Support trusted, factual information with a tax deductible contribution to PolitiFact, "The Simpsons," Fox’s long-running, animated TV show, has famously predicted the future on several occasions. Says Joe Biden took a knee during the national anthem. Elisha Jones, a youth director at a church in southeast Texas, tweeted a screen grab of a Facebook post that cited. In it eight-year-old Lisa gets her fortune told - and finds out that in fifteen years time she'll fall in love with a British man, who bears more than a passing resemblance to Hugh Grant. There are numerous accounts that she made mistaken claims about crimes that increased the suffering of victims' families. Give up? Here, then, are some other things we should probably watch out for. Others - robot butlers, hologram trees and World War III - we're still waiting on. Doing so may not be as thrilling as sharing predictions of doom. 20036, Florida How about the Antichrist? Bart to the Future, which aired in the year 2000, takes the form of a prophetic vision Bart has while visiting a Native American casino. In season 11, for example, President Lisa Simpson has inherited a "budget crunch from President Trump.". On the show, the text doesn’t say "corona virus" but "apocalypse meow.". "Jesus himself said, 'You don't know the hour,' yet some self-appointed prophets today seem to know more than the angels around God's throne," Lehner says. It was the first Simpsons episode to be primarily set in the future - in this case the far flung year of 2010. It was 1995 when Lisa's Wedding first aired. (CNN)In the summer of 2008, an elderly psychic who claimed she started receiving premonitions at age 5 published a book that contained an ominous prediction. The destruction of the temple of Jerusalem was incomprehensible for some earlier followers of Jesus. But some who study religion and prophecies for a living say it's time for these social media prophets and psychics to take a self-enforced quarantine. ", "If that's not devilish, I don't know what is.". 801 3rd St. S ", Some people pointed to the end of the Maya Long Count calendar, on December 21, 2012, to conclude it also meant the end of the world. And one more thing - the word "goodbye" has gone out of fashion and been permanently replaced by "smell ya later". Even Browne's most famous prediction, about a mysterious respiratory illness in 2020, looks different in a critical light. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- War, Strife, Famine and Death -- ride over the Earth, leaving destruction in their wake. Yet, while those episodes do depict viral disease outbreaks, it is inaccurate to say “The Simpsons” predicted the novel respiratory virus that has so far spread from China to 23 other countries. A Feb. 20 Facebook post appears to show stills from a 1993 episode of the show in which both Homer Simpson and Principal Skinner are sick; another image shows a broadcaster reading off a piece of paper while the words "corona virus" and a cat appear on a screen behind him. Her father was called 'the most dangerous racist in America.' They warned of giant tidal waves and that the Earth would collide with another planet. stated on September 17, 2020 in a CNN town hall. Lehner says some of the doomsday prophets may be driven by another sin: pride. Find us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat. Many Biblical scholars, though, say the book of Revelation is not really about the end of the world. He's in a band, Nelson owns a nightclub and Lisa is president of the United States, obviously. Someone wrote a caption above the biblical passage that read: "Australian wildfires -- the rain was held back. Browne, the author and psychic, was consistently criticized for the inaccuracy of her prophecies when she was alive. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- War, Strife, Famine and Death -- ride over the Earth, leaving destruction in their wake. An appellate court found Kamala Harris and police “took part in framing and prosecuting a man” for a murder he didn’t commit, paying a key witness $60,000 in relocation benefits for testifying against him. Incidentally - it's this episode that features the infamous "we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump" line. “Chris Christie is in ICU and reported to be put on a ventilator.”, “Hillsboro school district has already placed Antifa, BLM in their curriculum as Justice Fighters. "Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely. They had expected Jesus to return "with power" and conquer Rome before inaugurating the new age. District of Columbia ", There is something about pandemics that cause panicked people to empty their minds along with supermarket shelves. But such bad predictions aren't a modern phenomenon. There is no explicit mention of the Rapture in Revelation. Five seasons later the Simpsons returned to the future - this time to the year 2030. For centuries it's been the go-to book for doomsday prophets warning about the spread of "end-times plagues" and bizarre weather patterns.

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