A History of the End of the World (51 page)

24.
David Wilkerson,
Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth,
quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
234.

25.
Dave Hunt,
The New Age Movement in Prophecy,
quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
233–34 (“a cosmic conspiracy to install the Antichrist”).

26.
Rev. 2:24 (RSV).

27.
Rev. 16:2, 13:17 (RSV).

28.
Paul Boyer, quoted in Barkun,
Culture of Conspiracy,
44.

29.
Paul Boyer, “The Growth of Fundamentalist Apocalyptic in the United States,” in Stein,
Apocalypticism,
176.

30.
Boyer, “The Growth of Fundamentalist Apocalyptic in the United States,” in Stein,
Apocalypticism,
175.

31.
Weber,
Living in the Shadow,
211.

32.
Ehrman,
Jesus,
7.

33.
Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
186.

34.
Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
131–32.

35.
Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
126.

36.
Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
137.

37.
Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
97.

38.
Rev. 16:13 (KJV).

39.
Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
166.

40.
Zech. 14:12 (KJV), quoted in Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
175.

41.
Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
175.

42.
Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
5 (“the Best Seller”), 103 (“Future Fuehrer”), 122 (“Scarlet O’Harlot”), 146 (“World War III”), 111 (“Jewish Billy Grahams”), 137 (“The ultimate trip”).

43.
Lindsey,
Apocalypse Code,
144.

44.
Quoted in Ehrman,
Jesus,
10.

45.
Ehrman,
Jesus,
10.

46.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
142.

47.
Quoted in Halsell,
Prophecy and Politics,
45.

48.
Ezek. 30:3, 30:5, 38:22 (KJV; adapted).

49.
Quoted in Halsell,
Prophecy and Politics,
44–45.

50.
Quoted in Halsell,
Prophecy and Politics,
47.

51.
Quoted in Halsell,
Prophecy and Politics,
48.

52.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
141.

53.
O’Leary,
Arguing the Apocalypse,
177.

54.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
142.

55.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
143 (adapted).

56.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
143.

57.
Rev. 17:5 (KJV).

58.
Quoted in Halsell,
Prophecy and Politics,
48.

59.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
10.

60.
The Omen
.

61.
The Omen
.

62.
Stephen D. O’Leary, “Apocalypticism in American Popular Culture: From the Dawn of the Nuclear Age to the End of the American Century,” in Stein,
Apocalypticism,
422 (adapted).

63.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
12.

64.
Weber,
Living in the Shadow,
239.

65.
Wagar,
Terminal Visions,
3.

66.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
142–43.

67.
http://www.newhumanist.com.uk.

68.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
145.

69.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
138.

70.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
138.

71.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
299.

72.
Quoted in Weber,
Living in the Shadow,
232.

73.
Weber,
Living in the Shadow,
236.

74.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/).

75.
Playboy
interview quoted in Robert Scheer, “Hullabaloo Over Lust Lasts 20 Years,”
Los Angeles Times,
December 17, 1996, http://www.robertscheer. com/; Matt. 5:28 (KJV; adapted).

76.
Matt. 25:35 (NKJ).

77.
Graham,
Approaching Hoofbeats,
188–89, 192, 196.

78.
LaHaye,
Beginning of the End,
1973 (adapted).

79.
Quoted in Thompson,
End of Time,
146.

80.
Quoted in Thompson,
End of Time,
146.

81.
Num. 19:2 ff.

82.
Quoted in Gorenberg,
End of Days,
16.

83.
Gorenberg,
End of Days,
154.

84.
Rev. 18:11 (RSV).

85.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
208.

86.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
207.

87.
Quoted in Dowd, “Rapture and Rupture.”

88.
Gorenberg,
End of Days,
162.

89.
Chafets, “Rabbi Who Loved Evangelicals.”

90.
Quoted in Goldberg, May 24, 2002.

91.
Quoted in Halsell,
Prophecy and Politics,
138.

92.
Paul Boyer, “The Growth of Fundamentalist Apocalyptic in the United States,” in Stein,
Apocalypticism,
172.

93.
Quoted in Barkun,
Culture of Conspiracy,
43.

94.
Quoted in Gorenberg,
End of Days,
240.

95.
Quoted in Goldberg, May 24, 2002.

96.
Quoted in Dowd, “Rapture and Rupture.”

97.
Quoted in Goldberg, May 24, 2002.

98.
1 Kings 18:20-40.

99.
Quoted in Thompson,
End of Time,
289.

100.
Thompson,
End of Time,
289.

101.
Quoted in Thompson,
End of Time,
289.

102.
Thompson,
End of Time,
290.

103.
Thompson,
End of Time,
294.

104.
Thompson,
End of Time,
288.

105.
Rev. 5:5 (RSV).

106.
Thompson,
End of Time,
294.

107.
Thompson,
End of Time,
291, quoting comments by David Koresh to FBI negotiators during the siege in 1993.

108.
Rev. 6:2 (KJV).

109.
Rev: 6:9–10 (KJV).

110.
Rev. 6:11 (KJV; adapted).

111.
Thompson,
End of Time,
297.

112.
Thompson,
End of Time,
298.

113.
LaHaye,
Beginning of the End,
8.

114.
LaHaye and Jenkins,
Left Behind,
16.

115.
Lampman, “Apocalyptic.”

116.
Quoted in Gorenberg,
End of Days,
31.

117.
Quoted in Lampman, “Apocalyptic.”

118.
Quoted in Lampman, “Apocalyptic.”

119.
Gorenberg, “Intolerance: The Bestseller.”

120.
Gorenberg, “Intolerance: The Bestseller.”

121.
“A Library of Quotations on Religion and Politics by George Bush,” citing
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans), December 25, 1999, http://www.beliefnet.com/.

122.
Suskind, “Without a Doubt.”

123.
Christianity Today.

124.
Christianity Today.

125.
Wills,
New York Times,
March 30, 2003 (New York Times Premium Ser vice; adapted).

126.
http://www.newhumanist.com.uk.

127.
Quoted in Thompson,
End of Time,
311. (Robertson is here referring to George H. W. Bush.)

128.
Barkun,
Disaster and the Millennium,
146.

129.
Quoted in McGinn, “Revelation,” in Alter and Kermode,
Literary Guide,
523.

130.
Schüssler Fiorenza,
Book of Revelation,
8.

131.
Quoted in Boyer,
When Time Shall Be,
260 (adapted).

132.
Fasching,
Auschwitz and Hiroshima,
303–4.

133.
Fasching,
Auschwitz and Hiroshima,
303.

134.
Barkun,
Disaster and the Millennium,
59.

135.
Quoted in Douglas Robinson, “Literature and Apocalyptic,” in Stein,
Apocalypticism,
363.

136.
Thompson,
End of Time,
129.

137.
Saïd Amir Arjomand, “Islamic Apocalypticism in the Classic Period,” in
Apocalypticism,
239, quoting Q. 22:7, Q. 40:59 (61), and Q. 82:5.