 During the 1980s, The Revival Centres taught that Armageddon and Jesus's return were imminent – holding events such as the "Survival '82" outreach.In a Melbourne Revival Centre book, entitled "The Throne of David and the Return of Christ", at the end of chapter nine, it says "the generation of people who were alive in 1917 would still be alive when all the prophecies concerning the return of Jesus Christ reach fulfillment.