When are the End Times? various Revelations!

The British group The Lord's Witnesses believed that the end of the world would be March 21, 2008. The Mayan calendar is divided into months of 20 days, years of 360 days, katun of  7200 days and a baktun of 144,000 days. According to this ancient civilization the world will last for exactly 13 baktun cycles. Their calendar started on 3114-AUG-13 BCE with the birth of Venus and they expected the world to end during the Winter Solstice of 2012. 
Along with the Mayan Calendar prediction is this prediction. Terence McKenna,based on Novelty Theory (the amount of novelty present in any temporal domain) predicts that “at the coincidence of the moment of the solstice and the heliacal rising of the galactic centre, levels of planetary novelty will exponentially increase. The theory does not make clear the nature of the ultra novel event, however, speculation as to the nature of the encounter with the trans-dimensional object at the end of time includes Solar Explosion and Quasar Ignition at the Galactic Core.”

In the year 1514 Pope Leo IX wrote "I will not see the end of the world, nor will you my brethren, for its time is long in the future, 500 years hence." That makes the end of the world to be in 2014.

Initially Eli Eshoh predicted that, based on his investigation into the Mystical Number 666, the world would end in 1998. It apparently has not – much to the annoyance of those who took Eshoh’s advice and sold all their belongings prior to 1998. However, he does reassure us that the end of the world is on course, “Do not fret about this. Everything is on track. The Rapture took place on June 6, 1998. The reason it wasn't noticed was that only 603,729 people were taken up, so out of a world population of 6,660,603,729 persons, it wasn't noticed. The question most of you may be asking is "Why am I still here." Obviously you weren't saintly enough to be selected by God to join him, so you will have to prove your worth in the upcoming Tribulation. The groundwork has been laid. The Beast was born on June 6, 1998, and a world is entering into a period of great instability. Mark the year 2028 on your calendars!” This explanation is rather feeble – surely some of the relatives of the “603,729 people were taken up” must have noticed they had not returned
home!  
2280 Quran Code 
"When the horn is blown once, the earth and the mountains will be carried off and crushed; utterly crushed. That is the day when the inevitable event will come to pass." 69:13-15 The end of the world is coded in the Quran, according to the translation by Dr. Rashad Khalifa, and will be destroyed in 2280. The signs, of its impending destruction, given in the Quran have already been fulfilled. These include: 
1) The splitting of the moon: This happened in June 1969 when man landed on the moon and brought back moon rocks. 
2) The Creature (27:82): The Quran has predicted that at the right time God would produce a creature that would be instrumental in unveiling His signs. This was fulfilled, the creature was the computer which was instrumental in unveiling the Quran's numerical code, and proclaiming that the world has neglected God's
message.
French physician and astrologer Nostradamus, (1503-1566), wrote a collection of prophecies, entitled Centuries, which were published in 1555. Worryingly, many of these prophecies, which predict events from the mid-1500s through the end of the world, have a habit of coming true. His prediction is that the end of the world will be in 3727.

1,000,000 A.D.  Destruction by Gamma Rays
Provided we survive all the aforementioned ‘World Ends’ we will absolutely, definitely cease to exist in the year 1,000,000 – give or take a year or two. Gamma Ray bursts occur naturally in the Galaxy due to events such as neutron star binary inspirals. These occur every million years or so and produce a gamma ray flux which exceed even the largest solar flares. The absorption of this radiation into our atmosphere will increase nitric oxide concentrations and greatly reduce ozone concentrations resulting in the extinction of life on Earth.
Christ’s return was being forecast even before the Bible had been written.  During the year 53 a rumor spread like wildfire, amongst the Thessalonians, that the day of reckoning was about to happen and widespread panic ensued. In the year 234 A.D. theologian, and martyr Hippolytus prophesied that the appearance of the Antichrist which would be followed by the Lord’s return. He believed that the world had a life span of 6,000 years and since Adam was born 5,500 years before Christ then the world had a sell by date of 500A.D.On April 24-25, 1982, people around the world opened their morning newspaper to discover the rather disturbing headline announcing, "The Christ is Now Here!" and claiming that “Christ had returned to Earth in a materialized body in July, 1977, and has since been living among a group of Pakistani Indian immigrants in South London, England”  Most folk just didn’t feel prepared for Judgment Day.
 
Fortunately these full-page adverts, placed by the New Age religious group TARA Center, were mere speculation and several months later, with the world still in one piece, the group announced that they  “the delay was only because the consciousness of the human race was not quite right. "
 
The Jehovah's Witnesses predicted doomsday as 1984. However, as the got it wrong in  1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925 and1975 most folk could be forgiven for simply ignoring their warning As the end of the first millennium approached mass hysteria spread across the Christian world that the return of Christ was nigh. From beggar to king everyone believed that this would be the New Year party to end all parties and that Jesus would be guest of honor. During the year 1999 there was a sudden burst or religious fervor with people selling of their worldly possessions and giving the money to the poor.  Criminals were released from prisons. Believing that this was their last days of their life people stopped planting crops, neglected their property and flocked in huge numbers of pilgrims headed east to meet the Lord at Jerusalem.  Y2K brought a similar hysteria. If you divide 2000 by 3, you will get the devil's number 666.66666666666666666666. Coupled with the fact that all computers were probably going to crash on the stroke of midnight the end of the millennium was count down with considerable apprehension.
                
(Taken from Internet search on predictions for the end of the world.)


With all these predictions, how can one determine when the end of the world will be? An untold number of people have tried to predict the Lord's return by using elaborate time tables. Most date setters do not realize mankind has not kept an unwavering record of time. Anyone wanting to chart for example 100 BC to 2000 AD would have to contend with the fact 46 BC was 445 days long, there was no year 0 BC, and in 1582 we switched from Julian Years (360 days) to Gregorian (365 days). Because most prognosticators are not aware of all these errors, from the get go their math is already off by several years. Throughout the years there are over 220 dates predicted for the end of the world. 
 
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. Let’s look to the Bible and see what is revealed about the end times and the end of the world.
 
Mark 8:39 to 9:1 - Jesus was referring to the "adulterous and sinful generation" who were alive in the early 1st century CE when these words were spoken. Jesus expected that some of his audience would be alive when the "Kingdom of God" came with power. The Kingdom of God came in power
when the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples and upon the Church of God.

 Mark 13:30-33 – Matthew 24:34 Here Jesus is speaking of different things that are happening and to take note so to prepare one’s self for the day that is to come.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - Here, Paul seems to be referring to himself and some of the recipients of his letter as being alive when Jesus returns. However, Paul’s thought is that of hope and comfort to the Thessalonians who may have heard of “end of the world” predictions and were afraid. 
Paul goes on to tell the Christians in Thessalonica these words as recorded in 1 Thessalonians 5:2-11. Paul urges the recipients of this news to be on guard at all times, because no one knows the expected time for the second coming to happen. It may happen in their lifetime. 

Revelation 14:6-10 is another reference to the end times. 

2 Peter 3:3-10 - Even though the end of the world signs are being fulfilled on every hand, multitudes of people scoff at the Bible and the idea that the end of the world as we know it is just about here.
 
2 Timothy 3:1-5 tells of the wickedness that continues to occur even in the end of time. Matthew 24-25  - Jesus gives all kinds of predictions of the end times to His disciples. All followers of Jesus are to take note of these. So what are we to make of all this? Simply put, no one knows the day nor the hour when the end of time will come. No one can predict the day of Judgment nor the return of the Son of Man. However, we are to be ready at every moment and trust in God, believing in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, and be faithful servants throughout all our life. Whether we are alive or dead when the end of the world comes, the only real importance for the end of life
question is, “Did you believe in Jesus Christ and follow Him? Did you remain faithful even until death? Only then will you receive the crown of life!
(Revelation 2:10).  
 
Amen.