of the new millennium.
* Fundamentalist conspiracy advocate Texe Marrs stated that the
last days could "wrap up by the year 2000." (Abanes p.311)
* Members of the Stella Maris Gnostic Church, a Colombian doomsday
cult, went into Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains over the weekend of
July 3-4, 1999, weekend to be picked up by a UFO that would save them
from the end of the world, which is to take place at the turn of the
millennium. The cult members have disappeared. Perhaps they were
picked up by aliens! (Source: BBC News).
* A radical apocalyptic sect emerged in early 18th century France:
the Convulsionaries. One of the members, Jacques-Joseph Duguet,
anticipated the Parousia in 2000. (Kyle p.192)
* Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), President of Yale University,
foresaw the Millennium starting by 2000. (Kyle p.81)
* Martin Luther looked at 2000 as a possible end-time date, before
finally settling on 1600. (Kyle p.192)
* Sukyo Mahikari, a Japanese cult, preaches that the world might
be destroyed in a "baptism of fire" by 2000. (Source: ABC News)
* A Vietnamese cult headed by Ca Van Lieng predicted an
apocalyptic flood for 2000. But doomsday came much earlier for the
cult members: he and his followers committed mass suicide in October
1993. (Source: Cult Observer archives)
* Before the end of 1999, Hon-Ming Chen of the 30-member cult Chen
Tao began backpedalling on his prediction of a nuclear holocaust and
UFO rescue by December 31. Now Doomsday has been rescheduled to
sometime "in the next year," according to cult spokesman Richard Liu.
(St. Cloud Times, Dec. 26, 1999)
* Sometime in 2000 ("either a few days or a few months away,"
according to this Sep. 12, 2000 CNN article) the End of Days will take
place, say members of a Mormon-based cult near the Utah-Arizona
border. Hundreds of memmbers of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints have pulled their kids out of school' in
preparation for the Big Day.

Jan 1, 2000 January 1, 2000. Jesus did not descend from the heavens.
President Clinton did not declare himself dictator-for-life. The
Antichrist did not rise to power. Nuclear missiles were not launched.
Aircraft did not fall out of the sky. The global economy did not
collapse. Terrorist bombs did not explode. The power did not go out.
My computer still works.

What we did have were some huge parties, spectacular fireworks
displays, a Barry Manilow concert, head-splitting hangovers, lots of
confetti to clean up, and some embarrassed survivalists who had spent
their New Years holed up in armed fortresses when they could have been
partying in Times Square.

* Y2K!! Compounding people's apocalyptic hopes and fears for 2000
was a technological problem that came to be known as Y2K. This problem
was hyped by the media, preachers, doomsayers and the authors of a
myriad Y2K preparedness books as something that promised to bring the
world to a catastrophic standstill. But thanks to the diligent efforts
of programmers, governments and companies throughout the world, the
bite of the "Y2K bug" turned out to be mostly harmless. There were a
few minor glitches here and there, but nothing serious. The
fundamentalists who claimed that Y2K is all part of God's plan or that
the Antichrist would use Y2K to seize power have been proven wrong! In
the aftermath of this ultimate disconfirmation many of them have tried
to salvage their dignity by saying "Just you wait! It's only the
beginning of the end!" To the Y2K doomsayers I smugly say, "I told you
so!" Here's an interesting article about the combination of Y2K with
mystical expectations.

In the honored tradition of the "comet pills" of 1910, many
hucksters took advantage of people's Y2K fears to reap a tidy doomsday
profit by selling survival gear. Now all those who "stocked up for
Y2K" will have to figure out what to do with all those packets of
freeze-dried food, bottles of water, gasoline generators, wood-burning
stoves and shotgun shells.

For an example of the extent that Y2K doomsday paranoia can grip
someone, take a gander at Gary North's page. In your face, Gary!!!

* The Christian apocalyptic cult House of Prayer, headed by one
Brother David, expected Christ to descend onto the Mount of Olives in
Jerusalem on this day. The Israeli government recently kicked them out
of the country in a preemptive strike against potentially violent
doomsday nutcases who may attempt to catalyze the Apocalypse through
terrorist acts such as blowing up the Dome of the Rock.
* John WorldPeace sent this post to Usenet, claiming that the
failure of Jesus to return on January 1 will lead to the people of the
world finally abandoning war and hatred as foolish pursuits and
instead embracing peace, love and tolerance. Wouldn't it be great if
he were right?
* Bobby Bible, a 60-year-old fundamentalist, believed that Jesus
would descend from Heaven at the stroke of midnight in Jerusalem and
rapture his church.
* A Philippine cult called Tunnels of Salvation taught that the
world would end on January 1. The cult's guru, Cerferino Quinte,
claimed that the world would be destroyed in an "all consuming rain of
fire" on January 1. (I guess his prediction came partially true: there
were plenty of fireworks going off around the world that night.) In
order to survive the world's destruction, the cult members built an
elaborate series of tunnels where he had stockpiled a year's worth of
supplies for 700 people. CESNUR)
* UK native Ann Willem spent the New Year in Israel, expecting to
be raptured by Jesus on New Year's Day. "It didn't happen the way it
was supposed to," she said of the failure of the Rapture to take
place. (USA Today p.5A, 1/3/00)
* Jerry Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world
on New Year's Day. According to Falwell, God "may be preparing to
confound our language, to jam our communications, scatter our efforts,
and judge us for our sin and rebellion against his lordship. We are
hearing from many sources that January 1, 2000, will be a fateful day
in the history of the world." Happy New Year! (Christianity Today,
Jan. 11, 1999)
* Timothy LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, authors of the bestselling
Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, expected the Y2K bug to
trigger global economic chaos, which the Antichrist would use to rise
to power. As the big day approached, they, like other doomsayers,
backpedalled. (Source: Washington Post)

Jan 16, 2000 Religious scholar Dr. Marion Derlette (.pdf link) claims
the world is to end on January 16, according to an article in Weekly
World News. This event is to occur after a series of natural and
manmade catastrophes starting in 1997, and will be followed by an era
of paradise on Earth. (This date is shown as January 6, 2000 in
Richard Abanes' book End-Time Visions.) (Abanes p.43)

Feb 11, 2000 On his broadcast on the morning of Feburary 7, 2000,
televangelist Kenneth Copeland claimed that a group of scientists and
scholars (he gave no specifics) studied the Bible in great detail and
determined that Feb 11 would be the last day of the 6000th year since
Creation, a date when the Apocalypse would presumably happen. Copeland
did not imply he believed this to be accurate, though, but he went on
to say that the Rapture will come soon.

Feb 29, 2000 This day was the Gary North types' last best hope for the
collapse of civilization due to the millennium bug. February 29
happens to be the exception to the exception to the 4-year leap year
rule, which some programmers may have neglected to incorporate into
their date algorithms, and some believe computers may crash on this
day. I wasn't worried...computers crash every day.

Mar 2000 The Rapture is to take place in March 2000, 3 1/2 years after
Christ's Second Coming, according to Marvin Byers. (Oropeza p.29)

Apr 4, 2000 The Rapture will occur by this date, said Ola Ilori, whose
homepage went bye-bye soon after the date passed by. She went on to
say that, immediately following the Rapture, would be an "earth shift"
which would crack the earth's crust "like an egg shell."

Apr 5, 2000 Doomsday, according to Michael Rood, who claimed that this
day would start out with "bloodshed, plagues, and all manner of
pestilence." Michael had said the same about Septermber 11, 1999.
That's two failed doomsdays for Michael. Any bets he'll come up with a
third?

Apr 6, 2000 The Second Coming of Christ according to James Harmston of
the Mormon sect True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of
The Last Days . (McIver #2496)

Apr 2000 The Whites, a family of ascetic doomsday cultists living near
Jerusalem, expected the End to take place in March or April after the
Ark of the Covenant was to reappear in a cave in the Old City in
Jerusalem. They claimed that there was a mistake in the chronology of
the Hebrew calendar and that the year 6001 will begin this Spring. In
reality, Sep. 11, 1999 to Sep. 30, 2000 is the Hebrew year 5760.
(Source: here)

May 5, 2000 According to archaeologist Richard W. Noone (beware: this
site has pop-up ads) in his book 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate
Disaster, a buildup of excess ice in Antarctica (strange -- I thought
global warming making it melt...) is causing the earth to become
precariously unbalanced, which is a ridiculous idea to anyone with the
slightest understanding of earth science. All that's needed to upset
this supposed imbalance and cause the obligatory pole shift -- which
would cause billions of tons of ice to go cascading across the
continents -- is the planetary alignment that took place on this date!
For the lowdown on planetary alignments, please visit this site. Not
that it matters. The big day has come and gone.
* The Nuwaubians (also known as the Holy Tabernacle Ministries or
Ancient Mystical Order of Melchizedek) claimed that the planetary
lineup would cause a "star holocaust," pulling the planets toward the
sun. (Alnor p.121)

May 9, 2000 Toshio Hiji, having analyzed the quatrains of Nostradamus,
announced that the Giant Deluge of Noah would inundate the Earth on
May 9, 2000, and "all humans will be perished." Prior to this, a third
of the world's population was to be destroyed during an alien attack
on October 3, 1999. Whoops!

May 17, 2000 "Dr." Rebecca S. Harrison claimed that Jesus would
reappear on "EArth" (her capitalization) on May 17, to be followed by
Mighty Battle in June 2003.
* Lakhota prophetess White Buffalo Calf Woman predicted that Jesus
would return in a UFO on this day.

Jun 2000 A Ugandan cult calling itself the World Message Last Warning
Church claims the End will come in June. Previously they had claimed
the world would end in 1999. (Source: ABC News)

Jun 1, 2000 Jim Bramlett shows on his website how he came to this date
as a possible day for the Rapture.

Jun 10, 2000 Marilyn Agee's Rapture prediction #9.

Jul 5, 2000 XXX-day, brought to you by our all-time favorite spiritual
organization, the Church of the SubGenius. "THIS time there WILL be
saucers"!

Aug 20, 2000 Ephraim claimed the 7-month Battle of Armageddon would
begin on this day. His prediction for the Rapture (March 20-22, 2000)
also failed.
* Marilyn Agee's Rapture prediction #10. After yet another
spectacular failure, she's reinterpreting scriptures and grasping at
new straws. There's no stopping a truly determined doomsayer!

Sep 2000 erry Grenough foresaw the end of the present age, and
perhaps the Rapture, in September of 2000, using various passages from
the Bible to divine this date. His prediction, of course, has been
removed from his website, but it remains listed at the Doomsday List

Sep 17, 2000 Many pyramidologists, basing their calculations on
measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza, claim that the Second
Coming will occur on this date. (Abanes p.71)
* Moira Timms, author of Beyond Prophecies and Predictions, claims
that the Great Pyramid's supposed 6000-year "prophetic timeline," and
thus the world, will end on this day. In case this fails, she posits
the Mayan calendar date of December 23, 2012, as a backup doomsday.
(Skeptical Inquirer, Sep/Oct 2000, p. 23)

Sep 19, 2000 Somewhere between September 16 and 19, Phil Stone expects
something he had dubbed the "Coastlands Disaster" to occur. He has,
surprise surprise, derived his chronology from, you guessed it, the
Bible.

Sep 21, 2000 On his web page, which is now apparently defunct, Dan
Millar boldly proclaimed that this date "is the true date for the
Second Coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ." This website
documents Dannyboy's prediction.

Sep 29, 2000 According to the Jewish-based cult Love the Jew, whose
website has disappeared without a trace, claimed the world would end
on Rosh Hashanah, 2000. According to the cult, "America will be
destroyed in one hour after the Rapture by an all out nuclear attack
by Russia. Russia may also decide to destroy other countries as well
at this time (South America, Mexico, Canada, notably the entire
Western hemisphere will be a wasteland)." A reference to the cult is
available at The Doomsday List.

Oct 2000 Elizabeth Joyce predicted nuclear war in October 2000 as a
result of conflict in the Middle East. She has a litany of other
failed prophecies, including one of the sun splitting in two. (Source:
Doomsday has been cancelled!)

Oct 9, 2000 Christian prophet Grant R. Jeffrey suggested this date as
the "probable termination point for the 'last days.'" (Abanes p.341,
McIver #2608)

Oct 14, 2000 According to the House of Yahweh, the seven-year
Tribulation began on September 13, 1993, when Yitzhak Rabin shook
hands with Yasser Arafat at the White House. This means the end of the
world is due on October 14, 2000. (Source: religioustolerance.org

Nov 17, 2000 The famous handshake between Arafat and Rabin on Sep 13,
1993 started the seven-year peace process, claims David Zavitz, and
Armageddon will take place seven years later. David shows on this page
why he thinks the Last Day will be on November 17, 2000.

Dec 31, 2000 Joseph Kibweteere's doomsday prediction #2. On March 17,
2000, over 600 members of a Ugandan cult calling itself the Movement
for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God sealed themselves
into a church and were burned to death. It remains to be seen wither
it was a mass suicide, or a murder by their leader. Cult leader Joseph
Kibweteere, who had previously claimed that the world would end on
December 31, 1999, re-set his doomsday prediction to
December 31, 2000 when his first prediction failed. Even after Y2K,
millennial madness is alive and well. (Source: CESNUR)

Jan 20, 2001 According to a guy calling himself "BANDS" (whose wacky
website is unfortunately defunct now), the Bible says that the US
would be totally destroyed before the end of Clinton's term (January
20, 2001). He used numerous Bible verses to "prove" his thesis.
However, now that George W. Bush was selected "president", it wouldn't
surprise me one bit if he inflicts a lot of damage on the poor ol'
USA!

Mar 2001 Dale Sumberèru claimed in his book The Greatest Deception: An
Impending Alien Invasion claimed that March 22, 1997 was the beginning
of the Tribulation, and the Second Coming will take place between July
2000 and March 2001. (McIver #3239)

Apr 16, 2001 Bill Singleton claimed that the Rapture would take place
during Easter weekend, 2001.

May 5, 2001 Gabriel of Sedona, guru of the New Age doomsday cult
Aquarian Concepts Community, located in Sedona, Arizona, foresees the
destruction of humanity between May 5, 2000 and May 5, 2001. Only
people faithful to the cult will be saved from this destruction by
UFOs. (Source: this website and this website).

May 28, 2001 The indefatigable Marilyn Agee, whose Rapture predictions
have failed time and time again, pinpointed the exact date of the
beginning of the Tribulation. She insisted that the Rapture will
happen some time before May 28, 2001.

Jul 2001 Jamaican cult leader Brother Solomon and his Seventh-Day
Adventist followers have staked out some space on the Mount of Olives
in anticipation of witnessing the Second Coming, which he is convinced
will occur sometime between mid-April 2000 and July 2001.

Sep 11, 2001 One of the most tragic and significant days in US
history. The World Trade Center was destroyed and the Pentagon
attacked by madmen, causing thousands of deaths, billions of dollars
in damage, untold suffering, and possibly plunging the world into war.
If there's any day that the doomsayers should have foreseen, it's this
day. However, NOBODY was able to predict this event or pinpoint this
day.
Some gullible people insist that Nostradamus predicted the event, but
these claims have been debunked.

Sep 18, 2001 Yet another Rosh Hashanah Rapture, this time predicted by
grand champion doomsday date setter Charles Taylor. (Oropeza p.57)

Nov 3, 2001 Perennial doomstress Marilyn Agee has pointed to this as a
day that may be the Pre-Trib Rapture, near the bottom of this page.

Dec 8, 2001 The author of the Ninth Wave site is convinced that the
Church would be raptured on this dat, and millions would disappear
mysteriously. People would explain away the disappearance as alien
abductions.

Dec 19, 2001 Marilyn Agee comes up with yet another end-time date on
this page (scroll down until you see the numerical calculations). The
Tribulation is supposed to start on this day.

2001 Pyramidologist Georges Barbarin, subscribing to the concept of
the Great Week, predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in
2001. (Mann p.118)
* According to the Unarius Academy of Science, "space brothers"
were to land their UFOs near El Cajon, California, ushering in a new
age. In January, 2002 I emailed them to inquire about the landing.
Their explanation: "The Space Brothers have not landed because we, the
people of Earth, are not ready to accept advanced peoples from another
planet." (Heard p.26-27)
* Earth changes maven Gordon-Michael Scallion predicted major
earth changes taking place between 1998 and 2001, culminating in a
pole shift. (Heard p.26-27)
* Nation of Islam numerologist Tynetta Muhammad figured that 2001
would be the year of the End. (Weber p.213)
* On this page, a man calling himself The Last Adam says, "The
hour is coming this year, 2001. This earth will be destroyed these
year, by God. This is an election between the good and evil."

Apr 14, 2002 This is another of those sites that has to be seen to be
believed. Mike Keller claims that the "doomsgate" will open a half
second before midnight (Israel time) on this day, followed immediately
by the return of Jesus, as well as a nuclear war within 45 days. I
wouldn't worry, though...Mike also predicted that Americans would
begin living under martial law in mid-1999, due to Y2K-engendered
chaos.

May 19, 2002 A man named Barry Muraff emailed me on May 2 and told me
that "...the probability is extremely high that Christ is returning on
Pentecost...on May 19th, 2002. No, I am not joking...." Well, if Jesus
returned, it certainly didn't make the headlines.

2002 The end of the world, according to Church Universal and
Triumphant leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet, following a 12-year period
of devastation and nuclear war. (Kyle p.156)
* Charles R. Weagle's now-defunct website warning2002ad.com
predicted a "nuclear judgement" on the world's industrialized nations
in 2002. A reference to his prophecy can be found here.
* I got this one in an anonymous email sent to me, so I have no
corroborating evidence to back it up. Anyway, the email claims that
there is a documentary entitled Welcome to Armageddon that features an
interview with Jacob Hawkins of the cult House of Yahweh (all members
of their cult are required to change their surnames to Hawkins!).
During the interview, Jacob claims that the world will end in a
nuclear war in the middle of 2002. He supports his claim using the
following logic: "It will happen...there is no possible way it can't
happen!"

Jul 19, 2002 Marilyn Agee has not yet tired of setting dates for the
Rapture. Now the Rapture is scheduled to take place on July 19.
Yawn....

Apr 22, 2003 Theprophet foresees the Rapture occurring between October
10, 1999 and April 22, 2003, more likely closer to the later date than
the earlier date.

May 5, 2003 A UFO will pick up true believers on this date, according
to the Nuwaubians, a Georgia cult headed by Dr. Malachi Z. York, who
claims to be the incarnation of God and a native of the planet Rizq.
(Time Magazine, July 12, 1999)

May 13, 2003 Nancy Lieder of ZetaTalk believes that the "end time"
will take place on this day with the approach of a giant planet known
as the "12th Planet". This planet supposedly orbits the sun once every
3600 years. The planet will cause...you guessed it! A pole shift!! Ms.
Lieder gives some information about this on her Troubled Times site.

May 15, 2003 A Japanese cult called Pana Wave, whose members dress in
white, claimed that a mysterious 10th Planet would pass by Earth,
causing its axis to tip and engendering devastating earthquakes.
(Source: WWRN)

Nov 29, 2003 The human race all but wiped out by nuclear war between
Oct 30 and Nov 29, 2003, according to Aum Shinrikyo. (Alnor p.98)

2003 The end of the Kali Yuga and the arrival of Krishna as the Kalki
Avatar according to Sree Veera Brahmendra Swami. (Both my sources have
disappeared from the Net - you'll just have to take my word for it.)
* A number of Internet prophets are predicting that a giant planet
called Planet X or the "Twelfth Planet" will pass by Earth in 2003 and
cause anything from pole shifts to altered orbits or what have you. In
any event, the results are supposed to be catastrophic and
apocalyptic, yadda yadda yadda....

2004 Major world events beginning in August 1999 will lead to full-
scale war in the year 2000, followed by a rebirth from the ashes in
2004, according to Taoist prophet Ping Wu.

Apr 24, 2005 Ted Porter claims that the Second Advent will take place
April 23 or 24, 2005. He also said that the Rapture would occur at
6:13 pm (Jerusalem time) on April 23, 2002! Most prophets set their
predictions a long time in the future in an attempt to cover their
asses, but this guy made this prediction barely 2 weeks before the
Rapture was supposed to happen!

Oct 4, 2005 The end of the world, according to John Zachary in his
1994 book Mysterious Numbers of the Sealed Revelation. The Tribulation
was to begin on August 28, 1998. (McIver #3477)

http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

And when your prediction joins the list, we'll ridicule you just as we
ridiculed them.