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====David Meade==== {{Main|David Meade (author)}} David Meade is the pen name of an American end-times [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]] and book author who has yet to disclose his real name. Meade, who describes himself as a "Christian [[numerologist]]",<ref name="Guarino2">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/05/will-the-mysterious-shadow-planet-nibiru-obliterate-earth-in-october-no/|title=Will the mysterious shadow planet Nibiru obliterate Earth in October? No.|last1=Guarino|first1=Ben|date=7 January 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|publisher=Nash Holdings LLC|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924001754/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/05/will-the-mysterious-shadow-planet-nibiru-obliterate-earth-in-october-no/|archive-date=24 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> claims to have attended the [[University of Louisville]], where he "studied astronomy, among other subjects",<ref name="washingtonpostmeade2">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/20/the-christian-numerologist-whose-biblical-doomsday-claim-has-some-nervously-eyeing-sept-23/|title=The man whose biblical doomsday claim has some nervously eyeing Sept. 23|last1=Phillips|first1=Kristine|date=20 September 2017|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|publisher=[[Jeff Bezos|Nash Holdings LLC]]|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923081540/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/20/the-christian-numerologist-whose-biblical-doomsday-claim-has-some-nervously-eyeing-sept-23/|archive-date=23 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="glum2">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/end-world-david-meade-668820|title=Who Is David Meade? The World Is Ending Saturday, According to This Catholic-Raised Blogger|last1=Glum|first1=Julia|date=22 September 2017|publisher=[[Newsweek Media Group]]|periodical=[[Newsweek]]|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531184230/https://www.newsweek.com/end-world-david-meade-668820|archive-date=31 May 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> but, because his real name is unknown, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that the university could not confirm whether he had ever been a student there.<ref name="washingtonpostmeade2" /> He is also a writer, researcher and investigator who has written and self-published at least 13 books.<ref name="washingtonpostmeade2" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/science/doomsday-writer-david-meade-who-is-he/|title=Doomsday writer David Meade: Who is he?|date=22 September 2017|work=[[Fox News]]|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831024802/http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/09/22/doomsday-writer-david-meade-who-is.html|archive-date=31 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> He made appearances and interviews on ''[[Coast to Coast AM]]'', ''The Washington Post'', ''[[Glenn Beck Program]]'', [[YouTube]] with pastor Paul Begley, and the ''[[Daily Express]]''. He is best known for making numerous predictions, which have passed, regarding the end times, including that a hidden planet named [[Nibiru cataclysm|Nibiru]] (sometimes known as Planet X) would destroy the [[Earth]]. Meade predicted that planet Nibiru would collide with Earth on September 23, 2017, destroying it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wjla.com/news/offbeat/the-world-is-ending-on-september-23-according-to-a-biblical-prophecy|title=The world is ending on September 23, according to a biblical prophecy|last1=Karangu|first1=Jessie|date=20 September 2017|website=[[WJLA-TV]]|publisher=[[Sinclair Broadcast Group]]|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531184223/https://wjla.com/news/offbeat/the-world-is-ending-on-september-23-according-to-a-biblical-prophecy|archive-date=31 May 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> After his prediction failed, he revised the apocalypse to October, where he stated that the seven-year [[Great Tribulation|tribulation]] would possibly start followed by a [[Millennialism|millennium]] of peace.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4955640/doomsday-world-end-david-meade/|title=David Meade Said the World Was Going to End Last Weekend. Now He Says It's Really Happening in October|last1=Gajanan|first1=Mahita|date=25 September 2017|publisher=Time Inc.| magazine=Time (magazine)|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925162955/http://time.com/4955640/doomsday-world-end-david-meade/|archive-date=25 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, Meade again made several predictions for that year, for instance, that [[North Korea]] becoming a superpower in March 2018 and that Nibiru would destroy the Earth in spring.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} Meade announced that the apocalypse would begin in March 2018, but he did not predict the exact date.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} After March 2018 passed, he moved the apocalypse to April 23, 2018, in which he also predicted the [[Sun]], [[Moon]], [[Jupiter]], and [[Virgo (constellation)|Virgo]] will signal the rapture, and that Nibiru would destroy the Earth that day.<ref name="Nzheraldmeade2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12031291|title=Conspiracy theorists claim end of world is coming April 23 when Nibiru appears|last1=MacDonald|first1=Cheyenne|date=12 April 2018|newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|access-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624204452/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12031291|archive-date=24 June 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> However, before that date he said that reports that he predicted the end on 23 April were "fake news", but that the rapture—but not the end of the world—would take place on an unspecified date between May and December 2018.
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