12/24/2011
December 24
In 1965, William Branham died days after being struck by a drunk driver on his way home to Jeffersonville, Indiana. Branham was a notable premillennialist and leader of the faith-healing-movement. Scores of his followers relocated from southern California after his prophecy that it would fall into the sea. Branham predicted on his deathbed his bodily resurrection by Easter 1966.
12/23/2011
December 23
In 1652, John Cotton died. This American Puritan leader, who would become father-in-law to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, emigrated from England to escape Anglican religious persecution. From his new ministry in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Cotton forecast Jesus’ Second Coming for 1655.
12/22/2011
December 22
Three dates to note:
In 1880, George Eliot died. Her historical novel "Romola" grew from her own engrossment with the end of the world. The novel is about Savonarola, a Dominican friar in 15th-century Florence whose apocalyptic preachings and "bonfires of the vanities" led ultimately to his execution on orders from the Pope.
In 1908, Cyrus Reed Teed died. Titling himself "Koresh", or Messiah, Teed created a millennarian community in Florida which dissolved after his death.
In 1999, Charles Spiegel died (though he has been frequently channeled since). Spiegel, a retired psychology professor and director of the Unarian Movement, claimed that as part of an end-times scenario Atlantis would rise from the Caribbean in 2001. Predicting numerous other UFO-driven apocalyptic and world-historical events, the Unarians reached a peak membership of 10,000 in the 1980s.
In 1880, George Eliot died. Her historical novel "Romola" grew from her own engrossment with the end of the world. The novel is about Savonarola, a Dominican friar in 15th-century Florence whose apocalyptic preachings and "bonfires of the vanities" led ultimately to his execution on orders from the Pope.
In 1908, Cyrus Reed Teed died. Titling himself "Koresh", or Messiah, Teed created a millennarian community in Florida which dissolved after his death.
In 1999, Charles Spiegel died (though he has been frequently channeled since). Spiegel, a retired psychology professor and director of the Unarian Movement, claimed that as part of an end-times scenario Atlantis would rise from the Caribbean in 2001. Predicting numerous other UFO-driven apocalyptic and world-historical events, the Unarians reached a peak membership of 10,000 in the 1980s.
12/21/2011
December 21 (part two)
On 12/21/1237, the Mongol invasion of eastern Europe commenced. This has been estimated to have been the most devastating war in European history, surpassing even the Second World War (30 million European deaths in the Mongol Invasion, versus 40 million worldwide deaths from WWII, including the Pacific theater).
The Mongol invasion was believed to have been predicted in the mystical and apocalyptic "Cedars of Lebanon" prophecy (a reference to Psalm 92), first circulated decades earlier at the start of the 13th century.
To give a sense of the war's casualties, by 1241 fully half of the entire population of the first nation attacked - Hungary - is said to have been killed. Fears that the Mongol invasion meant the end of the world were widespread.
The Mongol invasion was believed to have been predicted in the mystical and apocalyptic "Cedars of Lebanon" prophecy (a reference to Psalm 92), first circulated decades earlier at the start of the 13th century.
To give a sense of the war's casualties, by 1241 fully half of the entire population of the first nation attacked - Hungary - is said to have been killed. Fears that the Mongol invasion meant the end of the world were widespread.
December 21
On this date one year from today - 12/21/2012 - the world will come to an end with the conclusion of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar.
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