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Ehrmageddon! With Bart Ehrman

Data Over Dogma

CHAPTER

The History of Apocalyptic Predictions

For most of history, this comes as a surprise to most people and especially evangelical Christians. This idea that it's predicting our future at all was not the main way of reading revelation for the vast majority of its history. But those who did think it was talking about our future sometimes picked a date. In the 13th century, there were a group of Christians, Franciscan monks, who insisted that it was going to happen in the year 1260. They're basing their views on an argument by a monk called Yokemafiori.

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