the foreshewers of this terrible day, are almost all fulfilled.'" Assemblies of God Church During World War I, The Weekly Evangel, an official publication of the Assemblies of God, carried this prediction: "We are not yet in the Armageddon struggle proper, but at its commencement, and it may be, if students of prophecy read the signs aright, that Christ will come before the present war closes, and before Armageddon...The war preliminary to Armageddon, it seems, has commenced." Other editions speculated that the end would come no later than 1934 or 1935. Calvary Chapel The founder of the Calvary Chapel system, Chuck Smith, published the book End Times in 1979. On the jacket of his book, Smith is called a "well known Bible scholar and prophecy teacher". In this book he wrote: This same viewpoint was published by the popular pastor Hal Lindsey in his widely published book The Late Great Planet Earth. Edward Irving The Scottish cleric Edward Irving was the forerunner of the Catholic Apostolic Church. In 1828 he wrote a work headed The Last Days: A Discourse on the Evil Character of These Our Times, Proving Them to be the 'Perilous Times' and the 'Last Days'''. He believed that the world had already entered the "last days": Family Radio Harold Camping, who was then president of Family Radio, stated that the rapture and Judgement Day would occur on May 21, 2011, and claimed the Bible as his source. He suggested it would happen at 6 p.m. local time with the rapture sweeping the world time zone by time zone. Following the failure of this prediction, Camping stated that the physical rapture was actually happening on October 21, 2011. Lutheran Church Michael Stiefel predicted the end of the world in 1533 and lost his position as minister in consequence. He was found another position by Philip Melanchthon. One later writer noted, "In all of [Martin Luther's] work there was a sense of urgency for the time was short… the world was heading for Armageddon in the war with the Turk." Even after Luther's death in 1546, Lutheran leaders kept up the claim of the nearness of the end. About the year 1584, a zealous Lutheran named Adam Nachenmoser wrote the large volume in which he predicted: "In 1590 the Gospel would be preached to all nations and a wonderful unity would be achieved. The last days would then be