In 2002, Dr. Richard Eby died. In a 1972 near-death experience, Jesus informed this physician (later minister) that Christ's second coming would occur within Eby's lifetime. Eby's followers now assume this means Jesus is a child born between 1972 and 2002.
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Frank Waters' book "The Hopi" was published today in 1963. According to Waters, 8/9ths of the preconditions of the apocalypse prophesied by this southwestern native American tribe, had been fulfilled by the time he wrote.
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In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself emperor before Pope Pius VII in a ceremony at Notre Dame. Napoleon was widely charged as being the Antichrist, particularly after his 1799 campaign in Palestine and 1807 convening of a council of Rabbis - moves viewed by Christian apocalypticists as precipitations of the end times. Johann Friederich Jung-Stilling (a German mystic whose prognostication that the Beast would rise from the sea failed in 1796) declared in 1805 that "N'Apollione" was the name of the Antichrist. More significantly, in May 1812 the Russian Church explicitly declared that Napoleon was in fact the Antichrist.
