Essay/Term paper: Apocalypse

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Religion

Apocalypse


by: Luke Hoagland

FOLLOWING IS AN IMPORTANT REVELATION BEING MADE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THIS IS
THE ONLY TIME YOU WILL BE CONTACTED.

Disclaimer: The following information contains predictions of
the future. This has been written for people who want to know
what is on the horizon for humanity, and most importantly, WHAT
THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT. Please understand that if you read this
material, you will be doing it by your own choice. If your
reaction causes you to want to report me to AOL for sending
unsolicited email, it could result in my account being closed.
I don't ask that anyone believe what I say just because I say
it. I do ask that if you choose to read this material, please
suspend your judgment of it until enough time passes for its
validity to be proven or disproven. Please don't let your
personal beliefs cause you to want to deprive others of
receiving this.

Written October 20, 1996

NOTE: This document is quite lengthy, so it might be best to either print it
or copy it to your word processor so it may be read off-line.

Dear Friend,

The choice of whether or not to read this message all the way
through may have important consequences for you as the events
of our immediate future unfold. This is being done solely for
the benefit of others so that people may understand what to do
about the times now approaching humanity. What I'm about to
explain will strike many people as ridiculous, because this kind
of thing has been predicted over and over again and people are
not inclined to take things like this seriously. I am not your
average tabloid psychic. In fact, I'm not a psychic at all. I
am what could be called a modern day seer, but I prefer to be
thought of as just a human being with an important message.

I have studied prophecy and the techniques used to produce it
for many years now. Through a combination of my own findings,
the prophecies of Nostradamus, the prophecies given by Jesus
and the prophet Daniel, I have figured out the future of
humanity. As stated above in the disclaimer, the reader's
belief in what I say is not necessary at this point.

This message has been written over and over again since I
first set out to do this. In previous versions, I have tried to
describe what will cause the rough times to come... but everyone
is pretty much aware of the world's problems and they don't
really need to have it all pointed out to them. Besides, it
makes the message unnecessarily long. I have therefore decided
to re-write this once again and limit myself to only listing the
events to come and explaining what everyone can do to save
themselves from destruction. What is about to happen in the
world will be unfair to all of us and people will need to know
the way out. The end times are upon us now, and the time has
come for the way out to be explained more clearly. I feel that
this is why I have been blessed with the ability to gain this
knowledge and I feel urgently pressed to share what I know with
others.

First, I will list the events, complete with dates and biblical
references. The explicit detail given here will seem to be
just a bunch of nonsense I have pulled from out of the air. A
lot of tedious study went into this though, and I have not been
the only person involved in this study. I cannot give biblical
references for all of it because the bible simply does not
explain clearly enough, for it was not meant for this
information to become understood so clearly until close to the
time for it to happen.

1. Around New Year's, 1997- Saddam Hussein will defiantly
force President Clinton to make a move. Most likely, Saddam
will initiate another invasion and people will be slaughtered by
the hundreds, as was done in Kuwait.

2. At the end of January, President Clinton will launch a
massive strike against Iraq, and Saddam will be killed. This
will anger the Russians because Iraq still owes them money from
the cost of the war in 1990. As Russia is still having a hard
time financially since the collapse of the Soviet Union,
America's reaction to Saddam will be seen as inconsiderate of
Russia's financial woes. France will join in the arguments,
defending President Clinton's decision with the attitude that
Saddam's destruction was in the best interest of keeping peace
in the world. Russia will still feel that it's problems have
not been given enough consideration. By June, the egotism
between America, France and Russia will become so intense that
the discussion of it will be cut off and a silent hatred will
smolder for awhile.

3. In September 1997, even after a warning from the pope about the
consequences of another world war, Russia will suddenly invade
Western Europe, starting WWIII. As a Russian naval fleet from
Murmansk positions itself along the French coast, Paris will be
demolished overnight by the Russian Air Force. American troops
will be sent to counter the invading Russian and Moslem forces,
and battles will take place all over southern France. After
fleeing from the invasion of Italy, the pope dies at Lyon on
December 13th.

4. The war will last three years and seven months, ending in
March 2001, immediately after the rapture. (Daniel 12:7)
Fortunately for Americans, the fighting will be most heavily
concentrated on the European continent as Russia attempts to
take the whole place into its possession. (A vague
description of WWIII can be found in the last chapters of
Daniel.)

5. Jesus said no one knows the exact date or hour of His
return, but the approximate period can be determined. The
rapture lasts forty-five days, taking place in February and
March 2001, beginning 1,290 days after the start of the war and
ending 1,335 days after the start of the war. (Daniel
12:11-12) It begins when the second pope after John Paul II
introduces a messiah in February 2001 (Matthew 24:15)

6. Jesus' description of the rapture: (Matthew 24:15-28)
Jesus' description of extra-terrestrials targeting the
aftermath of the false messiah scene: (Matthew 24:27-28)
Jesus' description of the collection of the false messiahs
after the rapture is completed and the stunned reaction of the
people to the display of extra-terrestrial spacecraft in the
skies: (Matthew 24:29-31)

The remainder of this explanation should help the reader
understand how to escape destruction. Some who read this will
suspect that I am only creating confusion so that people will be
misled. Some may even accuse me of being one of the false
prophets I speak about. Some will automatically cringe at the
sight of the name "Jesus" and assume I'm just a preaching holy
roller. Others will laugh when they finish reading and assume I
must be crazy. Indeed, this story will get harder and harder to
believe as I go. There will be at least a few people though,
who will recognize that the description given by Jesus has
actually been clarified and the truth about the end will be
understood clearly. I will leave it to the reader to make his
own conclusions.

Jesus foretold of His return near the end, to "cut the days
short for His Father's children" because life will become so
unlivable at the end that the entire race would be destroyed
otherwise. When He was here, Jesus did three very important
things. One, he taught us how to live together peacefully and
successfully, although the majority of humanity has never
understood what He meant. Thus, the paradox that is facing
the world now. The second thing Jesus did was demonstrate what a
human being is capable of if he/she can love enough. The third
and most important thing He did was set up "part one" of a trick
that will cause those who have not understood His teachings to
separate themselves from those who have just prior to
Armageddon. The way it will be done will make it clear to the
savior as to where the true children of God can be found.

Jesus foretold of many false messiahs who would rise and
perform miracles so impressive that even His most committed
followers would be misled by it if possible. Before He left,
Jesus formed what is now known as the Catholic Church,
appointing the apostle Peter as the world's first pope. In the
beginning, His church was very simple. However, since it was
His church, He knew what would happen. Peter was chosen
because of his unshakable faith in Jesus. All of the heads of
the church who have followed in the tradition have thus had one
goal in mind-- to make the Catholic Church what Jesus Himself
would have made it. When the rules were established in the
Catholic Church, they were taken very seriously. They were
considered absolute and must never be changed or abolished for
any reason. Jesus knew how difficult it would become near the
end of the world for a church dedicated to its doctrines and
established methods. Therefore, in such trying times, He knew
that His church could be relied on to introduce another person
like Him when one finally comes along.

So, where Jesus was actually rejected by religious authority
because of His apparent rebellion against the established ways,
something quite different will occur when religious authority
actually introduces someone just like Him. Since authority
itself will trust him, the world will also trust him, even
though he is only a spiritual healer who wants to ease the
world's pain and suffering. The public's attention will be
dominated as this man goes around miraculously healing people
of AIDS, Cancer and all sorts of other diseases, and producing
food right out of thin air to feed everybody with. As the war
rages on between the countries, humanity will desperately want
to believe this man is the return of Christ, and after all, he
will have been introduced by the church Jesus started Himself.

The Catholic Church's intentions will have been completely
honest and righteous, for the man they introduce will be as
much like Jesus as anyone could ever be. It will be society
itself that will take a good thing and turn it into something
evil. This is exactly the way Jesus planned it, for He knew the
world will have become very dependent on authority near the
end, and will be ready to just completely hand itself over,
expecting to never have to do anything again. But He warned
about these false messiahs. Those of us who have learned
Jesus' message will recognize what is really going on as this
man goes around creating a social dependency on himself.
Electricity will become too expensive to produce around this
time, due to the cost of the war. As the world loses its
ability to stay informed about foreign places, this man will
begin popping up all over the planet and people will be drawn to
him like moths to a flame.

Everyone will respect his apparent authority too much to ask
questions about how he transports himself from one place to the
next. People will also wonder where all the followers have gone
as he re-appears in new places, but it will be assumed that he
has already taken them to Heaven. The man will be worshipped
and everybody he touches will feel they have just felt the touch
of God. Then after awhile, some innocent person will ask a
question like, "Are you really Jesus? You don't look like
him... and the bible warns about false messiahs." The reaction
from those who would have died without his help will be one of
angry protectiveness. "How DARE you question the Son of God!
Don't you KNOW who he is?" they will shout. Then another
innocent person will join the first one, insisting that the
messiah be allowed to speak for himself. But he will never be
allowed to speak. His followers will be too loyal to him to
allow anyone to put him in the humbling position of explaining
himself. The violent reactions of these devout followers will
frighten many of the people and a division will begin to occur.

The arguments will become more heated as the crowd divides,
and those who are breaking away will look on with suspicion as
they watch everyone defending their messiah with such zeal. Then
the followers will become very disturbed by what is happening
and they will want the people not to be afraid. They will plead
for those who have become suspicious to please come back so they
can all ascend to Heaven soon. But as they plead, the suspicion
will only increase because the messiah himself has never been
allowed to say anything. Then their pleading will turn into
authoritativeness. The followers will be appalled by the sudden
lack of respect that has overcome these people as the crowd
divides further. Finally, force will begin to be exerted under
the notion that the non-believers should be punished. As the
non-believers put up further resistance, violence will break
out. Innocent people will stand by and helplessly watch their
loved ones being ruthlessly beaten. As the violence increases,
those who are trying to fight back will be killed.

The people who are left over will cry out in hysteria over the
loss of their loved ones, yelling, "Why? Why did you have to
kill them?" The followers will self-righteously maintain their
positions, blaming the non-believers for their sudden demise.
Then the followers will try to escape their guilt by abandoning
these completely broken, weeping people. The crying will last
for hours as these people sulk in confusion about what they ever
did to deserve to be forsaken by the God they have always been
committed to. Within three days though, something truly
miraculous will occur for these people.

Now this is where the story gets extremely unbelievable. It
was meant to be this way though, because faith and understanding
of Jesus' teachings is what will cause these people to end up in
this situation. The sheer craziness of what happens next is
what will make it okay for me to go ahead and reveal it. Nobody
will believe it anyway unless they can thoroughly understand the
cause of the division of the people as described above. Here is
basically why the followers of the messiah will divide-- The
people of the world are already divided right now. The false
messiah's purpose is to lovingly draw everybody together.
Those who want to remain in a divided state will cause the crowd
to divide. Those who are frightened away will be the ones who
genuinely want unity, although most of them won't understand
this at the time because it will all be so confusing. The pain
they will go through from witnessing the riot and then being
left behind even though they didn't do anything wrong will
leave an irrevocable impression on them. The lesson it will
teach them is the reason they will be rescued.

As these weeping people stay close to their dead friends and
loved ones, feeling completely helpless, and starving half to
death, with no way to provide for themselves, they will sit in
the darkness of the night and see something strange in the sky.
Beautiful, majestic lights will speed toward them, and in a
flash, there will be these gigantic machines hovering in the air
over them. Glorious colored floods of light will radiate from
underneath and everyone will begin to float up through the air
and into the beautifully lit crafts. Then, instantly, they will
all be gone and since these people will have been left for dead
anyway, nobody will even notice that they are missing.

They will be transported to another planet far away from here,
where they will be the honored guests of everyone there,
visitors to a Heavenly Kingdom, respected by everyone because of
what they had to go through. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the
thousands of clones of the false messiah they have planted will
be busy causing the same process all over the planet for a total
period of forty-five days.

Then, after every person in the world has had exposure to the
messiah scene, the messiahs themselves will all be collected and
the remaining people of the Earth will be stunned by the
realization of what has happened. People will cry out in pain
as everybody witnesses the beautiful displays of
extra-terrestrial spacecraft dancing through the sky
everywhere. The war will stop then, and the leaders of the
countries will realize what they have been doing as they have
just missed the rapture. The remaining people of the world will
feel a pain that will last a long while and there will be a
period of sober peace but everyone will still be suffering due
to all the social damage. The leaders of the world will
consider how the extra-terrestrials have succeeded in not doing
what the world has been engaged in since 1997.

Then the idea of a single government for the whole world will
occur to them so that they can dispose of the nuclear weapons
and stop fighting with each other. But they will find
themselves in a dilemma over who should be the leader. The
Russians will elect a new president of Asian Buddhist descent
who has the same spiritual healing abilities as that of the
false messiahs. Then when this choice is not accepted by the
other leaders of the world, the conflict will start all over
again. The Russians will require those who agree with the idea
to accept a mark of identification so that they may be
distinguished from everyone else. The citizens of Russia who
refuse the mark will be tortured and if they don't give in, they
will be killed.

The U.S. government and the peoples of Asia will all recognize
what has happened, and as the whole world tries to stop what
Russia is doing, the Russians will finally launch nuclear
weapons. Then the rest of the world will begin firing back at
Russia and the holocaust will burn like the fires of Hell.
Those who die from refusing the mark will have saved their
souls, for they will have died in righteousness as Jesus did.
They will therefore live again, as Jesus did.

After the war of the antichrist finally ends in 2026
(according to Nostradamus,) those of us who were rescued will
make a new start here, after the destruction of the war is
cleaned up for us. No one will ever want there to be a need for
authority figures, so no one will engage in crime. Those who
try to commit a crime will have their peers to answer to and
everyone will regard the harmony of the community as precious.
There will be no monetary system and everyone will simply do the
kind of work he or she enjoys (no taxes!) Everyone will simply go to the
person or organization who provides whatever he or she needs,
and everyone will gain their sense of security from how well
they do their work. Instead of depending on money for security,
people will get their security from the strength of their
integration in the community. The community itself will be
called "The Father" and the family these people will form
together all over the globe will propel them into the
technological age with such a force that they will soon expand
the boundaries of what man calls home. Humanity will become
part of the intergalactic neighborhood that has been out there
all along, watching us quietly.

Anyone who has done well enough to survive on their own until
the messiah scene reaches his/her home town should avoid the
chaos altogether by simply staying away from it as Jesus
instructed. These fortunate people should stay aware of the
scene from a distance though, until after the rioting passes and
the messiah leads his followers away. Then they should join the
crying people left over. The dead bodies scattered about the
area is the sign the extra-terrestrials will be looking for.

"As the lightning in the east flashes to the west, so will the
coming of the Son of Man be. Where the carcass lies, there the
vultures gather."
-- Jesus (Matthew 24:27-28)