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=== Failed predictions ===
{{Main|Predictions and claims for the Second Coming}}

Some notable predictions of the date of the [[Second Coming]] of Jesus, which may or may not refer to the rapture, include the following:

* '''1843–44''': [[William Miller (preacher)|William Miller]] predicted that Christ would return between 21 March 1843 and 21 March 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated the Bible, to 22 October 1844. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the [[Great Disappointment]]. Miller's theology gave rise to the [[Adventism|Advent movement]], which later on gave birth to the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]]. Followers of the [[Baháʼí Faith]] believe that Christ did return as Miller predicted in 1844, with the advent of [[the Báb]], and numerous Miller-like prophetic predictions from many religions are given in [[William Sears (Baháʼí)|William Sears]]' book, ''Thief in The Night''.<ref>{{cite book |last= Sears |first= William |author-link= William Sears (Baháʼí) |title= Thief in the Night: Or, The Strange Case of the Missing Millennium |year= 1961 |publisher= George Ronald Publishing Ltd. |location= [[Welwyn]], [[England]] |url= https://archive.org/details/thiefinnightor00sear |isbn= 978-0853980087 }}</ref>
* '''1914''',<ref>{{cite book |last= Barbour |first= Nelson H. |author-link= Nelson H. Barbour |title= Three Worlds, and the Harvest of This World |year= 1877 |oclc= 41016956 |publisher= [[Nelson H. Barbour]] and [[Charles Taze Russell]] |location= [[Rochester, New York]] |url= http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/contents/history/3worlds.pdf |access-date= 3 April 2015 |archive-date= 20 March 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060320020952/http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/contents/history/3worlds.pdf |url-status= dead }} (See also:  Wikipedia's article on [[Three Worlds (book)]] )<br>as cited by:<br> {{cite book |last= Penton |first= M. James |author-link= James Penton |title= Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses |date= 9 August 1997 |publisher= [[University of Toronto Press]] |edition= 2nd |orig-year= 1985 |pages= 21–22 |isbn= 978-0802079732 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=38SYXalMLeQC }}</ref> '''1918''',<ref>''The Finished Mystery'', 1917, pp. 258, 485, as cited by Raymond Franz, ''Crisis of Conscience'', pp. 206–211.</ref> and '''1925''':<ref>''The Way to Paradise'' booklet, Watch Tower Society, 1924, as cited by Raymond Franz, ''Crisis of Conscience'', pp. 230–232.</ref> Various dates were predicted for the Second Coming of Jesus by [[Charles Taze Russell]], the founder of the [[Watch Tower Society]], and many of his successors heading his [[International Bible Students Association|Bible Students Association]], which was later renamed the [[Jehovah's Witnesses]].

Some predictions of the date of the rapture include the following:

* '''1981''': [[Chuck Smith (pastor)|Chuck Smith]] predicted that Jesus would probably return by 1981.<ref>{{cite book|last= Smith |first= Chuck |author-link= Chuck Smith (pastor) |title= End Times: A Report on Future Survival

| date= 1978 |publisher= Maranatha House Publishers |location= [[Costa Mesa, California]] |page= 17 |isbn= 978-0893370114}}</ref>

* '''1988''': [[Edgar C. Whisenant]] published a book called ''88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/ReasonsWhyTheRaptureWillBeIn1988PDF|title=88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be In 1988 and On Borrowed Time|date=June 15, 1988|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
* '''1994-09-06''':  Radio evangelist [[Harold Camping]] predicted 6 September 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abhota.info/end3.htm|title=A Brief History of the Apocalypse; 1971–1997: Millennial Madness|date=18 June 2002|author=Nelson, Chris|access-date=23 June 2007}}</ref>
* '''2011-05-21''': [[Harold Camping]]'s [[2011 end times prediction|revised prediction]] put 21 May 2011 as the date of the rapture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/waat/contents.html|title=We are Almost There|access-date=22 July 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612151708/http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/waat/contents.html|archive-date=12 June 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html |title=Road trip to the end of the world | publisher=[[CNN]] |author=Ravitz, Jessica |date=6 March 2011 |access-date=6 March 2011}}</ref> After this date passed without apparent incident, Camping made a radio broadcast stating that a non-visible "spiritual judgement" had indeed taken place, and that the physical rapture would occur on 21 October 2011. On that date, according to Camping, the "whole world will be destroyed."<ref>[http://laist.com/2011/05/24/apocalypse_not_quite_now_camping_pi.php LAist] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720022803/http://laist.com/2011/05/24/apocalypse_not_quite_now_camping_pi.php |date=20 July 2011 }}, 24 May 2011.</ref>
* '''2017-09-23''': Christian [[numerologist]] [[David Meade (author)|David Meade]] based this prediction on astrological theories.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/856661/End-of-the-world-2017-september-23-bible-christians-prophecy-planet-x-nibiru|title=End of the world 2017: Why American Christians are getting VERY worried about September 23|last=Kettley|first=Sebastian|date=23 September 2017|work=Express.co.uk|access-date=6 November 2017|language=en}}</ref>