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by Truthseeker013 on Sun Jan 16, 05 11:11am
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This from Armageddon Online. It's a list of all the people over the years who have predicted the anti-christ and armageddon. Ask yourself, do you really want to take interest in these failures? Read up about them by all means. Maybe one day we can free ourselves from these nutbags. AD 1900 Philosopher Vladimir Solovyev, eminent Russian theologian, foretold in his work, War, Progress, and the End of History, of a war with the Japanese in which the Japanese would win, conquering much of the world, but eventually being driven back by the Europeans. Then there would arise a brilliant writer and thinker who would unite the world and decree everlasting peace, ultimately summoning all religious leaders of the world, promising them everything they wanted if they would bow down and accept his sovereignty. The Jews would accept him as the Messiah, until they learn that he is not a Jew. Then would begin the revolt that would lead to the final battle north of Jerusalem, as well as the eruption of a volcano from the bottom of the Dead Sea. Said Solovyev: "The approaching end of the world strikes me like some obvious but quite subtle scent -- just as a traveller nearing the sea feels the sea breeze before he sees the sea." --TEOTW pg 221-227 AD 1901 In 1889, the Rev. Michael Baxter, editor of the London Christian Herald, announced in a book called The End of This Age about the End of This Century that 1896 would witness the Rapture of 144,000 devout Christians, and that the world would end in 1901. --TIME pg 120-121 AD 1901 Sergei Nilus, Russian magistrate, in a book titled The Great in the Small, prophesied "the coming of the Antichrist and the rule of Satan on earth." He later stated in 1905, "The king born of the blood of Zion -- the Antichrist is near to the throne of universal power." --TEOTW pg 234-237 AD 1906 H.G.Wells shows that apocalyptic fever was prevalent in his day: "Like most people of my generation...I was launched into life with Millennial expectations...it might be in my lifetime or a little after it, there would be trumpets and shoutings and celestial phenomena, a battle of Armageddon and the judgement." --TSOR pg 177 AD 1908 When a terrible explosion rocked Siberia, a newspaper correspondent present reported..."All the inhabitants of the village ran out into the streets in panic. The old women wept. Everyone thought the end of the world was approaching." --TEOTW pg 274 AD 1910 In Pittsburgh, a clergyman announced that the arrival of Haley's Comet would herald Armageddon and the Second Coming. AD 1918 Clarence Larkin, in his book Dispensational Truth, writes, "...at no time in the history of the Christian Church have the conditions neccessary to the Lord's return been so completely fulfilled as at the present time, therefore his coming is imminent, and will not probably be long delayed...If the Millennium is to be ushered in in AD 2000, then the "Rapture" must take place at least 7 years before that...It may have been 4075 years, instead of 4004 (as generally given) from Adam to Christ. In that case we are living in the year 5993 from the creation of Adam, or on the eve of the Rapture." --Disp AD 1940 William Marrion Branham, a pentecostal faith healer declared himself to be God's end-time prophet, and urged all Christians to come out of their corrupt denominations before the Lord's return. --99R pg 115-116 AD 1945 A Protestant minister in Hiroshima upon the dropping of the first atomic bomb: "The feeling I had was that everyone was dead. The whole city was destroyed...I thought all of my family must be dead -- it doesnt matter if I die...I thought that this was the end of Hiroshima, of Japan, of humankind...This was God's judgement on man." --TEOTW pg 337 AD 1973 The "Children of God" cult claimed that its leader, David Berg, was "God's end-time prophet to the world." They fled America in 1973 due to Berg's prediction that Comet Kohoutek would destroy the country. --99R pg 117 AD 1976 Prophecy teacher Doug Clark announced that President Jimmy Carter would be "the president who will meet Mr. 666 (the Antichrist) SOON!" A flier announcing Clark's new book that year claimed, "The Death of the United States and the Birth of One World Government under President Carter." --SSA pg 24 (Personal note: I was working at a TV station in Orange County California whose manager believed the Clark prediction, and transformed the station's output into 24 hour a day warnings of the end of the Earth, even to the point of abandoning the commercials rotation. The Earth did not end but the TV station went out of business. ) AD 1980 North Carolina prophecy teacher Colin Deal has set dates for the return of Christ for 1982 or 1983, 1988, 1989, and in a March 17, 1989 radio broadcast, "about eleven years away." If at first you don't succeed... --SSA pg 38 AD 1980 Prophecy promoter Charles Taylor predicted a 1988 rapture: "This new book (Watch 1988 - The Year of Climax) is being written with the expectation that it will be the last book I will ever write ...with the millennial reign of Christ due to begin in 1995, the rapture must surely occcur in 1988 to coordinate with many other prophecies!" Not surprisingly, Taylor also made similar predictions for 1975, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, and, of course, 1989. --SSA pg 134-142 AD 1981 May 25. About fifty members of a group called the Assembly of Yahweh gathered at Coney Island, NY, in white robes, awaiting their "Rapture" from a world about to be destroyed between 3PM and sundown. A small crowd of onlookers watched and waited for something to happen. The members chanted prayers to the beat of bongo drums until sunset. The end did not come. AD 1982 Full-page advertisements in many major newspapers for the weekend of April 24-25, 1982, announced: "The Christ is Now Here!" and predicted that he was to make himself known "within the next two months." That date passed, but the Tara Centers that placed the ad said that the dalay was only because the "consciousness of the human race was not quite right..." --99R pg 154-155 AD 1980 Psychic Jeanne Dixon predicted a world holocaust for the 1980s, and the rise of a powerful world leader, born in the Middle-East in 1962. --99R pg 120-122 AD 1988 Edgar C. Whisenant, in his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988, gave a three day period in September for the saints to be "caught up with the Lord." When this failed, he issued another book claiming that he was a year off, and urging everyone to be ready in 1989. --SSA pg 28-33, DOOM pg 134 AD 1991 Reginald Dunlop, end-times author, stated that "The Antichrist would be revealed" around the year 1989 or 1990, perhaps sooner." The Rapture he predicted for 1991. Says dunlop, God verified this "through many prayers...I am MORE than positive that this is THE YEAR that the Rapture will occur." --SSA pg 36 AD 1990 Southwest Radio Church's David Webber and Hoah Hutching's book, "Prophecy in Stone" contained a chart which set dates for the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in 1974-1978, and the Great Tribulation for sometime between 1981 and 1992. A later book, "New Light on the Great Pyramid," had another chart which revised these figures, tentatively setting dates of 1988, 1992, and 1996, for the Tribulation, the abomination of desolation, and Christ's return, respectively. --SSA pg 37 AD 1990 Elizabeth Clare Prophet predicted the end of the world by nuclear war in 1990. Her church has since seen a decline in membership. AD 1992 "Rapture, October 28, 1992, Jesus is coming in the Air." Full page add in the October 20, 1991, issue of USA Today, placed by followers of the Hyoo-go (Rapture) movement, a loose collection of Korean "end-times" sects. When the prophesied events failed to pass, much turmoil broke out among the sects. Some believers were distraught, while others tried to attack their doomsday preachers with knives. The founder of one church was later charged with swindling four million dollars from his parishoners. --99R pg 11, 168-169 AD 1993 David Koresh, self-proclaimed little lamb of Isaiah 16, and the Second Coming of Christ, dies in a fiery conflagration with some 80 of his followers. These members of the Branch Dividians, an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventists had faced a botched ATF raid on their compound near Waco, Texas, and a subsequent 51-day siege by the FBI. A devastating fire broke out when the FBI attempted to fire gas into the group's buildings. --99R pg 122-124 AD 1994 Arab Christian prophet Om Saleem claimed that the antichrist was born November 23, 1933, that his unveiling would come in 1993 and the rapture in 1994. --99R pg 149 AD 1994 Harold Camping, a radio evangelist, wrote a book entitled "1994?" In it, Camping says, "if this study is accurate, and I believe with all my heart that it is, there will be no extensions of time. There will be no time for second guessing. When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can be saved, the end has come." Thousands believed Camping's distorted biblical teachings, but again, the end did not come as Camping had wished. --99R pg 12, 48-50 AD 1997 Mary Stewart Relfe wrote in 1983 that she had been praying to " know the year" of the Lord's coming, and that subsequently she receied detailed "divine revelations" from God. She relaeased a chart showing World War III beginning in 1989, the Great Tribulation starting in 1990, and that Jesus Christ will come back in 1997, just after Armaggeddon." --SSA pg 35 AD 1998 Larry Wilson, a former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, predicted four massive global earthquakes beginning around 1994 and ending in 1998 with the Second Coming. --99R pg 77 Bibliography (What the abbreviations mean) Thief = Thief in the Night by William Sears, George Ronald press, 1977 99R = 99 Reasons Why No One Knows When Christ Will Return by B.J. Oropeza, InterVarsity Press, 1994 SSA = Soothsayers of the Second Advent by William M. Alnor, Fleming H. Revell Company, 1989 Doom = Doomsday Delusions by C. Marvin Pate and Calvin B Haines, Jr., InterVarsity Press, 1995 TEOT = The End of Time by Damian Thompson, University Press of New England, 1996 Armada = The Armada by Garrett Mattingly, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959 DISP = Dispensational Truth by Clarence Larkin, Rev. Clarence Larkin Est - publisher, 1918 Apoc = Apocalypses by Eugen Weber, Harvard University Press, 1999 Bury = Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970 TSOR = The Sleep of Reason by Derek Jarrett, Harper and Row, 1989 TEOTW = The End of the World by Otto Friedrich, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982 Hand = Handbook of Denominations in the United States - New Eighth Edition by Frank S. Mead, Abingdon Press, 1985 Brit = Encyclopaedia Brittanica The fact is that there is ALWAYS some con-artist in a robe, waving around portents, signs, and holy writ, claiming that the world is coming to an end and ofering to tell you what to do about it for only $19.95 (plus if you act now they'll throw in a free glow-in-the-dark plastic Jesus statue). THERE WILL LIKELY BE MANY MORE TO COME! Problem is, they can be wrong a million times, it only takes 1 person to be right ;)
by cretin_slap on Mon Jan 17, 05 8:05am
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^ You don't know what you're talking about.
by boricua_babe on Tue Jan 25, 05 11:38pm
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Neither did Branham.
by cretin_slap on Wed Jan 26, 05 3:48am
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boricua babe. As you can see from the above list, people have been predicting the Apocalypse for a hundred years. A hundred years of "it's just around the corner". Why should anyone believe this person when it is the policies of our governments that are causing this Bible fantasy to come true. Promise me, boricua babe, that if Jesus does come back and he associates himself with the United Nations you will wake up and realise you've been had.
by cretin_slap on Wed Jan 26, 05 6:13am
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The True prophet of God in this last day will proclaim the whole Word. Denominations will hate him. His words may be as harsh as John the Baptist who called them vipers. But the predestinated will hear and be ready for the rapture. The Royal Seed of Abraham, with like faith as Abraham's will hold to the Word with him, for they are predestinated together.
by boricua_babe on Fri Jan 28, 05 5:28pm
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AD 1901 In 1889, the Rev. Michael Baxter, editor of the London Christian Herald, announced in a book called The End of This Age about the End of This Century that 1896 would witness the Rapture of 144,000 devout Christians, and that the world would end in 1901. --TIME pg 120-121 boricua babe. If you'd have been around in 1899 you'd have been spouting the garbage of Rev. Michael Baxter. Correct?
by cretin_slap on Wed Feb 02, 05 8:38am
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Wrong again^
by boricua_babe on Wed Feb 02, 05 11:22pm
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Rejected By The Majority Tragically, Bible and secular history also reveals that almost all of God's Prophets were greeted with skepticism and abuse. No matter how great their Divine Vindication, they suffered at the hands of the people to whom they were sent. Jesus expressed this to the Pharisees in Matthew 23:31-36 when He revealed that they and their forefathers were guilty of the blood of "all" the prophets from Abel to Zechariah. There has never been a time in Bible History that the people were ready and willing to listen to the witness of God relative to coming events of great magnitude. Therefore it is believed that only a few will be even a little aware of the witness God has already given to us and established as proof of His Coming. The Bible clearly teaches that God does not deal with Jew and Gentile at the same time. God has appointed a limited time wherein he brings Salvation unto the Gentiles - calling out of the Gentiles "a people for His name" (Acts 15:14). This time frame covers approximately 2000 years and is divided into Seven Church Ages. WHO Is This Prophet? The Vindicated Messenger....... This man who fits the Bible Pattern was not recognized by the religious systems and orders of the day, so we need not look for him there. He was not numbered amongst the ecclesiastical mighty. In fact he could well be as obscure as was John and Jesus. Indeed, his birth was as humble as that of all the other prophets. The people, with open arms, welcomed the 'signs and wonders' part of his ministry BUT they openly rejected the "Preaching of the Word". They refused to hear the "Voice of the sign" (the sign of a prophet). Regardless, this man stayed with the Word. The Gentile church world the Last Day Prophet stepped into, had drifted into an unholy mixture of Truth and Error - a tree of knowledge of good and evil. They had the Word of God, they had the Bible, and from the Bible, the preachers drew their sermon texts. BUT still error prevailed and compromise became the password; And overall the people had adopted a very lax attitude in regard to the authority and preciseness of the Scriptures in matters of Personal Conduct, Order and Doctrine. The man God chose to bring His Message to this generation was William M. Branham - He became, not by choice, but by a Divine call, the Voice of God to this Endtime Age. God had choosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty; the things (in the eyes of man) which are despised, low-born, and nothing, that He might bring to naught the things that are...(1st. Corinthians 1:26-29).
by boricua_babe on Wed Feb 02, 05 11:42pm
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"Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established, believe his Prophets, so shall ye prosper."2nd. Chron. 20:20.
by boricua_babe on Wed Feb 02, 05 11:47pm
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No, but do you know who Mayor Marion Barry was?
by I_Always_Lie on Tue Jun 28, 05 11:07pm
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Mayor Marion Barry Was he the NICE BLACK MAN that was... oh no he was the MAYOR THAT SMOKED CRACK ON THE JOB!!! Voted : Yes, he was our Prophet. Bro.Branham is Definately the last Laodecian Church Age Messenger.The reason why I believe this, other than the FACT of Malachi4(5-6),is because GOD said in His word that only His Prophets will reveal the mystries of His word.God has proved that Wiiliam Branham's ministry is of God and the only Message that will prepare you and show you how to get ready for the coming of the LORD.I honestly believe, with ALL my heart,the reason so many people reject this message is 1.They are, simply, unbelievers and 2.people are set in there ways and don't want to open their hearts and minds to the message because their affraid of what would become of their lives in accepting God's Word.Lastly the Bible says the "WE (the bride) would surely be despised" and Bro.'s and Sis's believing this message that was sent by a vedicated prophet and being sealed of the HOLYGHOST, yes the world and every soul in it will despise you. God also said that HE would be with you even in you until the end of time.
by Guest User from [4.129.68.106] on Fri Sep 22, 06 6:26pm
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