[The Forest Hill News, Vol. 25, No. 2, January 12, 1999, pp. 1, 4.] Like many others I read with interest a recent article (1/10/99) in The Commercial Appeal entitled, “Israel Prepares for Millennial Horde of Apocalyptic Pilgrims” by Dina Kraft. The article describes how the Israelis have created a special security force called the “millennium unit” to deal with an expected influx of doomsday cultists as the year 2000 approaches. According to Ms. Kraft the arrest in Jerusalem of fourteen members of a Denver-based cult on 1/3/99 “underscored the dangers of the coming year.” The Denver group, who call themselves Concerned Christians, are alleged to have been planning violent acts to hasten some sort of apocalypse.  The aforementioned article also stated that some four million “Christian pilgrims” are expected to visit Israel between mid-1999 and the end of 2000, about twice the usual number of such tourists. The director of Boston University’s Center for Millennium Studies, Richard Landes, reportedly believes that among the four million will be a “hard core” of tens of thousands who believe that Christ’s return to Jerusalem is imminent. Once such person, a retired school teacher from New York who has moved to an apartment on the Mount of Olives in hopes of a close-up view of Jesus’ return, is quoted as having said, “God’s headquarters will be in Jerusalem, and our coming is helping this be fulfilled.”  It seems clear that speculation about the year 2000 being the end of time will fuel a tourism boom