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Failed Armageddon
& End of the World Predictions & Prophecies
One of the major
problems America faces is a
large population of
religious fundimentalists who have become as fanatical in their own way
as any Middle Eastern Ayatollah. At present, they are caught up in
their own version of the myth of the end of the
world, and hope that by
working to bring it about, they'll get to sit at the right hand of
their diety and to hell with everyone else. No doubt fistfights will
break out over who gets to sit closest, but that is a subject for
another article.
So fervent is the
belief of the mythoholics that they are ready and
willing to sacrifice money, children, civil rights, freedom, even life
itself (so long as it is someone else's) to bring about the final
rapture and end
of the world. Never mind that
the guy selling this
belief is a child molester and makes money off of these fables, the
seekers (and there is one born every minute) do so want to believe!
So, I thought it
might be appropriate to list some of the many other
times in history that religious fanatics of all kinds have decided the
world was about to end, what they did about it, and what really
happened to those who followed them when the world did not end as
scheduled.
AD 30 Jesus.
According to Matthew 16:28, Jesus himself predicted his
second coming and the end of the world within the lifetime of his
contemporaries.
AD 156 A man
named Montanus declared himself to be the "Spirit of
Truth," the personification of the Holy Spirit, mentioned in the Gospel
of John, who was to reveal all truth. Montanus quickly gathered
followers, including a pair of far-seeing "prophetesses", who claimed
to have visions and ecstatic experiences supposedly from God. They
began to spread what they called "The Third Testament, a series of
revelatory messages which foretold of the soon-coming Kingdom of God
and "The New Jerusalem," which was about to descend from heaven to land
in Montanus' city of Pepuza, in Phrygia (modern-day Turkey), where it
would be home for all "true" believers. The word was spread, and all
were urged to come to Phrygia to await the Second Coming. The movement
divided Christians into two camps, even after the New Jerusalem didn't
appear. Whole communities were fragmented, and continuous discord
resulted. Finally, in AD 431, the Council of Ephesus condemned
Chiliasm, or belief in the Millennium, as a dangerous superstition, and
Montanus was declared to be a heretic. Despite the failure of the
prediction, the cult survived several centuries until it was ordered
exterminated by Pope Leo I. --SSA pg 54
AD 247, Christian
prophets declare that the persecutions by the Romans
are a sign of the impending return of Jesus.
AD 300 Lactantius
Firmianus (AD c260 - AD c340), called the "Christian
Cicero", from his Divinae Institutiones: "The fall and ruin of the
world will soon take place, but it seems that nothing of the kind is to
be feared as the city of Rome stands intact." Rome would fall in AD
410. --TEOTW pg 27
AD 365, Hilary of
Poitiers predicted the world would end in 365.
AD 380, The
Donatists, a North African Christian sect, predicted the
world would end in 380.
AD 387 St.
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, identified the Goths with
Ezekial's Gog. The Goths had just destroyed the Imperial army at
Adrianople, prompting Ambrose to say, "...the end of the world is
coming upon us." --TEOTW pg 27
AD 300 St.
Martin, Bishop of Tours: "Non est dubium, quin
antichristus...There is no doubt that the Antichrist has already been
born. Firmly established already in his early years, he will, after
reaching maturity, achieve supreme power." --TEOTW pg 27
AD 410 When Rome
was sacked, some proclaimed, (as reported by St.
Augustine of Hippo) "Behold, from Adam all the years have passed, and
behold, the 6,000 years are completed." This alludes to the Great Week
theory, held by many millennialists, that the God-alloted time of man
on earth was 6,000 years, to be followed by a thousand years of peace
under the earthly reign of Christ. --TIME pg 30
AD 500 At the
mid-fifth century, Vandal invasions recalled calculations
that the world would end in the year 500, 6000 years after Creation,
and spurred new calculations to show that the name of the Vandal king
Genseric represented 666: the number of the Beast. --Apoc pg 34
AD 500 Hippolytus
of Rome, a third-century theologian supported the
oft-accepted (for the day) view of the end of the world occuring
sometime around the year AD 500. He used a mass of scriptural evidence,
including the dimensions of the ark of the covenant. --TIME pg 31
AD 500 Roman
theologian Sextus Julius Africanus (ca. 160-240) predicted
the second coming of Jesus in the year 500.
AD 500 The
theologian Irenaeus predicted the second coming of Jesus in
the year 500.
AD 590 Bishop
Gregory of Tours, who died in AD 594, calculated the Time
of the End for sometime between 799 and 806. --Apoc pg 48
AD 793 Elipand,
bishop of Toledo, accused Beatus, abbot of Liebana, of
having prophesied the end of the world. Beatus made the prediction on
Easter Eve, predicting the end of the world that very night, spraking a
riot. --Apoc 49-50
AD 800 Sextus
Julius Africanus predicted the second coming of Jesus in
the year 800.
AD 800 Beatus of
Liébana, not having learned anything from the
riot he started in 793, wrote in his Commentary on the Apocalypse that
the world would end in the year 800 at the latest.
AD 806 Bishop
Gregory of Tours predicted the world would end between
799 and 806.
Ad 848 The
Christian prophetess Thiota predicted the world would end in
848.
AD 900 Adso of
Montier-en-lDer, a celbrated 10th-century apocalyptic
writer, a Frankish emperor of Rome who was 'the last and greates of
rulers' would, after governing his empire, go to Jerusalem and put off
his sceptre and crown at the Mount of Olives; this would be the end and
consummation of the Christian empire and the beginning of the reign of
Antichrist. --TIME pg 53
AD 970
Lotharingian computists foresaw the End on Friday, March 25,
970, when the Annunciation and Good Friday fell on the same day. They
believed that it was on this day that Adam was created, Isaac was
sacrificed, the Red Sea was parted, Jesus was conceived, and Jesus was
crucified.
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