He shot himself when his predictions fail to materialize.
This was so as to prevent people from losing faith when the predictions inevitably failed.
But each year, predictions that Japan will emerge as the largest donor fail to be fulfilled.
Which oddly enough only seem to come to light when the earlier predictions of imminent disaster fail.
That prediction failed spectacularly: Tax revenues have boomed with the economy.
When the prediction failed, some of his converts became discouraged and left the Anabaptist movement.
Sooner or later, every prediction failed, and the subject fell into disrepute.
However, the most dire predictions of disaster in the Texas heat also failed to materialize.
When this prediction failed, he did not make any other predictions.
If the prediction fails, the program begins a new computation.