End of Days by Sylvia Browne

Posted by admin_akashic on Aug 9th, 2022 in Stories

The renowned mystic Emanuel Swedenborg was told by angels that the world would end in 1757.

Charles Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism along with his brother John, was sure that doomsday would occur in 1794. John Wesley disagreed with his brother about the timing of the world’s end and stated that it was actually in 1836 that the “beast of Revelation” would rise from the sea and the new age of peace would begin.

Presbyterian minister Christopher Love braced his followers for a massive earthquake that would destroy the earth in 1805.

In 1814, a sixty-four-year-old prophet named Joanna Southcott claimed to be pregnant with the baby Jesus and that he would be born on December 25, 1814. It so happened that instead of giving birth that day, she died, and an autopsy revealed, to no one’s surprise, that she wasn’t pregnant after all.

Margaret McDonald, a fifteen-year-old Christian prophet, declared in 1830 that the Antichrist was Robert Owen, a cofounder of socialism.

It was a widely held belief that the Crimean War of 1853- 56, during which Russia and France fought over which nation would seize Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, was actually the great battle of Armageddon prophesied in Revelation.

Sixteenth-century British prophetess Ursula Southeil, who became famous and/or infamous as Mother Shipton, is quoted as saying, “The world to an end shall come/in eighteen hundred and eighty-one.” It’s since been theorized that the majority of Mother Shipton’s prophecies were actually written and attributed to her after she died, and that “her” 1881 prediction was the work of her publisher, Charles Hindley.

Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, aka the Mormon Church, is quoted as saying, “I prophesy in the name of the Lord God, and let it be written—the Son of Man will not come in the clouds of heaven till I am eighty-five years old.” Smith would have turned eighty-five years old in 1890. As luck would have it, he’d been dead for almost fifty years by then.

At the end of the nineteenth century, physicist William Thomson, aka Lord Kelvin, asserted that there was only enough oxygen in the atmosphere to last humankind for three hundred years, and therefore the human race was destined to be suffocated to death.

In anticipation of the November 13, 1900, doomsday they predicted, more than one hundred members of a Russian cult called the Brothers and Sisters of the Red Death killed themselves on that date.

On December 17, 1919, according to seismologist and meteorologist Albert Porta, a specific conjunction of six planets would create a magnetic current so powerful that it would cause the sun to explode and engulf the earth.

Herbert W. Armstrong, who founded the Worldwide Church of God in the early 1930s, believed the Rapture would occur in 1936 and that only members of his church would be drawn into Jesus’s arms in the sky to be saved. When 1936 came and went with no Rapture, he shifted his prophecy to the year 1975.

Bible teacher Leonard Sale-Harrison toured North America to lead a series of prophecy conferences during the 1930s, assuring his audiences that the world would end in 1940 or 1941.

When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, there were many Christians who believed that the final predicted event leading to the Second Coming of Christ had been satisfied.

Astrologer Jeane Dixon predicted that this planet would be destroyed on February 4, 1962, by the force from a planetary alignment.

Moses David, founder of a religious group called the Children of God, predicted that, probably in 1973, a comet would hit the earth and eliminate all life in the United States.