Hi Jantimot, I am very familiar with this kind of stuff. It is relatively common amongst those who take the Bible alone as their motto. Over the 2000 years history of Christianity these predictions have cropped up regularly but in more modern times it is amongst the Protestants where this occurs. Many like to rummage amongst the books of the Bible and find stuff as you see in the report. (I refer to the Bible as their happy hunting ground! ) They then come out and make the statements seen in the report and then go away and come up with some excuse as to why it did not happen.
Catholicism does not support such predictions because Christ is reported as saying only the Father knows the time.
Strangely enough I do believe that these people do tap into a feeling or some aspect of society that presages a significant change. For example there is one Protestant group who predicted the end of the world in about 1911. It did not happen but at about that time there were significant changes associated with changes to how Europe was organized. The old was disappearing and a new system was arriving.
Finally there is a story about a famous Saint whose name I cannot recall who was asked what he would do if told the world was going to end at midday. He was playing snooker. He said I would continue playing snooker. The moral of the story is always be prepared because you know not the time or place.
