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Apr–Jun 1982
Tara Centers
Full-page ads in many newspapers April 24 and 25, 1982, stated that "The Christ is Now Here!" and that he would make himself known "within the next two months".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1985
Lester Sumrall
This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985.
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29 Apr 1986
Leland Jensen
Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on this day, causing widespread destruction.
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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.
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11–13 Sep 1988
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.
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30 Sep 1989
Edgar C. Whisenant
After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day.
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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.
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9 Sep 1991
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the Jewish New Year.
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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."
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28 Sep 1992
Rollen Stewart
This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day.
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28 Oct 1992
Lee Jang Rim
Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission church, predicted the rapture would occur on this day.
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1993
David Berg
Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993.
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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.
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6 Sep 1994
29 Sep 1994
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.
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31 Mar 1995
Harold Camping
Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011.
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17 Dec 1996
Sheldan Nidle
Californian psychic Sheldan Nidle predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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18 Aug 1999
The Amazing Criswell
The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for predictions.
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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."
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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.
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Hon-Ming Chen
The leader of the cult Chen Tao preached that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe and Asia in 1999.
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James Gordon Lindsay
This preacher predicted the great tribulation would begin before 2000.
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Timothy Dwight IV
This 19th century president of Yale University foresaw Christ's Millennium starting by 2000.
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Nazim Al-Haqqani
This Sufi Muslim sheikh predicted that the Last Judgmentwould occur before 2000.
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1 Jan 2000
Various
During and before 1999 there was widespread predictions of a Y2K computer bug that would crash many computers on midnight of December 31, 1999, and cause malfunctions leading to major catastrophes worldwide, and that society would cease to function.
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Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere
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.
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Jerry Falwell
Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on this day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ruth Montgomery
This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.
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Edgar Cayce
This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.
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Sun Myung Moon
The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year.
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Ed Dobson
This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.
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Lester Sumrall
This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000.
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Jonathan Edwards
This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year.
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2001
Tynnetta Muhammad
This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year.
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27 May 2003
Nancy Lieder
Lieder originally predicted the date for the Nibiru collisionas May 2003. According to her website, aliens in the Zeta Reticuli star system told her through messages via a brain implant of a planet which would enter our solar system and cause a pole shift on Earth that would destroy most of humanity.
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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.
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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.
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29 Apr 2007
Pat Robertson
In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction.
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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.
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2010
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
This magical organization, which existed from 1887 to 1903, predicted the world would end during this year.
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21 May 2011
Harold Camping
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.
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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.
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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.
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Aug–Oct 2011
Various
There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenintravelling 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.
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27 May 2012
Ronald Weinland
Weinland's revised date for the return of Jesus following the failure of his 2011 prediction.
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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.
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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 archeologists, stated that none of those events was possible.
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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.
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Apr 2014–Sep 2015
John Hagee, Mark Biltz
The so-called blood moon prophecy, first predicted by Mark Blitz 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.
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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.
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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.
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Future predictions[edit]
Date (CE)
Claimant(s)
Description
Ref.
9 Jun 2019
Ronald Weinland
Weinland, who previously predicted the world would end in 2011, 2012, and then 2013, predicted in 2018 that Jesus will return on June 9, 2019. He has since expressed some doubts regarding his own prediction.
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2020
Jeane Dixon
Dixon predicted that Armageddon would take place in 2020. She previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962.
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2021
F. Kenton Beshore
This American pastor bases his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus would return in 1988, i.e., within one biblical generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80 years, placing the second coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028 and the rapture by 2021 at the latest.
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2026
Messiah Foundation International
This spiritual organisation predicts that the world will end in 2026, when an asteroid collides with Earth in accordance with Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi's predictions in his book The Religion of God.
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2129
Said Nursî
According to abjad interpretation of a hadith, this Sunni Muslim theologian wrote the Risale-i Nur Collection, which expects the end in 2129.
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2239
Talmud, Orthodox Judaism
According to the Talmud in mainstream Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah will come within 6000 years of the creation of Adam, and the world may be destroyed 1000 years later. This would put the beginning of the period of desolation in 2239 CE and the end of the period of desolation in 3239 CE.
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2280
Rashad Khalifa
According to this Egyptian-American biochemist's research on the Quran, the world will end during that year.
