FALSE ASSUMPTIONS & PREDICTIONS

FALSE ASSUMPTIONS & PREDICTIONS

Throughout the centuries, many have predicted the return of Jesus. So far, no one has been right. Maybe the Scriptures which speak about Jesus coming like a thief in the night should be given more thought by prognosticators wishing to predict the time of His return (Matthew 24:36). Here is a list of some dates that have been set for Jesus’ Second Coming and the people who predicted them.

 

1. c. 210 AD. Hippolytus, early church father and a bishop of Rome.

2. 1260. Joachim of Fiore, a Catholic monk.

3. 1420. The Taborite sect in Bohemia.

Thomas Muntzer, leader of a German sect

4. June 18^th 1666. Shabbetai Zevi, a Cabalist Jew who declared himself to be the Messiah. On September 15^th 1666, he converted to Islam.

John Napier, a Scottish writer.

5. 1694. Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638), a reformed theologian.

Thomas Beverly, Pierre Jurieu, Richard Clarke, Edward King and Richard Valpy, J. A. Bengel.

6. March 21^st 1844. William Miller, founder of the Seventh-Day Adventists. This date is known as the First Disappointment in Adventist history.

7. October 22^nd 1844. William Millers followers predict the return of Jesus for a second time. This date is known as the Great Disappointment.

J.P. Petri, Joseph Lathrop, John Gill, Samuel Hopkins.

8. 1873, 1874, 1878. Nelson H. Barbour and Adventist who influenced Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Barbour tried at least three times to predict the date of Jesus’ return.

9. 1874. Charles Taze Russell’s first attempt to predict the return of Jesus.

10. 1878. Charles Taze Russell’s second attempt to predict the return of Jesus.

11. October 1914. Elliott Kamwana, a preacher in the Southeast African territory of Nyasaland.

12. 1914. Charles Taze Russell’s third guess.

13. 1915. Charles Taze Russell’s fourth and last attempt to predict the end of the world. He died in 1916.

14. 1918. Joseph F. Rutherford, successor to Charles Taze Russell as the second president of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, predicts this date.

15. 1925. Christabel Pankhurst, one of the few women writers to enter the field of end-time prognosticators.

Joseph F. Rutherford tries again and misses.

16. April 25^th 1959. Florence Houteff, early leader of the Branch Davidians.

17. 1954, 1975. Other dates selected by the Jehovah’s Witnesses for the Second Coming of Christ. They haven’t selected another date since 1975.

18. September 11^th – 13^th 1988. Edgar Whisenant, writer of the two-million-copy best seller “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be In 1988.”

19. 1988. Hal Lindsey, author of “The Late Great Planet Earth.”

20. October 28^th 1992. The Mission for the Coming Days in Flushing, New York.

21. September 6^th 1994. Harold Camping, author of “1994.” On September 7^th he reevaluates and sets September 29^th as the correct date.

22. September 29^th 1994. Harold Camping misses again.

23. October 2^nd 1994. Harold Camping misses again.

24. March 31^st 1995. Harold Camping misses again. After the fourth try, Camping stopped making predictions.

25. September 17^th 2001. Current pyramidologists who study the Great Pyramid of Giza to ascertain the date of the Rapture.

26. December 31^st. 2011. Solara, a New Age Leader. (He says that this date can be avoided if people choose to attain a higher consciousness before the day arrives).

 

 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. (Matthew 24:36).

 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Mark 13:32).