Negotiators from almost nations gathered in Glasgow on Oct. So far the world is not on track for that. The annual meetings, first held in and only skipped once last year due to the pandemic, are designed to get all countries to gradually ratchet up their efforts to curb global warming. This content is not available in your region. Text size Aa Aa. The Mayans chuckled. May 21, - Harold Camping, a thenyear-old televangelist and former president of the Family Radio Network, predicted the rapture world end the world with series of worldwide earthquakes hitting at 6 p.
People believed him. Some quit their jobs and nervously huddled in their home awaiting their moment with God. The day of judgment didn't come.
So, he pushed the date back to Oct. Then, he stopped making predictions. Camping lived a long life and died at By the end of a day siege, after a battery of gunshots and a fast-moving fire, 86 people were killed, including Koresh and several children.
Why this prediction now? And yes, there has been a long string of predictions in the last two decades. Who can forget Harold Camping, the Christian radio media mogul who picked two dates in , hit the airwaves, put up billboards, solicited money — and nada. Heck, Sir Isaac Newton himself, great astronomer and mathematician, bet that Jesus would return in the year Facebook Twitter Email. Will the world end on Saturday? Currently, Virgo advances through the sky ahead of the moon, and with the sun.
Ahead of the constellation are the nine stars of Leo, along with the planets Mercury, Mars, and Venus. Meade believes these stars and planets are the "crown of twelve stars" in the prophecy. There's quite a bit more to Meade's story, but the agent of his apocalypse appears to be the planet "Nibiru," a mystical planet that often shows up in doomsday predictions.
While a ninth planet may actually exist in the far reaches of our solar system, that still doesn't make Meade's prediction seem particularly sound. Meade says he's not actually predicting that the world will end immediately on Saturday.
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