According to members of the eBible Fellowship, a Pennsylvania-based online religious sect, the world was supposed to end on October 7, 2015 (that was Wednesday). This prediction was tied in part to last month’s super blood moon, which, they said, started a chain of events that would culminate in the apocalypse.
Here are six examples of supposed ends of the world, all of which were forecasted to occur sometime over last 10 years, most of them, of course, originating from the USA.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
Yisrayl Hawkins, leader of the Texas-based religious sect The House of Yahweh, told his followers to prepare for the end of the world on September 12, 2006. Nuclear war would wipe out the majority of humanity, he said, but the members of his church would survive. This info was all explained in his newsletter (archived titles include “If You Don't Believe Me Now, You Will Believe Me Soon!…” and “Amazing Prophecies Showing The Exact Date When Nuclear War Will Start And Where”).
APRIL 29, 2007
In his conspiracy-laden 1990 book The New Millennium, university CEO/TV mogul/ Southern Baptist minister Pat Robertson insisted that the world would come to an end on April 29, 2007. His reasoning was that this date marked 40 years after the Six-Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem, fulfilling a biblical prophesy.
MAY 21, 2011 AND OCTOBER 21, 2011
Using biblical mathematics of his own invention, evangelical radio host Harold Camping calculated that the rapture would occur on May 21, 2011, and the apocalypse world would follow five months later in October.
Camping heavily publicised this prophesy via his radio programme, insisting that earthquakes and other natural disasters would wreak havoc, leaving the world ravaged as true believers ascended to heaven. After getting the word out, all he had to do was wait.
4. JUNE 30, 2012
Jose De Jesus Miranda, leader of a Miami-based religious sect, said he was visited by and became Jesus Christ in 1973. (He later insisted he was also the Apostle Paul and both Jesus and the Anti-Christ, all at once.) Miranda had a multi-national following, and in 2012 he told these believers that the end of the world would happen that June.
He erected billboards in Toronto, advertising this prediction along with the “number of wisdom,” 666, which some of his followers tattooed on their bodies. Like Camping, he preached a math that pointed to the reckoning: “The Earth’s rotation has accelerated to a speed of 66,666 mph,” “Jose Luis De Jesus (Latitude 66.6°) curiously turns 66 [in 2012],” etc.
Miranda claimed that a reversal of the Earth’s poles would cause the “tectonic plates to heat up,” which would lead to natural disasters. In addition, all the world’s economies would fail. He told his followers that at the time of this apocalyptic “transformation,” they would be able to “fly and walk through walls”.
DECEMBER 21, 2012
Sparked by vague references in ancient texts and the conclusion of the 5,126-year-long Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, December 21, 2012 became a popular date to highlight as the end of the world.
Readings of ancient Mayan texts originally made in the 1950s and ‘60s by astrologers and anthropologists hinted at predictions of a significant event or “Armageddon” in 2012.
As that date neared, cultural interest in the mysterious prophesies grew, helped largely by the Internet. Other upcoming events were interpreted as “signs” working in chorus with the Mayan prediction.
Towards the end OF 2015
Between October 8, 2014 and September 27, 2015, there were four consecutive total lunar eclipses. In astronomy, this is called a “tetrad,” and it is a somewhat normal occurrence — there have been five since 1949. Some people, however, claimed otherwise, and insisted the eclipses portended the second coming.
Because these red “blood moons” would occur during Jewish holidays, a few outspoken religious authors tied them to their interpretations of Bible passages (“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord”).
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