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End Of The World Is Not D: 11–13 Sep 1988 & 3 Oct 1988 D: 17 Dec 1996
C: Edgar C. Whisenant C: Sheldan Nidle
New To Fake News and DES: Whisenant predicted in his book 88 DES: Californian psychic Sheldan Nidle

Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988 that predicted that the world would end on this date,
Con Artists the Rapture of the Christian Church would occur with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a
Continued from Page 56 between September 11 and 13, 1988. After his host of angels.
September predictions failed to come true,
D: 1980 Whisenant revised his prediction date to October D: 26 Mar 1997
C: Leland Jensen 3. C: Marshall Applewhite
DES: In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would DES: Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate
be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two D: 30 Sep 1989 cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the
decades of conflict, culminating in God's C: Edgar C. Whisenant Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide was
Kingdom being established on Earth. DES: After all his 1988 predictions failed to "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so that the
come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date cult members' souls could board the supposed
D: 1981 to this day. craft and be taken to another "level of existence
C: Chuck Smith above human". Applewhite and 38 of his
DES: The founder of Calvary Chapel predicted D: 23 Apr 1990 followers committed mass suicide.
the generation of 1948 would be the last C: Elizabeth Clare Prophet
generation, and that the world would end by DES: Prophet predicted a nuclear war would D: 10 Aug 1997
1981. Smith identified that he "could be wrong" start on this day, with the world ending 12 years C: Aggai
but continued to say in the same sentence that later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter DES: The 1st-century bishop of Edessa
his prediction was "a deep conviction in my with supplies and weapons. Later, after predicted this date to be the birth date of the
heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that Prophet's prediction did not come to pass, she Antichrist and the end of the universe.
belief." was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's
disease. D: 23 Oct 1997
D: Apr–Jun 1982 C: James Ussher
C: Tara Centers D: 9 Sep 1991 DES: This 17th-century Irish archbishop
DES: Full-page ads in many newspapers April C: Menachem Mendel Schneerson predicted this date to be 6000 years since
24 and 25, 1982, stated that "The Christ is Now DES: This Russian-born rabbi called for the creation, and therefore the end of the world.
Here!" and that he would make himself known Messiah to come by the start of the Jewish New
"within the next two months". Year. D: 31 Mar 1998
C: Hon-Ming Chen
D: 10 Mar 1982 D: 1991 DES: Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult Chen
C: John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann C: Louis Farrakhan Tao – "The True Way" – claimed that God would
DES: Gribbin, an astrophysicist, co-authored the DES: The leader of the Nation of Islam declared come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on
1974 book The Jupiter Effect which predicted that the Gulf War would be the "War of this date.
that combined gravitational forces of aligned Armageddon which is the final war."
planets would create a number of catastrophes, D: Jul 1999
including a great earthquake on the San Andreas D: 28 Sep 1992 C: Nostradamus
Fault. C: Rollen Stewart DES: A quatrain by Nostradamus which stated
DES: This born-again Christian predicted the the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in
D: 21 Jun 1982 Rapture would take place on this day. "1999 and seven months" was frequently
C: Benjamin Creme interpreted as a prediction of doomsday in July
DES: Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles D: 28 Oct 1992 1999.
Times stating that the Second Coming would C: Lee Jang Rim
occur in June 1982 with the Maitreya DES: Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission D: 18 Aug 1999
announcing it on worldwide television. church, predicted the rapture would occur on C: The Amazing Criswell
this day. DES: The predicted date of the end of the world,
D: 1982 according to this psychic well known for
C: Pat Robertson D: 1993 predictions.
DES: In late 1976 on his 700 Club TV C: David Berg
programme, Robertson predicted that the end of DES: Berg predicted the tribulation would start D: 11 Sep 1999
the world would come in this year. in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take C: Philip Berg
place in 1993. DES: Berg, dean of the worldwide Kabbalah
D: 1985 Centre, stated that on this date "a ball of fire will
C: Lester Sumrall D: 2 May 1994 descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all
DES: This minister predicted the end in this C: Neal Chase vegetation, all forms of life."
year, even writing a book about it entitled I DES: This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that New
Predict 1985. York City would be destroyed by a nuclear D: 1999
bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of C: Charles Berlitz
D: 29 Apr 1986 Armageddon would take place 40 days later. DES: This linguist predicted the end would
C: Leland Jensen occur in this year. He did not predict how it
DES: Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet D: 6 Sep 1994, 29 Sep 1994, 2 Oct 1994 would occur, stating that it might involve
would be pulled into Earth's orbit on this day, C: Harold Camping nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift
causing widespread destruction. DES: Camping predicted the Rapture would or other Earth changes.
occur on 6 September 1994. When it failed to
D: 17 Aug 1987 occur he revised the date to the 29th of D: 1999
C: José Argüelles September and then to the 2nd October. C: Hon-Ming Chen
DES: Argüelles claimed that Armageddon DES: The leader of the cult Chen Tao preached
would take place unless 144,000 people D: 31 Mar 1995 that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe
gathered in certain places across the world in C: Harold Camping and Asia in 1999.
order to "resonate in harmony" on this day. DES: Camping's fourth predicted date for the
end. This would be Camping's last prediction (Continued on Page 58)
until 2011.