# Failed prophecies of the end of the world 2000-future 2000 - Predictions of a Y2K computer bug were to crash many computers on January 1, 2000, and would cause major catastrophes worldwide and society ceasing to function. - An estimated 778 followers of this Ugandan religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after Credonia Mwerinde's and Joseph Kibweteere's predictions of the apocalypse starting January 1, 2000, failed to come about. - Jerry Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on January 1, 2000. - William Cooper predicted that on January 1, 2000, the secret chambers of the Pyramid at Giza will be opened. Its secrets will be revealed and Satan will become a public figure. The American militia will engage in a massive war at this time. - Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins stated the Y2K bug on January 1, 2000, would trigger global economic chaos, which the Antichrist would use to rise to power. As the date approached, however, they changed their minds. - Dr. Dale Sumbureru looks for March 22, 1997, to be "the date when all the dramatic events leading through the tribulation to the return of Christ should begin" The actual date of Christ's return was expected to be somewhere between July 2000 and March 2001. Dr. Sumbureru is more general about the time of the Christ's second coming than most writers and claimed he could be off by weeks or months. - James Harmston, the leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days, predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on April 6, 2000. - Dan Millar estimated September 21, 2000, as that of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Four events happen on that day, a Thursday. The sidereal day is reset, it is also the Jewish New Year using the Canaanite calendar that was in use within ancient Israel before the Babylonian Captivity, it is the time of the Jewish Feast of Jubilees (which only happens once every 50 years) according to a message given by the Virgin Mary to Father Stefan Gobbi, and the day is also the Autumn Equinox. - Elohim City in eastern Oklahoma is led by Robert Millar and has about 100 heavily armed inhabitants working, praying and conducting paramilitary drills. Millar envisions a white Christian nation in North America and runs the city, anticipating an inevitable Asiatic invasion of the United States. Millar believed that Christ has been revealing himself for the last two millennia. He also preached that a series of disasters is about to strike, probably soon after the year 2000, during which time the unworthy and wicked will be cleansed from the Earth. Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh phoned friends of his in Elohim City before the blast. - The Nuwaubian Nation movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust," pulling the planets toward the sun on May 5, 2000. - Isaac Newton predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. - Peter Olivi wrote that the Antichrist would come to power between 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgement would take place around 2000. - Ruth Montgomery predicted the Earth's axis would shift, and the Antichrist would reveal himself in 2000. - Edgar Cayce again predicted the Second Coming would occur in 2000. - Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year. - Ed Dobson predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000. - Lester Sumrall predicted the end again in his book I Predict 2000. - Jonathan Edwards predicted in the 18th century that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year. - On Earth Day in 1970, many scientists concluded that humanity had a window of 15--30 years, tops, before a new ice age set in unless humanity made permanent pollution controls. 2000, 2006 - Michael Drosnin, author of The Bible Code, found a hidden message in the first five books of the Bible that predicts that World War III, involving a worldwide atomic holocaust, will start in 2000, or perhaps 2006. 2001 - Tynnetta Muhammad predicted the end would occur in 2001. - Jack Van Impe's book On the Edge of Eternity predicts that the year 2001 will "usher in international chaos such as we've never seen in our history." and that in 2001 and the following years the world will experience "drought, war, malaria, and hunger afflicting entire populations throughout the African continent...By the year 2001, there will be global chaos." Islam will become much larger than Christianity. A one-world church will emerge; it will be "controlled by demonic hosts." Temple rituals (presumably including animal sacrifice) will resume in Israel. - Charles Spiegel, a retired psychology professor, preached that the ancient land of Atlantis will emerge from the Caribbean circa 2001. Shortly thereafter, 1000 extra-terrestrials from "Myton" in 33 spaceships will land there and bring new knowledge to humanity. - Jack Van Impe changed from his book's prediction of the end of the world to it becoming the beginning of the Millennium. 2002 - Yoruba priests predicted dramatic tragedy and crisis in 2002, including coups, war, disease, and flooding. 2003 - Nancy Lieder originally predicted the date for the Nibiru collision as May 2003. According to her website, aliens in the Zeta Reticuli star system told her through messages via a brain implant of a planet which would enter our solar system and cause a pole shift on earth that would destroy most humanity. - Aum Shinrikyo again predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between October 30 and November 29, 2003. 2004 - Based on Psalmology, numerology, the Bible's 360 days per year, Jewish holidays and "Biblical astronomy" this date was calculated by some people. - Arnie Stanton said on September 16, 1997, that that evening was the fourth Jewish festival since April 3, 1996, when a lunar eclipse occurred. He believes that, based on Luke 21:25-26, "these recent lunar eclipses are the last known astronomical signs that will precede a 7 year (360 day/year) countdown to Armageddon/Christ's return to Earth." He expects Christ's return will occur within a few months of September 29, 2004, when Asteroid Toutatis will make a very close approach to Earth. 2006 - Yisrayl Hawkins in his February 2006 newsletter predicted the start of nuclear war on September 12, 2006. 2007 - Hal Lindsay's revision to his math said the Rapture would happen in 2007, since Israel didn't technically have land until the 1967 War. - Shelby Corbett, of Bradenton, Florida, had put up benches throughout town advertising the rapture will happen in 2007. - Marilyn Agee predicts the end of this age on September 12, 2007, that will end in eternal world peace on May 31, 2008. 2008, 2010 - Several groups claimed that activation of the Large Hadron Collider experiment on September 10, 2008, would bring about the end of the world through the production of planet-eating micro black holes or strangelets. Similar claims were made about March 30, 2010, when the collider reached 7 TeV, half of its maximum energy. 2008 - Ronald Weinland predicts the end of the world on April 17, 2008, based on his view that six of the seals have been opened up and that there would be nuclear explosions in US port cities by July 2008. 2010, 2012 - Scott Mandelker, who claims to have an ET soul, said that there is a discontinuous event coming, and that "they" peg it to the date 2010 or 2012. 2010 - The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn predicted the world would end in 2010. 2011 - Harold Camping predicted that the Rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on May 21, 2011, with God taking approximately 3% of the world's population into Heaven, and that the end of the world would occur five months later on October 21. - There were fears among the public that Comet Elenin travelling almost directly between Earth and the Sun would cause disturbances to the Earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes and tidal waves. Others predicted that Elenin would collide with Earth on October 16, 2011. Scientists tried to calm fears by stating that none of these events were possible. 2012 - After Ronald Weinland's prophecy failed to come true, he changed the date for the return of Jesus Christ to May 27, 2012. - José Luis de Jesús predicted that the world's governments and economies would fail on June 30, 2012, and that he and his followers would undergo a transformation that would allow them to fly and walk through walls. - New Age writers cited Mayan and Aztec calendars, which predicted the end of the age on December 21, 2012. - Warren Jeffs, the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, predicted from his prison cell that the world would end by December 23, 2012. When the end failed to occur as he had predicted on December 23, Jeffs blamed it on his followers' "lack of faith", and moved the prediction to December 31. - Michael Drosnin made another prediction based on a hidden message he found in the first five books of the Bible that predicted that a comet would crash into the earth in 2012 and annihilate all life. 2013 - Grigori Rasputin prophesied a storm where fire would eat all life on land and Jesus Christ would come back to Earth to comfort those in distress. 2014-2015 - Mark Biltz and John Hagee in 2008 claimed that four "blood moons" in 2014 and 2015 may represent prophecies allegedly given in the Bible relating to the second coming of Jesus Christ. 2016 - Professor Lloyd Cunningdale was excavating with his students at the Donner Party disaster site. They found a time capsule left by the settlers that has many predictions for the future, including a weaponized disease wiping out all humanity in 2016. 2018 - Climate change experts in 2008 predicted that the Arctic Circle would be ice-free by 2018. 2020 - Jeane Dixon claimed that Armageddon would take place in 2020 and Jesus would return to defeat the unholy Trinity of the Antichrist, Satan and the False prophet between 2020 and 2037. Dixon previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962. - Jerry Falwell said the Antichrist is probably alive today and is a male Jew. He believes that the second coming of Christ will be within 10 years of 2010. 2021 - F. Kenton Beshore bases his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus could return in 1988 (i.e., within one Biblical generation of 40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a Biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70--80 years, placing the Second Coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028 and the Rapture by 2021 at the latest. 2024 - Climate change experts in 2004 predicted that Britain would be as inhabitable as Siberia by 2024. * * * * * COMING SOON! 2026 - Messiah Foundation International members propagate that the world is to end in 2026, when a comet would collide with Earth, in accordance with Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi's predictions in The Religion of God. 2034 - John Denton views both Bible covenants to be of equal time, and that the end of the era of the New Testament will be in 2034. 2047 - Hal Lindsay's re-revision changes the date of the end of the world to 2047. - According to The Church of !BLAIR!, humanity will probably be terminated at 3:28 AM (Soho, England time) on September 14, 2047. The church teaches that if humanity does not discard their plastic conformity, the Gods will withdraw their protection. The Gods don't want us to worship them; they don't want sacrifices or even offerings. They want us to rid itself of our excessive "Normalcy". At that point, Astro-Lemurs (extra-terrestrials similar in shape to lemurs, but with rainbow-colored bodies) will attack the entire human race and beat them to death with gigantic burritos. 2050 - An Australian think tank as of June 2019 claims that the world's ice sheets will collapse and humanity will cease to exist by 2050 if major pollution controls aren't set in place. 2070 - Climate experts predicted in 1972 that a new ice age is coming. 2120 - According to abjad interpretation of a hadith, Adnan Oktar claims that the Last Day will come about the year 2120. 2129 - According to abjad interpretation of a hadith, Said Nursî who wrote the Risale-i Nur Collection expected the end in 2129. 2239 - According to an opinion on the Talmud in mainstream Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah should come within 6000 years from the creation of Adam, and the world could possibly be destroyed 1000 years later. This would put the beginning of the period of desolation in the year 2239 and the end of the period of desolation in the year 3239. 2280 - According to Rashad Khalifa's research on the Quran Code, the world will end in 2280. 500,000,000 - James Kasting predicts the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will drop in the year 500,000,000, making Earth uninhabitable. 5,000,000,000 - It is widely accepted by the scientific community that the year 5 billion will be the end of our Sun's current phase of development, after which it will swell into a red giant, either swallowing the Earth or at least completely scorching it. However, as the Sun grows gradually hotter (over millions of years), the Earth may become too hot for life in only a billion years' time. 22,000,000,000 - Brad Larson's Big Rip theory predicts that the entire universe will eventually be progressively torn apart if the strength of dark energy increases with time. Small massless patches then collapse back into a single point renewing the Big Bang Cycle then causing it to explode out again renewing the universal cycle by its continual expansion. One hypothetical example of the theory places the end in approximately 22 billion years' time. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1 googol) - The heat death of the universe is a suggested final fate of the universe, in which the universe has diminished to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and therefore can no longer sustain motion or life.