Edgar Whisenant's book "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will be in 1988" argued that god would take the living faithful into heaven on Rosh Hashanah 1988, which began September 11. After issuing a handful of new rapture predictions throughout the 90s, Whisenant died in May 2001.
Less than four months afterward, on September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists would kill over 3000 people in New York and Washington, DC. Their motive seems to have been to spark an apocalyptic battle between Islam and Judaism/Christianity, opening the way through Islam's ultimate victory to a worldwide Caliphate.
