These four families are preparing for a time in the not so distant future when they believe water, food and fuel will be scarce. Doomsdayers 2012
Dennis, like many other 2012ers, feels that the time-frame for an apocalyptic disaster extends into 2013. ibid.
You will see, sooner or later great changes made.
Extreme horrors and vengeances:
For as the moon is thus led by its angel,
The heavens draw near to the reckoning. Nostradamus I-56
Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller,
For a long time the lands will be inhabited in peace:
People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and wave:
Then wars will start anew. Nostradamus I-63
After great trouble for humanity, a greater one is prepared
The Great Mover renews the ages:
Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel and plague,
Is the heavens fire seen, a long spark running. Nostradamus II-46
Mabus then will soon die, there will come
Of people and beasts a horrible rout:
Then suddenly one will see vengeance,
Hundred, hand, thirst, hunger when the comet will run. Nostradamus II-62
Tears, cries and laments, howls, terror,
Heart inhuman, cruel, black and chilly:
Lake of Geneva the Isles, of Genoa the notables,
Blood to pour out, wheat famine to none mercy. Nostradamus VI-81
Sun twentieth of Taurus the earth will tremble very mightily,
It will ruin the great theater filled:
To darken and trouble air, sky and land,
Then the infidel will call upon God and saints. Nostradamus IX-83
The first attack of the Sons of Light shall be undertaken against the forces of the Sons of Darkness. The War Scroll
They shall fight against Mesopotamia ... They shall fight against all the sons of Assyria and Persia. ibid.
The sons of Levi ... shall fight against all their troops, when the exiles of the Sons of Light return from the wilderness of the peoples to camp in the wilderness of Jerusalem. ibid.
For the God of Israel has called out a sword against all the nations, and by the holy ones of His people He will do mightily. ibid.
There shall be a battle and horrible carnage before the God of Israel for it is a day appointed by Him ... As a battle of annihilation for the Sons of Darkness. ibid.
The first attack of the Sons of Light shall be undertaken against the forces of the Sons of Darkness. ibid.
Every day things seem to get worse: religious conflict, climate change, it all seems so apocalyptic. None of this is new however. We’ve been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years … Something about the drama of annihilation seems to grip us. Morgan Freeman, The Story of God s1e2: Apocalypse
Like many doomsday cults, the Essenes believed the end was imminent and took precautions to meet God at any moment. ibid.
The Christian idea of the Apocalypse took hold under the oppression of Rome. ibid.
The Book of Revelation: the most controversial book of the Bible. Within its pages a dire forecast of Apocalypse ... What’s the real secret of the Book of Revelation? Riddles of the Bible s2e1: The Apocalypse, National Geographic
Most scholars say Revelation is a product of its time. ibid.
The word rapture appears nowhere in the Bible. ibid.
The Rapture. Judgment Day. Armageddon. Ever since humans first tried to understand their own creation, they have been obsessed with their own demise. Strange Rituals: The Apocalypse s1e11
The Black Death wiped out 75 million people, reducing the world’s population by a third. ibid.
More people have perished from viruses than all wars and natural disasters combined. ibid.
Stacey: Oh my God! I mean realistically how long do your think you could stay don’t here?
Survivalist: I’ve never realistically looked at it. Stacey Dooley Investigates: Face to Face with Armageddon, BBC 2018
Should we all be making plans for the end of the world? ibid.
‘If it’s between us and our neighbours, I’ll have to.’ ibid. survivalist with guns
Hidden away in the middle of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains lives a family of preppers who for the past decade have isolated themselves from mainstream society. They believe it’s the only way to ensure their survival when disaster strikes. ibid.
Some say the curse of man is the knowledge of his own demise. From Dante’s Inferno to the Mayan 2012 myth. Every culture has tried to predict the way our world will end. But no apocalyptic tale is as studied and feared as the Seven Signs cited in the Book of Revelation. Written 60 years after the Crucifixion, scholars have worked for millennia to decode these symbolic verses. Seven New Signs of the Apolcaypse, History 2019
Every age has its own apocalypse fantasy. Matthew Collings, Hello Culture: Nihilism, Channel 4 2001
And inter-stellar black holes capable of literally swallowing the Earth. The UnXplained with William Shatner s3e4: The Apocalypse, History 2022
There are at this very moment between 12 and 20 active super-volcanoes scattered across the Earth. ibid.