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It focuses on explaining world events from its view of the Bible, with an emphasis on prophecy and exposition of eschatological theories. Some of these predictions include a new world war that will kill up to two billion people, and the identification of Britain , the reunified Holy Roman Empire , Russia and Germany with the "four beasts" of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...
Predicted date Claimant Notes After 2025 Alice A. Bailey: In January 1946, the New Age Theosophical guru prophesied that Christ would return "sometime after AD 2025" [51]: 530 (Theosophists identify "Christ" as being identical to a being they call Maitreya) to inaugurate the Age of Aquarius; thus, this event will be, according to Bailey, the New Age equivalent of the Christian concept of the ...
The prophecy galvanized the Jehovah's Witnesses movement, and proselytism increased substantially. On the eve of the predicted Millennium, in 1974, the number of publishers (Witnesses who submitted their record of preaching) rose by 13.5 percent worldwide and many Witnesses were actively preparing for the dawn of the New Order.
[109] [needs update] This date was arrived at by adding 1,600 days (taken from Revelation 14:20 ) to May 21, 2011, which McCann still teaches is the beginning of the day of judgment. He noted that October 7, 2015, is the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles , and exactly 10,000 days from May 21, 1988, which he claims is the date the Church Age ...
Seventh-day Adventists believe that Ellen G. White, one of the church's co-founders, was a prophetess, understood today as an expression of the New Testament spiritual gift of prophecy. [ 1 ] Seventh-day Adventist believe that White had the spiritual gift of prophecy , but that her writings are a lesser light to the Bible, which has ultimate ...
On the jacket of his book, Smith is called a "well known Bible scholar and prophecy teacher". In the book he wrote: As we look at the world scene today, it would appear that the coming of the Lord is very, very, close. Yet, we do not know when it will be. It could be that the Lord will wait for a time longer.
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse.