AD 1527 A German bookbinder named Hans Nut said that he was a
prophet of God sent by Christ to herald the Second Coming. This
would occur exactly three and a half years after the start of the
Peasant's War, in 1527. The Lord's arrival would be followed,
according to Nut, by a thousand years of free food, love, and
free sex. He amassed some followers, but was
killed during an attempted prison escape in 1527. --SSA pg 56
AD 1890 A native American known as Kicking Bear claimed to have
received a certain divine revelation. Christ had returned to earth,
given his followers a new spiritual magic, the "Ghost Dance", which
they were to engage in until Christ came again to "take them up
into the air," eventually to be set down among the ghosts of their
ancestors on the new earth, where only Indians would live. The
movement spread quickly among the various tribes on and off the
reservations, especially among the Sioux. --Bury pg 431-435
wow.
And the worst con-artists right now are those trying to get you
to support wars in the Mideast on promises that it will bring about
The Rapture and open up those pearly gates wide for you.
