Apocalypses That Didn't Happen

The Bible says that in the very last days there will be scoffers everywhere.  They scoff at the idea that God is going to come and interject judgment on the earth.  Sadly those scoffers are present in your very own church.

Yes, people have falsely believed that the END OF THE WORLD is upon them.  Many have done very stupid things and sold all their earthly belongings and sat on a hillside waiting for the aliens to come and pick them up and transport them to Nirvana.

I ran across this article from the Smithsonian that chronicles this phenomenon.

An Assyrian clay tablet dating to around 2800 B.C. bears the inscription: “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”

The world didn’t end (just look around), and despite the plague of corruption and petulant teenagers, four centuries later the Assyrians would establish an empire that eventually encompassed most of the Near East. The Assyrian Empire came to an abrupt end in 612 B.C., when its capital was attacked by the Babylonian army. Still, by the standards of ancient empires, 18 centuries wasn’t such a bad run.

In 1499, the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Stöffler predicted that a vast flood would engulf the world on February 20, 1524. (His calculations foretold 20 planetary conjunctions during this year—16 of which would take place in a “watery sign,” a.k.a. Pisces.)
In Europe, more than 100 different pamphlets were published endorsing Stöffler’s doomsday prophecy. Business boomed for boat-builders, not least for German nobleman Count von Iggleheim, who constructed a three-story ark on the Rhine.

At 9 a.m. on May 19, 1780, the sky over New England was enveloped in darkness. An 1881 article in Harper’s Magazine stated that, “Birds went to roost, cocks crowed at mid-day as at midnight, and the animals were plainly terrified.”

The unnatural gloom is believed to have been caused by smoke from forest fires, possibly coupled with heavy fog. But at the time, some feared the worst. “People [came] out wringing their hands and howling, the Day of Judgment is come,” recalled a Revolutionary War fifer.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ten-notable-apocalypses-that-obviously-didnt-happen-9126331/

If you click the link above you can read about 10 predictions that never came true.  Sadly, many of these have been tied to "Christians" who refuse to heed the biblical words that NO MAN knows the day or the hour.

Some thousands of years ago, Noah started building a boat.  It took he and his sons 120 years to build.  We can guess that there were lots of folks over those 120 years who stopped to stare at Noah's huge ark and laughed at his 'foolishness'.  But one day, right on time, God told Noah to get on that boat and God sealed him in from the outside.

One day, much sooner than anyone will expect, Jesus will come in the clouds with a loud trumpet call and the voice of the archangel and He will call His bride, made up of all followers of Christ living and dead, into the clouds where we will meet Him and be with Him forever.

Do you believe it?  Or are you counted among the scoffers who don't believe God would ever do such a thing?

1 Thess. 4
¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words.