The boy of course became Nostradamus and the ripped pages from books explained his visions of the future. D., Nostradamus is held prisoner of Isaac Newton and kept alive for centuries using the Fountain of Youth so he can read the future for him. Swedenborg, a former Lutheran, claimed that the Last Judgement occurred in the spiritual world this year. Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide was "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so that the cult members' souls could board the supposed craft and be taken to another "level of existence above human".

The author of Oahspe: A New Bible predicted the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year. While clarifying there is no way to be certain, this Christian fundamentalist evangelist speculated in 2015 that 2028 was the "most likely" year for the rapture. German power metal band Helloween's 1996 album The Time of the Oath is based on Nostradamus' supposed prophecy of a world war between 1994 and 2000.Reading is the author of six novels - the internationally bestselling Antichrist Trilogy (more than a million copies sold in 38 countries), which comprises The Nostradamus Prophecies, The Mayan Codex, and The Third Antichrist, and also The Music-Makers, a stand alone love story set in contemporary Cornwall and France and also touching on the May 1968 riots in Paris. During a nomadic youth Reading sold rare books, taught riding in Cape Town, studied dressage in Vienna, played polo in India, France, Spain, and Dubai, ran a seventy horse polo stables in Gloucestershire, and helped manage his Mexican wife's coffee plantation. Rasputin, a Russian mystic who died in 1916, prophesied a storm would take place on this date where fire would destroy most life on land and Jesus would come back to Earth to comfort those in distress.

e. divine guided) shall come a great sovereign financer"; and this financer, whom in turn would be someone exceedingly wealth, would represent the figure of the water-bearer, symbol of Aquarius, which is also associated with the biblical verse in Luke 22:10 in the New Testament. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of A Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World. Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime, with percentages ranging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey. Nostradamus was a French astrologer who lived from 1503 to 1566 but a book based off some of his work has sold nearly 8,000 copies in the week ending September 17. His newest book (and the second to feature photojournalist John Hart) The Templar Inheritance, came out in April 2015.

Once again, however, a rather more sober investigation by Brind'Amour [11] had already revealed (bearing in mind that, in French, faire la guerre aux rochers, or "to make war on the rocks", simply means "to struggle fruitlessly") that the reference was probably to Naples and its nearby volcano. The presence of 666 in the date, the death of 100,000 Londoners to bubonic plague, and the Great Fire of London led to superstitious fears of the end of the world from some Christians. In Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy, Nostradamus appears as an adviser to his daughter during the game.

In the UK in 2015, 23% of the general public believed the apocalypse was likely to occur in their lifetime, compared to 10% of experts from the Global Challenges Foundation. The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true. These events could be associated with a possible transition from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, in which the interpretation of the prophecy would be: "from heaven (i.This magical organization, which existed from 1887 to 1903, predicted the world would end during this year. The verse is as follows: "Good old Nostradamus / he knew the whole damn time / there would always be an east from west / and someone in there fighting". It is estimated that every 100 million years, Earth is hit by an asteroid about 10–15 km in diameter, comparable in size to the one that triggered the K–Pg extinction which killed non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago. During the Münster rebellion, this Anabaptist leader declared that the apocalypse would take place on this date.