Zenith 2016 - by Thomas Horn

I read through Zenith 2016 as research for my own end times prophecy books. The idea that Daniel’s 70th week, or the 7 year tribulation, spans from 2012 to 2019 is one that I completely agree with. I also agree that the Antichrist will reach the “zenith” of his activity in at the mid-point of this seven year period in 2016. I briefly covered 2016 as the pivotal year of the Antichrist in End Times and 2019 (which as you can guess, focuses more on the tribulation’s final events in 2019) and will I go into more detail on the events of 2016 in my next book on the Antichrist.

I appreciate that Horn named this book’s final chapter “Final Part of the Last Mystery: 2012-2016, 2019, and the End?”  On page 372 he writes “Does this mean that the year 2019 – exactly seven years after 2012 – would mark the year that Jesus Christ returns with the armies of heaven to establish His rule over Earth?”  I think Horn would agree with me that these events began in 2012, that the peak of the Antichrist’s activity is in 2016, and that everything about the End Times ends in 2019.

What I did not expect was the completeness of Horn’s focus on the occult in Zenith 2016. Horn emphasizes that there are secret societies (mentioning groups like Freemasons, the Illuminati, etc.) plotting to bring back Apollyon (under this or a variety of other ancient names for the Antichrist) to rule over a new world order. He reviews many sources of prophecy pointing to the general time frame of 2012-2016-2019. As a comparison of such diverse sources of information, Zenith 2016 is an interesting read.  But what can we really conclude after reading that some prophecies point to an end in 2012, and some in 2015, and some in 2016, and some in 2017, 2018, and 2019?  Which ones really have merit, and which ones are inaccurate? I am not very satisfied to merely read that many cultures have something pointing to a general time frame. I had hoped Horn would seem less vague and more conclusive.

In my own book, (Antichrist 2016-2019: Mystery Babylon, Barack Obama & the Islamic Caliphate) Bible prophecy repeatedly leads to the same specific days in 2016 and 2019. I had assumed that Horn might see some of the same things and make more specific conclusive claims based on what the Bible (and his many other occult sources) had in common.

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