The second of five programmes in which Iwan Russell-Jones examines the theology behind the belief that we are living at the end of time.
Millions of fundamentalist Christians, many of them in America, believe that the biblical Book of Revelation refers to events in our own time.
2: Reading the Signs
On the day that JFK was assassinated in Dallas, America lost its innocence; all its problems worsened from that day on. The city also boasts the Dallas Theological Seminary, the academic home of apocalyptic theology, which has sent ministers and missionaries out across the world for half a century, armed with an education in the end times.