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Historically, such predictions have been made for the purpose of diverting attention from actual crises like poverty and war, pushing political agendas, or promoting hatred of certain groups; antisemitism was a popular theme of Christian apocalyptic predictions in medieval times, [5] while French and Lutheran depictions of the apocalypse were ...
[1] [2] [3] Whisenant believed the description of the sun being blocked out in Revelation chapter 11 was a prediction of nuclear winter. [4] He initially published two books, 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988 and On Borrowed Time. Both were published by World Bible Society with financial backing from Norvell Olive, a Christian radio ...
The History Channel aired a handful of special series on doomsday that included analysis of 2012 theories, such as Decoding the Past (2005–2007), 2012, End of Days (2006), Last Days on Earth (2006), Seven Signs of the Apocalypse (2009), and Nostradamus 2012 (2008). [184]
A YouTube user also falsely claimed that Nostradamus predicted a 9.8 earthquake would hit California on May 28, 2015. Fact check: Claim about FBI official who said bureau recovered no guns at ...
Harold Egbert Camping (July 19, 1921 – December 15, 2013) was an American Christian radio broadcaster and evangelist. [1] Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that, at its peak, broadcast to more than 150 markets in the United States.
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse.
This is not a list of everyone who has made a prediction that has managed to get media coverage. This is a list of predictions that were made by notable people or groups, or predictions which gathered so much media attention that the prediction itself is notable, such as the 2012 phenomenon, which is not attributed to a single person or group.
A two-hour documentary on Nostradamus first aired by the History Channel on 28 October 2007 suggests that a book of paintings in the National Library at Rome is The Lost Book of Nostradamus. In an episode of The Sopranos , Bobby Baccalieri gets Nostradamus mixed up with Quasimodo , saying that Quasimodo predicted 9/11 and the end of the world.