Weird Tract Number 37: "88 Reasons Why The Rapture Is In 1988" by Edgar C. Whisenant

Troy Davis writes:

Edgar C Whisenant (1932-2001) serves as a cautionary tale ignored by latter-day End Times predictors such as Harold Camping (1921-2013) who predicted that the world would end May 21, 2011. 

Whisenant's booklet is actually two booklets: 88 Reasons shares a tête-bêche binding with On Borrowed Time which Whisenant also authored. In 88 Reasons, gives both biblical and secular reasons (all of them batshit crazy) why Whisenant believed that Believers would be instantaneously sucked up to Heaven during "the Feast of Trump" (September 11, 12, or 13 of 1988). Whisenant never lived his failed prediction down but he was a trooper making the same prediction for the years 1989, 1993, and 1994.

Priceless numerology in the last words of the book:
          We are now in the 100th Congress of the United States, and 1987 is the 212th birthday of
     the Constitution of the United States. {Note: he confused the Constitution with The Declaration
     of  Independence] Water Boils at 100 degrees centigrade and at 212 degrees fahrenheit. We will
     not see another national election; nor will we see the end of the 213th year of the Constitution
     (which is the end of 1988), before the war comes (World War III) which destroys us completely
     as a nation, before the election in November 1988 - and before the harvest 1988, on 4 Novemeber
     1988.

     Praise God! His decisions are just!

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