Other information used to predict the end times included "sources as varied as U.S. Defense Department manuals and opinions by radical Rabbi Meir Kahane and pop scientist Carl Sagan.
"[1][2][3] Whisenant believed the description of the sun being blocked out in Revelation chapter 11 was a prediction of nuclear winter.
Both were published by World Bible Society with financial backing from Norvell Olive, a Christian radio broadcaster.
Whisenant's predictions were widely covered – and ridiculed – in the media as well as being satirized by humorist Dave Barry.
[11][9] One North Carolina man was influenced by the 1988 prediction, and barricading himself in his home, shot at passersby and a police officer.