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>According to the Catholic Encyclopedia Caius: "Additional light was shown on the subject VI, p. 397 "Caius maintained that the Apocalypse of John was the work of the Gnostic Cerinthus" Cerinthus, a man educated in the wisdom of the Egyptians, operated a school that followed and used the Gospel of Cerinthus. He denied that the Supreme God had made the physical world and denied the divinity of Jesus. Cerinthus was a follower of the Zealot party, a group that had a strong political agenda. The Zealots taught that a political Messiah -military soon appears to conquer the world and rule for a thousand years from Jerusalem
>This concept of Millennialism was promoted during the second century by Montanus who, according to historian Eusebius of Caesarea in about 172 AD, entered a state of ecstatic convulsions and began prophesying that the New Jerusalem would soon descend from the clouds and land on a city called Friggia thus became one of the first "Prophet" to predict when the end of the world would occur. Montanus was a priest of the eastern ecstatic cult of Cybele, the mother goddess of fertility