Rick Hodge
There have been 46 failed end-of-the-world predictions that were to occur between30 CE and 1920 CE but didn’t. Life expectancy in the days when Jesus lived waslittle over 30 years and many believed that Jesus Christ’s second coming would occurduring the 1st century CE. It didn’t happen. In 992 CE the Catholic Good Fridaycoincided with the Feast of the Annunciation, which people believed would bring forththe Antichrist, and the end-times events described in the book of Revelation. TheAntichrist did not appear. In 1033, the 1000th anniversary of the death and resurrectionof Jesus, many anticipated His second coming. It didn’t happen. In 1284, Pope InnocentIII computed the end date by adding 666 years onto the date that Islam was founded.Nothing happened. During the Black Plague of 1346 that spread across Europe, killingone third of the population felt like the end of the world was imminent. We kept going.In 1669 in Russia, 20,000 people burned themselves to death over a 20-year period toprotect themselves from the Antichrist. The generation continued to live.The power and destruction brought upon the earth by the giant Nephilim and theiroffspring is the cause of the flood. The source of destruction originated in heaven andmade its way to earth. Revelation 12:7-9: 'And there was war in heaven: Michael and hisangels fought against the Dragon; and the Dragon fought and his angels and prevailednot; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great Dragon was castout, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: hewas cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.'
