We Still Have Apocalypse Predictions That Haven’t Failed Yet!

Worried we’ve missed all the apocalypse predictions. Y2K past? Mayans? All that? Don’t worry, we’ve got plenty more. Here’s just a few upcoming ones I found on Wikipedia:

Date (CE)
Claimant(s)
Description
Ref.


2020
Jeane Dixon
This American psychic claimed that Armageddon would take place in 2020, and Jesus will return to defeat the unholy trinity of the Antichrist, Satan, and the False prophet between 2020 and 2037. She had also previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962.
[166]


2021
F. Kenton Beshore
This American pastor bases his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus would return in 1988, i.e., within one biblical generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80 years, placing the Second Coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028 and the Rapture by 2021 at the latest.
[167]


2026
Messiah Foundation International
Members predict that the world will end in 2026, when an asteroid would collide with Earth in accordance with Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi‘s predictions in The Religion of God. The chances are only 1 out of 300,000.
[168]


2060
Isaac Newton
In an unpublished manuscript, Newton gave a date of 2060 which was falsely reported as a date for the end of days.[169] He was against date setting. Rather, he gave it as a date before which it could not happen. He later revised this date to 2016.[170][171]
[172]


2129
Said Nursî
According to abjad interpretation of a hadith, this Sunni Muslim theologian who wrote the Risale-i Nur Collection, which expects the end in 2129.
[173]


2239
Talmud, Orthodox Judaism
According to an opinion about the Talmud in mainstream Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah will come within 6000 years of the creation of Adam, and the world may be destroyed 1000 years later. This would put the beginning of the period of desolation in 2239 CE and the end of the period of desolation in 3239 CE.
[174]


2280
Rashad Khalifa
According to this Egyptian-American biochemist’s research on the Quran, the world will end during that year.
[175]

Better go pick up a copy of Apocalypse All the Time and get prepared.

Apocalypse All the Time is post-post-apocalypticism. The apocalypse happens on a weekly (if not daily) basis and Marshall is sick of it. Life is constantly in peril, constantly disrupted, but nothing significant every really happens as a result. It’s always handled. Marshall wants out; he wants it all to end. In short, the book explores what about the end times holds such fascination for humanity and what impact such a fascination has on the way we live our lives.