According to reports, Glenn Beck will broadcast the last edition of his Fox News program four weeks from today, on June 30.

If you've been paying attention to Beck lately, this seems like a particularly bad time for him to lose his Fox megaphone, since, according to him, “we are now approaching the most dangerous 120 days perhaps since the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

Discussing the imminent end of his Fox News show on his radio program today, Beck practically begged his followers to stick with him after his show ends, saying: “When I leave Fox, you will see, and we will - please stay in touch with us, please listen to every program - things are going to happen [snaps his fingers] like that.”

Sounds ominous ... and a bit like a desperate ploy to keep people interested in Beck.

When Beck confirmed in April that his Fox News program would be ending, he humbly placed his life's work in the context of Paul Revere and referenced what “is coming”:

BECK: Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say, “I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.” He didn't do it. He got off the horse at some point and fought in the revolution. And then he went back to silversmithing. If you have watched this program, and you really -- I ask you at times hear me: You know what I believe is coming.

As he had explained earlier that night, what Beck “believe[s] is coming” is a “summer of insurrection or the summer of rage.” Since then, Beck has expanded on the impending horrors of this summer -- often in the context of his latest self-aggrandizing spectacle, his upcoming “Restoring Courage” rally in Jerusalem.

Among other things, Beck has said that:

• His theories about the Middle East may come true and result in “real bloodshed.”
• “We must lock arms this summer to defeat the great powers of the Earth and beyond that have aligned against us."
• Israel may be “destroyed” by Labor Day weekend.
• The “very Gates of Hell” will open against Restoring Courage attendees who will open the “very Gates of Heaven” in response.
• “Something wicked this way comes, and I think it is coming this summer."

Not only does Beck make all of these grandiose predictions, but he regularly touts his own prognostication ability, saying today that he has “been given the gift, the blessing, or the curse” to see “slightly over the horizon.”

Beck likes to imagine himself and his followers at the center of an epic struggle between “Good vs. Evil,” which he said today “is approaching.” While for years Beck has warned about a variety of always-imminent “perfect storms,” “Archduke Ferdinand moments,” and “Reichstag moments,” Beck has seemingly decided that this summer is zero hour.

A cynical person might think Beck has been fearmongering about the huge historical importance of this summer -- and his and his followers' role in the unfolding events -- in order to drum up interest in his post-Fox activities.

Or, perhaps more disturbingly, he actually believes all of this.