Before Southern Seminary in Louisville became a bastion for the Religious Right, there were well known scholars like Timothy Weber.  Dr. Weber wrote a fascinating book named, Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming.  He traced the foundations of the modern Millennial movement in Christian circles.  Folks like the Millerites, who during the 1800s cashed in their savings and refused to plant crops because they saw the Second Coming happening in the very near future, are noted.  The group helped give birth to the Seventh Day Adventists to whom Ben Carson has helped shed a spot light upon. Weber says, like Mike Evan's vision, there was a young woman in her teens who had a vision to start this concept.  The girl was a Pentecostal who helped found the modern movement.  This is a great irony since most Pre Millennialists do not believe in women preachers or speaking in tongues.
     Weber helped refine the story of anti-Semitism that has roots in the conspiracy mongering movement.  The leading advocate of this Millennial version of history was Moody Bible Institute, in Chicago.  Moody Institute had a president and leading supporters who were fond of Hitler and the book, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.  The Protocols was the fabricated story of a secret Jewish society that ran the world.  Many of the Pre Millennialist advocates like Moody College, Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, Jack Van Impe, Pat Robertson, Texe Marrs and others have promoted conspiracy theories about secret societies that run the world.  These societies cause all the wars and manipulate the economies of nations.  The early versions last century of these theories were rooted in anti-Semitism. This all switched with the idea that support for Israel meant blessings from God.  The 1946 rebirth of Israel gave incentive to this theology.
     Moody Institute leaders thought before World War II that Jews in Germany were deserving of persecution because they were supposedly linked to the spread of Communism in Europe.  Hitler was thus justified in his attitudes toward them.  There is a huge jump from blaming Jews for problems in pre-war Germany to encouraging the attack of any nation that dares not give Israel the ancient lands King David acquired.
     Jewish scholars are aware of this and embrace Pat Robertson and his crowd with the view that the "overall summation of his writings do not make them anti-Semitic."  Never the less, these strange bedfellows makes for intriguing alliances.  Take for instance the popular radio evangelist David Smith.  Smith believes Joseph McCarthy was right on.  M.L. King was a Communist as well as the U.N.  Smith teaches his faithful followers we need to consider pulling Texas out of the Union because the U.N. is setting up a One World Order.  Smith contends that because Hillary Clinton was on the board at Wal Mart, the agency is stockpiling weapons for mass distribution to set up a One World Order.
     Helping to stop Hillary and the other conspirators is once defrocked TV evangelist, Jim Bakker.  Jim did some hard time in prison, and like many former inmates got out and did the same con on release.  Jim's latest scam is selling end of times survival items for the coming apocalypse.  These items, like his former hotel reservations, come at a highly over priced rate.  He has become famous recently stating he is wearing black underwear to help stop the satanic plot being launched against the nation. Jim's under garments might not seem that frightening.  The idea that segments of our population are advising the nation to launch an attack on Iran in the name of Jesus does.
     To those who sluff off these items as harmless fun.  We might need reminded about the largest domestic terrorist attack in America.  It took place at the Murray Federal Building in Oklahoma City.  Timothy McVeigh orchestrated the event.  It came from the Branch Davidian standoff.  Which was founded by the former Seventh Day Adventist, David Koresh.  Koresh was the classic crystal ball gazing Christian.  His former paranoia about our government is reborn, recycling itself in all types of conspiracies.  
     Michael Ignatieff wrote in the Guardian, "What we are up against is apocalyptic nihilism. The nihilism of their means-the indifference to human costs-takes their actions no only out of the real of politics, but even out of the realm of war itself."