Diocletian
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Kurt Waldheim
Willy Brandt
Pope Paul VI
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands LINK
In the below link to Wikipedia is a section that identifies the suspected individuals as being such - identified in ancient and contemporary times. LINK
As a matter of humor, I should mention that Ronald Reagan was included on that list, as well as JFK, several other Presidents, and most recently, Britney Spears.
But, the time for humor is over, and there are aspects of this “religiosity” that demand close scrutiny; think about it: There are approximately 30 million Evangelical Christians in the United States that welcome the alleged coming of the Apocalypse, as they believe it signals the second coming of Christ. Through ministers that have capitalized on the fear of imminent destruction - it has been easy to quell the fear of millions that believe the world is coming to an end, offer them a pain-free solution if they “have faith”, and it’s noteworthy to add that many of those that preach this “End of Times” scenario are now multi-millionaires. What better way to fill the pews and donation boxes by offering a solution that will nullify the faithful from the wrath of the coming Apocalypse, as their millionaire preachers offer them a safe haven from a world soon to end?
Then, to add insult to injury, false Prophets such as Pat Robertson make statements prophesizing that the West Coast will experience a tsunami - and when it happens, claim that he has a fast-track to God’s words and wisdom, thus enhancing his dwindling image as man of God. Jay Leno quipped that Pat must have gone to sleep while watching the Weather Channel - however I noted that on the History Channel there was a special entitled “Mega Disasters: West Coast Tsunami;” it was a very factual program describing the “Cascadia Seduction Zone” which is located approximately 50 miles off the coast in the Northern United States and Canada and encompasses 700 miles of potential death and destruction.
Because Cascadia is a “seduction zone”, small earthquakes are not witnessed in the numbers that are reflected on the San Andreas Fault, or other active fault-zones, so the strain builds-up, and when it does “move”, which is usually in intervals of 300 to 400 years (although it has on seven (7) occasions caused tsunamis every 150 years.) the results are catastrophic. An event of this type is referred to as a “Megathrust earthquake,” the most violent and destructive of all known earthquakes. It has been approximately three hundred years since the last major event therefore geologists feel a major quake/tsunami is imminent; in fact, they have actively been preparing for it for years. Prophesizing a tsunami on the west coast is akin to prophesizing the sun will go down tonight; we all know it will happen, but in the case of Cascadia, the “when” is the question, which of course Robertson couldn’t provide. This is a seduction zone that could literally shift while I’m typing this article, so a prophesy such as this is scientific fact that Mr. Robertson is so shamefully attempting to capitalize on; it absolutely fascinates me when he uses sound scientific fact to make a “prophecy” - yet he approves of “intelligent design” teachings in our schools. It’s easy to rely on science when it supports a cause or theory, but utter hypocrisy to insinuate the earth is only 6,000 years old when we have fossils that date back approximately sixty-five million years!
But I digress; In the 19th century, current end-time theories were begun by a popular British Evangelist, :
Darby is noted in the theological world as the father of dispensationalism, later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield Scofield Reference Bible. He popularised, and is often credited with originating, the “secret rapture” theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because “God is able to graft them in again,” and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They may have influenced the British government to issue the Balfour Declaration 1917, and have certainly had an effect on United States foreign policy under the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Darby traveled widely in Europe and Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, and established many Brethren assemblies. He gave 11 significant lectures in Geneva in 1840 on the hope of the church (L’attente actuelle de l’église.) These established his reputation as a leading interpreter of biblical prophecy. The beliefs he disseminated then are still being propagated (in various forms) at such places as Dallas Theological Seminary and Bob Jones University and by authors and preachers such as Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye. LINK
NOTE: The sentence that was posted in bold, “They may have influenced the British government to issue the Balfour Declaration 1917, and have certainly had an effect on United States foreign policy under the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush” was part of the original Wikipedia entry when this essay was originally published in late 2005 or early 2006; sometime after that date, the above sentence was edited and no longer appears in the Wikipedia entry as it pertains to John Nelson Darby. Unfortunately, it appears that Bush’s propagandists have been hard at work to purge any negative references to the Bush administration from the public record.
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