It Was The End Of The World: More End Days Oopsies



This is a follow up to my previous blog "It Is The End Of The World...Again". Below is a list of end time projections from 1980 to the present as listed on Wikepedia. As can be seen from several of these, if you don't get the day right, feel free to keep trying. 

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.	[89]
1980s	Hal Lindsey	Lindsey book The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon stated ""the decade of the 1980s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it" and that the U.S. could be "destroyed by a surprise Soviet nuclear attack.". The book strongly suggests that the 1980s would see the biblical events of tribulation and end times come to pass.	[90]
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.	[91][92]
1982, Mar 10	John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann	Stated in their book The Jupiter Effect that combined gravitational forces of lined up planets were supposed to bring the end of the world on this day.	[93]
1982, Jun 21	Benjamin Creme	Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles stating the Second Coming would occur in June 1982 with the Maitreya announcing it on worldwide television.	[94]
1982, Oct/Nov	Pat Robertson	In late 1976 Robertson predicted that the end of the world was coming in October or November 1982.	[95]
1984, Oct 2	Jehovah's Witnesses	Another prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses.	[96]
1985	Lester Sumrall	This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985.	[97]
1987–1988	Noah Hutchings,	The president of the Southwest Radio Church suggested that the Rapture would take place "possibly in 1987 or 1988."	[98]
1987, Apr 29	Leland Jensen	Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on April 29, 1988, causing widespread destruction.	[99]
1987, Aug 17	José Argüelles	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.	[100]
1988	Hal Lindsey	Lindsey suggested that the Rapture would take this year, reasoning that it was 40 years (one Biblical generation) after Israel gained statehood.	[101]
1988, Sep/Oct	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 11 and 13 September 1988. After his September predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to October 3.	[62][102]
1989, Sep 30	Edgar C. Whisenant	After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day.	[62]
1990, Apr 23	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 and she was diagnosed with epilepsy andAlzheimer's disease.	[103][104]
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."	[105]
1992, Sep 28	Rollen Stewart	This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day.	[106]
1992, Oct 28	Lee Jang Rim	Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission in Seoul, predicted the Rapture on this day. South Korean officials took elaborate precautions against a mass suicide, posting 1,500 riot officers to monitor about a thousand followers who had gathered in the group's headquarters to await the Rapture. Their efforts were successful, although four group members had committed suicide in previous days.	[107]
1993	David Berg	Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993.	[108]
1994, May 2	Neal Chase	This Bahá'í sect leader 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.	[109]
1994, Sep/Oct	Harold Camping	Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on September 6, 1994. When it failed to occur he revised the date to September 29 and then to October 2.	[110][111]
1995, Mar 31	Harold Camping	Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011.	[111]
1996, Dec 17	Sheldon Nidle	California psychic Sheldon Nidle predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels.	[112]
1997, Mar 26	Marshall Applewhite	Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing theComet 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.	[113]
1997, Oct 23	James Ussher	This 17th-century Irish Archbishop predicted this date to be 6000 years since Creation, and therefore the end of the world.	[114]
1998, Mar 31	Hon-Ming Chen	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."	[115]
1999	Seventh-day Adventists	Some literature distributed by Seventh Day Adventists predicted the end in this year.	[116]
	Charles Berlitz	This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would occur, stating it may involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other earth changes.	[117]
1999, Jul	Nostradamus	A prediction attributed to Nostradamus stating the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" led to fears of the end.	[118]
1999, Aug 18	The Amazing Criswell	The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for false predictions.	[119]
1999, Dec 31	Hon-Ming Chen	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.	[120]
'Before' 2000	Hal Lindsey	After his 1980's predictions failed to come true, Lindsay published the book Planet Earth 2000 A.D. in 1994, which stated that Christians should not plan to still be on earth by the year 2000.	[121]
	James Gordon Lindsay	This preacher predicted the tribulation would begin before the year 2000.	[122]
	Texe Marrs	This conspiracy theorist stated that the last days could "wrap up by the year 2000."	[123]
	Timothy Dwight IV	This President of Yale University foresaw the Millennium starting by 2000.	[124]
	Jehovah's Witnesses	In 1971, and again in 1984, the Jehovah's Witnesses stated the end would be before the end of the 20th century.	[125][126]
2000 - c.	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.	[127]
	Helena Blavatsky	The founder of Theosophy foresaw the end of the world in this year.	[128]
	Isaac Newton	Newton predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his bookObservations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John.	[129]
	Ruth Montgomery	This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.	[130]
	Edgar Cayce	This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.	[131]
	Sun Myung Moon	The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year.	[132]
	Ed Dobson	This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.	[133]
	Lester Sumrall	This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000.	[134]
	Jonathan Edwards	This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year.	[135]
2000, Jan 1	Various	Predictions of a Y2K computer bug were to crash many computers and would malfunction causing major catastrophes worldwide and that society would cease to function.	Year 2000 problem
	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 suicideor an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.	[136]
	Jerry Falwell	Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on this day.	[137]
	Tim LaHaye,Jerry B. Jenkins	These Christian authors stated 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.	[138]
2000, April 6	James Harmston	The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Dayspredicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.	[139]
2000, May 5	Nuwaubian Nation	This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust," pulling the planets toward the sun on this day.	[140]
2000, Oct 9	Grant Jeffrey	This bible teacher suggested this date as the "probable termination point for the 'last days.'"	[141]
2001	Tynetta Muhammad	This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year.	[142]
2003, May	Nancy Lieder	Lieder originally predicted the date for the Nibiru collision as 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.	[143]
2003, Nov 29	Aum Shinrikyo	This Japanese cult predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between October 30 and November 29, 2003.	[144]
2006, Sep 12	House of Yahweh	Yisrayl Hawkins, Pastor and Overseer, The House of Yahwah, Abilene, Texas in the Feb. 2006 newsletter predicted the start of nuclear war on September 12, 2006.	[145]
2007, Apr 29	Pat Robertson	In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction.	[146]
2008, Sep 10 – c.	Various	A number of groups claimed that activation of the Large Hadron Collider experiment would bring about the end of the world through the production of planet-eating micro black holes or strangelets. Similar claims were made about 2010, March 30, when the collider reached maximum energy. See safety of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.	[147]
2010	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn	This magic order predicted the world would end in this year.	[148]
2011, May 21	Harold Camping	Camping predicted that the Rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on May 21, 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.	2011 end times prediction
2011, Aug–Oct	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.	[149]
2011, Sep 29	Ronald Weinland	Ronald Weinland stated Jesus Christ would return on this day. He prophesied nuclear explosions in U.S. port cities by July of 2008 as the blowing of the Second Trumpet of Revelation. After his prophecy failed to come true he changed the date for the return of Jesus Christ to May 27, 2012.	[150] [151] [152]
2011, Oct 21	Harold Camping	When his original date 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 October 21, 2011.	2011 end times prediction
2012, May 27	Ronald Weinland	Ronald Weinland stated Jesus Christ would return and the world would end on this day.	[153]
2012, June 30	José Luis de Jesús	José Luis de Jesús 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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