Edgar C. Whisenant (September 25, 1932 – May 16, 2001) was a former
NASA
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engineer and Bible student who predicted the
rapture would occur in 1988, sometime between Sept. 11 and Sept. 13. He published two books about this, ''88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988'' and ''On Borrowed Time''. Eventually, 300,000 copies of ''88 Reasons'' were mailed free of charge to ministers across America, and 4.5 million copies were sold in bookstores and elsewhere. Whisenant was quoted as saying "Only if the Bible is in error am I wrong; and I say that to every preacher in town" and "
there were a king in this country and I could gamble with my life, I would stake my life on
Rosh Hashana
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88."
Publications
* Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1988.
* Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1989.
* Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1993.
* Prediction for 1994.
See also
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Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions
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References
External links
On Borrowed Time: The Bible Dates of The 70th Week of Daniel, Armageddon and The Millennium by Edgar C. Whisenant*88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be In 1988 and On Borrowed Time at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ReasonsWhyTheRaptureWillBeIn1988PDF
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1932 births
2001 deaths
20th-century apocalypticists
Christian writers about eschatology