As I understand it, the Mayans would have looked upon today as the beginning of a birth of a new age.
I just heard Sandy Wood and she said the end was made up it is not in the stars. She does Star Date every morning.
| Date (CE) | Claimant | Description | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018–2028 | F. Kenton Beshore | Beshore bases his prediction on Hal Lindsey's failed 1988 prediction that Jesus would return within one biblical generation of the founding of Israel in 1948. Lindsey stated a biblical generation was 40 years. Beshore argues that Lindsey's prediction was correct, but that his definition of a biblical generation was incorrect, which is actually 70–80 years, placing the Second Coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028. | [160] |
| 2020–2037 | Jeane Dixon | This psychic claimed that the Armageddon would take place in 2020 and Jesus would return to defeat the unholy Trinity of the Antichrist, Satan and the False prophet between 2020 and 2037. Dixon previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962. | [161] |
| 2129 | Said Nursî | According to abjad interpretation of a hadith, this Sunni Muslim theologian who wrote the Risale-i Nur Collection, a body of Qur'anic commentary exceeding six thousand pages, which expected the end in 2129. | [162] |
| 2240 | Talmud, Orthodox Judaism | According to an opinion on the Talmud in mainstream Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah should come within 6000 years from the creation of Adam, and the world could possibly be destroyed 1000 years later. This would put the beginning of the period of desolation in the year 2240 A.D. and the end of the period of desolation in the year 3240 A.D. | Year 6000 |
| 2280 | Rashad Khalifa | According to Rashad Khalifa's research on the Quran Code, the world will end in this year. | [163] |
| c. 500,000,000 | James Kasting | The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will drop, making Earth uninhabitable. | [164] |
| c. 5,000,000,000 | Various scientists | The end of our Sun's current phase of development, after which it will swell into a red giant, either swallowing the Earth or at least completely scorching it. It is widely accepted by the scientific community that the earth will be destroyed around this time. However, as the Sun grows gradually hotter (over millions of years), the Earth may become too hot for life in only a billion years' time. | [164][165] |
| c. 22,000,000,000 | Various scientists | The Big Rip theory predicts that the entire universe will eventually be progressively torn apart by its continual expansion. One hypothetical example of the theory places the end in approximately 22 billion years time. | Big Rip |
| 10100 years. | Various scientists | The heat death of the universe is a suggested ultimate fate of the universe, in which the universe has diminished to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and therefore can no longer sustain motion or life. | Heat death of the universe |
Exactly. This time on the Mayan calendar is the end of their fourth (of four) age. This doesn’t mean the world is going to end.