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After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day. [131] [132] 23 Apr 1990 Elizabeth Clare Prophet: Prophet predicted a nuclear war would start on this day, and the world would end 12 years later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with supplies and weapons.
[99] [100] The seventieth week is then separated from the 69th week by a long period of time, known in dispensational speak as the church age; [99] [96] hence, the 70th week does not begin until the end of the church age, at which point the church will be removed from the earth in an event called the rapture. Finally, the future Antichrist is ...
This concept is exemplified by Revelation 3:10, in which Jesus promises the Philadelphian church, "I will keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth." [9] This may be the most debated text when considering timing of the rapture. [10]
The Saints who died are resurrected (Resurrection of the Saints [5]) and begin their thousand-year reign with Christ (Revelation 20:1–6). After the thousand years, Satan is released from the Abyss to deceive the nations and gather Gog and Magog and the people of the world to encircle the camp of the saints and the city of Jerusalem.
The Book of Jubilees records the end of the life of Adam in chapter four. Jubilees 4:29-30 "And at the close of the nineteenth jubilee, in the seventh week in the sixth year [930 A.M.] thereof, Adam died, and all his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and he was the first to be buried in the earth.
Futurism is a Christian eschatological view that interprets portions of the Book of Revelation and other apocalyptic sections of the Bible as future "end-time" events. [1] By comparison, other Christian eschatological views interpret these passages as past events in a symbolic, historic context, such as preterism and historicism , or as present ...
After considering several possible starting dates, he settled on 800 AD—the year when Charlemagne and Pope Leo III established a power-sharing agreement that created the Holy Roman Empire. Newton believed it would come to an end with the Apocalypse after 1260 years i.e. in the year 2060 AD.
He believed that the "great tribulation" would begin in the year 350 AD after the death of the Lord and would last for three and a half years, after which the world would end. [10] Ticonius' commentary played a central role for two centuries. His followers included Primasius of Hadrumetum, Cassiodorus, Apringius, and Bede. [11]