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Rapture and end-times predictions in the 2000s
Since 2000, date predictions have increasingly spread by video and social media, with less of the editorial filtering that books and radio once provided. The record here separates calculation-based claims from claims resting on a dream or a vision.
6 entries, in date order.
- January 1, 2000 Y2K and end-times expectations around the year 2000 Various authors and commentators · No matching event documented The Year 2000 computer problem was a real technical risk, and some religious commentators framed it as a possible sign of the end. There was no single widely accepted Rapture date, so this entry records a pattern of expectation and not one prediction.
- May 21, 2011 Harold Camping and May 21, 2011 Harold Camping and Family Radio · Later revised Harold Camping and Family Radio taught that the Rapture and Judgment Day would occur on May 21, 2011, followed by the end of the world on October 21, 2011. A national billboard and media campaign promoted the date.
- December 21, 2012 The 2012 Maya calendar claims Popular authors and online communities · No matching event documented Popular books and online communities claimed that the end of a Maya Long Count cycle on December 21, 2012 marked the end of the world or a transformation. Maya scholars and NASA stated that no Maya text predicts the end of the world.
- 2014–2015 The four blood moons of 2014 and 2015 John Hagee and Mark Biltz · Record disputed A sequence of four total lunar eclipses fell on Jewish holidays in April 2014, October 2014, April 2015 and September 2015. Authors linked it to Joel 2:31 and said it signaled coming change. Hagee did not name a Rapture date.
- September 23, 2017 The Revelation 12 sign and September 23, 2017 David Meade (pen name) and others · Later revised A planetary alignment on September 23, 2017 was linked by some authors to the "great wonder" of Revelation 12:1. Author David Meade said it would mark the start of catastrophic events. Astronomers and many Christian commentators rejected the claim.
- September 23–24, 2025 Joshua Mhlakela and the September 2025 Rapture claim Joshua Mhlakela · No matching event documented A South African preacher said that believers would be taken on September 23 or 24, 2025, around Rosh Hashanah. The claim spread widely on TikTok and other platforms.