By Brad Brain
My sister was telling me that there is a new thing going around on TikTok, predicting an upcoming Rapture event. These people are predicting that the world will literally end. Total, absolute destruction.
This reminded me of 2012, when some people began a countdown to Armageddon based on an ancient Mayan belief that the end of a 5,125 year cycle happens on December 21, 2012, bringing much catastrophe.
Predictions that the world is ending are nothing new. 16th Century seer Nostradamus made a number of vague and ambiguous predictions that willing believers could twist into a description of real-life events, but his most famous prediction was quite specific. In July 1999 the King of Terror was supposed to descend from the sky.
These types of dire prognostications can cause quite a stir. But clearly, just because someone says something is going to happen doesn’t mean that it actually will. Even if it’s Nostradamus doing the saying.