Here's the article I wrote that was referenced:
http://www.ministriestoday.com/display.php?id=12575
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There's nothing like unfulfilled end-times predictions to teach us that no one knows the day or the hour of Christ's return.
1914 - Watchtower Society founder Charles Taze Russell predicts the end of the world.
1936 - Worldwide Church of God founder Herbert W. Armstrong predicts the “end of the age.” He later revises it to 1975.
1948 - The formation of the modern nation of Israel provokes speculation on the fulfillment of biblical prophecy and the impending return of Christ.
1949 - With the announcement that the Soviet Union had created an atomic bomb, Billy Graham suggested that Christ would return within the next two years.
1981 - According to Hal Lindsey's 1970 book, The Late, Great Planet Earth, this year was a worthy candidate for the rapture: 1948 (the establishment of Israel) plus 40 years (a generation) minus 7 years (the great tribulation) = 1981.
1982 - Pat Robertson predicts a Russian invasion of Israel, leading to Armageddon, by the end of 1982.
1985 - Lester Sumrall, in his book I Predict 1985 suggests that 1985 will usher in the Lord's return.
1988 - Edgar Whisenant, in his 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Is in 1988, predicts the second coming to occur on Rosh Hashanah in 1988.
1993 - In 1990, Benny Hinn states that the rapture would occur in 1993.
1997 - Kenneth Hagin predicts the second coming and rapture would occur in October, 1997.
2000 - Numerous leaders speculated on the significance of the turn of the millennium and the possible return of Christ in the new year
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