Predictions and claims for the Second Coming

There are no dates in the Bible and Jesus himself warns about setting dates.

In the New Testament, Jesus was talking to them in the present, and about things relevant to them right then and in their near future, but in a way that is still relevant to us today. He did not give prophecies for our time 2000 years later.

About his second coming specifically:


 * "No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven don't know, and the Son himself doesn't know. Only the Father knows.” Matthew 24:36 (http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-36.htm) also Mark 13:32 (http://biblehub.com/mark/13-32.htm)


 * Matthew 24:44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

There he is talking to Christians. He says they also won’t know in advance.

Also it's important to know that the Apostles in the first century AD thought they were in the "last times" already, they saw what seemed to them to be clear signs they were in the last times and so if that's right we have been in the "last times" for 2000 years now.

See Robert Walker's Why you can ignore all date setting prophecies based on the Bible - no dates in it

This page is to help people scared of false prophecies of Jesus second coming. It's the Wikipedia page edited to show past predictions only.

Future predictions
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 * 2021
 * F. Kenton "Doc" Beshore
 * Beshore bases his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus could return in 1988, i.e., within one Biblical generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a Biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80 years, placing the Second Coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028 and the Rapture by 2021 at the latest. {{cite web |url=http://www.charismanews.com/us/34832-bible-scholar-pr
 * Beshore bases his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus could return in 1988, i.e., within one Biblical generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a Biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80 years, placing the Second Coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028 and the Rapture by 2021 at the latest. {{cite web |url=http://www.charismanews.com/us/34832-bible-scholar-pr