The return of Jesus Christ is an oft predicted event
“The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture and into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.”
To clarify, the eBible Fellowship was not among the Christian groups predicting Armageddon would coincide with the Blood Moon last month.
But the group has based its prediction on a previous duff claim that the end of days would occur on 21 May 2011.
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Chris McCann of the eBible Fellowship says Wednesday promises to be a 'fiery' trial of faith
Being that this date passed without event, the group claims it was actually “the beginning of Judgement Day” and that 7 October, 1,600 days thereafter is the correct date, upon which “testing would be finished.”
McCann told The Guardian: “According to what the Bible is presenting it does appear that 7 October will be the day that God has spoken of: in which, the world will pass away.
Radio preacher Harold Camping had forecast the end of the world to occur on 21 May 2011
Camping, a retired civil engineer, had originally forecast that some 200 million people would be saved when the globe was destroyed, and warned that those left behind would die in earthquakes, plagues and other scourges until Earth was consumed by a fireball.
After the world failed to be consumed in a fiery armageddon, many devotees were left in something of a pickle, particularly those who had quit their jobs or donated their retirement savings or college funds to spread the word.
Three days later, Camping revised his prophecy, saying that Earth actually would be obliterated on 21 October. He said a mathematical error also prevented an earlier apocalyptic prediction from materialising in 1994.
Thwarted again, Camping, who died in 2013, posted an online letter conceding he had no evidence of an impending apocalypse and asked forgiveness for his sin.
Hmmmm.
With all this in mind, here are seven predicted Armageddons you've already survived. And one that you won't.
7 Predicted Apocalypses You've Already Survived (And One You Definitely Won't)
Berlitz's 1999 Doomsday(01 of08)
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Language tycoon Charles Berlitz suggested that the world would end in 1999, although he wasn't sure how.
He speculated that it might involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other earth changes. (credit:Toronto Star Archives via Getty Images)
Y2K: The rise of the machines(02 of08)
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This worldwide armageddon phenomenon struck ahead of the millenium, causing governments and companies across the world to assess their computer systems for potential bugs.
Although many thought Y2K was a computer virus that would cause machines to rise up and kill their creators á la Terminator, it was actually a consideration of the date systems used in computers. Some manufacturers had failed to use the full year dating system, so most aging tech at the time considered the year to be 99 instead of 1999. Worried that the machines would malfunction and be rendered useless or vulnerable when they ticked over to 00, the world population strived to rectify the issue.And it definitely didn't result in planes falling out of the sky or microwaves trying to kill their human masters, which is good. (credit:AP)
Armageddon is coming, aliens told me(03 of08)
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Nancy Lieder foresaw the world ending in May 2003. She said aliens in the Zeta Reticuli star system told her via a brain implant that the comet Nibiru would enter our solar system and cause a pole shift on earth that would destroy humanity.
Despite the credible sources, Lieder's prediction failed to come true. (credit:Jens Kalaene/DPA)
The House of Yahweh prophecy(04 of08)
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Yisrayl Hawkins, founder and pastor at The House of Yahweh, predicted the world would end as the result of a nuclear war which would start of September 12th, 2006.
After the bombs failed to drop, Hawkins published his book Birth Of the Nuclear Baby: The Explosion Of Sin, in which he claimed the nuclear war HAD started on his prophesied date but the launch of nuclear weapons was yet to occur. (credit:AP)
The Harold Camping quintuple apocalypse(05 of08)
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After already wrongly predicting armageddon three times in 1994 and once in 1995, in 2011 Harold Camping of the Family Stations Ministry stated that the Rapture would occur on May 21st and this would be followed by the end of the world 5 months later.
Reuters camped outside the preacher's house on the eve of ascension, only to see him emerge "flabbergasted" on the 22nd.
The next day, Camping revised his prediction and said that the faithful would ascend to heaven on the same day as the Earth's destruction, October 21st.
Needless to say, that didn't happen. (credit:Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
"The end of the world will give us superpowers"(06 of08)
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José Luis de Jesús, self-proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus Christ and the Antichrist, believed that he and the members of his Creciendo en Gracia sect would be able to fly and walk through walls following the fall of the world's economies and governments on June 30th 2012.
The Floridian's outlandish claims were overshadowed, however, by the sheer virality of the Mayan 2012 prophecy. (credit:Miami Herald via Getty Images)
The end of the Mayan calendar(07 of08)
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Prompting a disaster film titled 2012 and various History channel "documentaries", the end of the ancient Mayan calendar was widely believed to be an omen of the end of the world.
Despite NASA scientists saying nothing would happen, believers thought the world would be struck by an asteroid or some other interplanetary object on December 21st 2012.
It wasn't. (credit:AP)
The inevitable gloomy death of everything(08 of08)
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It is estimated that in the 3×1041st century, all nucleons in the observable universe will decay causing any remaining life in existence to evaporate entirely.
This is known as the Total Existence Failure of the universe, and it doesn't sound very pleasant at all.
That is, if we avoid the galaxy Andromeda colliding with ours in the 40 millionth century. (credit:Shutterstock)