2010....The end of the world?

There are many predictions given earlier but none have become true. So its no guarantee that these will be true too.

Predictions of TEOTWAWKI (The end of the world as we know it):

• 2010+ In early 2005, Roderick C. Meredith, leader of the Living Church of God wrote in his church's magazine Tomorrow's World that the end of the world is near. He said that events prophesied in the Bible are "beginning to occur with increasing frequency....We are not talking about decades in the future. We are talking about Bible prophesies that will intensify within the next five to 15 years of your life." This prophecy, or a local sermon based on it, may have been partly responsible for triggering a mass murder in Brookfield WI on 2005-MAR-12. Church member Terry Ratzmann, who was experiencing serious depression and facing unemployment, shot 11 people, killing 7, and then killed himself at a church service. ₁
• 2011-SEP-29: Harold Camping, president of Family Radio is reported as predicting that the end of the world will occur sometime during the eight day Feast of Trumpets in 2011. This is an eight day festival each fall in the 5th day of Ethanim, the seventh month. He has completed a book "Time Has an End: A biblical History of the World 11,013 BC – 2011 AD," Vantage Press, (2005). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store.
• 2011: Ric Steiner sent us an Email suggesting that the date of the end is embedded in Luke 21:11. Not in the text, but in the chapter and verse designation. "21" refers to the 21st century; "11" refers to the 11th year. The problem with this prophecy is that the chapter designations in the Bible were only created in the 13th century CE; the verses in the Christian Scriptures (a.k.a. New Testament) were only assigned in the 16th century CE. ₉
• 2011-NOV-11: We received an Email from "A.H." who believes that the end of the world will happen on 11/11/11. His reasoning is that "...this is the only date until the next millennium that has the same number "1" in the date." Actually, it is the only date until 3011 which is made up of the repetition of pairs of the same digit. We are skeptical. Recall that the Gregorian Calendar is based on the year 1 CE having being arbitrarily chosen. It occurred four to seven years after Jesus birthday, when nothing much of world impact was happening. With an arbitrary beginning, it doesn't make a lot of sense to assume that the end of the world would happen at some magical combination of numbers in the Gregorian date, like the first day of the year 2000, or 11.11.11.
• 2012: This year seems to be a major focal point for many prophecies. We discuss them in a separate essay.

• 2012-2019: Damon_051572, who describes himself as "the physical and spiritual Jew," distributed an Email widely on 2006-AUG-19. It it titled: "Message from God: Some events of the end of the world." He of the events that he predicts will happen sometime before 2019 are:
  • The Two Witnesses mentioned in Revelation will issue prophecies and send plagues.
  • 144,000 Jewish virgins convert many to Christianity.
  • People will be required to receive a mark on their hand or forehead. Any that accept the mark "will be cast into the lake of fire forever to experience unimaginable suffering forever."
  • Satan and his angels attack God's kingdom.
  • Nuclear war begins.....
• 2014:
  • According to Sun magazine for 1999-DEC-21, Pope Leo IX (1513-1522) wrote on 1514: "I will not see the end of the world, nor will you my brethren, for its time is long in the future, 500 years hence."
  • Isaiah Robertson predicts that Jesus' second coming will happen in Niagara Falls. He said: "Niagara Falls is a holy place, like Jerusalem. The sound of the water going over the falls is the voice of God." He expects that the water at the base of the falls will turn into a "lake of fire." He said that a cross in his home came "straight from God. It’s not man’s work. This cross is telling you that the coming of the Lord is at hand. If you walk away from this cross and don’t accept Christ, then you’re lost forever." ₂
• 2016: An article in Weekly World News describes a find by a Professor Lloyd Cunningdale of Salt Lake City who was excavating with his students at the site of the famous Donner party disaster of 1847. The latter were a group of settlers bound for California who became trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Cunningdale and students have found a time capsule left by the settlers which contains many predictions for the future. They predict that nations will abandon traditional methods of conflict and resort to the use of biological warfare. In 2016, one such disease will spread and kill all of the humans on the planet. ₃
• 2017:
  • The "Sword of God Brotherhood" believes that Armageddon will occur in 2017. The Prophet Gabriel has told them this. Only their own members will survive to repopulate the world. All of the others (including you and me) will "perish in hellfire." ₄
  • Daniel's Timeline bases their calculation onthe concept of Jubilee years which occur every 50 years. The most recent three Jubilees were:
    • 1867 when the Jews were emancipated in Austria and Hungary.
    • 1917 when the Ottomon rule ended and the Balfour Declaration was created.
    • 1967 when the Six Day War occurred.

    They predict that the next and final Jubilee year will be 2017 "the time of the restitution of all things."