Thread: Anyone want to see a list of all the times there was failed end of the WORLD

PREDICTIONS? I recently saw a question dealing with a persons fear of the armageddon thing. Anyways so I decided to find a list online of all the times the world has been predicted to be destroyed, and of course the failure of those predictions.


http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm





Failed Predictions

"About 60 CE: Interpreting the Epistles of Paul of Tarsus literally, his writings seem to imply that Jesus would return and usher in a rapture during the lifetime of persons who were living in the middle of the 1st century. More details.

bulletAbout 90 CE: Saint Clement 1 predicted that the world end would occur at any moment.

bullet2nd Century CE: Prophets and Prophetesses of the Montanist movement predicted that Jesus would return sometime during their lifetime and establish the New Jerusalem in the city of Pepuza in Asia Minor.

bullet365 CE: A man by the name of Hilary of Poitiers, announced that the end would happen that year. It didn't.

bullet375 to 400 CE: Saint Martin of Tours, a student of Hilary, was convinced that the end would happen sometime before 400 CE.

bullet500 CE: This was the first year-with-a-nice-round-number-panic. The antipope Hippolytus and an earlier Christian academic Sextus Julius Africanus had predicted Armageddon at about this year.

bullet968 CE: An eclipse was interpreted as a prelude to the end of the world by the army of the German emperor Otto III.

bullet992: Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times events foretold in the book of Revelation. Records from Germany report that a new sun rose in the north and that as many as 3 suns and 3 moons were fighting. There does not appear to be independent verification of this remarkable event."




#2 Number of times people have claimed to be the messiah


The Jewish Messiah originally meant a divinely appointed king; David, Cyrus the Great[1], and Alexander the Great[2] are examples of such. Later, especially after the failure of the Hasmonean Kingdom (37 BCE) and the Jewish–Roman wars (66-135 CE), the figure of the messiah was one who would deliver the Jews from oppression and usher in a new world.

* Simon of Peraea (ca. 4 BC), a former slave of Herod the Great who rebelled and was killed by the Romans.[3]
* Athronges (ca. 3 BC)[4], a shepherd turned rebel leader.
* Jesus of Nazareth (ca. 4 BC — AD 30-?), a prophet and teacher who was crucified; Jews who believed him to be the Messiah were the first Christians, also known as Jewish Christians. In the Christian faith, he is regarded as the true Christ and is belived by Christains to be the son of God.
* Menahem ben Judah (?), allegedly son of Judas of Galilee, partook in a revolt against Agrippa II before being slain by a rival Zealot leader.
* Vespasian, c.70, according to Josephus[5]
* Simon bar Kokhba (?- ca. 135), founded a short-lived Jewish state before being defeated in the Second Jewish-Roman War.

* Moses of Crete (?), who in about 440-470 convinced the Jews of Crete to attempt to walk into the sea to return to Israel; he disappeared after that disaster.
* Ishak ben Ya'kub Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani (684-705), who led a revolt in Persia against the Umayyad Caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.
o Yudghan (?), a disciple of Abu 'Isa who continued the faith after Isa was slain.[citation needed]












http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants

Man always think they know when the world will end. But the bible declares that no man nor the angels even know. So lets just live holy until he comes