Man will never stop guessing!
Yet there remains another prediction trailing right behind Mr. Camping’s proclamation. According to the Mayan calendar, the world will come to an abrupt end on December 21, 2012. Ironically enough, this was proclaimed at the following website:
Why does man continue to play the end times guessing game? My guess in the almighty dollar! All this attention sells books and videos to people who are quickly deceived by these sideshow peddlers, whom as we’ve seen the Bible clearly contradicts. It’s been written down for a few thousand years now for all to see and has not changed. For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." 1 Peter 1:25 And it has! Now you know the truth and are without excuse. You would be wise to test all things and hold fast to the good!
A selected few end time quotes from the bowels of history!
AD 992- A rumour that the end would come when the feast of the Annunciation coincided with
Good Friday. This happened in 992, when Easter fell on March 22, and eager calculators established that the world would end before three years had passed. --Apoc pg 50-51
AD 1284-
Pope Innocent III predicted the end of the world in the year 1284, 666 years after the founding of Islam.
AD 1874- Charles Taze Russell, founder of what would become the Jehovah's Witnesses, first announced that the Last Days had definitely begun in 1874, then that the end would come in 1914. Succeeding Witnesses placed the date in 1925, 1936, 1953, 1973... --99R pg 20
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 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 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
I close with one of my favorite end time quotes:
What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR., Rolling Stone , Aug. 24, 2006