Yisrayl Hawkins, pastor and overseer of The House of Yahweh, predicted in his February 2006 newsletter that a nuclear war would begin on September 12, 2006. Durant, Will (1953). The Renaissance. The Story of Civilization. Vol.5. New York: Simon and Schuster. ASIN B000HMTXTK. Dovey, Dana (September 26, 2017). "Doomsday Is Postponed Again: Here's Why We're All So Obsessed With The End Of World, According to Psychology". Newsweek. Archived from the original on April 25, 2018. After his 1260 prediction failed, the followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled the end of the world to 1290 and then again to 1335. Biblical prophecy claims the world would end on Sept. 23, Christian numerologists claim". Fox News. September 15, 2017. Archived from the original on September 17, 2017.

In approximately 300,000 years, WR 104, a triple star, is expected to explode in a supernova. It has been suggested that it may produce a gamma ray burst that could pose a threat to life on Earth should its poles be aligned 12° or lower towards Earth. However, spectroscopic observations now strongly suggest that it is tilted at an angle of 30–40° and so any gamma ray burst should not hit Earth. See also: Timeline of the far future, Global catastrophic risk, and Ultimate fate of the universe Estimated timeframe (years)This Anabaptist prophet predicted Christ's Second Coming to take place this year in Strasbourg. He claimed that 144,000 people would be saved, while the rest of the world would be consumed by fire. Nostradamus wrote: "Seven months of the Great War, people dead of evil-doing. Rouen, Evreux shall not fall to the King." Swedenborg, Emanuel (1758). The Last Judgment and Babylon Destroyed. All the Predictions in the Apocalypse are at This Day Fulfilled.

Per Leslie’s use of the Doomsday Argument, there is a 95% chance the last human beings will be born before the year 11,118 (or 9,120 years after 1998, when he published his argument). Thus, it is possible one of the strangler's victims may be a female celebrity ... a model, singer or an actress. This is only if 1997 lends that influence to a case that willotherwise resemble 1962-64. Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to 1058 to 1836, "when Christ should come".

The theory comes amid a string of prophecies by the Frenchman, including when, where and how the world could dramatically end.