The problem with predicting the end of the world is that you look really stupid when it doesn’t happen, as illustrated in this article from the New York Times, which is paraphrased in brief below:

Fourteen members of a Russian doomsday cult on Tuesday abandoned the remote underground bunker where they had been hiding for nearly half a year awaiting the end of the world.

They said that God had given them a signal to leave,” said Oleg Melnichenko, deputy governor of the Penza region where cult members have been holed up since October. “All are in good health, considering they have spent half a year underground,” said Melnichenko.

The sect is an ultra-devout splinter group of the Russian Orthodox church. They reject processed food and say bar codes on products are the work of Satan.

Cult members had refused to come out of their bunker before the apocalypse, which their leader Pavel Kuznetsov — now undergoing psychiatric treatment — predicted would happen in April or May this year. Kuznetsov did not join his followers in the bunker, saying God had different tasks for him.