Historical Context

Significant Events of the Early 1990s

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Fall of USSR/end of Cold War/Re-unification of Germany

The First Gulf War

Rise of terrorism (1993 WTC bombing)

Oslo Accords (Israel and Palestine)

AIDS

Increased visibility of homosexuality

Contract with America

Creation of World Trade Organization

Increase in crime levels and drug use

Y2K

Impending millennium

 

Significance

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Fundamentalist Christian viewpoint on end of the world…

1. World Government

2. World Economy

3. World Religion

“New World Order”—strength of a united Europe

Fundamentalists claim that the following signify the approach of the End Times:

          fall of Communism
          Secularism, New Age Mysticism, do-it-yourself religions
          Global economic interdependence
          Materialism replaces spiritualism
          World leader who will rise from a United Europe

Conflict in Israel/middle East will usher in Anti-Christ and end
of time

 

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