The end is near? Looking back at some 20th-century predictions (add to it in comments if you have more).
The end is near?
Looking back at some 20th-century predictions:
1914: Jehovah's Witnesses say this is the doomsday year, followed by a series of later dates. In the 1990s, Jehovah's Witnesses quietly abandon a prediction that people alive in 1914 would live to see the Second Coming of Christ.
1919: Meteorologist Albert Porta predicts six planets will come together on Dec. 19, creating a cataclysmic event that would explode the Earth.
1936: Famed psychic Edgar Cayce picks this year for a disaster that will end the world as we know it.
1988: Hal Lindsey, in his best-selling book, “The Late Great Planet Earth,” predicts the Rapture will happen during this year. Former NASA engineer Edgar C. Whisenant pins it down to between Sept. 11 and Sept. 13. Unbowed, Lindsey still predicts these are the end times. Whisenant died in 2001.
1994: Radio evangelist Harold Camping tells listeners the end will come that September.
Looking back at some 20th-century predictions:
1914: Jehovah's Witnesses say this is the doomsday year, followed by a series of later dates. In the 1990s, Jehovah's Witnesses quietly abandon a prediction that people alive in 1914 would live to see the Second Coming of Christ.
1919: Meteorologist Albert Porta predicts six planets will come together on Dec. 19, creating a cataclysmic event that would explode the Earth.
1936: Famed psychic Edgar Cayce picks this year for a disaster that will end the world as we know it.
1988: Hal Lindsey, in his best-selling book, “The Late Great Planet Earth,” predicts the Rapture will happen during this year. Former NASA engineer Edgar C. Whisenant pins it down to between Sept. 11 and Sept. 13. Unbowed, Lindsey still predicts these are the end times. Whisenant died in 2001.
1994: Radio evangelist Harold Camping tells listeners the end will come that September.
Comment
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Comment by Sharon Nichols on October 10, 2008 at 10:33am -
Nate wrote: Then after I started to witness all of these failed end-times predictions and all of the vast multitudes of different eschatological viewpoints, I knew something wasn't right.
Same here. It also contributed to my move to an a-mill view. On a tape I have, one of the participants described the a-mill view as being in the "parking lot" meaning it was the place people 'parked' until they figured out where to go from there. LOL
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Comment by chris winn on October 6, 2008 at 7:01pm - don't forget John Hagee's predictions every sunday morning from his pulpit!
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Comment by Nate on October 6, 2008 at 10:54am -
I had that site bookmarked too - crazy! Tim LaHaye & Ed Hindson have a new book out on Amazon - can't remember the name of it, but one of the commenters raved about it being the next "Late Great Planet Earth". Like Hal Lindsey is someone who's theology should be respected?!?
I remember back when I was totally enthralled in end times predictions. I searched and searched and searched for validation cause I actually WANTED these things to come to pass. Isn't that sick? Then after I started to witness all of these failed end-times predictions and all of the vast multitudes of different eschatological viewpoints, I knew something wasn't right.
Praise the LORD for the simplicity of these things being fulfilled through Jesus Christ!!
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Comment by Michael Bennett on October 6, 2008 at 2:26am -
Unfulfilled_historical_predictions_by_Christians
Here is a good source - Unfulfilled religious prophecies
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Comment by Michael Bennett on October 6, 2008 at 2:20am
- So true Charles - so true.
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