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Failed End-of-the-World Predictions Failed End-of-the-World governments would disappear, with worldwide occur on this day. [113] 1972 - Herbert W. Armstrong - Predictions That anarchy prevailing. The second of three revised dates from [99] 1925 - Joseph F. Rutherford, Bible Were To Occur But Didn't. Student movement - ...we may expect 1925 to Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions Continued from Page 6 witness the return of these faithful men of Israel failed to come true. from the condition of death, being resurrected [114] 1973, Jan 11-21 - David Berg - [83] 1874 - Bible Student movement - and fully restored to perfect humanity and made Berg, the leader of Children of God predicted The first prediction of the end of the world from the visible, legal representatives of the new that there would be a colossal doomsday event the Bible Student movement started by Charles order of things on earth." heralded by Comet Kohoutek. Taze Russell. [100] 1925, Feb 13 - Margaret Rowen - [115] 1975 - Herbert W. Armstrong - [84] 1874 - Seventh Day Adventists - According to this Seventh-day Adventist the Armstrong's fourth and final false prediction. The newly formed Seventh Day Adventists, a angel Gabriel appeared before her in a vision [116] 1975 - Jehovah's Witnesses - In group founded by former Millerites, predicted and told her that the world would end at 1966 Jehovah's Witnesses estimated it would be the Second Coming would be in this year. midnight on this date. 6000 years since man's creation in the fall of [85] 1878 - Bible Student movement - [101] 1935, Sep - Wilbur Glenn Voliva - 1975 and it would be "appropriate" for Christ's The second prediction of the end of the world This evangelist announced that "the world is thousand-year reign to begin at that time. These from the Bible Student movement. going to go 'puff' and disappear in September, claims were repeated throughout the late 1960s [86] 1881- Mother Shipton - This 15th 1935. and in 1974 they reaffirmed there was just a Century prophet who quoted as saying "The [102] 1936 - Herbert W. Armstrong - short time remaining before "the wicked world's world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred The founder of the Worldwide Church of God end". and eighty one" in a book published in 1862. In told members of his church that the Rapture was [117] 1977 - John Wroe - The founder of 1873 it was revealed to be a forgery however to take place in 1936, and that only they would the Christian Israelite Church predicted this this did not stop some people from expecting saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the year for Armageddon to occur. the end. date three more times. [118] 1977 - William M. Branham - This [87] 1881 - Bible Student movement - [103] 1941 - Jehovah's Witnesses - Christian minister predicted the Rapture would The third prediction of the end of the world Another prediction of the end from the occur no later than 1977. from the Bible Student movement. Jehovah's Witnesses, which branched from the [119] 1980 - Leland Jensen - In 1978 [88] 1890 - Wovoka - The founder of the Bible Student movement. Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that [104] 1943 - Herbert W. Armstrong - disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of the Millennium would occur in 1890. The first of three revised dates from Armstrong conflict, culminating in God's Kingdom being [89] 1892–1911 - Charles Piazzi Smyth - after his 1936 prediction failed to come true. established on earth. This pyramidologist concluded from his [105] 1947 - John Ballou Newbrough - [120] 1980s - Hal Lindsey - Lindsey research on the dimensions of the Great The author of Oahspe: A New Bible foresaw the book The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would destruction of all nations and the beginning of stated ""the decade of the 1980s could very well occur between 1892 and 1911. post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year. be the last decade of history as we know it" and [90] 1899 - C. A. L. Totten - Predicted [106] 1954, Dec 21 - Dorothy Martin - that the U.S. could be "destroyed by a surprise that 1899 was a possible date for the end of the The world was to be destroyed by terrible Soviet nuclear attack.". The book strongly world. flooding on this date, claimed this leader of a suggests that the 1980s would see the biblical [91] 1901 - Catholic Apostolic Church - UFO cult called Brotherhood of the Seven events of tribulation and end times come to This church, founded in 1831, claimed that Rays. The fallout of the group after the pass. Jesus would return by the time the last of its 12 prediction failed was the basis for the 1956 [121] 1981 - Chuck Smith - The founder founding members died. The last member died book When Prophecy Fails. of Calvary Chapel predicted the generation of in 1901. [107] 1959, April 22 - Florence Houteff 1948 would be the last generation, and that the [92] 1908 - Bible Student movement - - Believing that the end of time was imminent, world would end by 1981 at the latest. The fourth prediction of the end of the world Mrs. Houteff and her council began a campaign [123] 1982, Mar 10 - John Gribbin, from the Bible Student movement. to evangelize across the U.S., Canada, the West Stephen Plagemann - Stated in their book The [93] 1910 - Camille Flammarion - Indies and western Asia. The campaign Jupiter Effect that combined gravitational forces Predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's included publicity events such as equipping cars of lined up planets were supposed to bring the Comet might destroy life on Earth, but not the with signs that read, "Hear Ye The Rod," a end of the world on this day. planet itself. Biblical reference (Micah 6:9) to "The [124] 1982, Jun 21 - Benjamin Creme - [94] 1914 - Bible Student movement - Shepherd's Rod" Message. The cars also were Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles stating "…the battle of the great day of God Almighty悷 outfitted with loudspeakers to broadcast the Rod the Second Coming would occur in June 1982 The date of the close of that "battle" is definitely message to passersby. with the Maitreya announcing it on worldwide marked in Scripture as October 1914. It is [108] 1962, Feb 4 - Jeanne Dixon - This television. already in progress, its beginning dating from psychic predicted a planetary alignment on this [125] 1982, Oct/Nov - Pat Robertson - October, 1874." day was to bring destruction to the world on this In late 1976 Robertson predicted that the end of [95] 1915 - John Chilembwe - This day. the world was coming in October or November Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in [109] 1967 - Jim Jones - The founder of 1982. Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would the Peoples Temple stated he had visions that a [126] 1984, Oct 2 - Jehovah's Witnesses begin this year. nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967. - Another prediction of the end from the [96] 1916 - Bible Student movement - [110] 1967, Aug 20 - George Van Tassel Jehovah's Witnesses. World War I would terminate in Armageddon - This day would mark the beginning of the [127] 1985 - Lester Sumrall - This and the rapture of the "saints". third woe of the Apocalypse, during which the minister predicted the end in this year, even [97] 1918 - Bible Student movement - southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985. Another prediction of the end from the Bible nuclear attack, according to this UFO prophet, [128] 1987–1988 - Noah Hutchings, The Student movement. who claimed to have channeled an alien named president of the Southwest Radio Church [98] 1920 - Bible Student movement - In Ashtar. suggested that the Rapture would take place 1918, Christendom would go down as a system [111] 1969 - Charles Manson - Manson "possibly in 1987 or 1988." to oblivion and be succeeded by revolutionary predicted that an apocalyptic race war would [129] 1987, Apr 29 - Leland Jensen - governments. God would "destroy the churches occur in 1969 and ordered the Tate-LaBianca Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be wholesale and the church members by the murders in an attempt to bring it about. pulled into Earth's orbit on April 29, 1986, millions." Church members would "perish by [112] 1969, Aug 9 - George Williams - causing widespread destruction. the sword of war, revolution and anarchy." The The founder of the Church of the Firstborn dead would lie unburied. In 1920 all earthly predicted the Second Coming of Christ would Continued on Page 8