In the Battle of Vienna today in 1683, the Austro-Hungarians lifted two months of Ottoman siege with the aid of the Poles, decisively checking what had long threatened to be a gradual Turkish conquest of Europe. The drastic severity of the stakes caused observers on both sides to interpret the conflict as a sign of coming apocalypse.
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Stan Johnson of "The Prophecy Club" (a ministry which appears to be widely criticized even among prophetic evangelicals) rated the odds at 90% that the Tribulation would begin on September 12, 1997.
