Past "Rapture" predictions or mistakes!

MellowOne

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Fri Jul-28-06 11:14 PM
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Past "Rapture" predictions or mistakes!

The end-of-the-world scenario is nothing new. History is littered with good and godly people who've clained certain knowledge of the end and tried to fit the events of their day into the fulfillment of end-time prophecy.

Here's a partial list that illustrates the problem of trying to make the Bible predict end-time prophecy to fit the events of their day.

500 AD Church father Hippolytus predicted the world would end based on his analysis of the dimensions of Noah's Ark.

999 AD When the last change of millennium drew near, masses feared of the 1000 years spoken of in Revelation.

1033 AD When Christ didn't appear in 1000, they figured the years should be calculated from his ascension and not from his birth, again another bust.

1501 AD Christopher Columbus allowed 155 years for all mankind to be converted to Christianity, after which the world would end.

1546 AD Before he died, Martin Luther stated the end of the world is not far off and believed all the signs which are to precede the last days had alread appeared.

1835 AD Joseph Smith, father of Mormonism prophesied that the coming of the Lord was near and that 56 years should wind up the scene.

1835 AD Our lot has fallen under the solemn period emphatically designated in Daniel as the time of the end. Archdeacon Browne of England in the "The Last Times" by Joseph A. Seiss, D.D.

1818 William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement predicted the end between 1843 and 1844 but later revised it to late 1844.
Similiar dates were set for 1848, 1852, 1856, 1874, 1919, 1918 and 1925.

1917 Three dramatic visitations of the Virgin Mary occurred in Fatima, Portugal. The visions warned of the WWII and the end of the world.

1926 Oswald J. Smith wrote in his book "The Antichrist At Hand?" and the Battle of Armageddon must take place before the year 1933.

1970's Hal Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" cites 1948 as the prohetic sign and the world would end in 1988.

1978 Gary Wilburn and Salem Kirbam predict end of world and coming of Anti-Christ.

1978 Chuch Smith writes in his book "Future Survival" the Lord is coming in 1981.

1988 Edgar C. Whisenant, a retired NASA rocket engineer and prophecy teacher, sold 4.5 million copies of "88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be in 1988." Then wrote a book similar title by 89 reasons in 1989.

1990 Dallas Seminary President John F. Walvoored releases book, "Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East." It paid off during the Iraq war but when the war was over so were the sales.

1991 Charles dyer book "The Rise of Babylon Sign of The End Times" states Iraq's Saddam Hussein was rebuilding the ancient city of Babylon whose end-time destruction is prophesied in Revelation.

1993 Harold Camping predicted the end of the world In September 1994 and appeared on Larry King Live.

As times for the end have come and gone, and predicted events have failed to materialize, it is because the have completely missed the biblical meaning of "the end."