• Jewish populations in Egypt, Cyprus, Cyrenaica (North Africa), and Mesopotamia take up arms and revolt against Rome under Cyrenian Jewish messiah Lukuas-Andreas. Christian Jews refuse to join the rebellion. In Cyrenaica alone 220,000 non-Jews are reported to have died at the hands of the Jews in their rebellion against Rome, and in Cyprus an even greater number are massacred by Jewish rebels (Gibbon 1, 1776, p.728). Rebellion is only prevented in Palestine by the harsh measures of Roman governor Lusius Quietus.

• Autumn: Akiba, Chief Rabbi of Israel, proclaims Simeon Bar-Kokhba (ben Koziba) to be the Messiah/Christ!
• Simeon leads a carefully prepared revolt against Rome, after it becomes known that emperor Hadrian is to build Roman temples in Jerusalem.

• The Great Week fallacy of the fraudulent so-called 'Letter of Barnabas' is produced among Egyptian or Alexandrian Christians (influenced by Jewish philosopher Philo's allegorical method of handling Scripture), thereby spreading a view of human history as a Great Week of 1,000-year ages; the sabbath age being the 'millennium' of the book of Revelation, which misleads multitudes over subsequent years to continually make a fool of Christian end-time expectations –

• Montanus of Phrygia begins to prophesy of the imminent return of Christ. The New Jerusalem as a physical city would descend on the city of Pepuza in Phrygia. His movement spreads in the Christian church throughout Asia Minor and North Africa to Rome itself, influencing many leading Christians.

• (Saint) Hippolytus of Rome supports the date of the Creation as 5,500 years before Christ and writes –

In other words, he set the date of the End according to the Great Week idea of history (500 AD according to his calculation). He also teaches the nonsense that the coming Antichrist will be a Jew from the tribe of Dan which further estranges Christians from Jews.

The pseudo-epigraphical Acts of Pilate (also called Gospel of Nicodemus) is composed which follows the Great Week ideology –

• Martin of Tours (student of Hilary) is convinced that the end will happen before this year.

• As Rome is sacked by invaders, Bishop (St.) Augustine reports some Christians as saying,

• Jews gather en mass at Jerusalem confidently looking forward to the coming of a Messianic redeemer (Sanh.97b).

• In Crete – False Messiah Moses (Fiskis) of Crete persuades the Jewish community on the island to leave their possessions and follow him into the sea in a march toward Palestine for it would open as the Red Sea had done. Many drown.

Jews expect the coming of a messiah/christ according to an interpretation of the Jewish Talmud ('Ab. Zarah 9b).

• The presumed start of the Great Week (the date of Creation) is now moved to 5,200 years before Christ (thus, 6000 Anno Mundi = 800 AD).
Nevertheless Christianity is still disturbed by several 'prophets' announcing the imminent coming of Antichrist.

• Pope Gregory writes to king Æthelberht (Aethelbert) of Kent warning that the current disturbances in nature are a sign of the approaching end of the Sixth Age and the destruction of the world.
• Isidore of Seville (d.636) also follows the Great Week (or Six Age) model.

• The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (falsely attributed to the 4th-century Church Father Methodius of Patara) is written in Syriac in reaction to the Islamic conquest of the Near East. It depicts the rise and rule of Antichrist, the invasions of Gog and Magog, and the tribulations that precede the end of the world, and that the last emperor of the Romans (Byzantines) will restore the Christian religion, and its symbol, the cross, in Jerusalem, and he will hand the converted world over to Christ at His second coming. It helps shape Christendom's end-time view during the Middle Ages. (See: May, 1000).

• Abbot Bede in Northumbria, Britain, teaches that the church is in the Sixth Age of the world, also following the Great Week model/myth.
Later, he is accused of heresy in his absence before bishop Wilfrid, for amending the creation date, the start of the Great Week, (and therefore the approximation of the end of its Sixth Age – 'known only to God') to 3,952 years before Christ, thus departing significantly from the calculations of Eusebius, Augustine, and Isidore.

• Stories, such as –

begin to spread in anticipation of the End coming in 800 AD.

• 'Prophetess' Thiota gathers a large following after her prediction that the world will end the following year.

• 'Prophetess' Thiota is publicly flogged and confesses that she did it at the persuasion of a priest for money.

• December: the Great Week heresy has now focused on the year 1000 AD as the End.
Fanaticism reaches panic level in many communities, bands of flagellants roam the countryside, and mobs call for the execution of sorcerers and unpopular officials.

• January: Christ does not come, but a wave of church building spreads in Europe.
• May: The body of Charlemagne is disinterred on Pentecost as it is believed that a Christian emperor will rise from his sleep to fight Antichrist and many hope it is him. (See Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius, 691).

Famine reigns in Europe because agriculture has been neglected in anticipation of Christ's return/the end of the world.

• Belief in the millennium of Christ's death and resurrection as the date for the Great Resurrection fills the roads to Jerusalem with pilgrims anticipating His Return.

• September: the 1184 'Toledo Letter' prophecy which had spread through Europe setting this date as the apocalyptic coming of the Millennium, now fails. The Archbishop of Canterbury had called a three day fast throughout Britain to prepare for it.

• Catholic Abbot Joachim of Fiore predicts that the Antichrist is already in the world and that King Richard of England will defeat him. The Millennium will then begin, sometime before 1205.

• Joachim of Fiore's idea of Seven Stages leading to Christ's Return (ending the sixth 'day' of the Great Week heresy) gains wide acceptance. He teaches that the year 1200 is 40 generations since Christ and thus the start of transition to the Millennium.
His followers finally date the End as 1260 AD.

• Pope Innocent III declares that Muslim power will only last 666 years (from the Hegira/Hijra of 622 AD; that is to 1288 AD), identifying Islam with Antichrist.

• Emperor Frederick II's propagandists 'prove' that Pope Innocent IV is the Antichrist by showing that his Latin name adds up to 666.

• The Apostolic Brethren sect forms (the first doomsday cult) in response to Joachim's apocalyptic ideas, and in 1307 they take up arms in Italy against the corruption of the Roman Church (their spiritual 'Babylon') in order to help precipitate the End.

• Spanish Jewish scientist/philosopher Abraham bar Hiyya (also known as Savasorda/صاحب الشرطة Ṣāḥib al-Shurṭa "Chief of the Guard") calculates this year for the coming of the Messiah (5118-years 'after Creation').

• February 10-14: is set by the Taborite movement of Bohemia (named after the presumed Mount of Transfiguration) as the date of Christ's Return. When He does not come their priests teach that He had come secretly (as Jehovah's Witnesses would later do in 1914). They form an organized apocalyptic community and take up arms against their opponents.

• October: A Taborite army of 400 annihilate a breakaway group known as Adamites who believed the Bible verse – "At midnight a cry went up 'Behold, the Bridegroom cometh'" (Mat.25:6) – gave them authority to kill every man, woman and child they found as judgment to inaugurate Christ's coming.

• Taborite troops continue to rampage throughout central Europe killing their opponents until stopped by a Bohemian army. Their last stronghold is destroyed in 1452 AD.

• Catholic Priest, Girolamo Savonarola of Florence, begins preaching the imminent coming of Antichrist, and prophesying of God's coming judgment. Expectations develop of the Return of Christ in 1500 AD, the Medici rulers are to be cast out and a Christian republic formed.

• Botticelli's famous painting, 'Mystic Nativity', carries his note in Greek –

But the End does not come!
In North Yorkshire, England, Mrs Ursula Shipton (known as 'Mother Shipton') propagates her so-called prophesies (many attributed to her are later inventions). (See 1881).

• David Reuveni (Reubeni) arrives in Jerusalem as Israel's end-time Messiah, after its surrender to the Ottoman empire (known for its friendliness to Jews), precipitating a change in the special Jewish prayer place from the Mount of Olives and Gates of Temple Mount to the Western (Wailing) Wall (Hebrew Kotel, Arabic Buraq).

• Müntzer of Thuringia leads the people of Münster to start the Millennium by violent revolution against corrupt leaders.

• Melchoir Hoffmann (Anabaptist) predicted that Christ would return on this date to the city of Strassbourg (in France today). He had claimed that 144,000 people (from the symbolic 12x12,000 of Rev.7) would be saved, while the rest of the world would be consumed by fire.

• Solomon Molcho's announced year for the arrival of Israel's Messianic kingdom fails.

• Oxford martyr, Bishop Hugh Latimer, writes –

• Arnold de Wion, a Benedictine monk, publishes the so-called 'Prophecies of Saint Malachi' in the name of Malachi O'Morgair, an Irish bishop who died 1148 (canonized in 1190), which claims to describe 112 popes from his time to the end of the world and Christ's return as 'Terrible Judge'. De Wion's effort should be seen against the background of the Catholic Church's counter-reformation in reaction to the spread of Protestantism. (See 1979).

• The Puritan 'Fifth Monarchy Men' in Britain designate 1650 as the start of the End and 1700 as the coming of the Millennium (calculated as 1290 years for the days of Dan.12:11, + 365 AD for the abomination-of-desolation of Roman Caesar Julian the 'Apostate'  + 45 years for Daniel's captivity = 1700 AD). (See 1657).

• Rabbi Shabbetai Tzevi of Smyrna declares this year as Israel's Redemption.

• Bishop Ussher of Armagh fixes the date of Creation as 4004 BC (26th October at 9 AM), and the End as 1997 AD (6000 Anno Mundi of the Great Week heresy) when the Millennium begins.

• The Fifth Monarchy Men attempt an uprising, and later again in 1661 after the restoration of the English monarchy. Their leaders are then seized and executed for treason, and the group dissolves. (See 1640).

• Shabbetai Tzevi is proclaimed Messiah by most Jewish communities of Europe and the Middle East.

• In Western Russia, numerous fields are neglected while the Spasovtsi Old Believers adorn themselves in burial clothes and await the end of the world in cemeteries at night, singing hymns and sitting in wooden coffins. Others set buildings alight and wait inside to be cleansed by dying in the flames to join Christ before Judgment Day. Tsar Peter I is seen as Antichrist and eventually (including the Fedovseyevskoye group after 1737) about 20,000 are estimated to have committed suicide by burning to protect themselves from the Antichrist.

• In Britain – Anti-trinitarian, Sir Isaac Newton (inventor of Calculus) privately estimates the Coming of Christ to be about 2060 AD to inaugurate the Millennium (Yahuda MS 7.3 folio 13 verso, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem), yet he decries date-setting because it brings the Bible into disrepute. Sadly, he is also deceived that in prophetic periods a day=year (See: 'Letter of Barnabas' Great Week heresy above) and so calculates this date by adding 1260 years from 800 AD, being from the taking of temporal power by the trinitarian (Catholic) church –

• In Britain – Anti-trinitarian mathematician William Whitson predicts world destruction for October 13, to be caused by a comet strike. (Archbishop of Canterbury, William Wake, officially rebuts the prediction to ease the extensive public fear which it causes).

• German Lutheran scholar Johann Albrecht Bengel calculates the date of the coming Millennium as 1836.

• Christ returned spiritually on this date according to Emanuel Swedenborg

• February 28: Predicted return of Jesus, by leader of the London Methodist Society George Bell now fails, from whose prediction John Wesley had publically distance himself.

• Ann Lee (tongues-speaking Quaker) founds the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing (Shakers) as the Millennial church in America (promoting celibacy). She declares herself to be the reincarnation of Christ and female aspect of God's dual nature. The Shakers win the admiration of many for their inventiveness (the circular saw, screw propeller, rotary harrow, etc), model farms and their orderly prosperous communities.

• Catholic prophet Suzette Labrousse, inspired by the French revolution, announces the coming of the Millennium to be in the year 1800.

• Joanna Southcott, in England, begins her prophecies of the End. (See 1802)

• The Millennium does not arrive (see 1790).

• Prophetess Joanna Southcott in England begins 'sealing' the '144,000' elect for the End at a charge varying from twelve shillings to a guinea, declaring herself to be the woman of Revelation 12. Her thousands of followers include some Anglican clergy.

• Prophetess Joanna Southcott, age-sixty, declares she will give birth to the new messiah October 19, 1814. She prophesies that the world will end in 2004. (She dies childless December 1814).

• Britain's Rev Edward Irving predicts that Christ will return in 1864 (the Irvingites are the origin of the Catholic Apostolic Church who are today's New Apostolic Church. The Old Apostolic Church is a South African break-away from this group).
• Bible Commentator Adam Clarke predicts that Christ will return in 1966, based on the common 2300-days (Dan.8:14) misinterpretation of a day for a year. See Note below.
But he foolishly also speculates in his commentary on Daniel 7:25 that the end will come in 2015, and then says that he does not draw conclusions –

• Edward Irving begins his "school of the prophets" focusing on end-time issues.

• Henry Drummond (Church of England), Edward Irving, and others, meet at Henry's Albury estate and crystallize a (eurocentric) historicist interpretation of Bible prophecy in the light of the French Revolution, using the 'days=years' formula (see 'Letter of Barnabas' above) as the key to reconcile Bible prophecy with human history, such as –

• September 15: Christ's reign on earth begins, according to Johann Georg Rapp (founder of the 'Harmony Society' in Germany).

• Edward Irving, Henry Drummond, and John Nelson Darby develop the 'pre-Tribulation Rapture' theory of Christ's Return. Darby (Plymouth Brethren) promotes the idea as part of a dispensational division of history which also splits Christ's return between that for His Church and that to a repentant Israel. Through the Bible notes of a lawyer, C.I. Scofield, the erroneous Irving-Drummond-Darby 'pre-Tribulation Rapture' theory is spread among Christians to eventually become the dominant End Time view in most Evangelical and Pentecostal circles.

• Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism), Joseph Smith of America, says –

• November 13: A large meteor shower is observed, which Ellen G. Harmon (later White, who becomes principal teacher/prophet of the Seventh-day Adventist movement) subsequently declares this to be "the last of the signs of His [Christ's] coming" (White 1888:333/4).

• February 14: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church, calls a meeting of his church leaders 'because God has commanded it' and announces that Jesus will return within 56 years ('History of the Church' 2:182). (See: 1891).

• Josiah Litch (as reported in 'Signs of the Times, and Expositor of Prophecy', August 1, 1940) predicts the end of Ottoman power to be August 11, 1840. Turkey's acceptance of the protection of the allied powers of Europe on that date is widely regarded as the prediction fulfilled, and so the historicist method of prophetic interpretation (Miller's method) gains great credibility leading to a wide acceptance of his 1844 (year-for-day) prediction.

• March 21: William Miller's prediction (founder of the 'Adventist' movement) that Jesus would come on this date fails!

• Joseph Smith dies without seeing the Lord's Return or his 85th birthday (See 1832).
• March 21: William Miller, encouraged by some clergy, calculates this date as Christ's Return based erroneously on Daniel 8:9-26. (See 1840). It fails and its 2300 'years' are recalculated from Autumn rather than from Spring in 457BC, continuing the nonsense.
• October 22 (Jewish Yom Kippor): The Return of Christ predicted by Miller's Adventists (numbering about 100,000) fails again, of course. (See 1843).
• December: Ellen G. White (prophetess of Seventh-day Adventism) claims special revelation from God and defends this date by blaming the churches of the time and God, saying that it was the churches view that the word 'sanctuary' in Dan.8:14 meant earth rather than heaven which led to the error (White 1888:352), and that –

She instead re-interprets this date as the beginning of a 'cleansing of the sanctuary' in Heaven, and commits herself to the heretical Great Week model of prophecy (White 1888:659).

• The Seventhday Adventist movement, guided by Ellen White, develops her doctrine of the 'mark of the Beast' as Sunday-worship under a papal Antichrist, in explanation of Christ's 'delayed' Return, with a theory of a change in Christ's Heavenly ministry in 1844 AD. The United States of America is damned as the 'False Prophet' of the book of Revelation (resulting in a mentality that produces tragedies such as the Waco siege in 1993).

• June 27: Ellen G. White, prophetess of the 'Seventhday Adventists', makes many predictions of the timing of the end of the world all of which fail. She writes –

• Ellen G. White's last prediction: She writes that she was shown in a vision the fate of believers who attended the 1856 Seventhday Adventist conference –

• Piazzi Smyth, a past astronomer royal of Scotland, writes a book about 1860 titled "Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid." It is responsible for spreading the belief in pyramidology throughout the world – that secrets are hidden in the dimensions of the great pyramids. He concludes that the Millennium will start in the year 1960.

• Rev. M. Baxter (Church of England) predicts in the following lengthy title of his book –

• Charles Taze Russell (founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses movement, or Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society), after absorbing Adventist influences, begins teaching Christ's return in October 1874 commencing a forty year 'harvest period' in the 'times of the Gentiles', to end in 1914 with the beginning of God's kingdom on earth.

• The failure of the Jehovah Witnesses prediction is now reinterpreted, at the suggestion of their Brother Keith to have been an 'invisible' return of Christ. This becomes their doctrine until 1925, after both their 1914 and subsequent 1925 dates pass un-noticed by God.

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• Jehovah Witnesses declare: "Christ came in the character of a Bridegroom in 1874 ...at the beginning of the Gospel harvest." (Watchtower, Oct.1879, p.4)

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• English 'prophetess' (Ursula Southeil) Mother Shipton's 16th century 'end of the world' prohecy fails.

• Ellen G. White publishes 'The Great Controversy', teaching  6,000 years of Satanic activity (from Adam's fall to Christ's second coming, page 673); once again the Great Week heresy of pseudo-Barnabas.

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• Michael Baxter, editor of the Christian Herald, announces in his book 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.

• March 23: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad declares himself to be Jesus Christ's Return fulfilled, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi of the Last Days, and founds the Ahmadiyya* sect of Islam (which today organises multi-faith conferences to promote itself, with the co-operation of naive Christian groups).

• February 14: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church, 1835 prediction that Jesus would return within 56 years now fails!

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• Jehovah's Witnesses' predicted end of the world fails, but they now change their teaching to an invisible Coming known only to true believers. (See 1870).

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• May 13: Three small children claim to have seen the Virgin Mary standing in an oak tree. On the 13th of each subsequent month until October crowds gather to see the vision but only the children claim to see her. They also claim that three prophecies are given, two revealed and a third kept secret in the Vatican (see May 2000).

• Jehovah's Witnesses (named as such in 1931) teach end of the world in 1925. (See 1870).

• Herbert W Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, predicted that the Day of the Lord would happen sometime in this year. When it does not happen he makes a new prediction for 1975.

• American spirit-medium Edgar Cayce (lifelong active member of the The Disciples of Christ church) prophesies that there will be a devastating "pole shift" of planet earth in the year 2001.

• Bible Commentator Adam Clarke speculated in his commentary on Daniel 12:6 (in 1825) –

• Evangelist Billy Graham tells a rally in Los Angeles, California –

• December 25: Johann Bischoff, chief apostle of the New Apostolic Church announces that Christ will return in his lifetime (see 1954).

• August: David Davidson calculates the end at this date based on his measurements inside the Great Pyramid (Davidson 'The Great Pyramid, Its Divine Message').
• Billy Graham's anticipation of the end fails.

• September 12: In Stuttgart, chief apostle of the New Apostolic Church Johann Bischoff says –

• January 12: The New Apostolic Church addresses an official letter to all its members in the USA, Canada, and the UK –

• Herbert W Armstrong (Worldwide Church of God) publishes his prophecy "1975 in Prophecy", based on the 6,000 year Great Week delusion and his British-Israel doctrine. (See 1975).

• April 22: hundreds of 'Davidians' (a break-away from Seventh-day Adventism) at their 77-acre compound at Waco, Texas, await the Return of Christ, watched by a large crowd and the media. The expectation is broadcast across the United States – and fails.

• July: self-styled prophet, William Branham, declares in response to a California earthquake –

• Adam Clarke's 1825 prediction now fails. He generally taught erroneously that a 'day' in prophecy means a year, and spread this confusion.

• Irvin Baxter of Endtime Ministries predicts the fall of the Berlin Wall as a catalyst to begin a New World Order movement toward a one world government as prelude to the End.

• Jehovah Witnesses declare:

• David Berg (alias 'Moses David') leader of the Light Club sect, a breakaway from the Assemblies of God youth ministry Teen Challenge, prophesies a disastrous earthquake in California that will cause part of the state to slide into the ocean. He leads his group out of Huntington Beach to wander throughout the American southwest for 8 months. During that time, they changed their name to the Children of God. The group gained media attention by their "sackcloth vigils" in which members dressed in "sackcloths, carried staffs and declared that American society was doomed for turning its back on God".

• Hal Lindsey publishes in his best-selling book 'Late Great Planet Earth' that there will be only one generation between Israel's new statehood and the End Time. Although he does not state the date he provides many of the arguments upon which the date 1988 is based, which leads to much deception.
• April, Rev. David Wilkerson claims a supernatural vision of imminent world-wide disaster of unprecedented proportions, economic collapse, famine, earthquakes, etc., in 'this generation', leading to Christ's sudden evacuation of Christians and the rise of Antichrist.

• Roman Catholic Sister Agnes Katsuko at Akito, Japan, receives a message from the Virgin Mary, saying –

in anticipation of the year 2000. (source: TW Petrisko, Call of the Ages, Queenship, 1995, p.xxi).

• Worldwide Church of God's Herbert W Armstrong prophecy of the year 1975 fails. (See 1956).
• The Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) selected this year as its main prediction after many previous failures –

"According to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation."

They believe that this year is a promised date for the end of the world, as it is supposed to 'the 6,000th anniversary of Adam's creation'. The Great Week heresy continues to deceive.

• April 1, Jack Van Impe publishes a newsletter which reads: "Messiah 1975? The Tribulation 1976?"

• Tele-evangelist Marion Gordon 'Pat' Robertson, of the American evangelical 700 Club, predicts that the world will end in October or November 1982 –

• November 18: 'Disciple's of Christ' church, 'Peoples Temple', Jonestown, Guyana, conducts a mass suicide of its 900 members (one third were under 18 years and so some probably murdered) because of a Federal investigation (they practiced suicide procedures several times over the years as a sign of loyalty to the church). Pastor Jim Jones had warned his followers that a disastrous period of fascism, race war, and nuclear holocaust was coming.

• 'Les Propheties De Saint Malachie' (the prophecy of Saint Malachi, of the popes) is published by journalist Daniel Reju,increasing apprehension of the end of the world at the end of the millennium.

• August 14: The General Presbytery of the Assemblies of God in the USA adopts a position paper on the return of Christ for Christians (The Rapture of the Church) which asserts "imminence" as an essential (that is, that Christ may return at any moment) and that therefore – "to interpose other events before the Rapture does violence to such teaching", in spite of the Bible's contradictory statement in Matthew 24:14 as well as 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 below –

• Edgar Whisenant (former NASA engineer) publishes his book, 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.
• Hal Lindsey (of 'The Late Great Planet Earth') writes concerning the 'Jupiter Effect' nonsense –

• March: Billy Graham states –

Hal Lindsey's 'Jupiter Effect' prediction fails.
• Pat Robertson's predicted Russian invasion of Israel, leading to Armageddon fails.
• May 1: Self-styled 'Pastor' Harry Walter of the 'Church of Philadelphia Church – Internet' claims to have personally received special divine revelation which unseals Daniel's prophecies concerning the End. (See May 2008).
• Mary Stewart Relfe's book "The New Money System 666" creates the myth of "666 in the UPC barcode", which spawns further error and misleads many sincerely ignorant people around the world, especially in the territories of the former Soviet Union, without anything like adequate correction of this corrupting myth by Bible-believing churches in its originating country, the United States of America.
• Monday, June 21 (summer solstice in the Northern hemisphere): Christ Returns, according to Benjamin Creme.

• June 8/9: Arnold Murray of the 'Shepherd's Chapel' predicted this date for the war of Armageddon in "a valley of the Alaskan peninsula", which nonsense of course now fails.

• Lester Sumrall, in his book "I Predict 2000 AD", predicts that Jerusalem will be the richest city on Earth, that the Common Market would rule Europe, and that there would be a nuclear war involving Russia and perhaps the U.S. He predicts that the greatest Christian revival in the history of the church would also happen: all during the last 13 years of the 20th century. All his predictions fail.

• Charles Taylor, American prophecy teacher, advertises a Holy Land tour with the incentive that by staying in a hotel on the Mount of Olives –

• Spring: Mrs Gwen Shaw, leader of the cult 'End-Time Handmaidens and Servants', prophesies that Ronald Reagan with be the last president of the United States before Christ comes.
• September 11/12 this year is expected as the date of the Rapture by Trinity Broadcasting Network (Jan & Paul Crouch), which cancels its regular programs and run videotapes instructing non-believers what to do if their families suddenly shoot up into the sky.
• Hart Armstrong (chairman of 'Christian Communications') publishes September 29/30 as a Rapture Alert date in his publications.
• October: Another return-of-Christ date predicted by many Christian evangelicals now fails: based on the Bible-twisting-exegesis of a 'generation' (40-years) after the 'budding of the figtree' (1948 Israel's political independence) = 1988.

• Evangelist George Curle predicts God's judgment on Antichrist in 1999, the Tribulation in 2002, and Christ's Return and the millennium of Israel in 2005 –

• October 11: Date set by Edgar C. Whisenant, a NASA scientist, in his book "88 Reasons why the Rapture will Occur in 1988" now fails (see 1989). But it had sold over 4 million copies.

• In the USA, Edgar Whisenant publishes his discovery of error in his 1988-calculation in 'The Final Shout–Rapture Report 1989'. (This publication is subsequently retitled The Final Shout--Rapture Report 1990, and subsequently re-titled yearly as The Final Shout–Rapture Report 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and so on).
• In China, Zhao Wei-shan establishes a pseudo-Christian cult eventually calling themselves 'Eastern Lightning' (EL) and 'Church of Almighty God', teaching that God has come again as a 30-year-old peasant woman named Deng who is herself 'Almighty God', to end this Age of Grace and begin the new Kingdom Age. The cult aggressively infiltrates Christian churches, teaches that the writings of Watchman Nee are as inspired as the New Testament, uses abduction, torture and brainwashing techniques, and continues to spread in spite of being banned by the Chinese government. (See 2000). They teach, in their own words –

• Benny Hinn predicts that Christ will return in 1993.
• Pat Robertson (in his book The New Millennium) predicts earth's destruction in 2007 –

• Jack Van Impe predicts in his videotape A.D. 2000... The End? the rapture of Christians in 1992 and the end of the world in 1999. (This tape was used by the Korean Hyoo-go movement to mislead thousands).

• Cape Town Reformed church minister predicts the beginning of the great Tribulation 'op die laaste' by September 1995 and Christ's Return by 2002.
• March, In the UK David Vaughan Icke declares that he has become a "channel for the Christ spirit," a title conferred on him by "the Godhead." He says the world will end in 1997, preceded by a number of disasters.

• The Tami Church based in Seoul, South Korea, under pastor Lee Jang Rim, distributes the visions and prophecies of it's world-wide membership indicating the Rapture will happen 28th October this year. (the Millennium will begin 7-years later in 2000 AD).
• Harold Camping of Oakland, California based Family Radio, with a Reformed twist predicts Christ's return is in September 1994. He warns that –

.• October 28: 20,000 members of the 'Mission for the Coming Days' (Tami Church), spend the afternoon waiting for the Rapture, resulting in great public humiliation to Christians and the amusement of the watching world.

• Jack Van Impe announces that the Lord Jesus will probably return in September 1999 –

• February 28: Four American Federal Agents investigating illegal weapons are killed, 16 wounded, by 'Davidians' at Waco, Texas, thus initiating a siege of the premises (see 1959).
• March 11:  President Clinton is appealed to jointly by Revd's Dunn (Baptist Joint Committee) and Kelley (National Council of Churches) to urgently demilitarise the Waco siege, as the 'Davidian' apocalyptic mentality would see it as

'validation of their fondest prophecies ... Whether it explodes or implodes, the result will be tragic for all'.

• April 19: 6.00 AM: Teargassing of the Waco compound begins. Davidians fire at Federal Agents.
12.05 PM: The Waco Davidian compound bursts into flame caused by FBI teargassing, accompanied by explosions and gunfire. Later 74 Davidians are found dead including women and children, most burnt to death, including –
• David Berg (aka 'Moses David') who had prophesied this year for the return of Jesus. (See 1969)

• Benny Hinn's prediction of Christ's return fails without his apology. (See 1990).

• June 9: Pastor John Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted this date as the end.
• September 4/27: Harold Egbert Camping's predicted return of Christ fails, but we do not hear of his repentance for misleading people! Instead, see his misdirection again in 2005.

• Jehovah Witnesses declare – "Why Awake is Published":
    - Before Nov 8th –

    - After Nov. 8th, '1914 generation' reference is deleted –

• Roman Catholic newspaper 'Queen of Peace' (Pittsburgh Centre for Peace, Spring, 1995) announces concerning the nearing third millennium –

• Jack Van Impe predicts in his video 2001: Countdown to Eternity "how a Millennial Kingdom is predicted to begin shortly after A.D. 2000".
• September: A predicted start of the Tribulation and world rule of Anti-Christ fails (see 1991).

• July 2, Jack Van Impe declares in his broadcast:

• Marilyn J. Agee, with much Christian support, publishes her so-called Bible-based predictions, as –

• November 6: Archbishop Ussher's prediction fails (see 1654).
• But, Dr James McKeever (editor of the End Times News Digest) declares that the 6,000 years of the Great Week could end 'sometime between now and the year 2030'.
• Ronald Weinland of the 'Church of God – PKG' credits himself as God's appointed prophet. (See 2008).
• David Vaughan Icke's 1991 prediction now fails (see March 1991).

• May: Marilyn Agee's prediction of the Rapture of Christians fails!
• August 16: pseudo-prophet Samuel Doctorian announces to Christians at a Prayer Retreat on Patmos an encounter he had with the "five angels of the five continents" in his room on the island at 3:50 AM on Saturday June 20 1998 who revealed to him –

• September 20: Robert Blake –

• September 28: Jack Van Impe lies in the name of the Lord, concerning the coming year 2000 –

• October: Yisrayl Hawkins' (of the 'House of Yahweh' cult) prophesied 'end of the world' fails to begin! (See mid 2001 also).
• October 5: Jack Van Impe (USA) declares the date of the Great Tribulation –

• January 4th, The Interior Ministry of Israel orders the deportation of 11 members of an apocalyptic 'Concerned Christians' cult under suspicion that they were planning to commit violent acts in Jerusalem at the close of 1999, Israel Radio, 'Kol Yisrael', reports.  Three additional cult members will remain in Israel for questioning.  The 'Jerusalem Post' reports that the Denver-based apocalyptic cult intended to provoke a shoot-out by opening fire on policemen, an act they believed would hasten the second coming of Jesus.  A police statement said that "The arrests were carried out to protect certain sectors of the Israeli population and members of the cult themselves, who blindly follow" a leader who is now overseas.  According to Israeli authorities, the leader, identified as Monte Kim Miller, has claimed that he is one of the final 'two witnesses' prophesied in the New Testament in Chapter 11 of the Book of Revelation, and is said to have told his followers that he would die in Jerusalem in December 1999 and be resurrected three days later.

• July-August: A note on Nostradamus (Michel de Notredame):
Recent publications of Nostradamus' 'prophecies', as applied to whatever is the current public concern, are largely inventions of the various commentators/publishers and bear little relation to his 1555 and 1558 Centuries. (The title 'Centuries' merely refers to the grouping of his rhyming  quatrains and has no reference to time).

• Evangelist Curle's predictions begin to fail. (See 1988).
• July 7: Eileen Lakes – The pole-shift in July 1999 will immerse the world in the Water Baptism.(?) At 7 am GMT, according to Eileen, the world will turn 90 degrees to the right 'very instantly'. Perhaps her own surname inspired her.
• August 24: Adrian Gilbert's astrological calculation of the End fails.
• September 27: H.J. Hoekstra – The date of the Rapture! – Really?
• December: Monte Kim Miller fails to die in Jerusalem, let alone be resurrected (See January 4).

• Zhao Wei-shan of the perverse 'Church of Almighty God' (teaching God has come again as a 30-year-old Chinese woman, Deng, who is Almighty God) is granted refugee status by the United States government (in spite of using abduction and torture as religious brainwashing techniques in China) and begins to actively propagate his cult in the USA and abroad. (See 1989).

• April, Friday 17, Uganda: Leaders of a dissident Catholic apocalyptic sect ('Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God') burn 470 followers to death. The subsequent investigation exposes several mass murders by the sect's priests, bring the total victims to above 900, and indicating that financial gain by the priests may have been the motive.

• May: Astrologists' predicted apocalyptic disasters arising from a so-called "alignment" of the planets does not happen.
• Saturday 13, Rome: The Papacy announces the content of the third and secret 'prophecy' of Fatima, being one of danger to the pope amidst a field of corpses. (see 1917).

• September 6: Daniel Adam Millar – 'The peace accord between Israel and Palestine on September 13, 1993 marked the beginning of the seven-year tribulation. On September 6, 2000, the Antichrist will proclaim himself God, and begin the battle of Armageddon.' (This Tribulation now needs to be renamed!).
• September 13: The House of Yahweh – The last seven years of human history began on September 13, 1993. Presumably, the final war will then begin sometime about September 13, 2000. (ditto).
• Another widely predicted Return of Christ now fails.
• Michael John Rood's prophesied beginning of the Day of the Lord on the Jewish Feast of Trumpets this year, now fails.

• October 31: Michael (Wayne Curtis Bent) Travesser claims to be Christ come in the flesh, announcing the coming end time as October 31, 2007. He uses the fraudulent 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion' to explain world affairs.

• Jack van Impe – This year will see the start of the Great Tribulation. Political chaos, natural disasters, nuclear war and the worldwide rise of Islam will usher in mankind's final hour. (Apart from nuclear war, what's new?).

• February 27: Pseudo-Christ sister Gabriele Wittek ('Universal Life' cult) of Wuerzburg, Germany – so-called 'prophetess', 'messenger of God', incarnated 'Divine Wisdom', and 'Divine Light', announces as God's words the ominous threat:

• Yisrayl Hawkins ('House of Yahweh', Hebrew-Christian cult based in Abilene, Texas) – 80% of the world's population are killed (mid 2001) in a nuclear war and no rain falls anywhere on earth for 1260 days. (See October 1998).
• Edgar Cayce's 'pole-shift' prediction fails (see 1945).

• Monte Kim Miller (see 1999) declares:

• Another predicted Return of Christ now fails. (see 1991).

• Michael Drosnin publishes his ELS 'Bible' code prediction of "world war", "End of Days" and "atomic holocaust" in the year 2006 AD (Year 5766 Rabbinic).

• June 2: Annie Kirkwood claims to have received the following message from the Virgin Mary –

• Clive Douglas Campbell (Ottawa, Canada) predicts the sixth Arab-Israeli war is completed in this year, with the following outcomes –

His calculations are based on another version of the old Great Week heresy. (See c.132 AD).

• The end-of-the-world, prophesied by Joanna Southcott of England, does not happen. (See 1810).
• June 22: Catholic 'prophet' John Leary (Rochester, New York) warns against the use of electronic chip technology and smart cards, helping the growth of an end-of-the-world irrational mentality –

• Adriaan Snyman of South Africa publishes alleged prophecies of 'Siener van Rensburg' in promotion of Afrikaner nationalism and claims Christ Second Coming will be to South Africa to a prosperous independent Afrikaner Republic (English-language-free).

• Pretended-prophet Robert G. Barbaria presents his new teachings of special revelation, incorporating a plethora of nonsense in the name of God, giving the number of the to-be-imminently 'raptured', etc, and other stories not deserving comment, exalting his teachings as the book in the hand of the angel in Revelation 10:2, and claiming that all his books are free from any [human] opinions and are the Inspired Word of GOD. Wow!

• April 19: Seventh-day Adventists and related groups begin to teach that Pope Benedict is the last pope before a papal Antichrist who will be a demon impersonating Benedict's predecessor Pope John Paul II, citing Benedict as the 'seventh horn' of Rev.17 who will reign "a brief time".

• Harold Egbert Camping predicts Christ's return in October 2011 (Christian Rapture May 21), based on the old 'Israel as God's prophetic clock' heresy and his abuse of Holy Scripture. (See his previous 1994-misdirection).

• May: Irvin Baxter of 'Endtime Ministries' (Texas, USA) teaches that the stars in the European Union symbol and Euro are the stars of Catholicism's Virgin Mary and evidence that the European Union is the beginnings of the resuscitated Roman Empire of the final Antichrist. (See European Union). He believes that the Chernobyl accident was the fulfillment of prophecy specifically that it was the third trumpet of the Book of Revelation Chapter 8.
(In January he condemned the International Court of Justice in the Hague as a court to be used by Antichrist to persecute Christians. How stupid can one be!).

• July: American preacher Irvin Baxter (Endtime Ministries, Texas) propagates as true the fraudulent 'St Malachi' pseudo-prophecy of de Wion (see 1595), concerning the next pope of Catholicism as the False Prophet of the Book of Revelation, and names him as Pope Benedict XVI.

• July 4: Judaized-Christian 'Prophet' Paulus van Beek of Lakeland, Florida, US, predicts concerning California (as a follow-on to Florida's 2004 natural disasters) –

• September 21: 'Prophet' Paulus van Beek predicts –

• October 4: Harvard House prediction-calculation of Christ's return, using Israel as God's clock of 14,000 days (from Palm-Sunday to the Fall of Jerusalem) from its 1967 conquest of Jerusalem to now, fails.

• According to Drosnin the world now 'ends' in nuclear holocaust (or Drosnin's world, if he were to be honest). (See 2002).
• March 12: Pastor Harry Walther ('Church of Philadelphia – Internet') announces that the name of the end-time Antichrist is 'Maitreya'. (more 'Bible Code' nonsense of-course).
• May: Irvin Baxter Jr. (Endtime Ministries) negatively hypes the move to introduce identity cards in the United States by linking it to the Mark of the Beast in the Book Of Revelation –

as if other countries which implemented such ID systems many years ago just do not count. What arrogance!

• December: Ronald Weinland publishes his second book "2008: God's Final Witness" as a PDF download with hard copies delayed. Its last page states –

• Another predicted Return of Christ now fails (Based on 40-years, a supposed 'generation', after the 'Six Day War' of 1967 which brought the ancient Temple site under Israeli political control), perpetuating the error of seeing Israel as a 'prophetic clock'.
• October 31: This is now the End, according to 'Michael Christ Travesser', aka Wayne Curtis Bent (yes, very bent!) of the 'Lord Our Righteousness Church', sometimes called 'Strong City' (New Mexico, USA). Travesser's twisted teaching –

(Dec 30th, 2008, Judge Gerald Baca imposed the maximum sentence on Wayne Bent of 18 years but suspended eight years for criminal sexual contact of a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He will have to serve at least 8½ years before becoming eligible for release).

• November 7: Sadly, 35 followers of self-styled prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov of his 'True Russian Orthodox Church', of ages ranging from 82 to one-year-old, including four children, shut themselves into a cave in central Russia (near Nikolskoe, about 640km southeast of the Russian capital) to await the end of the world, and threaten mass suicide if approached. They believe that electronic bar-codes contain the '666' Mark of the Beast (to the shame of American writer Mary Stewart Relfe who proclaimed this in her 1982 book) and therefore God's people must withdraw from society, and they appear to be also influenced by the brightening of Comet Holmes as being an apocalyptic sign.

• Wednesday, January 2: Pastor Matthew Stephen of Vine Ministry International predicts concerning 2008 and 2009 –

• Tuesday, April 1: Fourteen sect members of Pyotr Kuznetsov's group exit their cave-retreat from the end of the world expected by them in May 2008, after part of it collapses under melting snow, claiming a vision told them to leave, and handing over three rifles as they do so (see November 7, 2007).

• Thursday, April 17: American 'Prophet' Ronald Weinland of the 'Church of God – PKG' (a sect of the 'Worldwide Church of God', following the Seventh-day Adventist and the British-Israel twisting of Scripture) announces this date as the blowing of the First Trumpet of the seven in the Book of Revelation, but that no physical effect will be seen until December. (His calculations assume the Great Week heresy of history invented by the fraudulent Epistle of Barnabas).

• Friday, April 18: American 'Prophet' Ronald Weinland of the 'Church of God – PKG' announces that the Second Witness of the end-time (Rev.11), in addition to himself, is his wife Laura Weinland.

• May: Pastor Harry Walther ('Church of Philadelphia – Internet') predicts a devastating outbreak of the Ebola virus in Boston, USA (according to the 'Bible Codes' nonsense).
Tuesday, May 6: Wayne Bent is arrested in New Mexico for sex crimes with a minor! (regarding his prophecy of October 2007 – his own world has now begun to end).
• May: the world ends, according to Pyotr Kuznetsov, aka Brother Maxim, an Orthodox monk who formed the 'True Russian Orthodox Church' (See November 7, 2007).

• Sunday June 1: Catholic clairvoyant, Gianna Talone Sullivan claiming to be a channel of the Virgin Mary, of an end-time prophecy, who says –

• Monday June 9: American magazine 'Sun' publishes the prediction of Pastor Mark Blitz of El Shaddai Ministries, and Michael Guttwig of the so-called Crucible Institute, that Jesus will return secretly September 11, 2008 (7 years after Twin Towers attack in New York City) somewhere in North America to prepare His people for the end time which comes seven years later in 2015, using so-called 'Bible Codes' of course. (See also: Israel Heresy)

• June 19: Ronald Weinland of the 'Church of God – PKG' changes his first prophetic predictions to a revised structure –

• June 21: 'Pastor' Harry J Walther of the 'Church of Philadelphia – Internet', predicts an attack on Chicago's Sears Tower on August 8, 2008, according to his so-called Hebrew 'Bible Codes', but leaves the door open to escape liability by stating that public awareness might cause it not to happen. (So 'Bible Codes' are not reliable, or what!).

• 'Michael Rathford', claiming to interpret newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus of 1629, predicts that –

But, he is likely to publish an updated version again as he needs to adjust his 'interpretation' to its lack of fulfillment, perhaps under a different pen-name.

• June: Pastor Matthew Stephen, of Vine Ministry International in the USA, prophesies in a letter to US President Bush –

"Listen carefully, friends, to what I'm telling you. Hashem, Elokei Yisrael, created this world that we are living in today in six days. Every day was a thousand years. This world, as we know it today, cannot last beyond 6,000 years. Right now, we are in the year 5769, which means it's Erev Shabbos of the world. By the year 6,000, Mashiach [the Christ] has to be here. He could come much earlier. But by the year 6,000, he has to be here. … the Vilna Gaon said that the last war, Milchemet Gog uMagog, is going to last only 12 minutes because they are going to have such weapons…. We know that the final redemption, the final Geula, it's going to be like when you left Egypt – only one-fifth of our people left Egypt. Four-fifths perished… during the plague of darkness. So I'm appealing to every Jew. Every negative prophecy can be changed. We can bring Mashiach today. Right now, we are living in a period called Erev Shabbat. It's Erev Shabbat, because when Mashiach will come, it will be the day that will be all Shabbat, the seventh day….Let's bring Shabbos early, and let us to bring Shabbos with menucha [ease], with shalom [peace], with simchah [happiness] – Is it possible? Absolutely?! Every negative prophecy can be changed." (emphasis mine).

• Sunday, October 26: Jack Van Impe announces that the next pope after Benedict with be the pope alive at the battle of Armageddon, and that this will be within the next eight years.

• Saturday, December 13: Ronald Weinland (self-proclaimed Witness of the book of Revelation; his wife of-course is the other), of the 'Church of God – PKG' asserts that the last 1260 days (3½ years) of this age now begins, this evening at sunset. He predicts the 'demise of the United States over the next year, which will be followed by man's final world war'. Weinland believes that he is sent as God's end-time prophet to Judaism, Islam and Christianity. (See 2011)

• Monday January 5: Jaysen Rand publishes his prophecy as so-called 'wormwood-science' of the devastating coming of a so-called brown dwarf star called Planet-X:

• He is supported by Gilbert Eriksen as the fulfillment of his interpretation of the Book of Revelation in his own book 'The Millennium Prophecy' –

IF Eriksen was of God he would care enough to give it away; he doesn't, which says it all!

• 'Michael Rathford' – 'Time of Troubles' now begins, according to his so-called prophecies of Nostradamus, in which the Antichrist rises to power – and other such nonsense!
Sunday, June 21: Another prophecy of Ronald Weinland now fails as the US does not meet its demise within 6 months following the fall (autumn) season of 2008 as he had prophesied on the last page of his book.
• 'Pastor Harry' Walther (Church of Philadelphia – Internet, founded Sept. 1997 as the remnant church of all Christianity; see June 2008) declares that a comet penetrates our solar system bringing doomsday in 2012, but that first:

• September: David J. Meyer of 'Last Trumpet Ministries' continues his misleading so-called 'end time prophetic ministry' newsletter with his hysterical claims that American President Obama (comparing him to Adolf Hitler) is the End Time dictator (3½-years???); that the HIV virus and H1N1 virus were deliberately designed; and other such total nonsense. (See: 'The Strange Circle')

• Christ returns according to Roy A. Reinhold and his abuse of the Bible with the mythical coding-matrix letter-skip method. According to him, seven years before this, in 2003, the Rapture happened. Did you perhaps miss it? Are you left behind? (Though he has probably re-adjusted his 'codes' to another date by now).

A third of the earth is now destroyed according to false prophet Gilbert Eriksen.
• March 16: another prediction fails (a Messianic Judaism myth):

• March 5 in Pennsylvania, USA, Iris Nasreen claims a divine revelation that –

• Robert Mock (British-Israel myth) and others promote the 2012 delusion–

• May 21: Failed rapture of Christians predicted by Harold Camping of 'Family Radio' (Family Stations Inc.) followed by judgment of the earth, based on the Great Week myth (Letter of Barnabas) from a presumed date of Noah's Flood (4990 BC) thus 4990 BC + 2011 AD – 1 = 7,000 (the minus 1 to reconcile BC-AD dates). The lies continue, such as: "We learn from the Bible that Holy God plans to rescue about 200 million people" (that is about 3% of today’s population). Utter nonsense!

Vince Des Roches (his website 'Are You Watching Or Sleeping?') also propagates the same mythical date and worse...

Family Radio's arrogant explanation of their May 21 prediction-failure [lie] is –

Just another satanic-slight-of-hand to divide Christians. . .

October 21: Harold Egbert Camping's of Family Radio's "'end of the world" foolish misdirection of Christians now also fails! (See 2005).
Chris McCann and so-called 'eBible Fellowship' of Sharon Hill, Philadelphia, USA, joined Camping's 13,023-years-delusion and spread his lie internationally on public billboards, ignorantly discrediting Christianity to the world. McCann writes –

October 22: Chris McCann continues with his lame excuses for their prediction failure –

November-December: Chris McCann now declares – "March of 2012—Will it be the End?" concerning a ridiculously alleged link between May 21, 2011 and a so-called Jewish 'Feast of Purim' in March 2012:

February: Chris McCann and so-called 'eBible Fellowship' of Sharon Hill, Philadelphia, USA, continue the nonsense –

 and other pathetic twisting of Holy Scripture by allusion and misleading associations to deceive those who trust.

March 9: 'eBible Fellowship' invalidates itself!

May 27: The 'Church of God – PKG' (of Ronald Weinland's followers) now invalidates its existence.

June (Tammuz 5772): This is the 'coming of Messiah' (Moshiach), according to misguided Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook of the Gush Emunim (גוש אמונים‎) fascist Jewish settler movement in Israeli occupied Palestine, which now fails.

November 11: World Judgment prediction of Iris Nasreen now fails. (See: March 5, 2011).

December 21: The Rapture of the Christian Church according to the lies of 'evangelist' Jack van Impe and wife in the USA, now also fails. (Neither Jack nor his wife have apologised for their previous misleading of God's people!).

December 22: Doomsday of Harry J Walther's 'Church of Philadelphia – Internet' also now fails

March 21: The earth has a one-in-a-million chance of being struck by a meteorite. So What! God rules!

and so on ... and so on ... and so on ...

—  GOD LOVES YOU UNCONDITIONALLY! —
THAT IS WHY HE GAVE US JESUS TO BE OUR 'WAY', 'TRUTH', AND 'LIFE'!

THEREFORE, THE TIME IS NOT SET! — IT IS NOT SET!  — IT IS SIMPLY NOT SET!

Of course God knows 'when' it will be!
knows the future time of everything to its very split second, simply because He knows all things about everything, but NOT because it is some secret pre-fixed absolute moment in history which God Himself has set! He knows which ant will climb which blade of grass and when, but that does NOT mean it is a set-time for that particular ant! Yes, the second coming of Jesus is a direct act of God Himself which to Peter, John and the rest of us remains imminent ("at the door"), but He has made its timing contingent on other issues (not a date), which are summed up together in David's inspired statement about Christ's Ascension –

given setting of the most detailed end-time prophecy that Jesus ever gave is an important example to us today.

Argument between Christians and church groupings over interpretation of end-time prophecies are a serious distraction from completing our Christian mission from God's heart. Those therefore that use people's curiosity or fear about the future to suck them into an end-times preoccupation are to be rebuked for their abuse of God's Word and their disobedience to Christ's example.

is a place for such exposition and discussion, and the example presented to us by the Bible is that we only teach this detail to those with developed spiritual appetite/maturity; that is, those who have already responded to the calling and mission given to us in Jesus Christ. And even then, it is for those who are no longer spiritual infants.

is also not meant to be used as a motivator to solicit support for world-evangelism, for God is not 'racing against the clock', as some church leaders appear to think. God is God, and He has no shortage of time! His objective is not restricted to any schedule. It lies where the Holy Spirit dwells in His people and His faithfulness will bring it to completion!

Any form of sensationalism therefore is to be guarded against at all costs for the topic itself stimulates a worldly alarmism in the natural mind!