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Dates Predicted for Apocalyptic Events Dates Predicted for EVENT: California psychic Sheldon Nidle Christians should not plan to still be on earth by the year 2000. predicted that the world would end on this date, Apocalyptic Events with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a Continued from Page 10 host of angels. 151. DATE: 'Before' 2000 CLAIMANT: James Gordon Lindsay 142. DATE: 1997, Mar 26 EVENT: This preacher predicted the tribulation 133. DATE: 1990, Apr 23 CLAIMANT: Marshall Applewhite would begin before the year 2000. CLAIMANT: Elizabeth Clare Prophet EVENT: Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's EVENT: Prophet predicted a nuclear war would Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing 152. DATE: 'Before' 2000 start on this day, with the world ending 12 years the Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide CLAIMANT: Texe Marrs later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter was "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so EVENT: This conspiracy theorist stated that the with supplies and weapons. Later, after that the cult members' souls could board the last days could "wrap up by the year 2000." Prophet's prediction did not come to pass and supposed craft and be taken to another "level of she was diagnosed with epilepsy and existence above human". Applewhite and 38 of 153. DATE: 'Before' 2000 Alzheimer's disease. his followers committed mass suicide. CLAIMANT: Timothy Dwight IV EVENT: This President of Yale University 134. DATE: 1991 143. DATE: 1997, Oct 23 foresaw the Millennium starting by 2000. CLAIMANT: Louis Farrakhan CLAIMANT: James Ussher EVENT: The leader of the Nation of Islam EVENT: This 17th-century Irish Archbishop 154. DATE: 'Before' 2000 declared that the Gulf War would be the "War of predicted this date to be 6000 years since CLAIMANT: Jehovah's Witnesses Armageddon which is the final war." Creation, and therefore the end of the world. EVENT: In 1971, and again in 1984, the Jehovah's Witnesses stated the end would be 135. DATE: 1992, Sep 28 144. DATE: 1998, Mar 31 before the end of the 20th century. CLAIMANT: Rollen Stewart CLAIMANT: Hon-Ming Chen EVENT: This born-again Christian predicted EVENT: Hon-Ming Chen, leader of the 155. DATE: 2000 - c. the Rapture would take place on this day. Taiwanese cult God's Salvation Church, or CLAIMANT: Peter Olivi Chen Tao — "The True Way" — claimed that EVENT: This 13th-century theologian wrote 136. DATE: 1992, Oct 28 God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at that the Antichrist would come to power CLAIMANT: Lee Jang Rim 10:00 am on this date. Moreover, God would between 1300 and 1340, and the Last EVENT: Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission in have the same physical appearance as Chen Judgement would take place around 2000. Seoul, predicted the Rapture on this day. South himself. On March 25, God was to appear on Korean officials took elaborate precautions Channel 18 on every TV set in the US. Chen 156. DATE: 2000 - c. against a mass suicide, posting 1,500 riot chose to base his cult in Garland, Texas, because CLAIMANT: Helena Blavatsky officers to monitor about a thousand followers he thought it sounded like "God's Land." EVENT: The founder of Theosophy foresaw the who had gathered in the group's headquarters to end of the world in this year. await the Rapture. Their efforts were successful, 145. DATE: 1999 although four group members had committed CLAIMANT: Seventh-day Adventists 157. DATE: 2000 - c. suicide in previous days. EVENT: Some literature distributed by Seventh CLAIMANT: Isaac Newton Day Adventists predicted the end in this year. EVENT: Newton predicted that Christ's 137. DATE: 1993 Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his CLAIMANT: David Berg 146. DATE: 1999 book Observations upon the Prophecies of EVENT: Berg predicted the tribulation would CLAIMANT: Charles Berlitz Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would EVENT: This linguist predicted the end would take place in 1993. occur in this year. He did not predict how it 158. DATE: 2000 - c. would occur, stating it may involve nuclear CLAIMANT: Ruth Montgomery 138. DATE: 1994, May 2 devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other EVENT: This self-described Christian psychic CLAIMANT: Neal Chase earth changes. predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the EVENT: This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that Antichrist would reveal himself in this year. New York would be destroyed by a nuclear 147. DATE: 1999, Jul bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of CLAIMANT: Nostradamus 158. DATE: 2000 - c. Armageddon would take place 40 days later. EVENT: A prediction attributed to Nostradamus CLAIMANT: Edgar Cayce stating the "King of Terror" would come from EVENT: This psychic predicted the Second 139. DATE: 1994, Sep/Oct the sky in "1999 and seven months" led to fears Coming would occur this year. CLAIMANT: Harold Camping of the end. EVENT: Camping predicted the Rapture would 159. DATE: 2000 - c. occur on September 6, 1994. When it failed to 148. DATE: 1999, Aug 18 CLAIMANT: Sun Myung Moon occur he revised the date to September 29 and CLAIMANT: The Amazing Criswell EVENT: The founder of the Unification Church then to October 2. EVENT: The predicted date of the end of the predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be world, according to this psychic well known for established in this year. 140. DATE: 1994, Sep/Oct false predictions. CLAIMANT: Harold Camping 160. DATE: 2000 - c. EVENT: Camping predicted the Rapture would 149. DATE: 1999, Dec 31 CLAIMANT: Ed Dobson occur on September 6, 1994. When it failed to CLAIMANT: Hon-Ming Chen EVENT: This pastor predicted the end would occur he revised the date to September 29 and EVENT: Hon-Ming Chen's cult God's Salvation occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could then to October 2. Church, now relocated to upstate New York, Return by A.D. 2000. preached that a nuclear holocaust would destroy 141,DATE: 1995, Mar 31 Europe and Asia sometime between October 1 161. DATE: 2000 - c. CLAIMANT: Harold Camping and December 31, 1999. CLAIMANT: Lester Sumrall EVENT: Camping's fourth predicted date for EVENT: This minister predicted the end in his the end. This would be Camping's last 150. DATE: 'Before' 2000 book I Predict 2000. prediction until 2011. CLAIMANT: Hal Lindsey EVENT: After his 1980's predictions failed to (Continued on Page 12) 142. DATE: 1996, Dec 17 come true, Lindsay published the book Planet CLAIMANT: Sheldon Nidle Earth 2000 A.D. in 1994, which stated that Check Out - www.xzoneradiotv.com