continued to bring an apocalyptic message to millions of Americans. Jack Van Impe, Salem Kirban, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, John Hagee, and Mark Hitchcock, to name only a few, have warned that floods, famines, earthquakes, diseases, wars, and Middle East events will precede the Second Coming of Christ. As we have moved into the twenty-first century, the rhetoric and the publications have not tapered off. The fact that the predictions related to the 1980s and 1990s did not come to fruition