Doomsday hindsight
by Benoni Fogy

Though tough (understatement), I enjoyed my days in the Ansaaruallah community, especially the camaraderie and privileged information. Sure, I recognized the benefit of communal living, having witnessed the local “Jews” mastery of it. Aside from being flabbergasted by the expertness of Dr. Malachi Z. York né As Sayyid Isa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, what spurred me to depart my Dad’s comfier castle? The fear of being outside of Revelation 11’s temple during the epoch of woe, as analyzed by York, was paramount. Thankfully, hourglasses are invertible or, as was explained after we made it through the tough forecast, that time is imprecise and prophecies are changeable.

Post communalism, I learned self-dependence. Coming from a good home, thanks Dad, I have fared well. What do remain are trumpets of doom, which has compelled me to research through plenty of predictions of humanity’s end, enslavement, and/or an apocalypse. Substantiating from the standpoint of fairness and brevity, I will bring up four, from various races.

Edgar E. Whisenant, a Christian layman, predicted the Rapture of the Church would occur on September 12, 1988. His booklet, 88 Reasons Why Jesus Will Return in 1988, sold over four million copies. He confidently asserted, “Only if the Bible is in error am I wrong.” When the event failed to occur, he issued a new date of either September 1st or 30th, 1989.¹

A millennium after the “Year of the dead” (666 AD, which proposed innumerable doomsday prophecies), a respected puritan, Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680 AD), inaccurately played on Revelation 13:18’s beast number by professing that the year 1666 AD would be the Anti-Christ’s pinnacle.²

A great revolutionary, whom I admire, of the 20th century, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad mistimed doom by stating in 1965 AD that:

Everyone’s eyes should be opened. The time of the ending of this world is now, and not yet to come, as you so foolishly think. The end is predicted and hinted in many places. Daniel (in the Bible) however gives you a better knowledge of it than in any other place. And, the Qur-an’s prophecy is exact. Do not expect 10 more years. The fall will be within a few days.³

Another, author A. Ralph Epperson augured the inception of worldwide wickedness, but also chimed in how it could be avoided:

The New World Order is coming and the inception date has been revealed. It will begin in the year 2000 . . . Unless men of good will everywhere act to prevent it.⁴

Allow me to compliment the messengers of Revelation 7:1 for, as teenyboppers coined, “holding us down,” i.e., consideration.

Since carnage of yore (circa 10.5 millennia⁵), good will has prevailed, occasionally in the nick of time. Still, too many American’s political inattention is leaving our wallets wide open to further our “politically correct” cancerous economy, induced by Marxist burglars known as politicians and justices, sans few. This is degrading to, as Alexander Tyler explicated⁶, dependency. Moreover, too many of us have become, as Jeff Snyder details in his excellent book, [a] Nation of Cowards. Yet, the full-scale control many predicted for the New World has not surfaced.

Press Messrs. Werner Huemer and Micah Rubenstein articulated excellently how things, more times than not, change for the better:

. . . It is exactly because of free will that many prophecies are not fulfilled. A prophecy shows what could be, if one continues along a certain path. For instance, say that a farmer twenty years ago started to use carcinogenic pesticides on his crops, and then other farmers followed his lead. A visionary at that time might have foreseen thousands of people dying of cancer, and this certainly might be the outcome if farmers continued using those particular chemicals until the present day. But imagine that after only a few years the farmer realized that he was eroding the soil and destroying the nutrients in his crops by spraying them with these pesticides, and so therefore exercised his free will by deciding to switch to organic pest control, instead. And imagine that other farmers came to the same conclusion and did likewise. It is very probable that the original prophecy would not be fulfilled.⁷

If you believe the globe is warming, the best purporting in favor of that does not expect extremities to occur before long. The film, The Day After Tomorrow is junk science entertainment. Even the socialist Peter Schurman of MoveOn.org admits that it is: “more science fiction than science fact.”⁸

If you disregard pinkos’ news there are clear-cut signs that nature is coming along well, for example:

Species once thought endangered have been prospering: Beavers have now multiplied to more than 15 million. Fur-bearing animals like raccoons, muskrats, coyote, and fox are approaching or surpassing colonial-era levels. Deer now have increased to 20 million, more than in George Washington’s day. Black bears number 150,000, and elk more than 700,000. The current wild duck population in North America is at least 35 million. In a word, natural wildlife is flourishing as seldom before, even in the parts of America usually thought to be the most urban and densely populated.⁹

Whether well-intentioned or an evil-minded flimflam, doomsday prophecies retard humanity’s collective and individual progress. If one prepares for and expects atrocities on a certain date or span, that ultimately are incorrect, they have surrendered a precious, perhaps productive, unrecoverable duration.

When I entered the community ('89), I befriended a brother, twenty years my elder. More learnt in the teachings than I, he occasionally dwelled on an approaching return of our elders from a mother ship. Now, at least a sexagenarian, it is truly depressing to witness him, unprepared and at times cadging during his golden years. When possible we should voluntarily support and oblige our elders in their retirement. However, that is an unreliable expectation and unnecessary strain to place on ones successors. I could not agree more with the following Fred Dehner saying, “The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.”

Henceforward, yours truly, will not worry about Homo sapiens’ ruin. I’ll assist any goals that I deem worthy without being ‘scared straight.’ I no longer will allow those who wish to urge me, to do so with foresights and/or honeyed words. They’ve become as invalid to me as Islam’s houris. In all, nobody knows. Since death is unavoidable – I’m all for firearms, air bags, underwriting and savings – the only real preparedness is to be a light-right do-gooder. We all hope, some prepare to be rightly guided. In retrospect, for my family’s sake, I must avoid the ivory tower, and specious eschatologies.

Sound thinking ne’er-do-wells, Cassandras, and excusators start with a pledge of responsibleness to that divine being in your mirror (gaze). Could it be that shortcomings have made you a doom-yearner? For your seed’s sake, you must step-up. The proper analysis of current events is essential, listen to all sides, it’s easy for an open mind to determine right from wrong. This darling, possibly beneficial quote can help, it’s a wonderful litmus test:

It is an all-too-common human weakness to subject evidence that supports one’s beliefs to less scrutiny than evidence that runs contrary to one’s belief, or even to accept very shaky evidence in support of one’s beliefs.¹⁰

Cheers.

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¹Reagan, David R. The Strange World of the Cults. The Danger of False Prophets. Lamb and Lion Ministries. [Internet; cited 2005 March 5]. Available from: http://www.lamblion.com/articles/doctrinal/Cults/Cults-08.php
²Liu, Tai. Discord in Zion the Puritan Divines and the Puritan Revolution, 1640-1660. Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1973.
³Muhammad, Elijah. FALLING, FALLING THE OLD WORLD! Muhammad Speaks. 1965 Feb 26
⁴Epperson, A. Ralph. New World Order. Publius Press; 1990.
⁵York, Malachi Z. Jesus Found In Egipt. Pg. 430
⁶Alexander, Tyler. [A quote from] The Cycle of Democracy.
⁷Werner Huemer and Micah Rubenstein. The Value - and Limitations - of Prophecies, and Some Thoughts about the Future. Tampa Bay New Times [Internet]. 1999 July/August. [cited 2005 March 5]: Available from: http://www.newtimesnaturally.com/Articles/1999/e942000.html
⁸Schurman, Peter. The Movie the White House Doesn't Want You to See. MoveOn.org [Internet; cited March 5]. Available from: http://www.moveon.org/news/dayafter.html
⁹Novak, Michael. Environmentalism Should Not Be A Religion. The American Enterprise. 2005 Jan/Feb; Page 41 (col. 1).
¹⁰Bradford, R.W. Dan Rather = George Bush? Liberty Magazine [Internet]. 2004 Nov [cited 2005 March 5]: Available from: http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_11/reflections.html