Between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844 There was a LOT of noise being made.
Many Millerites sold their worldly possessions, including houses and farms.
Twice, they gathered in churches awaiting the end of the world.
The local group in Calais, Vermont after twice slinking out of the church, dressed in their white robes, made especially for the ascent to Heaven realized the only thing that was over was the scam.
Their relatives and neighbors all had a good laugh over it.
After the second time (fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me) they gave it up.
The same with the followers of Muggleton in the 1700s.
It's not a new scam, just new scammers.
Of course at some point the end will come, it won't be a scam, sometime between 10 minutes from now and millions of years.
I still have the booklets 88 REASONS WHY THE RAPTURE WILL BE IN 1988!
I read of people who went out and bought fancy cars to drive for a few months till the Rapture and then they would no longer be here to pay for them.
I have another book written about fifty years ago predicting the end times within a few years.
Lots of end times books being sold. It is always “The day after the day after tomorrow!”
Matthew 24:36
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Revelation 16:8-12
“8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.”
It’s hard to say when this happens. That’s a lot of heat. Could be in a few years or even billions of years.