The Untold Truth Of The Book Of Revelation

Since Revelation is often interpreted as the story of a future apocalypse, it gets cited as proof of an upcoming apocalypse by a lot of end time prognosticators.

In the old days it wasn't people you'd consider crazies, either. Scotsman John Napier, born in 1550, is celebrated for his contributions to math and science, but less so for his writing on Revelation that predicted the world would end in 1688 or 1700. Conveniently for Napier, he would be six feet under by that point, so he'd never find out he was wrong. Same with the German pastor Johann Bengel, who calculated the thousand-year reign of Christ prophesied in Revelation would begin in 1836. (Bengel would have had to live to 149.)

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, David Koresh of the Branch Davidian cult saw himself as the lamb mentioned in Revelation and was preparing to open the seven seals to bring on the end times (which he took to mean he should publish a book) when he and many of his cult members died in Waco, Texas, in 1993.

These days David Meade interprets a description of a woman in Revelation to mean a complicated astronomical combination of the constellation Virgo, the planet Jupiter, the Moon, the Sun, and various other stars and planets, will bring on the beginning of the end. He first announced this would happen September 23, 2017. Being wrong didn't dissuade Meade, and he set the for-real date as April 23, 2018. That one missed, too. Darn!

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