PRO:Is the Lord going to return in the 1990's?  by Bill Bennett

   Let me begin by stating that until Jan. 1 1991, we are STILL in the
1980's! Nobody starts counting with ZERO - they begin counting with
ONE. Furthermore, there is no year ZERO, but there is a year TEN, which
also happens to be the LAST year in a decade, not the ninth year.

   Anyhow...

   There is much talk on the radio, TV and publications in general
about the dramatic changes we can EXPECT to happen in the 1990's - some
calling it a decade of decision, others calling it a decade of
transformation to a decade of doom. It is interesting that we have both
Christians and Pagans looking to the 1990's as the decade of dramatic
changes.

   In the January 1990 issue of Omni Magazine (Editor in Chief is Bob
Guccione - also for Penthouse Magazine...) there is a lengthy article
on the end of the world (as we know it), by Dick Teresi and Judith
Hooper. (The rest of the magazine is filled with the typical
anti-christian stereo-typing and the rest of the bizarre & peverted
stuff you can expect from the Guccione types.

   The Article titled, "The Last Laugh?" - The end of the world is at
hand, again. Will we survive another wave of woeful prophecies?

   "How the World will end: Technical Considerations"

   ---- Pole Shift ----

   Prophets such as Edgar Cayce, Immanuel Velikovsky and Nostradamus
for Psychics, and a few Scientists

   ---- FLOOD ----

   Psychic Edgar Cayce thinks the Carolinas, Georgia & California's
costal cities will sink into salt-water, the result of massive
earthquakes.

   Some scientists predict the increased levels of CO2 will result in a
Greenhouse effect which could increase global temperature as much as
9'C. thereby melting the polar ice caps, and raising the oceans as much
as 7 feet.

   (I heard some bonafide crackpot on the radio exclaim the level of
CO2 has increased 2 1/2 times! I'm no chemist, but if CO2 has gone up 2
1/2 times, I suspect that OXYGEN has likewise decreased by 5 times. CO2
is one Carbon Atom + 2 Oxygen atoms, and unless we have added a
teremendous amount of AIR to the present volume of air that surrounds
the earth - the air we breathe is by FAR less than the 21% Oxygen it
useto be to make up this 2 1/2 times increase in CO2. 'hot air?'...)

   ---- The BIG CHILL ----

   Talk Show host Mobius Rex (California based, of course...) thinks
the greenhouse will vaporize the oceans, and freeze in the polar caps
to begin another Ice Age. But, New Ager, Earlyne Chaney says there's
hope, 'Many will die, but some will be rescued by the White Light Star
Ship' before disaster strikes in 1999.

   Physicist, George Gamow says Chaney might be right in about 20,000
years.

   ---- BIG, SCARY THINGS FROM THE SKY ----

   Jeane Dixon predicted a comet would hit us in 1985 causing tital
waves and earthquakes... Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179), predicted
the same, she was also the advisor to 3 Popes & 2 Emperors - but did
predict the coming of Protestantism.

   March 1989 observers noticed an Asteriod had just passed by, missing
us by 1/2 million miles (twice the distance to the moon). If this 1/4
to 1/2 mile in diameter, million ton object would have hit 'pay dirt' I
think we would have really felt it good. Unfortunately, it wasn't
noticed till after it missed us. Estimated speed? 46, 000 mph....whew!
It could have left a crater 5 miles wide, 1/2 mile deep and naturally
caused tital waves.

   Henry Holt, scientist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey in
Flagstaff, Arizona (who discovered the huge rock AFTER it missed us)
says, "Sooner or later, it should collide with the earth or moon."

   ---- EARTHQUAKE ----

   Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Hildegard of Bingen, psychic archaeologist
Jeffrey Goodman predict earthquakes - everybody & his brother is in the
earthquake predicting business after the San Francisco quake. Goodman
thinks the new coastline will be somewhere around Kansas or Nebraska by
the year 2000.

   ---- NUCLEAR WAR ----

   Again, everybody who predicts ANYTHING is predicting this one... The
Hopi, Mayans, Nostradamus, the Seeress of Prague and Our Lady of
Fatima(?) agree a bit.

   The idea is 'reverse greenhouse effect' that chills the earth 15C,
killing major grain crops, thus starving those what survive the bombs.
Nuclear Winter is the trade name. Take heart though, when Mount St.
Helens blew up, my sister who lived in the area said despite the
darkness, dust and all the Carl Sagan 'nuclear winter' nuts prophecying
the effects of Nuclear Winter, it took a few months to settle the dust,
the sun shone again, and much to the Saganites, the temperature didn't
drop.

   HOW THE WORLD WILL END:

   We already know what the BIBLE says, but what does everyone else say?

   "Marian visions have been increasing since the nineteenth century, "
says Michael Grosso, and expert in the visions. "Its a very confounding
phenomenon connectied with millennialism - and with UFOs." In the 1917
Fatima, while 'Mary' appeared to the 3 children, other observers say
flying saucer shaped objects. While the 'lady' appeared for 6 months,
the same UFOs appeared to crowds of witnesses, accomapnied with rocket
type sounds.

   "There were also UFO like effects during the recent Medjugorie
apparition. The most spectacular case was the Marian apparition outside
of Cario in 1961, when thousands of people of all religious persuasions
witnessed extremely dazzling apparitions of a goddess figure." Since
1970 more than 280 such messages and apparitions have appeared to Long
Islander Veronica Leuken.

   According to News Europe in 1963 (a German journal), the text of the
third prophecy of fatima reads like this:

   "A great war will break out in the second half of the Twentieth
century. Fire and smoke will fall from heaven, and the waters of the
oceans will become vapors... Millions and millions of men will
perish...and those who survive will envy the dead. The unexpected will
follow in every part of the world, anxiety, pain, and misery in every
country." (Upon opening the sealed prophecy in 1960, the pope simply
said, pray the rosary, and closed the letter back up.)

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   Jose Arguelles - remember him from the Harmonic Convergence back in
August 16-17, 1987? Jose says not to worry, there is a New Age coming.

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   Isn't it interesting to note that we have Christians as well as New
Agers and Athiests saying *something* is going to happen in the very
near future?

   Bill Bennett
