Did Nostradamus Predict Doomsday in 2012?

Setting the record straight – Did Nostradamus Predict Doomsday in 2012?

Many sites seem to claim the end of the world will come in the year 2012, to be more specific, December 21st, 2012. Why? The ancient Maya civilisation, world famous for their astronomical work, had a ancient calendar system, and the calendar ends on that date.

Not only do these websites claim the world will end in 2012, they also blindly claim, that Nostradamus predicted the end of the world in 2012. Do not ask me how they came to that conclusion, because truthully, I haven’t the slightest idea. It is most likely that they are misinformed or just money-hungry webmasters, feeding their visitors with nonsense to keep them coming back.

For starts, Nostradamus, in an extract from a letter to his son, wrote:
“They would condemn that which future ages shall find and know to be true…(quatrains) are perpetual prophecies from this year to the year 3797, at which some perhaps will frown, seeing so large an extension of time…”

Since when did the year 3797 translate to 2012 from ancient French to English? It did not.

Nostradamus did not specify any time, date or year for doomsday in Les Propheties, the centuries he wrote. However, if you do in fact believe in the prophecies of Nostradamus, he did predict a 27 year-long war, thought to be World War III, at the hands of the third “Antichrist,” who is yet to come.

The antichrist very soon annihilates the three, twenty-seven years his war will last. The unbelievers are dead, captive, exiled; with blood, human bodies, water and red hail covering the earth.
Century 8.78

To my knowledge, 2012 is not 27 years away in any calendar, however, it is possible to believe the war mentioned is on-going, such as the NATO mission in the middle-east, but that would not bring the final date to 2012 either.

Conclusion: NO. Nostradamus did NOT foresee doomsday in 2012. The thing is, with the Mayan calendar cycle ending, every doomsayer and their dogs are coming up with their own doomsday theories and finding any proof, imaginary or not, to back it up.

For more info on the prophecies of Nostradamus, please visit Nostradamus Predictions. For more information on the third antichrist, check out Who is Mabus? and The Third Antichrist.