There have been a few books and pamphlets published on 1881/1882, as being the climax to certain periods:
Life and Prophecies of Mother Shipton. 24mo. pp. 96. "The world to an end shall come in eighteen hundred and eighty-one."
How the World came to End in 1881. Square 12mo. pp. London Anno Domini 1884. Anno Dominae 3.
1881-1882. By the Countess of Caithness. Reprinted from "Medium and Daybreak," Dec. 31, 1881, and Jan. 6, 1S82. London, pp. 30.
1881-1882. The Great Changes of the near Future. By H. W. Oswald. 8vo. pp. 28. San Francisco, Cal. 1881."Eastward the Star of Empire again must take its way."
Anglo Israelism and the Great Pyramid. Reasons for fixing the Age in 1882. A criticism by Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile. London, 1880. 8vo. pp. 114.
Diluvium, or the End of the World. 1889-1892. By George S. Pidgeon. St. Louis, 1885. 12mo. pp. 174.
Astronomical Etiology, or Star Prophecies, concerning coming Disasters on the Earth from 1881 to 1885. By M. L. Knapp, M. D. Chicago, 1878. 12mo. pp. 64.
The Coming Catastrophe. By Prof. C. A. Grimmer. Cambridge, 1881. 12mo. pp. 96.
Dread Prophecies for 1881-1885. By J. S. Daggett. Albany, 1881. 12mo. pp. 62.
1881; or the End of the ^Eons. By Henry Bowman. St. Louis, 1884.
The Approaching End of the Age, viewed in the Light of History, Prophecy, and Science. By H. Grattan Guinness. New York, 1831. 8vo. pp. 706. Amen erchou, kurie lesou.
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Of course, this is hardly the only time the End was predicted.
Early Church fathers Hilarianus and Hippolytus predicted the end in 500 A.D.(Paula Fredriksen-Tyconius and Augustine on the Apocalypse)
Irish Bishop James Ussher's prediction was for 1996.
Puritans Issac Watts, Joseph Mede and the Mathers in America were date-setters.
The Father of Protestantism himself, Martin Luther taught Christ would return by 1564.
Does that mean that all Protestants or Lutherans are false prophets? No, of course not, but they are by the reasoning of a certain few.
German Reformer Philip Melanchton was a date-setter too, as was German theologian Johann Alsted.
Remember the booklet, "88 Reasons Why the Rapture will be in 1988" by Edgar Whisenant? Also "Christ Returns by 1988: 101 Reasons Why" by Colin Deal.
Or the Korean Christians(Pentecostals) for October 1992?
The most famous one was actually a Baptist....William Miller who predicted 1843.
Wait...there's more
In the 5th century, the Council of Ephesus decided the millenium had already begun.
Pope Gregory I, 590-604 C.E., predicted the imminent end of the world.
Spanish Monk Beatus predicts it for 800 A.D.
An ecumenical council for the Roman Catholic Church announces Christ's return by 1000.
Aelfric, the Abbott of Eynsham predicts it for the year 1000.
Abbo of Fleury, the French Abbott predicts it for predicts it for 994/996.
Richard of St. Vaast leads a pilgrimage for the predicted end in 1033.
1184 is the target date for the return of the Antichrist according to many...
and again in 1345-1385
Joachim of Fiore(1135-1202) used the New Testament and the Trinity to proclaim the coming of the anti-christ in 1260 A.D.
1260 is also touted by Brother Arnold (Dominican Monk)
Speaking of the Trinity, the Church Father who first coined the term, Tertullian was a Montanist(a deeply apocalyptical sect).
Jean de Roquetaillade announced it for 1366
Roman Catholic, Arnald of Villanova, predicted the appearance of the Antichrist in 1378
The Taborites predict it for 1420.
Priest Martinek Hauska announces doom for 1420.
Hans Hut announced the end for1528
Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa announced it for 1533
Melchior Hoffman announced it for 1593
The Fifth Monarchists predicted between 1655-57
A Lutheran named Adam Nachenmoser announced it for 1635
Lutheran leader, Andreas Osiander announced it for 1672
Jan Matthys announced for 1534
Archbishop of York and Primate of England, Edwin Sandys (1519-1588) proclaimed the imminent end
John Wycliffe announced it for 1379
One of the first Baptist groups, The Anabaptists believed that the Millenium would occur in 1533
Reformer John Foxe believed the last days would start in 1600. He was shared in this view by Robert Pont
New England Minister Jonathan Edwards predicts 1866
The Puritans predict it for 1700
Emanuel Swedenborg predicts the end for 1757
Anglican rector Thomas Beverly predict 1697
Anglican rector John Mason for 1694
Pierre Jurie predicts the end for 1689
Sir Walter Raleigh, Hugh Broughton and Thomas Brightman thought it would not be until 1700
Christopher Columbus said the world was going to end in 1656
Deacon William Aspinwall (General Court) predicts the end for 1673
Feb 28, 1763 Devout Methodist George Bell foresaw the end of the world on this date.
Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly announced it for 1789
The Shakers announced it for 1792
1790 The Second Coming, according to Irish orator Francis Dobbs.
1792 The end of the world according to the Shakers.
1794 The end of the world according to the Shakers.
Charles Wesley, brother of Methodist Church founder John Wesley, predicted Doomsday would be in 1794.
Lavater announced it for 1795
Some Christian believers in Russia thought that Peter the Great was the Anti-Christ in the 1660's.
Historic Jews in the 17th century believed that the Messiah would come in the year 1648.
John Napier announced it for 1688 or 1700
John Cummings of the Scottish National Church, predicted Jesus would return in 1865.
Isaac Newton announced it for about another 90 years in his day
Richard Brothers announced it for 1795
Methodist Church founder John Wesley foresaw the Millennium beginning in 1836, the same year that the Beast of Revelation was to rise from the sea.
Reverend M. Baxter (Church of England) predicts it for 1868
Scottish National Church official, the "Reverend" John Cumming (1807-1881) proclaimed "Redemption draweth Nigh" in 1867
In 1832 Pope Gregory XVI indicated that the time of the "plague of locusts (Revelation 9:3)" had arrived in his Encyclical "Mirari vos arbitramur."
Pat Robertson announced it for 2007(in a novel)
Born-Again, R. Henry Hall for 1998 (AD 1991-The Genesis of Holocaust)
Hart Armstrong posts the Tribulation for 1989
Chuck Smith, Pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa proclaimed it for 1981
Tommy Hicks, a noted evangelist, received visions of the end in 1961
Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, predicted the world's end in the 19th. Century.
Elizabeth Claire Prophet announced it for 1989
Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California predicted the Rapture in 1981.
Hon-Ming Chen predicted Christ's return on March 31, 1998.
Methodist Joanna Southcott(1750-1814 announced she was the Bride of the Lamb and began to seal the 144,000
Early in the 20th century, Dr. Isaac M. Haldeman, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in New York City, predicted that the Antichrist would appear before the Jews return to Palestine
Assemblies of God official, Thomas M. Chalmers, announced it for the early 1920's
Pentecostal leader, Lester Sumrall predicts 1985
Evangelical prophecy teacher has announced it for 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989 (see Sooth-Sayers of the Second Advent, Alnor)
September, 1981, Baptist itinerant preacher (a.k.a. an evangelist) in Springfield, Missouri makes the sure- fire claim that he had determined from Bible study that Christ absolutely HAD to come back between October, 1981 and September, 1982. (see THE SCOURGE OF THE "PROPHECY MONGERS" from "AS I SEE IT" Volume 1, Number 3, March, 1998
Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth, predicted the Rapture would occur in 1988.
Nationally syndicated TV show host (Prophecy in the News), J.R. Church predicted the rapture for 1988.
David Webber and Noah Hutchings of the Southwest Radio Church (SRC) announced it for "1981 or '88".
Henry Kreysler announces Armageddon for 1995
Author Reginald Dunlop announces the Rapture for 1991.
Mary Stewart Relfe announced the Great Tribulation for 1990.
Salem Kirban - Bible prognosticator, predicted "the Rapture" would take place in 1989.
Benny Hinn predicted the Rapture would occur in 1993.
Dr. Jack van Impe has speculated that the end will come between September 1999 and 2000.
Lester Sumrall for 2000.
Grant Jeffrey predicts it for October 9, 2000
Texe Marrs predicts it for 2000 (Storming toward Armageddon, 1992)
Philip B. Brown has stated that the millennial reign of Christ will begin April 6, 2008.
James McKeever ends his 6000 year theory by at least 2030 (End Times News Digest).
Dr. Harold Camping, president of Family Radio, expected the end of the world in 1994.
"Not a few ministries that began well have been turned aside by an obsessive bent toward prophecy. I will mention as one example Jack Van Impe. In the 1970s, Van Impe's ministry was singularly used by God in numerous crusades in various cities. At least two members of my immediate family were converted in his Wichita crusade. As a youth pastor in Indiana, I took our young people to his South Bend crusade, and several were saved as a result. As a seminary student of very restricted financial means, I was a weekly contributor to his ministry. But in those days, his focus was the Gospel, sin, and salvation by faith, with only a night or two in the week directed at prophetic themes. In a word--it was balanced.
But what has he become 20 years later? His television broadcasts (which I can scarcely endure for more than a few minutes) are virtually nothing but the newest sign of the times, and latest "fulfillment" of a contorted misinterpretation and mangling of some Biblical text, presented by a man who seems to be all hyped-up and scarcely more sincere than a used car salesman. It is to me a very sad sight. A progressively more restricted pre-occupation with prophecy is unmistakably the cause. It is spiritually low octane stuff."
THE SCOURGE OF THE "PROPHECY MONGERS" from "AS I SEE IT" Volume 1, Number 3, March, 1998
"One faith united the scattered congregations: that Christ was the son of God, that he would return to establish his kingdom on earth, and that all who believed in him would at the Last Judgement be rewarded with eternal bliss. But Christians differed as to the date of the second advent. When Nero died and Titus demolished the Temple, and again when Hadrian destroyed Jerusalem, many Christians hailed these calamities as signs of the second coming. When chaos threatened the Empire at the close of the second century, Tertullian and others thought that the end of the world was at hand; a Syrian Bishop led his flock into the desert to meet Christ halfway, and a bishop in Pontus disorganized the life of his community by announcing that Christ would return within a year. As all signs failed, and Christ did not come, wiser Christians sought to soften the disappointment by reinterpreting the date of his return.
He would come in a thousand years, said an epistle ascribed to Barnabas; he would come, said the most cautious, when the "generation" or race of the Jews was quite extinct, or when the Gospel had been preached to all gentiles; or said the Gospel of John, he would send in his stead the Holy Spirit or Paraclete."
(Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, Volume III, 'Ceasar and Christ, Pg. 603, 604)
Even the earliest Christians prepared for the imminent end of the age in their own time:
"That the earliest Church regarded itself as the Congregation of the end of days, is attested both by Paul, and the synoptic tradition....Further testimony for eschatological consciousness is the fact that Jesus' disciples after the Easter experiences in Galilee soon betook themselves to Jerusalem as the focus of the coming Reign of God."
Theology of the New Testament-Complete in One Volume, by Rudolf Bultmann, p. 37
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