May 21 2011

[Jessup]

I don’t know if this is a new topic or not, or even in the right part of the forum. But today I saw RV’s full of protestant fundamentalist at the local wal-mart with banners on their RV’s that stated as such that. " World wide earth quake May 21, 2011 and rapture". After an intense hour of Google, I found out that the world is ending in just 4 months. But at least I’ll have time to finish my school semester. Has anyone seen heard or know anything about this statement that is made. The RV’s had banners that said family radio, and ebible somthing.com anyway just thought i 'd through this out here.
Cheers! :thumbsup:

 

[saveusfromhell]

the man behind this has used maths to determine from bible this date. this is his second attempt though he predicted the end of the world before using this method. also Jesus says nobody knows the day or the hour. like a thief in the night. and if this were the end it would mean we have missed the 7 years when the anti christ will rule before the second coming. in other words the day will come and go without the world ending.

 

[GeorgeTheWild]

The crazies make me sad

Matthew 24:36-41
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

 

[mark_a]

I don’t know if this is a new topic or not, or even in the right part of the forum. But today I saw RV’s full of protestant fundamentalist at the local wal-mart with banners on their RV’s that stated as such that. " World wide earth quake May 21, 2011 and rapture". After an intense hour of Google, I found out that the world is ending in just 4 months. But at least I’ll have time to finish my school semester. Has anyone seen heard or know anything about this statement that is made. The RV’s had banners that said family radio, and ebible somthing.com anyway just thought i 'd through this out here.

 Cheers! :thumbsup:

Thanks for another reason to avoid Walmart!!

 

[Jessup]

the man behind this has used maths to determine from bible this date. this is his second attempt though he predicted the end of the world before using this method. also Jesus says nobody knows the day or the hour. like a thief in the night. and if this were the end it would mean we have missed the 7 years when the anti christ will rule before the second coming. in other words the day will come and go without the world ending.

 I thought their church had just a really good geologist; or it was some crack pot numerology. I am curious how people go about "calculating" these events. In 1240 AD the church expected Christ to return as 1240 AD was equal to 5000 in the Judea calender. According to a book  "The Golden Ratio" I'm reading. I made a quick tactical driving decision as to avoid any interaction with the travelers in the RV's though I did want to ask them if in fact no one did know the hour that Christ comes. According to people on you tube we are in the tribulation right now.

Cheers!

 

[saveusfromhell]

there is a continous thread here on CAF about end time specualation if your interested
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=519403&page=20

 

[Nine_Two]

There was a thread on this quite recently. One of the supporters of the theory was even there asking for biblical proof that it wouldn’t happen. He left when proof was given.

 

[dzheremi]

Woo! Good-bye student loan payments!!!

 

[ZDHayden]

but . . . but . . . but . . . I’m still debating between 5 religious orders! How am I supposed to decide that quickly?! (note: seven years of tribulation means that it would stink to be a Jesuit-in-training when that begins - they have 11 years of training before being ordained).

I tend to just laugh off the end-of-the-world doomsayers. There have been dozens of them and they have all been wrong.

 

[LilyM]

Woo! Good-bye student loan payments!!!

If I’d have known that I wouldn’t have put all the time and effort into becoming a lawyer (I qualified a year ago) - no way it’s going to pay off by May

 

[sedonaman]

… But today I saw RV’s full of protestant fundamentalist at the local wal-mart with banners on their RV’s that stated as such that. " World wide earth quake May 21, 2011 and rapture". …

There have been robed gurus holding signs saying, “The World Will End Tomorrow”, on street corners since who knows when.

I put these people in the same category as those who claim the world was created on Oct. 12, 4004 BC, at 9:00 in the morning.

 

[kozlosap]

Thanks for the info guys! I saw a huge billboard with the same info yesterday here in Northern California with a family radio station listed too. I’ll let my daughter know that she too can forget worrying about paying off those pesky law school loans and that we should jump on a plane and be in London for the 21st! LOL!

 

[kozlosap]

I thought their church had just a really good geologist; or it was some crack pot numerology. I am curious how people go about “calculating” these events. In 1240 AD the church expected Christ to return as 1240 AD was equal to 5000 in the Judea calender. According to a book “The Golden Ratio” I’m reading. I made a quick tactical driving decision as to avoid any interaction with the travelers in the RV’s though I did want to ask them if in fact no one did know the hour that Christ comes. According to people on you tube we are in the tribulation right now.

Cheers!

I did a good o’l Google search and came up with this from the Huffington Post:

May 21, 2011 will mark the second coming of Christ, or at least that’s what some Christian groups believe.

The date was calculated by Harold Camping, the leader of an independent Christian ministry called Family Radio Worldwide, which is based in Oakland, Calif. Camping’s date is based on his interpretation of the bible.

Camping’s group isn’t the only one following his apocalyptic prediction though. A number of loosely affiliated websites and radio broadcasts have created a movement independent of churches that have organized to proclaim the day as the end of the world.

Billboards, bus stop benches, and travelling caravans of RVs from Bridgeport, Conn. to Little Rock, Ark. are being used to spread the word, according to the AP. Allison Warden (pictured) has been helping to organize the campaign not only through billboards and post cards, but through the web, using her site We Can Know.

Camping, 89, says the bible acts as a calendar by which the dates of prophecies can be calculated. “Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment,” he told the AP.

While this isn’t the first time that the end of the world has been predicted, there are many believers that will adhere to the date, even if it passes. “It would be like telling the Wright brothers that every other attempt to fly has failed, so you shouldn’t even try,” Chris McCann, who works with eBible Fellowship, told the AP.

 

[sedonaman]

…
The date was calculated by Harold Camping, the leader of an independent Christian ministry called Family Radio Worldwide, which is based in Oakland, Calif. Camping’s date is based on his interpretation of the bible.
…

Predictions based on biblical interpretation have a poor record. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have had to change their end-of-the-world date several times since their founding, as I believe the Mormons have. You would think that with a record like 0 for [some + integer], people would have stopped believing in specific date predictions long ago.

 

[Dale_M]

“It would be like telling the Wright brothers that every other attempt to fly has failed, so you shouldn’t even try,” Chris McCann, who works with eBible Fellowship, told the AP.

Wow.

So predicting the end of the world is like designing the first airplane? Does Mr. McCann honestly think he can engineer the Second Coming?

The reason that we shouldn’t try to predict that event is because Jesus told us twice (Matt 24:36 and Acts 1:7) that we aren’t able to know it. Its not because past Christians have tried to predict it anyways and have kept failing

 

[wmscott]

My feelings are that this is just all hype, hysteria, and end of earth mumbo jumbo. As has been previously stated Matthew 24:36-41, no one knows when Christ will return. What makes this Camping fellow so special?

On the other side of the coin, if by some coincidences that defies any astronomical probabilities Camping is right and Christ is returning on May 21st 2011… then I say Praise the Lord, it is something that I do not fear but actually look forward to. So if it happens, then so be it.

 

[StAnastasia]

The date was calculated by Harold Camping, the leader of an independent Christian ministry called Family Radio Worldwide, which is based in Oakland, Calif. Camping’s date is based on his interpretation of the bible.

Harold lives in Alameda, California. I’m tempted to go out there on the night of May 20th to leave plies of clothes and shoes here and there, so he and his followers think other have been “raptured” out of their clothes but he has not! Oddly, Harold laughs at the New Age 2012 doomsayers.

Camping also argues that the rapture will be followed by five months of tribulation, culminating in Amageddon on Octoeber 21, 2011.

 

[StAnastasia]

On the other side of the coin, if by some coincidences that defies any astronomical probabilities Camping is right and Christ is returning on May 21st 2011… then I say Praise the Lord, it is something that I do not fear but actually look forward to. So if it happens, then so be it.

Also on the positive side of the coin, if the “Rapture” happens on May 21 there will be a lot of property available for the taking on the 22. (Unfortunately most of it will be in red states.) Also, if the Rapture happens, Sarah Palin will probably not be elected in 2012.

 

[catsrus]

originally posted by StAnastasia
Also, if the Rapture happens, Sarah Palin will probably not be elected in 2012.

Well, there’s a plus!

 

[Marsha_Adams]

Does this mean that going to L.A. on 5/21/11 is a bad idea? I’ve already paid for my tickets.