Did you know that polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime, with percentages ranging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey?

According to the Holy Scripture of Matthew 24:26, Jesus warned: "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." However, despite Jesus affirmation of the hidden knowledge of the exact date the end time will occur, countless religious bodies and individuals have continued to make predictions on the end of the world. And as expected, all those predictions have failed. Yet, many will still continue to make predictions about the end of the world, even into the future.

But why so much deaperation about the end of the world? Why won't those who make these predictions simply live their lives and leave God to decide the world's end? Probably it's because they are afraid of dying and so, why being alive, the world should stop to exist at their time so that the new world (Heaven) would come. But isn't that selfish? Why do they want to deny other generations that would come after them to live on Earth when they are gone?

As I read through these predictions, I couldn't help laughing anyway. Some of them are quite funny but not to those who made and believed them. The failure of all of these predictions should be an eye opener that no one indeed knows the exact date of the world's end. But as the saying goes, the world is never short on idiots. And as you read through them, the next time you hear of another prediction, just know it is nothing but a FRAUD!

20TH CENTURY PREDICTIONS

➡️ 1901 Catholic Apostolic Church 
This church, founded in 1831, claimed that Jesus would return by the time the last of its 12 founding members died. The last member died in 1901.

➡️ 1910 Camille Flammarion
Flammarion predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet "would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet", but not the planet itself. "Comet pills" were sold to protect against toxic gases.

➡️ 1892–1911 Charles Piazzi Smyth
This pyramidologist concluded from his research on the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would occur somewhere between 1892 and 1911.

➡️ 1914 Charles Taze Russell 
Russell, who founded the Bible Student movement, said "...the battle of the great day of God Almighty... The date of the close of that 'battle' is definitely marked in Scripture as October 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning dating from October, 1874."

➡️ 1915 John Chilembwe 
This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in the British protectorate of Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year (1915).

➡️ 1918 International Bible Students Association 
"Christendom shall be cut off and glorification of the Little Flock (The Church) in the Spring of 1918 A. D."

➡️ 1920 International Bible Students Association
In 1918, Christendom would go down as a system to oblivion and be succeeded by revolutionary governments. God would "destroy the churches wholesale and the church members by the millions." Church members would "perish by the sword of war, revolution and anarchy." The dead would lie unburied. In 1920 all earthly governments would disappear, with worldwide anarchy prevailing.

➡️ 13 Feb 1925 Margaret Rowen 
According to this Seventh-Day Adventist, the angel Gabriel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this date.

➡️ 1926 Spencer Perceval 
This British MP, who was one of the 12 apostles of the Catholic Apostolic Church, believed that the world was growing nearer to the Apocalypse due to what he viewed as the rampant immorality of the times in Europe.

➡️ 1934 Walter Marks 
Marks, an Australian MP, told the House of Representatives that Armageddon would occur in 1934 and culminate with the Royal Navy bringing Christ's chosen people to Jerusalem.

➡️ Sep 1935 Wilbur Glenn Voliva 
This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear" in September 1935.

➡️ 1936 Herbert W. Armstrong 
The 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 be saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times.

➡️ 1941 Jehovah's Witnesses
A prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group which branched from the Bible Student movement.

➡️ 1943 Herbert W. Armstrong 
The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true.

➡️ 1947 John Ballou Newbrough 
The author of Oahspe: A New Bible predicted the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year.

➡️ 21 Dec 1954 Dorothy Martin
The world was to be destroyed by terrible flooding on this date, claimed this leader of a UFO cult called Brotherhood of the Seven Rays. The fallout of the group after the prediction failed was the basis for the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails.

➡️ 22 Apr 1959 Florence Houteff
The leader of the Branch Davidians predicted the apocalypse foretold in the Book of Revelation would proceed on this date. The failure of the prophecy led to the split of the sect into several subsects, the most prominent led by Benjamin and Lois Roden..

➡️ 1951–1960 Johann Gottfried Bischoff 
On December 25, 1951, Bischoff stated the Second Coming would occur before he died. He died on July 6, 1960.

➡️ 4 Feb 1962 Jeane Dixon, various Indian astrologers
Dixon predicted a planetary alignment on this day was to bring destruction to the world. Mass prayer meetings were held in India.

➡️ 20 Aug 1967 George Van Tassel 
This day would mark the beginning of the third woe of the Apocalypse, during which the southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet nuclear attack, according to this UFO prophet, who claimed to have channeled an alien named Ashtar.

➡️ 1967 Jim Jones
The founder of the People's Temple stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967.

➡️ 9 Aug 1969 George Williams 
The founder of the Church of the Firstborn predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.

➡️ 1969 Charles Manson
Manson predicted that Helter skelter, an apocalyptic race war, would occur in 1969.

➡️ 1972 Herbert W. Armstrong 
The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true.

➡️ Jan 1974 David Berg
Berg, the leader of Children of God, predicted that there would be a colossal doomsday event heralded by Comet Kohoutek.

➡️ 1975 Herbert W. Armstrong
Armstrong's fourth and final prediction.

➡️ 1975 Jehovah's Witnesses
From 1966 on, Jehovah's Witnesses published articles which stated that the fall of 1975 would be 6000 years since man's creation, and suggested that Armageddon could be finished by then.

➡️ 1976 Brahma Kumaris 
The Brahma Kumaris founder, Lekhraj Kirpalani, has made a number of predictions of a global Armageddon which the religion believes it will inspire, internally calling it "Destruction". During Destruction, Brahma Kumari leaders teach the world will be purified, all of the rest of humanity killed by nuclear or civil wars and natural disasters which will include the sinking of all other continents except India.

➡️ 1977 John Wroe 
The founder of the Christian Israelite Church predicted this year for Armageddon to occur.

➡️ 1977 William M. Branham
This Christian minister predicted the rapture would occur no later than 1977.

➡️ 17 Feb 1979 Roch Thériault 
Thériault, who called himself Moïse (Moses), led a commune in the wilderness of eastern Quebec in the late seventies. Formerly a Seventh-Day Adventist, he told his group they would form the center of a new society during God's 1000-year reign following Armageddon.

➡️ 1980 Leland Jensen
In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in God's Kingdom being established on Earth.

➡️ 1981 Chuck Smith 
The founder of Calvary Chapel predicted the generation of 1948 would be the last generation and that the world would end by 1981 at the latest. Smith identified that he "could be wrong" but continued to say in the same sentence that his prediction was "a deep conviction in my heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that belief."

➡️ 10 Mar 1982 John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann
Gribbin, an astrophysicist, co-authored the 1974 book The Jupiter Effect which predicted that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault.

➡️ 21 Jun 1982 Benjamin Creme
Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times stating that the Second Coming would occur in June 1982 with the Maitreya announcing it on worldwide television.

➡️ 1982 Pat Robertson
In late 1976 on his 700 Club TV programme, Robertson predicted that the end of the world would come in this year.

➡️ 1985 Lester Sumrall
This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985.

➡️ 29 Apr 1986 Leland Jensen 
Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on this day, causing widespread destruction.

➡️ 17 Aug 1987 José Argüelles
Argüelles claimed that Armageddon would take place unless 144,000 people gathered in certain places across the world in order to "resonate in harmony" on this day.

➡️ 3 Oct 1988 Edgar C. Whisenant
Whisenant predicted in his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988 that the rapture of the Christian Church would occur between September 11 and 13, 1988. After his September predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to October 3.

➡️ 30 Sep 1989 Edgar C. Whisenant
After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day.

➡️ 23 Apr 1990 Elizabeth Clare Prophet 
Prophet predicted a nuclear war would start on this day, with the world ending 12 years later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with supplies and weapons. Later, after Prophet's prediction did not come to pass, she was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.

➡️ 9 Sep 1991 Menachem Mendel Schneerson 
This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the Jewish New Year.

➡️ 1991 Louis Farrakhan 
The leader of the Nation of Islam declared that the Gulf War would be the "War of Armageddon which is the final war."

➡️ 28 Sep 1992 Rollen Stewart 
This born-again Christian predicted the rapture would take place on this day.

➡️ 28 Oct 1992 Lee Jang Rim
Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission church, predicted the rapture would occur on this day.

➡️ 1993 David Berg
Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993.

➡️ 2 May 1994 Neal Chase
This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that New York City would be destroyed by a nuclear bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days later.

➡️ 2 Oct 1994 Harold Camping
Camping predicted the rapture would occur on 6 September 1994. When it failed to occur he revised the date to the 29th of September and then to the 2nd October.

➡️ 31 Mar 1995 Harold Camping 
Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011.

➡️ 26 Mar 1997 Marshall Applewhite
Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide was "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so that the cult members' souls could board the supposed craft and be taken to another "level of existence above human". Applewhite and 38 of his followers committed mass suicide.

➡️ 10 Aug 1997 Aggai
The 1st-century bishop of Edessa predicted this date to be the birth date of the Antichrist and the end of the universe.

➡️ 23 Oct 1997 James Ussher
This 17th-century Irish archbishop predicted this date to be 6000 years since creation, and therefore the end of the world.

➡️ 31 Mar 1998 Hon-Ming Chen
Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult Chen Tao – "The True Way" – claimed that God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date.

➡️ Jul 1999 Nostradamus 
A quatrain by Nostradamus which stated the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" was frequently interpreted as a prediction of doomsday in July 1999.

➡️ 18 Aug 1999 The Amazing Criswell 
The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for predictions.

➡️ 11 Sep 1999 Philip Berg
Berg, dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre, stated that on this date "a ball of fire will descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all vegetation, all forms of life."

➡️ 1999 Charles Berlitz
This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would occur, stating that it might involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other Earth changes.

➡️ 1999 Hon-Ming Chen
The leader of the cult Chen Tao preached that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe and Asia in 1999.

➡️ 1999 James Gordon Lindsay
This preacher predicted the great tribulation would begin before 2000.

➡️ 1999 Timothy Dwight IV 
This 19th century president of Yale University predicted Christ's Millennium would start by 2000.

➡️ 1999 Nazim Al-Haqqani 
This Sufi Muslim sheikh predicted that the Last Judgment would occur before 2000.

➡️ 1 Jan 2000 Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
An estimated 778 followers of this Ugandan religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.

➡️ 2000 Jerry Falwell 
Falwell predicted God making judgement on the world on this day.

➡️ 2000 Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
These Christian authors stated that the Y2K bug would trigger global economic chaos, which the Antichrist would use to rise to power. As the date approached, however, they changed their minds.

➡️ 2000 Various
During and before 1999 there was widespread predictions of a Y2K computer bug that would crash many computers on midnight of January 1, 2000 and cause malfunctions leading to major catastrophes worldwide, and that society would cease to function.

➡️ 6 Apr 2000 James Harmston
The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.

➡️ 5 May 2000 Nuwaubian Nation 
This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust", pulling the planets toward the Sun on this day.

➡️ 2000 Peter Olivi
This 13th-century theologian wrote that the Antichrist would come to power between 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgement would take place around 2000.

➡️ 2000 Ruth Montgomery
This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.

➡️ 2000 Edgar Cayce 
This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.

➡️ 2000 Sun Myung Moon 
The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year.

➡️ 2000 Ed Dobson
This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.

➡️ 2000 Lester Sumrall 
This minister predicted the end in his book 'I Predict 2000.'

➡️ 2000 Jonathan Edwards
This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year.

21ST CENTURY PREDICTIONS

➡️ 2001 Tynnetta Muhammad 
This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year.

➡️ 27 May 2003 Nancy Lieder 
Lieder proposed the Nibiru cataclysm, which was predicted to occur on this day. She claimed aliens in the Zeta Reticuli star system told her a planet would enter the solar system and cause a pole shift on Earth that would destroy most of humanity.

➡️ 30 Oct–Nov 29 2003 Aum Shinrikyo
This Japanese cult, which carried out the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995, predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between 30 October and 29 November 2003.

➡️ 12 Sep 2006 House of Yahweh 
Yisrayl Hawkins, pastor and overseer of The House of Yahweh, predicted in his February 2006 newsletter that a nuclear war would begin on September 12, 2006.

➡️ 29 Apr 2007 Pat Robertson
In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction.

➡️ May 2008 Pyotr Kuznetsov
Followers of Kuznetsov, 31 adults and 4 children (one 18 months old), went into a cave in Russia in November 2007 thinking they would be safe from an apocalypse occurring in the spring. Kuzentsov did not join them, was later committed and attempted suicide when some had left the cave in the spring. By the time all the followers had left the cave in the spring, two adults had died.

➡️ 2010 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
This magical organization, which existed from 1887 to 1903, predicted the world would end during this year.

➡️ 21 May 2011 Harold Camping
After several unsuccessful predictions in 1994 and 1995, Camping predicted that the rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on 21 May 2011, with God taking approximately 3% of the world's population into Heaven, and that the end of the world would occur five months later on October 21.

➡️ 29 Sep 2011 Ronald Weinland
Weinland, the founder of the Church of God Preparing for the Kingdom of God, stated Jesus would return on this day. After his prophecy failed to come true he changed the date to 27 May 2012.

➡️ 21 Oct 2011 Harold Camping 
When his original prediction failed to come about, Camping revised his prediction and said that on May 21, a "Spiritual Judgment" took place and that both the physical rapture and the end of the world would occur on 21 October 2011.

➡️ Aug–Oct 2011 Various
There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenin travelling almost directly between Earth and the Sun would cause disturbances to the Earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes and tidal waves. Others predicted that Elenin would collide with Earth on October 16. Scientists tried to calm fears by stating that none of these events were possible.

➡️ 27 May 2012 Ronald Weinland
Weinland's revised date for the return of Jesus following the failure of his 2011 prediction.

➡️ 30 Jun 2012 José Luis de Jesús
This cult leader predicted that the world's governments and economies would fail on this day, and that he and his followers would undergo a transformation that would allow them to fly and walk through walls.

➡️ 21 Dec 2012 Various
The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion; or a supernova. Mayanist scholars stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecasted impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture. Scientists from NASA, along with expert archaeologists, stated that none of those events were possible.

➡️ 23 Aug 2013 Grigori Rasputin 
Rasputin, a Russian mystic who died in 1916, prophesied a storm would take place on this day where fire would destroy most life on land and Jesus would come back to Earth to comfort those in distress.

➡️ Apr 2014–Sep 2015 John Hagee, Mark Biltz 
The so-called blood moon prophecy, first predicted by Mark Biltz in 2008 and then by John Hagee in 2014. These Christian ministers claim that the tetrad in 2014 and 2015 may represent the beginning of the Messianic end times. Some Mormons in Utah combined the September 2015 blood moon with other signs, causing a large increase in sales of preppers survival supplies.

➡️ 23 Sep–15 Oct 2017 David Meade 
Conspiracy theorist David Meade predicted that Nibiru would become visible in the sky and would "soon" destroy the Earth.

➡️ 23 Apr 2018 David Meade
After his 2017 prediction failed, Meade predicted the rapture would take place and that the world would end on this date.

➡️ 9 Jun 2019 Ronald Weinland 
Weinland, who previously predicted the world would end in 2011, 2012, and then 2013, predicted in 2018 that Jesus would return on June 9, 2019. Prior to the date occurring he began to express some doubts regarding his own prediction.

➡️ 2020 Jeane Dixon
Dixon predicted that Armageddon would take place in 2020. She previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962.

Source: Wikipedia

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