“Between 1800 and 1820 more than 20,000 people emigrated from Württemberg to Russia…, hastening to meet the coming Lord and to find on Ararat in the Caucasus the place of refuge in the end of the world. Johann Albrecht Bengel had calculated that Christ would come again and that the Thousand Years’ empire would dawn on Sunday, 18 June1836. The ‘brotherly emigration harmonies’ emptied the villages round Tübingen.”
An investigation into the credibility of the Apocalypse
