Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!
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.
Nov. 4?
This very same thing has been said by hundreds of thousands of people like this pastor, every year, for the past two thousand years. Every one was just as sure and could prove 'without doubt' all the signs pointed to their time.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
Of course the end is near and it is near now than it was a minute ago.
What happens to babies born after the rapture?
My bible says nothing of the rapture.
I would like to know when the end comes so that I can get back to high-cholesterol foods, lots of booze, no exercise and just hang out at the firing range.
Thanks for your list, but as you can imagine, you missed a bunch. Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Society) made several predictions in the 1960s and 1970s, David Koresh (who tried to bring it about), Mr. Applegate (and his moonmen), plus Cecil B. DeMills cast of thousands.
People have been predicting the end times since Christ died.
Need picture of an unkempt man with a scraggly beard on a street corner and a sign that says, "The End is Near."
THOSE FLYING SAUCERS
(Cy Coben-Charlie Green)
You’d better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers,
It may be the coming of the Judgment Day.
It’s a sign, there’s no doubt, of the trouble that’s about,
So I say, my friends, you’d better start to pray.
They’re a terrifying sight as they fly on day and night.
It’s a warning that we’d better mend our ways.
You’d better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers,
It may be the coming of the Judgment Day.
Many people think the saucers might be someone’s foolish dream,
Or maybe they were sent down here from Mars.
If you’ll just stop and think, you’d realize just what it means,
They’re more than atom bombs or falling stars.
And though the war may be through, there’s unrest and trouble brewin,’
And those flying saucers may be just a sign
That if peace doesn’t come it will be the end of some,
So repent today, you’re running out of time.
When you see a saucer fly like a comet through the sky,
You should realize the price you’ll have to pay.
You’d better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers,
It may be the coming of the Judgment Day.
Recorded by The Buchanan Brothers, RCA Victor 20-2385
1947
from the emergence of Israel as the dominant country-of-residence for Jews
Note the subtle shift in emphasis. I suppose this starts the "this generation" clock over again.
In 1990, David Jeremiah and co-author C C Carlson claimed to have written Escape The Coming Night — a book about the rapture. It was soon discovered that significant portions of the book were plagiarized from best selling author Hal Lindsey’s (with co-author C C Carlson) 1973 work There’s A New World Coming. After realizing there were at least 47 pages of plagiarized material in the Jeremiah book, his publisher Word Books destroyed the inventory and, in a written statement, actually admitted the theft in late 1998. ( The Mother of Modern Prophecy )I wonder where he got his latest idea from.
Not too sensational.
“I would be the last person in the world to try to draw sensationalist truths from the Scripture,” he adds.
When they stop holding sensational prophecy conferences and writing sensational books, then I’ll believe them.
The 67-year-old senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, where he preaches to 7,000 people at weekend services, says he was motivated to write this book after so many people kept questioning him about world events.
The blind leading the blind.
Oh, and don’t forget to pick up your prophecy chart so you too can know what’s next.
I think the idea that the end is near is egotism. The end of the world could happen any time over the span of trillions and trillions of years. But it’s going to happen on my watch!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!
The end is near!
Women and minorities hardest hit!
Well, these ARE the end times. We just don’t yet know the hour or the time of His coming.
I like this part! Hiliarious! Doesn't say who these "thousands of Muslim 'civilians' (yeah right!)" are. How about . . . . radical extremist Muslim terrorists???!!!!
FOr later read.
There is no physical place called Armageddon. The correct meaning of the word is the sorrow of King Josiah.