Dami Mission

The Dami Mission (Korean: 다미선교회) was a Christian religious movement founded in South Korea by Lee Jang Rim (Korean: 이장림; Hanja: 李長林). It received worldwide attention after Lee predicted that the rapture and end of the world would occur on 28 October 1992. After the prediction failed Lee was convicted of defrauding his followers out of millions of dollars.

History

At the height of the movement but before the date of the prediction, Dami Mission was estimated to have over 300 churches and 20,000 followers. The majority were in South Korea but there were also branches in Los Angeles and New York.

Prediction

Lee proclaimed that 144,000 believers would ascend into heaven on 28 October 1992 and that those left on Earth would face "seven years of war, famine and other scourges" that would kill all life on the planet and bring about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The prediction was reportedly based on a 16-year-old boy's vision.

Lee wrote a book titled Getting Close to the End which outlined his prediction, and the Dami Mission advertised in both the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

Dami

Dami is a village and municipality in Humla District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1299 persons living in 250 individual households.

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Dami (disambiguation)

Dami is a village and municipality in Nepal. It may also refer to

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Dami (name)

Dami may refer to the following people

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