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26 Failed Prophecies Throughout History 26 Failed Prophecies Throughout History AILED PROPHECIES F FAILED PROPHECIES appear, the church did not return the gifts. be the Antichrist. Owen helped found New Serious criticism of the Church followed. The Harmony, IN. THROUGHOUT Church reacted by exterminating some heretics. - 1832?: Joseph Smith (1805-1844) was THROUGHOUT HISTORY Agitation settled down quickly. the founder of the Church of Christ, which HISTORY - 1000 - MAY: The body of became the Restorationist movement after Charlemagne was disinterred on Pentecost. A many schisms. It now includes The Church of - About 30 CE: The Christian legend had arisen that an emperor would rise Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- a.k.a. the Scriptures (New Testament), when interpreted from his sleep to fight the Antichrist. Mormons, and about a hundred other literally, appear to record many predictions by - 1005 - 1006: A terrible famine denominations and sects. He heard a voice Jeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) that God's throughout Europe was seen as a sign of the while praying. He wrote, in Doctrines and Kingdom would arrive within a very short nearness of the end. Covenants section 130: period, or was actually in the process of - 1033: Some believed this to be the - 14: "I was once praying very earnestly to know arriving. For example, Jesus is recorded as 1000th anniversary of the death and resurrection the time of the coming of the Son of Man, when saying in Matthew 16:28: "...there shall be some of Jesus. His second coming was anticipated. I heard a voice repeat the following:" standing here, which shall not taste of death, till Jesus' actual date of execution is unknown, but - 15: "Joseph, my son, if thou livest until thou they see the Son of Man coming in his is believed to be in the range of 27 to 33 CE. art eighty-five years old, thou shalt see the face kingdom." In Matthew 24:34, Yeshua is - 1147: Gerard of Poehlde decided that of the Son of Man; therefore let this suffice, and recorded as saying: "...This generation shall not the millennium had actually started in 306 CE trouble me no more on this matter." pass, till all these things be fulfilled." Since the during Constantine's reign. Thus, the world end - 16: "I was left thus, without being able to life expectancy in those days was little over 30 was expected in 1306 CE. decide whether this coming referred to the years, Jesus appears to have predicted his - 1179: John of Toledo predicted the end beginning of the millennium or to some second coming sometime during the 1st century of the world during 1186. This estimate was previous appearing, or whether I should die and CE. It didn't happen. based on the alignment of many planets. thus see his face." - About 60 CE: Interpreting the - 1205: Joachim of Fiore predicted in - 17: "I believe the coming of the Son of Man Epistles of Paul of Tarsus literally, his writings 1190 that the Antichrist was already in the will not be any sooner than that time." 14 seem to imply that Jesus would return and usher world, and that King Richard of England would The year in which this event occurred is not in a rapture during the lifetime of persons who defeat him. The Millennium would then begin, recorded. However, one commentator suggested were living in the middle of the 1st century. sometime before 1205. 1832 or earlier. 16 Smith is later recorded as - About 90 CE: Saint Clement 1 - 1284: Pope Innocent III computed this having said: predicted that the world end would occur at any date by adding 666 years onto the date the Islam - "I prophesy in the name of the Lord God, and moment. was founded. let it be written--the Son of Man will not come - 2nd Century CE: Prophets and - 1346 and later: The black plague in the clouds of heaven till I am eighty-five Prophetesses of the Montanist movement spread across Europe, killing one third of the years old." 17 predicted that Jesus would return sometime population. This was seen as the prelude to an - Smith would have reached the age of 85 during their lifetime and establish the New immediate end of the world. Unfortunately, the during 1890. Unfortunately, by that year, Smith Jerusalem in the city of Pepuza in Asia Minor. Christians had previously killed a many of the had been dead for almost a half century, having - 365 CE: A man by the name of Hilary cats, fearing that they might be familiars of been assassinated by a mob. Note that his of Poitiers, announced that the end would Witches. The fewer the cats, the more the rats. It prophecy is ambiguous. It can be interpreted happen that year. It didn't. was the rat fleas that spread the black plague. that: - 375 to 400 CE: Saint Martin of Tours, - 1496: This was approximately 1500 - Jesus would return during 1890 (which did a student of Hilary, was convinced that the end years after the birth of Jesus. Some mystics in not materialize) or that would happen sometime before 400 CE. the 15th century predicted that the millennium 1890 would pass without Jesus' return (which - 500 CE: This was the first year-with-a- would begin during this year. did come to pass). nice-round-number-panic. The antipope - 1524: Many astrologers predicted the - Some anti-Mormon sources quote only verses Hippolytus and an earlier Christian academic imminent end of the world due to a world wide 14 and 15, and draw the former conclusion -- Sextus Julius Africanus had predicted flood. They obviously had not read the Genesis that Smith's prophecy failed. Armageddon at about this year. story of the rainbow. - 1843 - MAR - 21: William Miller, - 968 CE: An eclipse was interpreted as - 1533: Melchior Hoffman predicted that founder of the Millerite movement, predicted a prelude to the end of the world by the army of Jesus' return would happen a millennium and a that Jesus would come on this date. A very large the German emperor Otto III. half after the nominal date of his execution, in - number of Christians accepted his prophecy. - 992: Good Friday coincided with the - 1533. The New Jerusalem was - 1844 - OCT - 22: When Jesus did not Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been expected to be established in Strasbourg, return, Miller predicted this new date. In an believed to be the event that would bring forth Germany. He was arrested and died in a event which is now called "The Great the Antichrist, and thus the end-times events Strasbourg jail. Disappointment," many Christians sold their foretold in the book of Revelation. Records - 1669: The Old Believers in Russia property and possessions, quit their jobs and from Germany report that a new sun rose in the believed that the end of the world would occur prepared themselves for the second coming. north and that as many as 3 suns and 3 moons in this year. 20 thousand burned themselves to Nothing happened; the day came and went were fighting. There does not appear to be death between 1669 and 1690 to protect without incident. independent verification of this remarkable themselves from the Antichrist. - 1850: Ellen White, founder of the event. - 1689: Benjamin Keach, a 17th century Seven Day Adventists movement, made many - 1000 - JAN - 1: Many Christians in Baptist, predicted the end of the world for this predictions of the timing of the end of the world. Europe had predicted the end of the world on year. All failed. On 1850-JUN-27 she prophesized this date. As the date approached, Christian - 1736: British theologian and that only a few months remained before the end. armies waged war against some of the Pagan mathematician William Whitson predicted a She wrote: "My accompanying angel said, countries in Northern Europe. The motivation great flood similar to Noah's for OCT-13 of this 'Time is almost finished. Get ready, get ready, was to convert them all to Christianity, by force year. get ready.' ...now time is almost finished...and if necessary, before Christ returned in the year - 1792: This was the date of the end of what we have been years learning, they will 1000. Meanwhile, some Christians had given the world calculated by some believers in the have to learn in a few months." their possessions to the Church in anticipation Shaker movement. of the end. Fortunately, the level of education - 1794: Charles Wesley, one of the Continued on Page 28 was so low that many citizens were unaware of founders of Methodism, thought Doomsday the year. They did not know enough to be afraid. would be in this year. Otherwise, the panic might have been far worse - 1830: Margaret McDonald, a Christian WATCH, LISTEN & CHAT TO THE than it was. Unfortunately, when Jesus did not prophetess, predicted that Robert Owen would ‘X’ ZONE AT www.xzonetv.com