- and believe it or not, some say the Rapture is coming your way on May 21st. Harold Camping is still standing pat on this date for the rapture- then on May 22nd, millions of people left behind on Earth, who are weeping and wailing, will begin to be killed by God. However, he is not giving any refunds on May 22nd, if his predictions fail to come true, to contributors who took out their life savings and sent it to his ministry.
Ready or not, Judgement Day is in two weeks--
by moshe 48 Replies latest social current
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No Room For George
Check this out, this article from NPR, the similarities between Camping's followers and JWs prior to 1975 are plenty. I'm not gonna post the whole article, but the link is there for anyone interested.
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136053462/is-the-end-nigh-well-know-soon-enough
Haubert says the Bible contains coded "proofs" that reveal the timing. For example, he says, from the time of Noah's flood to May 21, 2011, is exactly 7,000 years. Revelations like this have changed his life.
"I no longer think about 401(k)s and retirement," he says. "I'm not stressed about losing my job, which a lot of other people are in this economy. I'm just a lot less stressed, and in a way I'm more carefree."
He's tried to warn his friends and family. They think he's crazy. And that saddens him.
"Oh, it's very hard," he says. "I worry about friends and family and loved ones. But I guess more recently, I'm just really looking forward to it."
Haubert is 33 and single. Brown is married with several young children, and none of them shares his beliefs. It's caused a rift with his wife — but he says that, too, was predicted in the Bible.
"God says, 'Do you love husband or wife over me? Do you love son or daughter over me?' There is a test. There is a trial here that the believers are going through. It's a fiery trial."
As May 21 nears, Brown says he feels as if he's on a "roller coaster." What if he is raptured but his family is left behind?
"I'm crying over my loved ones one minute; I'm elated the next minute," he says. "It's all over the place."
"Knowing the date of the end of the world changes all your future plans," says 27-year-old Adrienne Martinez.
She thought she'd go to medical school, until she began tuning in to Family Radio. She and her husband, Joel, lived and worked in New York City. But a year ago, they decided they wanted to spend their remaining time on Earth with their infant daughter.
"My mentality was, why are we going to work for more money? It just seemed kind of greedy to me. And unnecessary," she says.
And so, her husband adds, "God just made it possible — he opened doors. He allowed us to quit our jobs, and we just moved, and here we are."
Now they are in Orlando, in a rented house, passing out tracts and reading the Bible. Their daughter is 2 years old, and their second child is due in June. Joel says they're spending the last of their savings. They don't see a need for one more dollar.
"You know, you think about retirement and stuff like that," he says. "What's the point of having some money just sitting there?"
"We budgeted everything so that, on May 21, we won't have anything left," Adrienne adds.
Nothing, except for the fervent hope that all of them will be raptured.
Camping himself, has had to do some recalculation. He first predicted the end would come Sept. 6, 1994. He now explains that he had not completed his biblical research.
"For example, I at that time had not gone through the book of Jeremiah," he explains, "which is a big book in the Bible that has a whole lot to say about the end of the world."
So he's not planning for May 22?
"Absolutely not," Camping says. "It is going to happen, There is no Plan B."
I've asked a dozen of Camping's followers the same question. Everyone said even entertaining the possibility that May 21 would come and go without event is an offense to God. They all hope they'll be raptured. Some worry about being left behind.
"If I'm here on May 22, and I wake up, I'm going to be in hell," says Brown. "And that's where I don't want to be. So there is going to be a May 22, and we don't want to be here."
On the other hand, he will presumably have lots of company.
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poopsiecakes
Simon should set up a countdown clock.
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mrsjones5
Yeah, I just heard the story on NPR. The part about the young couple who've budgeted to have no money by 5/21 is pretty sad.
It all sounds all to familiar.
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MrFreeze
I saw the loo ies with their rvs. Im getting my popcorn ready.
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poopsiecakes
For example, he says, from the time of Noah's flood to May 21, 2011, is exactly 7,000 years.
wait, what?
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sizemik
It's my wife's birthday on May 20th . . . thankfully we'll be able to eat drink and be merry before we go to hell!
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WontLeave
He should be pressured to donate all the church's resources to charity on May 22. But like most end-of-the-world cults, it's all a money-making scam run by sociopaths with zero empathy or concern for the people they rip off. It will sneak off into the sunset, regroup and reappear later to dupe another generation later on. It's kind of hard to have sympathy for the people who reject the Bible's repeated warnings about putting faith in men, though. Or:
You've got to admit, his date has a lot more exposure (at least in Western society) than 1975 or any of the other JW dates did. He may be one of the reasons government starts to clamp down on religion. He's rapidly becoming a bigger false prophet than the Governing Body and he's a relative upstart, in comparison. Anyone else see potential fulfillment of prophecy coming out of this?
He doesn't even have a message, which is what I don't understand why the big advertising campaign. He teaches predestination, which means where you go isn't up to you or anything you do, so what's his ministry?
"The end is coming, so... Well, that's it. You can't repent, or embrace Christ, or change your ways, or anything. Just saying, it's coming, so do with that information what you will, because no matter what you do it doesn't matter."
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moshe
Camping doesn't need a Rapture to get to heaven- he will be dead soon, anyway, and his spirit can get to heaven on it's own.
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Heaven
The end is coming for all of us. The when is as individual as we are.