Anonymous91
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Every year, there are a number of different movements that zero in on a new date - sometimes twice a year.
It'll sweep through the internet and through local church services. Last year, someone I know shared his own prophecy broadly (for rapture in August 2019, he had all kinds of ad hoc reasoning and Bible quotations). He's amassed quite an email base. He literally hounded friends and family, but the people who decided he was right were ones he'd met online.
I think he got the exact date from someone else online, and then added his own "prophecies" to it.
If you are going to prophecy the end of the world, it would be wise to set a date for long after your dead, then no one can prove that your wrong.

Of course the real reason that they choose a date that is so close is that it is a sales pressure tactic. If you pay close attention to when you are being sold stuff, a common tactic is to pressure you to buy on the spot, by saying something like: this is your last chance, today only, sale ends in 3 days, etc. This is to pressure you into buying something now, without taking the time to research it and find what works best for you. This stuff is down to a science.
Same reason, so called prophets, use the tactic too. The World is ending in June 2020, better give me all your money now... Sadly, there are people that fall for this too often, and spend way too much time and money on this nonsense. IMHO I think CD is just taking advantage of these people. I honestly think that he never actually had any NDE, I think that he made it all up, and realized that no one could prove him wrong.
If you think about it, most of us have had some sort of accident, where we could "claim" that we had an Out of Body Experience. Who's going to be able to prove you wrong? Then all you have to do is to sound believable. Well that's easy. All you need to do is read a few NDE books, have a bit of an imagination, now you are an official NDE expert. People want to buy your books, to learn what you know about the other side. I am betting that is exactly what Chad did.
We already know that he has people that hang on every word he says, and believes him. Look at his former mission companions, they totally bought his ghost stories. I'm sure people have been empowering his ego for years, and so he embellishes in this power trip.
Now, he just took it to the next level, when he offed Tammy.

MOO