As reported earlier, Prophet Olga’s second due-date for the appearance of Jesus Christ in Echo Park came and went. I had wondered if this would be the end of Olga’s street ministry & publicly posted Xeroxed broadsides– but huzzah! Olga’s returned, and while she’s not nearly as prolific in the run-up to July 7, 2007, a handful of fliers have begun once more to appear on lampposts and building-sides.

This flyer contains many interesting aspects: visually it’s a fantastic piece of street art, kind of a palimpsest, and in terms of content, it provides us with a new host of predictions. The new due-date for Jesus Christ is November 30, 2008, but Christ will be appear in the homes of all angels (Olga’s term for those who believe), rather than simply in Echo Park.

Also Olga predicts a nuclear bomb attack on New York in 2009.

I’ve never understood the dense calendric symbolism of Olga’s broadsides. My Spanish is not nearly good enough to know if this flier makes much sense in the sister language, but given the inexplicability of previous English fliers that functioned as prophetic meditations on the calendar, I suspect not.

One of the things that Olga demonstrates– both with the failed appearance of Christ in ’05 and now, ’07– is the adaptability of religious apocalypticals in the face of unfulfilled prophecy. The most likely explanation for the failure of a predicted event is that certain preconditions of that event– established by a God, UFO, Entity, or Whatever– were not met by the devoted and/or the world at large. The apocalyptic group or individual then enters a period of recovery; in the end, a new prophecy and date emerges. There’s often a hope amongst those Enlightened Folks who could never believe Nonsense that the failure of prophecy will open the eyes of adherents to the basic Unreality of their beliefs; perhaps this occurs with some but, as Prophet Olga demonstrates, hardly with all.