They are still doing it:
Jeane Dixon predicted that Armageddon would take place in 2020. She previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962.
Kent Hovind while clarifying there is no way to be certain, this Christian fundamentalist speculates 2028 as the "most likely" date for the rapture.
My dad was a Baptist minister and predicted Christ would return by Sept 1988. So I got married to someone I barely knew in August 1988 thinking the world was going to end soon. I then endured the worst 25 years of my life being married to the wrong woman. So, I know first hand how dangerous predictions of futurists can be. People have sold everything and went up on a hill waiting for the rapture. It's just nonsense. The rapture happens to each of us when we die. It isn't a one-time, group event. It applies to anyone who was still alive or not yet born, at the resurrection of 66 AD.
All of this predicting comes from the false interpretation of Mat 24:32-34. The so-called Generation of the Fig Tree was not Israel becoming a nation again, it was about her destruction in 70 AD. Jesus says, "when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors!" The "these things" were the signs He was giving leading up to Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD. In Mat 3, JTB says "Even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees." "Trees" of course is a metaphor for the Jewish priests and religious leaders. John goes on to say, "therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." He was talking directly at the Pharisees and Sadducees about their fate. Jesus echoes this message in Mat 21. The destruction of the temple and Israel is found throughout the NT. It's all they could talk about, that and the return of Christ's presence to carry out that judgment, which He did.
The Bible is silent about the Israel of today, just as it is silent about anything in our future other than what becomes of us when we die. It certainly says nothing about a third temple. If they build one, stand back because all heck will break loose.
Jeane Dixon predicted that Armageddon would take place in 2020. She previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962.
Kent Hovind while clarifying there is no way to be certain, this Christian fundamentalist speculates 2028 as the "most likely" date for the rapture.
My dad was a Baptist minister and predicted Christ would return by Sept 1988. So I got married to someone I barely knew in August 1988 thinking the world was going to end soon. I then endured the worst 25 years of my life being married to the wrong woman. So, I know first hand how dangerous predictions of futurists can be. People have sold everything and went up on a hill waiting for the rapture. It's just nonsense. The rapture happens to each of us when we die. It isn't a one-time, group event. It applies to anyone who was still alive or not yet born, at the resurrection of 66 AD.
All of this predicting comes from the false interpretation of Mat 24:32-34. The so-called Generation of the Fig Tree was not Israel becoming a nation again, it was about her destruction in 70 AD. Jesus says, "when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors!" The "these things" were the signs He was giving leading up to Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD. In Mat 3, JTB says "Even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees." "Trees" of course is a metaphor for the Jewish priests and religious leaders. John goes on to say, "therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." He was talking directly at the Pharisees and Sadducees about their fate. Jesus echoes this message in Mat 21. The destruction of the temple and Israel is found throughout the NT. It's all they could talk about, that and the return of Christ's presence to carry out that judgment, which He did.
The Bible is silent about the Israel of today, just as it is silent about anything in our future other than what becomes of us when we die. It certainly says nothing about a third temple. If they build one, stand back because all heck will break loose.
