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They keep naming a date for the end of the world, then moving it.
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- Documented · Christian prophecy teachers and media repeatedly claim that current world events prove humanity is already living in the biblical end times.
- Documented · Competing Christian theological camps disagree on the order, literalness, and timing of end-times events described in scripture.
- Documented · Online video channels repeatedly market absolute or total proof that the end times have already begun.
- Documented · Popular end-times teaching sequences future events such as the Rapture, a multi-year Tribulation, and a Millennium as a fixed prophetic timeline.
- Documented · Prophecy writers continue to publish chronological guides that map current headlines onto biblical apocalypse passages.
- Documented · Tim LaHaye published chart-driven books arguing that contemporary conditions match biblical end-times prophecy.
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- Official · Members of Congress requested an investigation into alleged reports that some U.S. military leaders described conflict with Iran as fulfillment of biblical end-times prophecy.
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- Contested · Date-setters who name a specific day or year for the end of the world have historically revised or replaced the date after it passed without the predicted event.