TS Eliot wrote that humankind cannot bear much reality. Today, when life seems irremediably chaotic, our politicians catastrophic and the future more ungraspable, we desperately seek patterns, narratives and meaning. “At moments of great change or social anxiety we do tend to go looking for explanations,” says Jones. “We want the past and the future to make narrative sense.” The point of the prophet is to provide this by showing us mugs what we have not noticed, be it a providential working-out of a larger, perhaps God-determined, purpose, the march of progress, or, as Steven Connor puts it, “a redemptive parabola rising from fall to forgiveness”. This Spanish monk prophesied the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the world on that day in front of a large crowd of people. Feeling he’d stayed away long enough to be safe from the Inquisition, Nostradamus returned to France to resume his practice of treating plague victims. In 1547, he settled in his hometown of Salon-de-Provence and married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde. Together they had six children—three boys and three girls.

Berg, dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre, stated that on this date "a ball of fire will descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all vegetation, all forms of life." Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to 1058 to 1836, "when Christ should come". Hegel, G. W. F. (2014). Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Volume II. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-85250-6.

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The founder of Calvary Chapel predicted the generation of 1948 would be the last generation and that the world would end by 1981 at the latest. Smith identified that he "could be wrong" but continued to say in the same sentence that his prediction was "a deep conviction in my heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that belief." The so-called blood moon prophecy, first predicted by Mark Biltz in 2008 and then by John Hagee in 2014. These Christian ministers claim that the tetrad in 2014 and 2015 may represent the beginning of the Messianic end times. Some Mormons in Utah combined the September 2015 blood moon with other signs, causing a large increase in sales of preppers survival supplies. The 1st-century bishop of Edessa predicted this date to be the birth date of the Antichrist and the end of the universe. Powell, David (January 22, 2007). "Earth's Moon Destined to Disintegrate". Space.com. Tech Media Network. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.

Carrington, D. (February 21, 2000). "Date set for desert Earth". BBC News. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. When his original prediction failed to come about, Camping revised his prediction and said that on May 21, a "Spiritual Judgment" took place and that both the physical rapture and the end of the world would occur on 21 October 2011. Dixon predicted that Armageddon would take place in 2020. She previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962. This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust", pulling the planets toward the Sun on this date.

This Puritan minister predicted the world would end this year. After the prediction failed, he revised the date of the end two more times. This 13th-century theologian wrote that the Antichrist would come to power between 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgement would take place around 2000. Abanes, Richard (1998). End-Time Visions. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. ISBN 978-1-56858-104-0. David Webster (September 25, 2007). "The Uses and Abuses of the Ancient Maya" (PDF). The Emergence of the Modern World Conference, Otzenhausen, Germany: Penn State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2010. Durant, Will (1953). The Renaissance. The Story of Civilization. Vol.5. New York: Simon and Schuster. ASIN B000HMTXTK.

Kenyan joy as world fails to end". BBC News. September 12, 2006. Archived from the original on August 7, 2017. Fortunately, this prophecy has remained purely metaphorical, but it certainly points to the everyday financial hardships that have been felt recently, with headlines last year noting how many people on low incomes had to decide between ‘eating and heating’. Climate catastrophe in 2024?Dobson, Ed (1997). The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A. D. 2000. Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-21373-4. Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. Assuming no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658. The young lion will overcome the older one / On the field of combat in a single battle / He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage / Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.”