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AD 1490 Girolamo
Savonarola, a Dominican visionary, attracted large
crowds with his prophecies of Antichrist. He began preaching that his
city of Florence would soon be "The reformation of all Italy..." and
that its people would take on the mantle of God's elect, saved from
destruction to play a glorious new role. This would only be
accomplished, however, if Florence submitted peacefully to the invading
Charles VIII of France. They did so, and for a short time became what
has been called a 'proto-Messianic republic.' But when the corrupt Pope
Alexander VI regained Florence, Savanarola was publicly executed in
May, 1498. --TIME pg 79-81
AD 1496 Several
15th Century prophets predict the end of the world for
the year 1496.
AD 1499 A
mathemetician in Tubingen, Germany, had foretold of a coming
alignment of the planets in 1524, which would bring a disastrous
world-wide flood. This was generally rejected because such would
violate God's covenant with Noah. the uneasiness, though, did not pass,
and in 1523, printing presses in Germany churned out 51 pamphlets which
added fuel to the speculative fire.
AD 1500 Martin
Luther, Protestant reformer, stated: "I persuade myself
verily, that the day of judgement will not be absent full three hundred
years. God will not, cannot, suffer this world much longer... the great
day is drawing near in which the kingdom of abominations shall be
overthrown."
AD 1500 The
Italian artist Botticelli captioned his painting, "The
Mystical Nativity" with a message warning that the end of the world
would occur within three years, based on the predictions of Girolamo
Savonarola.
AD 1526
Anabaptists in St. Gallen, Switzerland, excited by various
leaders and events, began running through the streets and shouting that
the Last Day would arrive in exactly one week. Many were baptized,
stopped work, abandoned their homes and set off into the hills, singing
and praying in expectant furvor. After a week had passed with no sign
of their returning Lord, they returned to their homes. --TEOTW pg
145-153
AD 1520 Nicholas
Storch was a former weaver who was a self-proclaimed
expert on the Bible. He began warning groups of workers that all of
Christendom was about to be annihilated by the Turks. Not only did he
quote from the Scriptures, but insisted that God spoke to him directly
through dreams and visions. Ultimately rejected by reformer Martin
Luther, Storch vanishes from history at the end of 1522. --TEOTW pg 155
AD 1520 Thomas
Muntzer, another self-appointed prophet in Germany, who
made bold predictions based upon the book of Daniel, and called for the
overthrow by the peasantry of those in power. "The time of the harvest
is at hand," he declared. "...I have sharpened my sickle." Muntzer
proclaimed that is was the Last Days, and whoever resisted his
preaching would be, "..slain by the Turks when they come next year." He
was executed in 1525, after leading a peasant army in rebellion. TEOTW
pg 153-158
AD 1520 Melchior
Hoffman (c1498-1543/4) was one of the most influential
of the self-appointed prophets. A Swabian furrier by trade, Hoffman had
converted to Lutheranism in 1522 and became a wandering preacher. In
1526 Hoffman published a detailed pamphlet on the twelfth chapter of
Daniel which proclaimed that the world would end in seven years, at
Easter fo 1533. The seven year period was to be divided into two parts.
The first part would see the appearance of Elijah and Enoch, who would
overthrow the Pope. They would, however, be martyred and all the saints
would then be persecuted. After forty-two months of tribulation, Christ
would appear. Hoffman referred to himself as Elijah, and embarked on
the fulfillment of his vision. He was imprisoned for his views,
however, in Strasburg, later dying in the 1540s. --TEOTW pg 160-162
AD 1524 Prophets
in England predicted a flood on February 1, 1524
(Julian) to strike at London. 20,000 people abandoned their homes in
fear. Yet another prophet, citing an alignment of planets in the
constellation Pisces, set the date for the flood for February 20th.
Both days turned out to be sunny with not even a drop of rain.
AD 1525
Anabaptist Thomas Müntzer, thinking that he was living at
the "end of all ages," in 1525, incited a spectacularly unsuccessful
revolt of the peasantry.
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 1528 Hans
Romer insisted that Christ was coming within the year, so
he organized his own rebellion to attack the city of Erfurt on New
Year's Day of 1528. He was betrayed, however, and arrested. --TEOTW 159
AD 1528 Prophets
in England, having failed in their February 20th, 1524
prediction for a massive flood, reschedule the prediction to 1528.
AD 1528 Reformer
Hans Hut predicted the end would occur on Pentecost
(May 27, Julian calendar) 1528.
AD 1532 Bishop
Frederick Nausea (yes, that is his name), predicted that
the world would end in 1532 after hearing a single report of bloody
crosses appearing in the sky alongside a comet.
AD 1533
Anabaptist prophet Melchior Hoffman predicted the end of the
world in 1533. he also predicted that Jesus would reappear in
Strasbourg, to save 144,000 people from the world's end.
AD 1533
Mathematician Michael Stifel, a devout Christian, calculated
that the Day of Judgement would begin at exactly 8:00am on October 19,
1533.
AD 1534 A message
out of the besieged city of Munster, where fanatic
Anabaptists, originally led by one Jan Matthys, self-proclaimed Enoch,
second witness (after Hoffman's Elijah) to the coming end of all
things, read: "God has made known to us that all should get ready to go
to the New Jerusalem (Munster), the city of saints, because he is going
to punish the world...flee out of Babylon, and deliver every man his
soul...for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance." Matthys had also
fancied himself a second Gideon, leading 30 followers out in an attack
on the city's besiegers. He and his band of thirty were annhilated. The
movement's new leader, Jan Beukels, or Bockholdt, known to history as
John of Leyden, had declared himself King of the World, a position he
would hold until Christ's return. Berhardt Rothmann published two
pamphlets proclaiming the triumph of the saints at Munster, but the
Catholic bishop whose town was held, eventually retook it, executing
most of the rebels. --SSA pg 57, TEOTW pg 163-175
AD 1532 Michael
Stiefel, mathematician and follower of Luther,
published Apocalypse on the Apocalypse: A Little Book of Arithmetic
about the Antichristwhich computed the Day of Judgement for 8AM on
October 9, 1533. when nothing happened on that day, the local peasants
siezed the minister and tookhim to nearby Wittenburg, where some sued
him for damages. Stiefel survived this misadventure and, twenty years
later, published a "recalculation." --Apoc pg 91-92
AD 1537 French
astrologer Pierre Turrel, a devout Christian, wanting to
avoid the Jaochites' embarrassment, hedges his bets and predicts the
end of the world in 1537, 1544, 1801 or 1814.
AD 1555 French
theologian Pierre d'Ailly predicted the end of the world
in 1555. Christopher Columbus' own apocolyptic views were based on this
prediction.
AD 1556 Rumors of
the end of the world swept through the churches of
Switzerland on Magdalene's Day in 1556, source unknown.
AD 1583 Several
astrologers and clergy cite a conjunction of Jupiter
with Saturn as a sign that the second coming of Jesus will occur in
London at noon on Apr 28, 1583.
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