Posted on 05/21/2011 9:09:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
As the deadline for the Apocalpyse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia, it seems the end of the world prediction is fizzling.
Twitter users around the world expressed their mock disappointment to the "non-rapture."
Daniel Boerman tweeted: "I'm from New Zealand, it is 6:06PM, the world has NOT ended. No earthquakes here, all waiting for the rapture can relax for now. #Rapture"
In Australia, Jon Gall tweeted: "#Rapture time here in Melbourne. A rather quiet sort of rapture if you ask me." Also writing, "Well we have had the #Rapture going for 50 minutes now. So far it hasn't interrupted my fish & chips and glass of stout."
Similarly disappointed KillaJeules wrote, "So it's 6:37pm here in Brisbane, Australia. No earthquakes. No beaming up of Christians. No zombie apocalypse. No surprises haha."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. Luke 12:45-46
So you’re saying it’s tomorrow?
I`ll only feel safe when it is 6:01 pm here locally.
1 will get you 10 Camping will trot out his NEW new math to explain it is not May 21, 2011 but further on down the road ?
9:01 AM here and no probl
every time some kook religious freak steps out of bounds of christian doctrine and makes one of these predictions, the MSM jumps all over it and hurls it on the headlines in a friutless attempt to embarrass chritianity
Dang, we had our big “End of World Barbeque” all planned. Now I don’t know what theme to use!
This is my shocked face.
:-O
Fifty years ago the Jehovah's Witnesses numbered fewer than 100,000. Now there are several million of them around the world. They don’t have churches; they have "Kingdom Halls" instead. Their congregations are uniformly small, usually numbering less than two hundred. Most Witnesses used to be Catholics or Protestants. Let’s look a little at their history, because that will help us understand their unique doctrines.
The sect now known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses was started by Charles Taze Russell, who was born in 1852 and worked in Pittsburgh as a haberdasher. He was raised a Congregationalist, but at the age of seventeen he tried to convert an atheist to Christianity and ended up being converted instead—not to outright atheism, but to agnosticism. Some years later he went to an Adventist meeting, was told that Jesus would be back at any time, and got interested in the Bible.
The leading light of Adventism had been William Miller, a flamboyant preacher who predicted that the world would end in 1843. When it didn’t, he "discovered" an arithmetical error in his eschatological calculations and said it would end in 1844. When his prediction again failed, many people became frustrated and withdrew from the Adventist movement, but a remnant, led by Ellen G. White, went on to form the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
It was this diminished Adventism which influenced Russell, who took the title "Pastor" even though he never got through high school. In 1879, he began the Watch Tower—what would later be known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the teaching organ of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. In 1908 he moved its headquarters to Brooklyn, where it has remained ever since.
Before he got his religious career well underway, Russell promoted what he called "miracle wheat," which he sold at sixty dollars per bushel. He claimed it would grow five times as well as regular wheat. In fact, it grew slightly less well than regular wheat, as was established in court when Russell was sued. Later he marketed a fake cancer cure and what he termed a "millennial bean" (which a wag has said probably got that name because it took a thousand years to sprout).
http://www.catholic.com/library/History_of_the_Jehovah_Witnesesses.asp
Does anyone else find this extremely odd/suspicious/strange (whatever word you want to use) that this story is being pushed so hard. Another forum I go to...the ENTIRE front page is nothing but mocking Christianity over this.
BUT
This group has been discredited long ago, and even Christians who believe in the rapture ALSO believe no man can know the time. The very fact they picked a day did nothing but guarantee it was NOT the day.
So exactly why and how was this thing pushed so hard by all the media? It really makes no sense from a logical perspective.
What a disappointment! Just like Y2K....all revved up and no place to go!
When he takes his $70 million out of the bank to host a last feast for the poor, THEN I will believe in his sincerity. Otherwise, he is just a fraud.
The kooks embarass themselves, with posters, billboards, and traveling road shows all around the country.
What ticked me off was the media treating Camping’s dupes as if they were some sort of major movement. I had never heard of Harold Camping until Tuesday, and I’ve been a born-again Christian since 1984.
Ironically, only NPR pointed out the fact that few Christians were interested in this because Jesus Himself said no one knows the day or hour except the Father. And here’s a guy who predicts the day and the hour to the minute...duh. The coverage from the rest of the media was something like seeing an imam say, “I know what it says in the Koran, but really, true Muslims are supposed to eat pork five times a day while facing Mecca and refrain from praying” and having the media pretend that nobody in Islam thought he was a nutbar.
Now I have to go out and mow the lawn - aargh!!!
(It rained here all week and the grass is knee high - I was hoping I wouldn’t have to cut it - drat)
SNIP
Mr. Camping had prophesied that at 6 p.m. Saturday (local time around the world) the “saved” would ascend to heaven and the rest of you – OK, the rest of us – would be wiped out by October in earthquakes, floods, and war.
But that fateful hour has come and gone in the Pacific islands, New Zealand, Australia, and on through east Asia, and it’s turned out to be “Apocalypse Not.” Either that or nobody in that part of the world was worthy of ascension.
So it’s been rough times for the folks who filed for a tax extension because they figured they wouldn’t be around when the IRS came calling. And for those who tried to cash in on the predicted end the of the world as we know it. (Cue REM)
Like “Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA,” which bills itself as “the next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World.” For a mere $135 the online business “will guarantee that should the Rapture occur within ten (10) years of receipt of payment, one pet per residence will be saved…. A small price to pay for your peace of mind and the health and safety of your four legged and feathered friends.”
"What we try to do is reassure our clients that they can trust us, number one," company founder Bart Centre told NPR. And just in case, Centre suggests, clients could "find a friend who may be a Jew, a Hindu, a Muslim, an Atheist, a Wiccan, a Catholic, an Episcopal, anyone they think is not going to be Raptured and appoint them as their post-Rapture power of attorney."
Me, I’m just going to kick back with my banjo and sing this little ditty.
And what about Mr. Camping? His web site has gone dark. You don’t suppose…
Ya’ll ain’t seen my cat, have ya????
Usually I shake the feed bag and she comes a runnin’...
I left, but I came back because I left the stove on.
'Something' cut off your post!
I think I slept through it. Dang!!
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