Saturday is the end of the world. OK, it’s probably not, but David Meade, a Christian and self-published author of end-of-the-world survival guides says so. Meade makes the claim using “astronomical, scientific, the Book of Revelation and geopolitics” ideology, laid out in his book Planet X — The 2017 Arrival. His is the latest in a very long line of self-proclaimed prophets who claim they know when — sometimes to the hour — the biblically predicted “end times” will arrive. While we wait for Sept. 23, here are some noteworthy Doomsday predictions:

July 29, 2016 – The group End Times Prophecies once announced the world would end on July 29, 2016, because of something called a “polar flip.” It was predicted the stars would race across the sky and the atmosphere would be pulled along the ground. It turns out such a reversal is a common phenomenon occurring when iron shifts in the Earth’s core. This prediction turned out to be a bust, as did the group’s prognosis that former President Barack Obama would reveal himself to be the Antichrist. CONTINUE 


Advertisement