Image via Wikipedia I've been a little obsessed with the Apocalypse lately. Not in a "world is really going to end" kind of way. I just keep thinking that I've heard these deadline before. What started this was this guy in the subway the other day with a sign saying that the world will end on May 21 of this year.There have also been commercials on tv saying that there's a guy who knows when America will end and that this guy's predictions have been right in the past. Well, I figured out that this guy is Harold Camping. He's a a rich guy who owns a lot of radio stations who decided that the world will end in May but that the world will also be consumed by fire on Oct 21 of this year.
Now, before you run out, grab your emergency supplies, and kiss your loved ones goodbye, you should know that he also predicted the same thing for 1994. I guess he's just figuring that people will forget about how wrong he was back then and follow him now.
These events, along with all of these shows on the History Channel about the end of the world, Nostradamus, and the Antichrist got me thinking: how many other times has someone predicted the end of the world so I did a little research. It turns out there are at least 240 other times some self proclaimed prophet scared everybody into thinking that the Rapture was coming. It goes all the way back to 2800 BC. The Jehovah Witnesses and the Watchtower Society are good for at least 8 of them over the past century. I've decided I'm going to post one prediction a day, just so people will stop this "end of the world" stupidity. After all, it'll be every body's end someday but I doubt the entire world will end on the same day.
This post about May 21 will count as the first one. According to Camping, the world will end at sundown in Jerusalem. He points to Matthew 24: 35 - 36 as proof. Remember, though, that this is his second prediction. By the way, the photo on this blog? That's Harold Camping.
