How many times was the "end times" supposed to happen, anyway?

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I found this interesting list. I'll be investigating each for authenticity over the next couple days, because, well, I have time and I'm interested. I want to put into perspective some of these considerations people have and demonstrate that people have always thought they had these answers, and times came and went. I think it's a very poor use of our scripture.

This is for educational purposes only. If you would like to live in darkness, led by some crazy doomsday cult, please don't continue reading.

66–70 CE Simon bar Giora, Essenes The Essene sect of Jewish ascetics saw the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66–70 as the final end-time battle before the arrival of the Messiah. By the authority of Simon, coins were minted declaring the redemption of Zion.
365 CE Hilary of Poitiers Announced that the end would happen that year.
375–400 CE Martin of Tours Stated that the world would end before 400, writing, “There is no doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. Firmly established already in his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, achieve supreme power.”
500 CE Hippolytus of Rome, Sextus Julius Africanus, Irenaeus All three predicted Jesus would return in the year 500. One prediction was based on the dimensions of Noah’s ark.
793 Apr 6 Beatus of Liébana The Spanish monk prophesied the second coming of Christ and the end of the world on that day to a crowd of people.
800 Sextus Julius Africanus Sextus Julius Africanus revised the date of Doomsday to 800.
799–806 Gregory of Tours Calculated the End occurring between 799 and 806.
848 Thiota Declared that the world would end during that year.
992–995 Various Christians Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times, within 3 years.
1000 Jan 1 Pope Sylvester II The Millennium Apocalypse at the end of the Christian Millennium. Various Christian clerics predicted the end of the world on this date, including Pope Sylvester II. Riots occurred in Europe and pilgrims headed east to Jerusalem.
1033 Various Christians Following the failure of the January 1, 1000 prediction, some theorists proposed that the end would occur 1000 years after Jesus’ death, instead of his birth.
1260 Joachim of Fiore The Italian mystic determined that the Millennium would begin between 1200 and 1260.
1284 Pope Innocent III Pope Innocent III (d. 1216) predicted that the world would end 666 years after the rise of Islam.
1290
1335 Joachimites The followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled the End to 1290 and then 1335 when his 1260 prophecy failed.
1346–1351 Various Europeans The black plague spreading across Europe was interpreted by many as the sign of the end of times.
1370 Jean de Roquetaillade The Antichrist was to come in 1366 and the Millennium would begin either in 1368 or 1370.
1378 Arnaldus de Villa Nova This Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was to come in this year. [12]:62
1504 Sandro Botticelli Believed he was living during the Tribulation, and that the Millennium would begin in three and a half years from 1500.
1524 Feb 1 London astrologers A group of astrologers in London predicted the world would end by a flood starting in London, based on calculations made the previous June. 20,000 Londoners left their homes and headed for higher ground in anticipation.
1524 Feb 20 Johannes Stöffler A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen by this astrologer as a sign of the Millennium.
1524–1526 Thomas Müntzer 1525 would mark the beginning of the Millennium, according to this Anabaptist. His followers were killed by cannon fire in an uneven battle with government troops. He died under torture and was beheaded.
1528 May 27 Hans Hut Predicted the end would occur on this day.
1528 Johannes Stöffler Revised date from Stöffler after his 1524 prediction failed to come true.
1533 Oct 19 Michael Stifel This mathematician calculated that the Judgement Day would begin at 8:00am on this day.
1533 Melchior Hoffman This Anabaptist prophet predicted Christ’s Second Coming to take place this year in Strasbourg. He claimed that 144,000 people would be saved, while the rest of the world would be consumed by fire.
1534 Apr 5 Jan Matthys Predicted that the Apocalypse would take place on this day and only the city of Münster would be spared.
1555 Pierre d’Ailly Around the year 1400, this French theologian wrote that 6845 years of human history had already passed, and the end of the world would be in the 7000th year.
1585 Michael Servetus In his book The Restoration of Christianity, the Spanish born reformer claimed that the Devil’s reign in this world had begun in 325 AD, at the Council of Nicea, and would last for 1260 years, thus ending in 1585.
1588 Regiomontanus Predicted the end of the world during this year.
1600 Martin Luther Predicted the end of the world would occur no later than 1600.
1624 Feb 1 London astrologers The same astrologers who predicted the deluge of February 1, 1524 recalculated the date to February 1, 1624 after their first prophecy failed.
1648 Sabbatai Zevi Using the kabbalah, this rabbi from Smyrna, Turkey, figured that the Messiah would come in this year.
1654 Helisaeus Roeslin This physician made a prediction that the world would end this year based on a nova that occurred in 1572.
1656 Christopher Columbus In his Book of Prophecies (1501), Columbus predicted that the world would end during 1656.
1657 Fifth Monarchists This group of radical Christians predicted that the final apocalyptic battle and the destruction of the Antichrist were to take place between 1655 and 1657.
1658 Christopher Columbus Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. Assuming no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658.
1660 Joseph Mede Mede claimed that the Antichrist had appeared in 456, and the end would come in 1660.
1666 Sabbatai Zevi Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth in 1666.
Fifth Monarchists The presence of 666 in the date, the death of 100,000 Londoners to bubonic plague, and the Great Fire of London led to superstitious fears of the end of the world from some Christians.
1673 William Aspinwall This Fifth Monarchist claimed the Millennium would begin by this year.
1688 John Napier This mathematician calculated the end of the world would be this year based on calculations from the Book of Revelation.
1689 Pierre Jurieu This prophet predicted that Judgement Day would occur this year.
1694 John Mason This Anglican priest predicted the Millennium would begin by this year.
1694 Johann Heinrich Alsted Predicted the Millennium would begin by this year.
1694 Johann Jacob Zimmermann Believed that Jesus would return and the world would end this year.
1697 Cotton Mather This Puritan minister predicted the world would end this year. After the prediction failed, he revised the date of the End two more times.
1700 John Napier After his 1688 prediction failed to come true, Napier revised his end of the world prediction to this year.
Henry Archer In his 1642 work, The Personall Reigne of Christ Upon Earth, Archer predicted the second coming of Jesus would occur in approximately this year.
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1706
1708 Camisards Camisard prophets predicted the end of the world would occur in either 1705, 1706 or 1708.
1716 Cotton Mather Revised prediction from Mather after his 1697 prediction failed to come true.
1719 Apr 5 Jacob Bernoulli This mathematician predicted a comet would destroy the Earth on this day.
1700–1734 Nicholas of Cusa This Cardinal predicted the end would occur between 1700 and 1734.
1736 Oct 16 William Whiston Whiston predicted a comet colliding with the Earth this year.
1736 Cotton Mather Mather’s third and final prediction for the end of the world.
1757 Emanuel Swedenborg Swedenborg claimed that the Last Judgement occurred in the spiritual world this year.
1780 May 19 Connecticut General Assembly members, New Englanders The sky turning dark during the day was interpreted as a sign of the end times. The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover.
1789 Pierre d’Ailly 1789 would bring the coming of the Antichrist, according to this 14th-century Cardinal.
1792
1794 Shakers Predicted the world would end in both 1792 and 1794.
1795 Nov 19 Nathaniel Brassey Halhed While campaigning for Richard Brothers’ release, Halhead proclaimed that the world would end on this day.
1793–1795 Richard Brothers This retired sailor stated the Millennium would begin between 1793 and 1795. He was eventually committed to an insane asylum.
1805 Christopher Love This Presbyterian minister predicted the destruction of the world by earthquake in 1805, followed by an age of everlasting peace when God would be known by all.
1806 Mary Bateman In Leeds, England in 1806 a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase “Christ is coming” was written. Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The owner, Mary Bateman, had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink so as to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen’s oviduct.
1814 Dec 25 Joanna Southcott This 64-year-old self-described prophet claimed she was pregnant with the Christ child, and that he would be born on Christmas Day, 1814. She died on the day of her prediction, and an autopsy proved she was not pregnant.
1836 John Wesley Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to the years 1058–1836, “when Christ should come”.
1843 Apr 28
1843 Dec 31 Millerites Although it was not officially endorsed by their leadership, many Millerites expected the Second Coming to occur on April 28 or at the end of 1843.
1843 Harriet Livermore The first of two years this preacher predicted the world would end.
1844 Mar 21 William Miller Miller predicted Christ would return on this day.
1844 Oct 22 Millerites After Christ did not return on March 21, 1844, the Millerites then revised William Miller’s prediction to October 22, 1844, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the Great Disappointment.
1847 Aug 7 George Rapp Rapp, the founder of the Harmony Society, preached that Jesus would return in his lifetime, even as he lay dying on August 7, 1847.
1847 Harriet Livermore The second prediction of the end of the world from this preacher.
1853–1856 Various Many people[who?] thought the Crimean War was the Battle of Armageddon.
1862 John Cumming This Scottish clergyman stated it was 6000 years since Creation in 1862, and that the world would end.
Joseph Morris An English convert to Mormonism, Morris had revelations to gather his followers and wait for the Second Coming, through successive prophesied days.
1863 John Wroe The founder of the Christian Israelite Church calculated that the Millennium would begin this year.
1873 Jonas Wendell In 1870, Wendell published his views in the booklet entitled The Present Truth, or Meat in Due Season concluding that the Second Advent was sure to occur in 1873.
1874 Charles Taze Russell Predicted the return of Jesus to occur in 1874, and after this date reinterpreted the prediction to say that Jesus had indeed returned in invisible form.
1881 Mother Shipton (attrib.) This 15th-century prophet was quoted as saying “The world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty one” in a book published in 1862. In 1873 it was revealed to be a forgery; however, this did not stop some people from expecting the end.
1890 Wovoka The founder of the Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that the Millennium would occur in 1890.
1901 Catholic Apostolic Church This church, founded in 1831, claimed that Jesus would return by the time the last of its 12 founding members died. The last member died in 1901.
1910 Camille Flammarion He predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley’s Comet “would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet”, but not the planet itself. “Comet pills” were sold to protect against toxic gases. The comet indicated the Second Coming to many.
1892–1911 Charles Piazzi Smyth This pyramidologist concluded from his research on the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would occur between 1892 and 1911.
1914 Charles Taze Russell “…the battle of the great day of God Almighty… The date of the close of that “battle” is definitely marked in Scripture as October 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning dating from October, 1874.”
1915 John Chilembwe This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year.
1918 International Bible Students Association Christendom shall be cut off and glorification of the Little Flock (The Church) in the Spring of 1918 A. D.
1920 International Bible Students Association In 1918, Christendom would go down as a system to oblivion and be succeeded by revolutionary governments. God would “destroy the churches wholesale and the church members by the millions.” Church members would “perish by the sword of war, revolution and anarchy.” The dead would lie unburied. In 1920 all earthly governments would disappear, with worldwide anarchy prevailing.
1925 Feb 13 Margaret Rowen According to this Seventh-day Adventist the angel Gabriel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this date.
1935 Sep Wilbur Glenn Voliva This evangelist announced that “the world is going to go ‘puff’ and disappear” in September 1935.
1936 Herbert W. Armstrong The founder of the Worldwide Church of God told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times.
1941 Jehovah’s Witnesses A prediction of the end from the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a group which branched from the Bible Student movement.
1943 Herbert W. Armstrong The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true.
1947 John Ballou Newbrough The author of Oahspe: A New Bible foresaw the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year.
1954 Dec 21 Dorothy Martin The world was to be destroyed by terrible flooding on this date, claimed this leader of a UFO cult called Brotherhood of the Seven Rays. The fallout of the group after the prediction failed was the basis for the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails.
1959 Apr 22 Florence Houteff The 2nd Prophet of the Branch Davidians predicted the apocalypse foretold in the Book of Revelation would proceed on this date. The failure of the prophecy led to the split of the sect into several subsects, the most prominent led by Benjamin and Lois Roden.
1962 Feb 4 Jeane Dixon, various Indian astrologers Jeane Dixon predicted a planetary alignment on this day was to bring destruction to the world. Mass prayer meetings were reported from India.
1967 Aug 20 George Van Tassel This day would mark the beginning of the third woe of the Apocalypse, during which the southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet nuclear attack, according to this UFO prophet, who claimed to have channeled an alien named Ashtar.
1967 Jim Jones The founder of the Peoples Temple stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967.
1969 Aug 9 George Williams The founder of the Church of the Firstborn predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
1969 Charles Manson Manson predicted that an apocalyptic race war would occur in 1969 and ordered the Tate-LaBianca murders in an attempt to bring it about. Manson based his prediction on his interpretation of The Beatles’ self-titled album.
1972 Herbert W. Armstrong The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true.
1973 Jan 11–21 David Berg Berg, the leader of Children of God, predicted that there would be a colossal doomsday event heralded by Comet Kohoutek.
1975 Herbert W. Armstrong Armstrong’s fourth and final false prediction.
Jehovah’s Witnesses From 1966 on, Jehovah’s Witnesses published articles which stated that the fall of 1975 would be 6000 years since man’s creation, and suggested that Armageddon could be finished by then.
1976 Lekhraj Kirpalani Lekhraj Kirpalani’s third false prediction.
Brahma Kumaris The Brahma Kumaris founder, Lekhraj Kirpalani, has made a number of false predictions of a global Armageddon which the religion believes it will inspire, internally calling it “Destruction” but externally presenting it as “Transformation”. During Destruction, Brahma Kumari leaders teach the world will be purified, all of the rest of humanity killed by nuclear or civil wars and natural disasters which will include the sinking of all other continents except India. All other religions will also destroyed, so that they alone will inherit the Earth for 2,500 years. These predictions are generally hidden from outsiders and, as they have failed, have been removed from their literature.
1977 John Wroe The founder of the Christian Israelite Church predicted this year for Armageddon to occur.
William M. Branham This Christian minister predicted the Rapture would occur no later than 1977.
 
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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.
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. Smith identified that he “could be wrong” but continued to say in the same sentence that his prediction was “a deep conviction in my heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that belief.”
1982 Apr–Jun Tara Centers Full-page ads in many newspapers April 24–25, 1982, stated that “The Christ is Now Here!” and that he would make himself known “within the next two months”. [7]:39
1982 Mar 10 John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann Stated in their 1974 book The Jupiter Effect that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault.
1982 Jun 21 Benjamin Creme Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times stating that the Second Coming would occur in June 1982 with the Maitreya announcing it on worldwide television.
1982 Pat Robertson In late 1976 Robertson predicted that the end of the world would come in 1982.
1985 Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985. [
1987 Apr 29 Leland Jensen Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on April 29, 1987, causing widespread destruction.
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.
1988 Sep 13
1988 Oct 3 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.
1989 Sep 30 Edgar C. Whisenant After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day.
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, she was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.
1991 Sep 9 Menachem Mendel Schneerson This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the Jewish New Year.
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."
1992 Sep 28 Rollen Stewart This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day. [65]
1992 Oct 28 Lee Jang Rim
(이장림 or 李長林)
Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission church, predicted the Rapture would occur on this day.
1993 David Berg Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993.
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.
1994 Sep 6
1994 Sep 29
1994 Oct 2 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.
1995 Mar 31 Harold Camping Camping’s fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping’s last prediction until 2011.
1996 Dec 17 Sheldan Nidle California psychic Sheldan Nidle predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels.
1997 Mar 26 Marshall Applewhite Applewhite, leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the Comet 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.
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.
1998 Mar 31 Chen Tao
(陳恆明)
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. Chen chose to base his cult in Garland, Texas, because he thought it sounded like “God’s Land.” On March 25, God was to appear on Channel 18 on every TV set in the US.
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.
1999 Aug 18 The Amazing Criswell The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for false predictions.
1999 Sep 11 Philip Berg Berg, dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre, stated that on this date “a ball of fire will descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all vegetation, all forms of life.”
1999 Charles Berlitz This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would occur, stating that it might involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other Earth changes.
Hon-Ming Chen
(陳恆明)
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.
James Gordon Lindsay This preacher predicted the tribulation would begin before the year 2000.
Timothy Dwight IV This President of Yale University foresaw Christ’s Millennium starting by 2000.
Nazim Al-Haqqani Predicted that the Last Judgment would occur before the year 2000.
2000 Jan 1 Various Predictions of a Y2K computer bug that would crash many computers and cause malfunctions leading to 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 suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.
Jerry Falwell Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on this day.
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins These Christian authors stated that 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.
2000, April 6 James Harmston The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
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.
2000 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.
Isaac Newton Newton predicted that Christ’s Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John.
Ruth Montgomery This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth’s axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.
Edgar Cayce This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.
Sun Myung Moon The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year.
Ed Dobson This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.
Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000.
Jonathan Edwards This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ’s thousand-year reign would begin in this year.
2001 Tynnetta Muhammad This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year.
2002 Various Yoruba Yoruba priests predicted dramatic tragedy and crisis in 2002, including coups, war, disease, and flooding.
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.
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.
2006 Sep 12 House of Yahweh Yisrayl Hawkins, Pastor and Overseer, The House of Yahweh, Abilene, Texas in the Feb. 2006 newsletter predicted the start of nuclear war on September 12, 2006.
2007 Apr 29 Pat Robertson In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth’s destruction.
2010 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn This order predicted the world would end in this year.
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 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 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.
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
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.
2012 May 27 Ronald Weinland Ronald Weinland stated that Jesus Christ would return and the world would end on this day.
2012 Jun 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.
2012 Dec 21 Various The so-called Mayan apocalypse at the end of the 13th b’ak’tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion; or a supernova. Mayanist scholars stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecast impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture. Scientists from NASA, along with expert archeologists, stated that none of those events were possible.
2013 Aug 23 Grigori Rasputin Rasputin prophesied a storm where fire would destroy most life on land and Jesus Christ would come back to Earth to comfort those in distress.
2014 Apr – 2015 Sep John Hagee and Mark Biltz The so-called Blood Moon Prophecy, first predicted by Mark Blitz in 2008 and then by John Hagee in 2014. These Christian ministers claim that the tetrad in 2014 and 2015 may represent prophecies allegedly given in the Bible relating to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
 

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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.
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. Smith identified that he “could be wrong” but continued to say in the same sentence that his prediction was “a deep conviction in my heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that belief.”
1982 Apr–Jun Tara Centers Full-page ads in many newspapers April 24–25, 1982, stated that “The Christ is Now Here!” and that he would make himself known “within the next two months”. [7]:39
1982 Mar 10 John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann Stated in their 1974 book The Jupiter Effect that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault.
1982 Jun 21 Benjamin Creme Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times stating that the Second Coming would occur in June 1982 with the Maitreya announcing it on worldwide television.
1982 Pat Robertson In late 1976 Robertson predicted that the end of the world would come in 1982.
1985 Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985. [
1987 Apr 29 Leland Jensen Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on April 29, 1987, causing widespread destruction.
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.
1988 Sep 13
1988 Oct 3 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.
1989 Sep 30 Edgar C. Whisenant After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day.
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, she was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.
1991 Sep 9 Menachem Mendel Schneerson This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the Jewish New Year.
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."
1992 Sep 28 Rollen Stewart This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day. [65]
1992 Oct 28 Lee Jang Rim
(이장림 or 李長林)
Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission church, predicted the Rapture would occur on this day.
1993 David Berg Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993.
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.
1994 Sep 6
1994 Sep 29
1994 Oct 2 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.
1995 Mar 31 Harold Camping Camping’s fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping’s last prediction until 2011.
1996 Dec 17 Sheldan Nidle California psychic Sheldan Nidle predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels.
1997 Mar 26 Marshall Applewhite Applewhite, leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the Comet 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.
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.
1998 Mar 31 Chen Tao
(陳恆明)
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. Chen chose to base his cult in Garland, Texas, because he thought it sounded like “God’s Land.” On March 25, God was to appear on Channel 18 on every TV set in the US.
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.
1999 Aug 18 The Amazing Criswell The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for false predictions.
1999 Sep 11 Philip Berg Berg, dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre, stated that on this date “a ball of fire will descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all vegetation, all forms of life.”
1999 Charles Berlitz This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would occur, stating that it might involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other Earth changes.
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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.
James Gordon Lindsay This preacher predicted the tribulation would begin before the year 2000.
Timothy Dwight IV This President of Yale University foresaw Christ’s Millennium starting by 2000.
Nazim Al-Haqqani Predicted that the Last Judgment would occur before the year 2000.
2000 Jan 1 Various Predictions of a Y2K computer bug that would crash many computers and cause malfunctions leading to 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 suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.
Jerry Falwell Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on this day.
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins These Christian authors stated that 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.
2000, April 6 James Harmston The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
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.
2000 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.
Isaac Newton Newton predicted that Christ’s Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John.
Ruth Montgomery This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth’s axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.
Edgar Cayce This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.
Sun Myung Moon The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year.
Ed Dobson This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.
Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000.
Jonathan Edwards This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ’s thousand-year reign would begin in this year.
2001 Tynnetta Muhammad This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year.
2002 Various Yoruba Yoruba priests predicted dramatic tragedy and crisis in 2002, including coups, war, disease, and flooding.
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.
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.
2006 Sep 12 House of Yahweh Yisrayl Hawkins, Pastor and Overseer, The House of Yahweh, Abilene, Texas in the Feb. 2006 newsletter predicted the start of nuclear war on September 12, 2006.
2007 Apr 29 Pat Robertson In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth’s destruction.
2010 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn This order predicted the world would end in this year.
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 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 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.
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
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.
2012 May 27 Ronald Weinland Ronald Weinland stated that Jesus Christ would return and the world would end on this day.
2012 Jun 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.
2012 Dec 21 Various The so-called Mayan apocalypse at the end of the 13th b’ak’tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion; or a supernova. Mayanist scholars stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecast impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture. Scientists from NASA, along with expert archeologists, stated that none of those events were possible.
2013 Aug 23 Grigori Rasputin Rasputin prophesied a storm where fire would destroy most life on land and Jesus Christ would come back to Earth to comfort those in distress.
2014 Apr – 2015 Sep John Hagee and Mark Biltz The so-called Blood Moon Prophecy, first predicted by Mark Blitz in 2008 and then by John Hagee in 2014. These Christian ministers claim that the tetrad in 2014 and 2015 may represent prophecies allegedly given in the Bible relating to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Good day,

Do you realize that by your post you are just one of many who fulfill the following prophecy?:

"Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."

As believers in Christ, we should not put our hopes in those who set dates for his return, but we should always be ready, watching and listening for that trumpet call, that voice that sounds like a trumpet saying, "come up here."

The Lord's return is always imminent as can be deduced from the man of the house who, if he had known at what time the thief was going to break in he would have waited up for him but since he doesn't know, he must always be ready and watching. In the same way, since we don't know at what time Christ is going to return, then we must always be ready, watching and listening.

Therefore, it should not matter what others predict, knowing according to scripture that the time of the Lord's return is unknowable. We can however see by what is going on in the world that the time is getting very near. For example, that the electronic crediting and debiting system is in place and the fact that people are having chips implanted under the skin of the hand, is a testimony to the truth and accuracy of God's word. Also, Paul said that one of the signs that would take place prior to our being gathered to the Lord is the apostasy, which from the on-going abandonment of the word of God, this could be the fulfillment of it.

Our faith in his promised coming to gather us to him should not rest on the erroneous predictions of men.
 
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The op and ahwatukee response is the exact same situation as I had with someone on another forum yesterday the exact same verse and fulfillment of prophecy.
 
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Good day,

Do you realize that by your post you are just one of many who fulfill the following prophecy?:

"Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."

As believers in Christ, we should not put our hopes in those who set dates for his return, but we should always be ready, watching and listening for that trumpet call, that voice that sounds like a trumpet saying, "come up here."

No, it's not, because that's not what I've said, regardless of how you'd like to make it that way. Back to your drawing board, or crystal ball, or whatever.

We should be ready at all times. This prediction method, indeed any utterance we are "near or in" that time, is against the purpose of scripture.
 

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The op and ahwatukee response is the exact same situation as I had with someone on another forum yesterday the exact same verse and fulfillment of prophecy.
Wow! The truth is the truth!
 
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Wow! The truth is the truth!
I didn't say, "where is this coming?", as if challenging it to come. You're so filled with a poor understanding, you need to spin common sense to your purpose. That is the only "Wow" I see here.
 

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If you would like to live in darkness, led by some crazy doomsday cult, please don't continue reading.
I do not live in Spiritual darkness, nor am I going to read your crazy walls of text.
 

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No, it's not, because that's not what I've said, regardless of how you'd like to make it that way. Back to your drawing board, or crystal ball, or whatever.

We should be ready at all times. This prediction method, indeed any utterance we are "near or in" that time, is against the purpose of scripture.
That's not true! Jesus said that we could not know the time or dates, but we can discern that we are drawing near. There's nothing wrong with that at all. What do you think that he meant when he said "Watch!" What we can't and shouldn't do is name specific dates, because he told us that we couldn't know. As I said, his appearing is always imminent, on the horizon, looming, etc. The fact that Paul said that the apostasy must come first is a sign that must precede his coming. Therefore, regardless of the events that are going on, my answer is always that his return is near and is always imminent and even more so in these days. You'd have to be spiritually blind to not recognize the times we are living in.

This is exactly why technology has advanced incrementally and that because the mark of the beast is going to utilize this very system that is already set up and in use. Right now the cards and phone apps are the key to electronic crediting and debiting of one's bank account, but when the antichrist comes, some time during his reign, the key will change from cards and apps, etc., to that personal sub-dermal device, known as the mark.

Furthermore, those people who made those predictions and will continue to make those predictions were in error to do so, just as it has been an on-gong error for people through the centuries to identify the antichrist and that because the criteria regarding him has not been present and is still not present.
 
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Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

The "mark of the beast" to which you've conveniently referred is "wisdom", "the number of a man", the weight of income of talents of Solomon in 1 Kings 10:14. Obedience to God is not pretending to tell the future using the bible as a crystal ball, as much as you'd like it to be.

ergo, Revelation 13:18 is "great or even divinely inspired wisdom without obedience to God".

edit: and no, Solomon was not obedient to God. He constructed temples to false gods, among other tresspasses.
 
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I didn't say, "where is this coming?", as if challenging it to come. You're so filled with a poor understanding, you need to spin common sense to your purpose. That is the only "Wow" I see here.
Stonemason, the fact that your attitude is one of denial regarding scripture, demonstrates the wrong attitude. These "Dooms day" claims, as you call them, are directly from scripture. This is the long prophesied "Day of the Lord" which has yet to be fulfilled and must be fulfilled some time in history and that because God cannot lie. That time of destruction is coming whether you believe it or not. And prior to that time of destructive wrath, God is going to remove his church from the earth. Consequently, if you are not watching for him, then you will be able to see these events of wrath first hand and will be able to follow them like a road map just by reading the events of the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments.

You need to understand that because the day of the Lord has been prophesied, then it must be fulfilled at some point, regardless of when.
 

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Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

The "mark of the beast" to which you've conveniently referred is "wisdom", "the number of a man", the weight of income of talents of Solomon in 1 Kings 10:14. Obedience to God is not pretending to tell the future using the bible as a crystal ball, as much as you'd like it to be.

ergo, Revelation 13:18 is "great or even divinely inspired wisdom without obedience to God".

edit: and no, Solomon was not obedient to God. He constructed temples to false gods, among other tresspasses.
Make no mistake, it is and will be a literal mark in the hand or forehead and that for the purpose of buying and selling. Also, I don't use a crystal ball to get my information, but from scripture. It always amazes me that we have this technology that has been revealed, with people already being implanted under the skin of the hand and then we have people who can't discern the times by recognizing the coming fulfillment of prophecy. Now that this technology has been revealed, it will continue to evolve in preparation for when antichrist shows up on the stage of history. Please check out the following link:

Swedish office staff offered implants to access facilities - BBC News
 
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Stonemason, the fact that your attitude is one of denial regarding scripture, demonstrates the wrong attitude. These "Dooms day" claims, as you call them, are directly from scripture. This is the long prophesied "Day of the Lord" which has yet to be fulfilled and must be fulfilled some time in history and that because God cannot lie. That time of destruction is coming whether you believe it or not. And prior to that time of destructive wrath, God is going to remove his church from the earth. Consequently, if you are not watching for him, then you will be able to see these events of wrath first hand and will be able to follow them like a road map just by reading the events of the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments.

You need to understand that because the day of the Lord has been prophesied, then it must be fulfilled at some point, regardless of when.
No. These "Dooms day" claims, as they are, are interpretations from scripture. God can, has, and will continue to have "whatever number of days God sees fit". "That (Christ's return) day" will come and insinuating I might not believe it, when I have clearly expressed it will, in other conversations in which you have contributed, is intentional false witness against me.

"Prophecy" doesn't have to be "about the future". "Prophecy" is "telling God's truth". I believe Revelation to have prophetic meaning, that it is truth. That truth is inside all of us, right now, and has been, and will continue to be. Saying it's all just some "roadmap" is harmful to the true intent and meaning. You're denying people the chance to truly understand Jesus' vision, you imagine yourself the master of destiny "with your sight". You are not.
 

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No. These "Dooms day" claims, as they are, are interpretations from scripture. God can, has, and will continue to have "whatever number of days God sees fit". "That (Christ's return) day" will come and insinuating I might not believe it, when I have clearly expressed it will, in other conversations in which you have contributed, is intentional false witness against me.

"Prophecy" doesn't have to be "about the future". "Prophecy" is "telling God's truth". I believe Revelation to have prophetic meaning, that it is truth. That truth is inside all of us, right now, and has been, and will continue to be. Saying it's all just some "roadmap" is harmful to the true intent and meaning. You're denying people the chance to truly understand Jesus' vision, you imagine yourself the master of destiny "with your sight". You are not.
Really? Well then, when you see a seven year covenant being made with Israel by some political leader, then you will know that these events written in scripture regarding the last days were meant to be taken literally. From there you can expect to experience the rest of the seals, followed by the trumpets and the bowl judgments, which are all the coming wrath of God. These events of wrath are all meant to bring an end to all human government and the establishing of Christ's millennial kingdom. You don't have to believe me, though I wish you would, just remember this conversation when you begin to see these things literally taking place.
 

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Stonemason, ahwatukee is dead on in everything he has said so far, The mark of the beast for instance is right at our door. The chip that is being introduced to people is as small as a grain of rice and it can be used to buy and to sell and will hold all of our info including our medical records our entire history out blood type our genes and it can even alter our genes which is said to be able to cure of us of sickness but I fear they have a darker motive for it. Also it goes only on the right hand or forehead never the left hand or the shoulder or any other place is it by mere coincidence that this chip is exactly as the mark is in revelation?
 
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Literally. You keep saying "literally". Again I will cite Matthew 13:34-35.

[SUP]34 [/SUP]Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. [SUP]35 [/SUP]So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:
“I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”

Parables, allegories, analogies, literally. "Meanings within meanings". The intent of the message doesn't simply stop when you say, "stop". This is such the nature of God's amazing Word.
 
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Stonemason, ahwatukee is dead on in everything he has said so far, The mark of the beast for instance is right at our door. The chip that is being introduced to people is as small as a grain of rice and it can be used to buy and to sell and will hold all of our info including our medical records our entire history out blood type our genes and it can even alter our genes which is said to be able to cure of us of sickness but I fear they have a darker motive for it. Also it goes only on the right hand or forehead never the left hand or the shoulder or any other place is it by mere coincidence that this chip is exactly as the mark is in revelation?
And people thought the "mark of the beast" was the year 1666, and people thought the "millenium" or 1000 years was after Jesus' crucifixion, and...

No. Just no.
 

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Literally. You keep saying "literally". Again I will cite Matthew 13:34-35.

[SUP]34 [/SUP]Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. [SUP]35 [/SUP]So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:
“I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”

Parables, allegories, analogies, literally. "Meanings within meanings". The intent of the message doesn't simply stop when you say, "stop". This is such the nature of God's amazing Word.
Yes, he did speak parables, to Israel, not to the church. As readers of the word, we have the benefit of reading the parables and the meaning of them. This that you are quoting was in regards to Israel and not the church. Here is the proof:

"The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables:“Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving." For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ "

So, regarding the above scripture, the disciples asked the Lord why he spoke to the people of Israel using parables and Jesus quoted the prophecy regarding Isaiah which was in reference to that generation of Israel. Then he says the following:
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[/SUP]But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."

That he was saying this to the disciples, he is also saying this to all believers. Jesus is not speaking parables to us, but we have the opportunity to see the parables and to have them explained as well. I keep saying "Literally" because those events of wrath described via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments are neither parables nor are they symbolic, but the results of this wrath will take place just as it is written.
 
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And people thought the "mark of the beast" was the year 1666, and people thought the "millenium" or 1000 years was after Jesus' crucifixion, and...

No. Just no.
My friend have you actually done an in depth study of bible prophecy? did you know that the enemy shows his plans in the open but few have the discernment to see it? The enemy knows how dangerously close all of this and it has been being fulfilled day by day but he uses doubt such your own to keep people in the dark and to deceive them. The most dangerous lie that he has spread and that many believe is that there is more time, and the deceived do not know they are being deceived.