Show END OF THE WORLD WO this ought to have occur occurred Ted according to nicolas de cusa in 1704 he demonstrates it thus the deluge happened in the thirty fourth jubilee of fifty years from the creation a in 1700 and therefore the end of the world should prope properly aly occur on the thirty fourth j jubilee ubil ee of the christian era or A D 1704 the four grace years are added to compensate fo the blunder of chronologists respecting the first year of grace the most popular dates of mod ern cm times for the fhe world or what is practically the same thin thing g the millennium are san th the following w g 1757 1836 johann Al albrecht brechtl bengel 1843 william miller ol 01 america 1866 dr john cumming 1881 mother shipton it was very generally be I 1 liend d in france germany etc act diat the end of the world would happen in the thousandth year after christ and therefore much of the land was left uncultivated and an d a general famine ensued luckily it was not agram agre edi whether the thousand years should date from the birth or the death of christ or the desolation 1 lation would have been much greater many charters charte begin with these words As the tive world is now drawing to its close rings kings and nobles gave up their states robert of france son of hugh capet entered the mon 1 astery of st denis and at lii boges nobles and knights pro claimed gods truce and solemnly bound themselves to ob stain from feuds to keep the peace towards each other and to help the oppressed another hypothesis is this As one day with god equals a thousand years psalm xe 4 and god labored in creation six days therefore the world is to labor years and then to rest according to this theory th eory the end of the world ought to occur a in or a d 1996 supposing the world to have been created years before the birth of Chri christ sst this hypothesis po thesis which is widely accepted is quite safe for another century at least |