It is hard to select a starting point in the world of prophecy, and prophetic works. The most popular Prophecy's of today fore tell the end of the world. From the book of Revelations in the bible, to many suppressed texts of the Vatican (Such as St. Malachi, or St. Thomas). The medias most infamous Prophet would have to go to Michel De Nostradame, A.K.A. Nostradamus, whose ten centuries each with a hundred quatrains in them, have been published for hundreds of years.