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End Of The World Is Not D: 23 Apr 2018
C: David Meade D: 2239
New To Fake News and DES: After his 2017 prediction failed, Meade C: Talmud, Orthodox Judaism

predicted the rapture would take place and that DES: According to the Talmud in mainstream
Con Artists the world would end on this date. Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah will come
Continued from Page 58 within 6000 years of the creation of Adam, and
Future predictions the world may be destroyed 1000 years later.
D: 21 Dec 2012 This would put the beginning of the period of
C: Various D: 9 Jun 2019 desolation in 2239 CE and the end of the period
DES: The 2012 phenomenon predicted the C: Ronald Weinland of desolation in 3239 CE.
world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. DES: Weinland, who previously predicted the
The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, world would end in 2011, 2012, and then 2013, D: 2280
Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an predicted in 2018 that Jesus will return on June C: Rashad Khalifa
alien invasion; or a supernova. Mayanist 9, 2019. He has since expressed some doubts DES: According to this Egyptian-American
scholars stated that no extant classic Maya regarding his own prediction. biochemist's research on the Quran, the world
accounts forecasted impending doom, and that will end during that year. []
the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in D: 2020
2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture. C: Jeane Dixon
Scientists from NASA, along with expert DES: Dixon predicted that Armageddon would
archeologists, stated that none of those events take place in 2020. She previously predicted the
was possible. world would end on February 4, 1962.

D: 23 Aug 2013 D: 2021
C: Grigori Rasputin C: F. Kenton Beshore
DES: Rasputin, a Russian mystic who died in DES: This American pastor bases his
1916, prophesied a storm would take place on prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus
this day where fire would destroy most life on would return in 1988, i.e., within one biblical
land and Jesus would come back to Earth to generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in
comfort those in distress. 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was
correct, but that the definition of a biblical
D: Apr 2014–Sep 2015 generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80
C: John Hagee, Mark Biltz years, placing the second coming of Jesus
DES: The so-called blood moon prophecy, first between 2018 and 2028 and the rapture by 2021
predicted by Mark Blitz in 2008 and then by at the latest.
John Hagee in 2014. These Christian ministers
claim that the tetrad in 2014 and 2015 may D: 2026
represent the beginning of the Messianic end C: Messiah Foundation International
times. Some Mormons in Utah combined the DES: This spiritual organisation predicts that the
September 2015 blood moon with other signs, world will end in 2026, when an asteroid
causing a large increase in sales of preppers collides with Earth in accordance with Riaz
survival supplies. Ahmed Gohar Shahi's predictions in his book
The Religion of God.
Paranormal StakeOut
D: 23 Sep–15 Oct 2017
C: David Meade D: 2129 with Larry Lawson
DES: Conspiracy theorist David Meade C: Said Nursî
predicted that Nibiru would become visible in DES: According to abjad interpretation of a www.xzbn.net
the sky and would "soon" destroy the Earth. hadith, this Sunni Muslim theologian wrote the
Risale-i Nur Collection, which expects the end
in 2129.