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Conspiracy theorist resets Doomsday

David Meade, the self-proclaimed researcher, numerologist and catholic, has rescheduled the world to end on 15 October adding that the former prediction was just a date of an “historic events” in the skies.

Meade, who earlier predicts the world will end on the 23rd of September, now says Doomsday will actually begin next month.

The researcher subscribes to the conspiracy theory that a 10th planet, Planet X or Nibiru, will either cross or collide with Earth, leading to a seven-year period of tribulation, or rapture. This will be followed by a millennium of peace.

He wrote on his website: “That date marks the beginning of a seven year tribulation.

“That’s when the action starts. Hold on and watch – wait till the middle of October and I don’t think you will be disappointed.”

He further highlighted things to watch out for which includes, loss of electricity power across the world which would lead to war, famine and other perilous events.

The numerologist claims that the eclipse on August 21 is a pointer which he believes signaled that rapture is set to begin. He also said the date marked a 40-day countdown to October.

“October is the month to watch.” He noted.

When asked about how he arrived at his date, the self-claimed researcher said his analysis was deduced in verses and numerical clues of the Bible.

“Jesus lived for 33 years. The name Elohim, which is the name of God to the Jews, was mentioned 33 times [in the bible].

“It’s a very biblically significant, numerologically significant number.”

Saturday marked 33 days since the solar eclipse.

Meade is not the first to have claimed that the world is coming to an end.

Samuel S. Snow

In 1844, Samuel Snow predicted that the end is already at hand. He said the date would be on the 22 October. How he got to know? He noted the bible pointed the date in Dan 8:14.

Thousands of people were reported to have abandoned their jobs and give away their possession. The day came and pass and the people were disappointed. The day was known as “The Great Disappointment”.

“Prophet” Hen

In 1806, the weirdest prediction about the world coming to an end occurred. A domestic Fowl in Leeds, England was said to be laying eggs which reads: ‘Christ is coming’. People visited the spot and examine the eggs to attest to the event. Many were convinced and prayed violently for the forgiveness of sins.

However, things took a new twist, when some men who also heard the news came to see for themselves. They however caught the hen in the process of egg laying and discovered that the egg has been inscribed with some corrosive ink and forcefully shoved into the hen’s body.

Dorothy Martin

Late 1954, Dorothy Martin, a student of Dianetics; a set of practices developed by Science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard said she had come in contact with some beings from Planet Clarion who told her the world would be destroyed on December 21 by flood and the faithful would be rescued by a flying saucer. She had followers who quit their jobs and disposed their possessions.

They assembled in her house at midnight and were instructed to put away with any metals so as to avoid being burned by the flying saucers.

Night came and left with nothing happening. The people were disturbed. By 4:45am, she later announced that God was pleased with their actions and has decided to spare the earth.

Hal Lindsay

Hal Lindsay was known to have predicted that the world will end in 1970 with his book, “The Late, Great Planet Earth”. In 1996, she wrote another book, “Planet Earth 2000 AD; will mankind survive?”. He noted in the book that Christians should not make any plan beyond the year 2000.

Still not backing out, she wrote a column on WorldNet daily that Barack Obama is a sign that the Antichrist coming is near.

Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson predicted during a broadcast of “The 700 Club” that the world would end in 1982. He claimed God told him about the looming disaster which includes a West Coast Tsunami in 2006 and a terrorist attack in 2007, neither of them occurred.

Herold Camping

Just like Meade, Herold Camping predicted in 2011 that the world will end on May 21 in a series of rolling earthquake known as “The Rapture”. After the day came which nothing happened, he reset it to be October 21.

He later resigned from his post and stop making predictions after the second failed.

The Mayan Calender

According to the ancient predictions based on the Mayan Calender, The world was supposed to end on December 7, 2012.

Earth survived, perhaps because Mayans never actually predicted an apocalypse. This is just when they got lazy with their record keeping and stopped updating the long-form version of their 5,172-year calendar.

Just as our calendar starts the year fresh by repeating all 12 months starting January 1, the Mayan calendar now begins another long cycle.

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