Satan's Little Season conspiracy?

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This is mostly just a poll to see if anyone has heard of this yet, so I'm not going to link to any content (it's easy to find now on YouTube).

There seems to be a new conspiracy theory to explain all conspiracy theories, "Satan's Little Season." The basic premise is that there is a Biblical passage in which, after the second coming of Jesus Christ, Satan is bound for 1000 years, but then released "for a little season" to deceive the world before the final judgment. The idea is that because we're in this season where Satan is deceiving the world, all the other conspiracies make sense in that context. So if you buy this one, all the others come for free.

I first became aware of this about 5 years ago with a family member who was using it to explain all the other conspiracies, but didn't imagine it was a trending "thing" until I found content on this topic online this year. Since then, I've seen even pastors address this concept to their congregations to try to get ahead of it, so I'm wondering if it is on the trend to becoming viral.

Some core tenets of the theory are:
- Every time Jesus said "I'm coming soon" in the Bible, he meant it literally, hence he returned in 70 AD and began his reign in 76 AD
- The Roman empire fell at the same time, so when we say 476 AD, that's actually the same year (76 AD). "Artificially added history" is a big component of this theory
- Then there was a 1000 year reign with the saints on earth, resulting in all the unexplained historical artifacts (Stonehenge, pyramids) and amazing buildings like the cathedrals. This puts us to year 1076 in their timeline, and 1476 in the mainstream timeline
- Then 300 more years were artificially added, usually invoking the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory
- Putting us up to 1776 in the mainstream timeline when Satan returned to deceive the world. Then there are a host of ideas around how the Statue of Liberty is really a statue of Satan, etc.

Thus, this theory not only explains all other conspiracies, but also instills a deep distrust in "history" in general.

So, has anyone heard of it yet?
 
Google Trends shows a single spike in January 2010, but otherwise identifies it as a topic of fairly recent interest.

https://trends.google.de/trends/explore?q=satans little season
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Compared with "mud flood" (red), it's still not very significant, so you're probably encountering pockets of it spread through small groups or niche writings.
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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation 20:7-10&version=KJV
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7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
The Book of Revelations has always been fun for literalists to play with.
Though I don't see the idea that the Second Coming of Christ has already happened as catching on.
 
AtomPages said:
Then there was a 1000 year reign with the saints on earth, resulting in all the unexplained historical artifacts (Stonehenge, pyramids) and amazing buildings like the cathedrals. This puts us to year 1076 in their timeline, and 1476 in the mainstream timeline
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Apparently nothing happened on earth "BC"? :)
 
AtomPages said:
- Every time Jesus said "I'm coming soon" in the Bible, he meant it literally, hence he returned in 70 AD and began his reign in 76 AD
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I don't remember my Revelations all that well anymore, but why is "soon" 70AD? And what was he doing for 6 years before starting his reign. Assuming even a mixed up calendar, if it's using Anno Domini (AD) for dating it would assume year 0 as Christ's birth. Then if his death/resurrection/accession from which he is returning from is around 30-35 years later (33AD) then why is "soon" is 40ish years later? Why not 2 years later (35AD) or maybe 10 years later (43AD)?

It appears to be an attempt to backfill a theory involving the Fall of Rome with I don't know what. Even if they have to subtract 400 "fake years" from 476AD to arrive at 76AD, it's a bit of a misconception that Rome fell and ceased to exist. By the early 5th century (410AD) or I guess 41AD in this mixed up claim, the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire had his court in Ravenna, not Rome. When he was informed that "Roma" (Rome) had been sacked by Aleric and his Gothic troopers, he thought it was a reference to his chicken named "Roma", as he was in Ravenna:

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At that time they say that the Emperor Honorius in Ravenna received the message from one of the eunuchs, evidently a keeper of the poultry, that Roma had perished. And he cried out and said, "And yet it has just eaten from my hands!" For he had a very large cockerel, Roma by name; and the eunuch comprehending his words said that it was the city of Roma which had perished at the hands of Alaric, and the emperor with a sigh of relief answered quickly: "But I thought that my fowl Roma had perished." So great, they say, was the folly with which this emperor was possessed.
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— Procopius, The Vandalic War (De Bellis III.2.25–26)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire
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Regardless, in 476AD, or I guess 76AD in this context, the crown of the Western Roman Empire was sent from Ravenna to Constantinople, the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire. While we now know the Eastern Empire as the Byzintine Empire, they thought of themselves as Romans who carried on the Roman Empire up until the final defeat to the Turks in 1453.

It seems a conspiracy theory that reinterprets complex historical situations into simple "God versus the Devil" explanations. It reminds me of the idea that "the Devil put dinosaurs there" to confuse good Christians.
 
AtomPages said:
So, has anyone heard of it yet?
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It appears to be a branch of something called Preterism, which wikipedia tells me has apparently been a thing since roughly 1600s, but I only learned about a few months ago.

I learned about it while watching Justin on his YouTube channel DZ Debates. He is a former pastor with theological degrees and knows ancient Greek and Hebrew who became an atheist and now skewers people in theological debates on all religions on his live streams, worth a watch if thats your thing. As someone who was raised very religiously, its been very eye opening to me. I highly recommend it to everyone.
 
3db said:
It appears to be a branch of something called Preterism
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Yes, it steals a bunch of the Scriptural arguments from hyper-Preterism or "full Preterism", but Preterism is different in that proponents generally think of Christ's 70 AD return as spiritual or symbolic, not a literal return to earth with a visible presence for 1000 years as in the "Little Season" case.

NorCal Dave said:
It appears to be an attempt to backfill a theory involving the Fall of Rome with I don't know what.
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Yes, good instinct. The backfill is to explain what proponents somehow think is a clear interpretation of Daniel 2:42:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel 2:42&version=NIV
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As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.
Iron is supposed to be the Roman empire, and clay is supposed to be Israel (based on other verses that attribute Israel to clay), so they say Israel fell in 70 AD with the destruction of the Temple, and therefore Rome (iron) must have happened at the same time. Honestly, it feels like the "fall of Rome happened at the same time as 70AD" is just a way they rationalize history being corrupt. Because if history can be trusted, then all those Christian writers throughout the years that somehow missed Christ being present and reigning for 1000 years would make their story unbelievable.
 
NorCal Dave said:
It reminds me of the idea that "the Devil put dinosaurs there" to confuse good Christians.
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Or "God put them there to test our faith."

I prefer "God put them there through the mechanism of creating the Universe a LONG time ago, giving time for things like dinosaurs to evolve, die and become fossilized, and through the same evolutionary process He gave us brains able to do things like be amazed by dinosaurs and a lot of other stuff, and to figure out things like how old they are, how they lived, how they came to be, and how they came to not be anymore." But that does not fit well on a bumper sticker!
 
jdog said:
Welp, it's only existed since Last Thursday, along with everything else.
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As an argument, it's a perfect parody, but of course it fails at the parsimony hurdle. In order to explain 10^huge bits of state, it requires 10^huge bits of initial conditions. (Edit: which therefore isn't "explanatory")
 
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NorCal Dave said:
Ah, "Mendel", pea pods, I was a bit dense.
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Nice demonstration of the power of expectations: I expected a pea pod and saw it, you didn't and saw bacteria.

It can happen to anyone, and is at best an indicator of momentary density, not density in general, because we know you're not.
 
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