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Because of the thread about The Pale Horse, I started thinking of a million things I heard growing up about the end time that never happened.
What are some you had heard?
I will start:
A television that will blow up if you do not bow to it

A person was driving down the street and passed a hitchhiker. They looked back and the hitchhiker was in their backseat. They said " I am an angel sent to tell you Jesus is coming back soon" I had heard this story claimed as true.(I found this on Snopes.com)LOL

The big Belgum computer (I also found this on Snopes)

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The "rapture" hasn't happened.

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Everyone was going to get a barcode tattooed on their foreheads.

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We today are much similar to the apostles in the early church. Also throughout the church history people have used various events and stories to implicate that Jesus is coming.
In the early church the apostles actually believed that Jesus was going to return in their life time. Second, during the first great persecution by the Roman government around 50-70 AD the church at that time thought they were going through the great tribulation. Later when the so-called christian churches began to kill and persecute the believers in Europe then those in that time thought the end had come.
We today have the tendency to be the same in that belief. Most of all because we have a tendency to be overly anxious to see the coming of our Lord.
Today in this century it is more evident that we are approaching not just the last days, but the latter days. In other words we are at the end and nearer to the coming of Christ.
One of the most important things to watch for is the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. This is the main time clock to the last seven years of this present world system. When it is built and the daily sacrifice begins then you can number the days until the coming of Jesus.
Now there are a lot of other signs to watch for and to take into consideration which point to the end of all things. Maybe someone else on here may what to post thoses

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I dont remember this because I was only 5, but I have a pamplet/small book titled 88 reasons the rapture will happen in 1988. It was in some stuff my grandpa gave me. I decided to keep it around to remind me to be cautious of jumping on these kinds of bandwagons.

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LOL. I remember driving down the street toward the east at sunrise on that very morning in 1988 (Can't remember the exact date, September something) and wondering what was going through the heads of the people who believed that pamphlet.

Of course, the very next year the same nimrod came out with a new pamphlet - "89 Reasons..." He confessed that he had forgotten to count the "year zero." As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a maroon... what an imbecel."

The "Year Zero" had zero months, zero weeks, zero days, zero hours and zero seconds. In other words, it never happened. But this guy wasn't happy being wrong once, he wanted to be wrong twice.

... and so it goes.

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I remember reading this in '88! Scared the tarnation out of me!!! :uhoh

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In the mid-nineties, a man in our church (a preacher, but not the pastor) said God's calendar doesn't go past 1999, so Jesus would be coming back before 2000. :blink

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:heeheehee Really!

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This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder about some of the "doctrines" that have been "inspired by God" over the years. I mean seriously. I would assume that some really respected folks received really strong "feelings" before making these endtime predictions. These give us a little chuckle, but Lord help us if we have a organizations built on similar "feelings".

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He had some other strange ideas, too.

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I know this has nothing to do with the end times but I remember when they used to think we'd all be riding around in flying cars by now.

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Things that have not happened- One world Leader, one world system and one world currency. I remember hearing about how the government could view you through your TV. Lol-

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Yes, and if you did not bow to the TV it would explode and you would die!

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remember all that Y2K hysteria?

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flying cars are still a possibility.

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Sure. Do you remember the Y1.9K hysteria? :heeheehee

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no, that was before my time
(but not by much)

Bro. Goss mentions it in his book, "The Winds of God"

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I remember the prototype of cars in the future from the Weekly Reader (1950's) and flying cars were on that list. :heeheehee

And the telephone that allowed you to see who you were talking to....guess this one did come to pass.:highfive

And of course all of the crazy gadgets from Get Smart (1960's); Some of which exist now :thumbsup

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Sounds like one of those really firm Day-Age Dispensationalists. The ones who believed that each "Day of Creation" represented a 1,000 year age in the history of man. Since the "7th Day" was reserved for the 1,000 year reign of Christ inn the millennial kingdom, "man" only gets a 6,000 year history.

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Yep, sounds like.

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I found out that the ancient pagans pointed such a theory out in their "holy books" far more plainly than the bible ever did. And yet these same guys argue against Christmas since it is pagan!

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Bishop Haywood, S.G. Norris (Apostolic Bible Institute), and F.E. Curts (UPC Ohio Dist. Supt.) in their day taught the theory that each "day" of creation was 7000 years long. I remember talking to my wife about that some years ago and saying something like, "Well, if Jesus doesn't come and if we live for the next 30-40 years, we'll find out if they were wrong." Bishop Haywood and Bro. Curts are both dead. I'm not sure about Bro. Norris but I assume he is.

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yeppers
:heeheehee:heeheehee

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I remember the day as well, I was hoping that it would hurry up and happen so I could get out of mowing the yard.

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A message preached by everyone's favorite end-time ministry guy preached around 1988 or so push Gorbachev as the antichrist. Gorby better get with it if he is going to do the beast gig, dudes getting long in the tooth.

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Forgot to count year zero? :spit That would "correct" it to 1987, not 1989! :toofunny

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"The Bear" passed away in 1990.

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Maybe it was the other way around? He made a mistake by counting the "Year Zero" the first time? I forget. It's all so very forgettable. Except when I get these panic attacks and a deep, deep remorse comes over me for having spent so many years trying to make Fundamentalism work.

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;)

I never saw a copy of 89 Reasons. Had a copy of 88 and read the first few before losing interest. :lol

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The fact that George H W Bush was a secret society member who was pushing for one world order! (Give me a break)

About 3 popes ago it was supposed to be last according to the made up time clock out of Revelations.

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Anybody ever locate a copy of NA Urshan's tape where he said an angel told him the Lord would come before he died, and he gave Bro U a wooden cane?

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My old UPC pastor blasted the 88 in 88.
As well as the Y2K issue.

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SG Norris taught a 14 year tribulation period based upon typology of the feasts of Israel!

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I don't remember that.

I thought he taught the usual 7 years (Daniel's 70th week)
plus maybe some time after the rapture before the 70th week began

It's been a long time since I sat in the classroom and heard Bro. Norris teach.
I went there just one year --1956/1957

Bro. Norris was a good teacher.
He was very good at explaining things.
I just didn't agree with some of the things he taught,
plus he was very autocratic in the way he ran that school.

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I have his tape on it! From the first UPC prophecy conference in around '77 or so. It was entitled THE 14 YEAR TRIBULATION.

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If the tribulation period is 14 years and the millennium starts at the year 2000, then the rapture would have been in 1986, 4 years before Bro. Norris' death.

I wonder what he thought when 1986 rolled in.

He was probably as embarrassed as when Mussoline (the guy he once designated as the AntiChrist) was publicly executed and humiliated.

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I am so looking forward to May 21.2011 to debunk yet another false prediction..sigh

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Just because they never happened doesn't mean they won't. I'm not sure about the "May 21,2011" date-could be a possibility if it's God's timeline and not our own. We should all live as if it could happen the very next moment but work as fervently even if it doesn't happen that day. Preparation is the key to the whole thing.

Not everybody will go and there are those who are sure they will that won't. I'm not God and I'm not a judge-just quoting the Word. When we look at world events and look at what the Bible says, one thing is certain-whenever it is, it can't be too long off. It won't overtake us a thief who are God's children-we are exhorted to look for it, to be expecting it! That's who His Word says He will appear to.:happydance:highfive:thumbsup:happydance

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:heeheehee

This is why we should just stick with preaching the Bible, not using the Bible to give some credibility to someones ridiculous phobias.