Religion: Is the End Near?

Jerusalem has been recaptured by the Jews. Soviet power threatens the Mideast. Communist China is working on an H-bomb delivery system. Nine nations are now in the Common Market. To growing thousands of U.S. Christians, these political facts are portents of doom, part of a detailed scenario for the Apocalypse. While most Christians were concentrating last week on the First Coming—Jesus' nativity at Bethlehem—these believers were concerned with Christ's Second Coming at the end of time, which they are convinced is at hand.

The believers are young and old, longtime Apocalypse buffs and...

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