St. Maximos' Hut

According to the L.A. Times ('End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon), the apocalypse actually is good for business in the tourism and building trades, as well as animal husbandry. Witness the increased travel schedules of Christian missionaries in anticipation of the end, a construction in Iran in anticipation of the return of the Mahdi and, as well, construction in Israel to hasten the coming of the Messiah. And,

[t]hen there is there is Clyde Lott, a Mississippi revivalist preacher and cattle rancher. He is trying to raise a unique herd of red heifers to satisfy an obscure injunction in the Book of Numbers: the sacrifice of a blemish-free red heifer for purification rituals needed to pave the way for the messiah.

Of course all profits are short-term.