Less than five years later, Miller died. But the expectation that the end is never far away has lived on. It was a splinter group of Branch Davidians led by David Koresh that prepared for the worst at Waco, Texas and wound up perishing in a conflagration that was indeed the end of the world for them. And less than a year later, dozens of members of the Solar Temple died in an apocalyptic orgy of drugs, suicide, murder and fire. As we draw closer to the Millennium, expect to hear more about radical religious groups preparing in earnest for the Second Coming, advises Daniels.
Conditions are ideal.
Often groups with an apocalyptic bent go about their business without causing too much disturbance. The only sure fact about the Millennium is that no one knows for sure what is going to happen. President Delano Roosevelt knew just what people needed to hear. It is fitting that the last word on this page should go to the Great Prognosticator himself, Nostradamus. Through it comes all sickness.