I’m sure those of you who float around in here know of the end of the world coming on May 21st of this year. However, one very important thing to keep in mind for those who are planning on pronouncing Jesus as your lord and savior at the last minute…
ALL CONVERSIONS TO CHRISTIANITY MUST BE DONE PRIOR TO THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS OF MAY 19TH.
Why the 19th? International Date Line. For those of us living here in the states, if you wait until the 20th to convert over to ‘the right way of living’ then you’ve already missed the boat. By the time you get up in the morning it will already be the 21st in Australia and Asia and you will be SOL. God will not be willing to accept your call for forgiveness and may very well be burning down your doorstep so that it will be your entryway into eternal damnation and suffering.
That’s a thursday, by the way. No need to thank me, I’m here for you. Just doing my part.
On Mr. T’s birthday?! Considering that Mr. T and God are, like, two sides of the same coin, I highly doubt this will happen. Unless the party is just that good.
No-Body, I just read through that website and it seems there is not anything that suggests judgement day will be on 21st May.
“This web site serves as an introduction and portal to four faithful ministries which are teaching that WE CAN KNOW from the Bible alone that the date of the rapture of believers will take place on May 21, 2011 and that God will destroy this world on October 21, 2011.”
It states this and then doesn’t bother to even give a reference point for it. Weird huh?
I’ve posted this somewhere else here in ILP:
Matthew 24:36
But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
I’m pretty interested in your opinion on this website. I thumbed through it for a bit and saw where they were trying to come from. If you get the chance give a look-see and let us know what you think. I’ve heard your side of the argument pretty regularly (no one can know) but I’m curious to hear what you think of their argument for knowing the day. They give it a good effort imo.
I would like to think that site’s motives are to draw people to God. In that I will give it the benefit of the doubt. Some people are quite put off on Christianity anyway. One result that which might happen is the day will pass and add to the disparagement towards that faith. Christianity doesn’t need help to kick the blocks of credibility out from underneath it with making such claims.
On the other hand the dice they are throwing could come up with a winner. In which case their being right would be a shallow victory. It reminds me of putting millions of chimps in a warehouse each with a typewriter and one of them would accidently write a Shakespeare story. The harm they could cause may drive people away from God.
For myself, the signs are out there that the Rapture is drawing nigh. The Bible does set up scriptured roadsigns for people to see. However, that part of the Bible is not as important as the messages Jesus setforth for us. Being vigilant about the future though is not a bad thing.
Personally, I hope that people would seek out God by invoking Jesus’ intervention for their salvation. It’s not hard to do. So what if other people think you are foolish or irrational. A person that does becomes a new person in God’s Eyes. In my estimation what you might have to lose is the eternal Love of God.
Then there is that possibility that I may not be taken up in the Rapture if it comes before I die. That possible reality makes me shudder. The range of remorseful emotions I would go through could be debilitating to my spirit. Hopefully I would be able to find the strength to try to help others to get through the melange of chaos that would ensue.
While I view the internet as a venue to help getting the truth out, it could be deterrent as well. The leap of faith to seek out God should not be an embarrasing, logic shredding experience. The biggest problem I see as the thing that discourages folks from turning to God are those that claim Christianity as their religion and wield it in a way which causes confusion and discontent for those who are and possible believers of God. The pearls they cast sometimes turn into rotten pits of hate which breeds distrust in God. I pray for those folks. I too need prayer to help guide me to try to say and do what God wants of me. I don’t say this to shed a good light on me, rather that I don’t do a shameful thing against God.
My intent in this summary was not to cause an apoplectic result with my preachy explanation to the question put before me. It’s that I don’t know how else to get my point across with how I really feel about the subject
I would think there’d be mostly damage to their credibility, since people who decide at the last minute to hedge their bets and join up are more likely to lose interest when nothing happens on the predicted date than they are to see how marvelous it all really is and stay anyway.
And this sort of prediction has to attract mostly the ignorant and uninformed – or perhaps just the .001% of the population who doesn’t use the internet – because there have been a great number of these dates of doom predicted throughout history. Eventually, you’d think that particular ruse would lose its drawing power.
That seems to me like a cynical view of the believers. Unless they’ve chosen to be believers for reasons that can’t even be remotely reasoned (even if they aren’t completely rational, which I don’t think they ever can be), then they should be able quite easily to see beyond what especially crazy religious folk get up to. And the ones who can’t would seem to me to need more than a god on their side, because that alone isn’t working out too well for them thus far.
I enjoyed your post, thank you for sharing. What did you think of their (the website) reasons for knowing the dates? I couldn’t really see how or why they came up with the specific days, but they do a decent job of presenting their case in how and why the day can be known.
It does give the air of one of those supermarket tabloids you see at the checkout center. I would have felt better if they would have pointed to the signs that are cropping up for the oncoming Rapture. With nothing more than information pointing to the signs that the Bible has in it of the impending event. Mathew 24:36 gives the straight of it. Unless for some reason God had gave them the inside scoop of the Rapture, That would fly in the face of that scripture though.
I wasn’t speaking on the whole of Christian believers. It was a reference to those act and speak in misguided ways because they think they have a handle on God’s Will and Mind. They are the ones who do the most damage. Some may truly feel they are following God’s Will. While some few of them could be being influenced by satan’s wiles and don’t recognize the harm they are inflicting (or perhaps they do). I’ve seen those type of people in action. One that I know of who was a pastor (so called) took over for a retiring one and caused tumult amongst the congregation. Plus trying to get into the church’s bank account. He split the church and brought in hired security police to quell what he viewed as dissenters that opposed him. Fortunately, he was in violation of the church’s constitution and was ousted through due process of law. I believe that church profited from this debacle in that their vigilance gave way to complacency which ultimately help them realize that sometimes purging is the thing that is needed to get satan out of the background. My point is sometimes it’s hard to recognize good intent from the misguided or deliberate attempt to derail.
