1) Yes, the Mayan calculation was for the end of the cycle, which had to happen for us to get to the end of the AGE. December 2012 ended the cycle, enabling us to get to the end of the age..
2) About 500 years ago, Martin Luther estimated the world would see the Messiah come in about 500 years.
3) Archbishop Malachy (circa 1139) predicted all the Popes from his time to ours, in a writing rediscovered in the Vatican sercet archices in the 1500's, consisting of. a series of 112 short, cryptic phrases in Latin which purport to predict the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few antipopes). The last Pope predicted is the current Pope, thus indicating the end of the age.
4) in 2017, a unique astronomical alignment (that comes around only once in 7,000 years) occurred on September 23, predicting the coming of the Messiah. Many view it as the equivalent of the Star above Nazareth from 2,000 years ago, or like a sign on the highway, indicating the 'exit,' or Coming is near. How near? It may be hidden in plain sight, based on when the sign appeared---namely, September, 2023.