Only human beings can screw up the Word of God. The Bible is clear on all subjects in it; including the end of time, homosexuality, slavery, on and on.
Only those with their own agendas, such as this cult, make a mess of it.
People that use the Bible for prophecy....are probably pro-doomsday, under any mindset.
Get ready for some cat fight here, though. This author says the KJV gave a misleading (well ok, just plain wrong) rendering of an occurrence of Greek aion as world when a better term, as appears in most modern bibles, would be age. Sacre bleu! is this possible? I say yes, others would vehemently disagree. Duck'n & run'n....
"the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up"
I think that at the time of the bible, dates were pretty arbitrary. If you were planting something, you did it x days after the last snow fall. Even in the middle ages dates were reckoned along the lines of “14 seasons after the death of King John.” Today’s preoccupation with dates and times would be incomprehensible to most biblical cultures. Yes, people who collected rents were calendar aware, but the priests kept the calendars and those politicians, whose time in office depended on the calendar, were known to bribe priests to extend their time in office.
The cosmic significance of, say, the 21st of May is non-existent. Time and dates are arbitrary. Look at how many times the calendar was changed for one reason or another. If God were going to do some serious smoting, why would he do it on a particular date? One would think that God would simply see the need and smote!
“Did you know that the Bible does not even mention the end of the physical universe?”
The end of the Universe? Where did they ever here a Christian say anything like that? And most Chritians will agree that the Earth will not be “destroyed” as like the Death Star blowing up Alderann. It will be purified by Fire.
The world can’t end on the 21st because I have a pedicure appointment for the 23rd.
Can you post the whole blog, please? Some of us are on handhelds.
Never mind, I got it.
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Judgment Day May 21, 2011
Posted on May 18, 2011 by prophecyquestions
Here we go again—Judgment Day. This time Harold Camping called it for this weekend, May 21. His billboard ads read: “The Bible Guarantees It!” We even heard this mentioned this week on CNBC, of all places. Confused Christians have been calling for the end of the world for a very long time, embarrassing themselves and the rest of Christianity.
Did you know that the Bible does not even mention the end of the physical universe? I’m sure this will come to a shock to Christians who do not know their Bible. So let’s take a look.
There are two basic places people point to when they think the Bible speaks of the end of the world—the books of Matthew and the books of 1st and 2nd Peter.
In the King James Version of the book of Matthew Jesus speaks of the “end of the world” in Matthew 13:40, 13:49, 24:3, and 28:20. But wait, modern translations including the New King James Version say here the “end of the age.” This is a big difference. When we look at the Greek we see the word translated as “world” in the King James Version is aion, which in English is age. The King James mistranslated this word! English readers of the King James Version have been misled since the year 1611. If Jesus had wanted to say the end of the physical world, he would have used the word kosmos.
So what age is Jesus speaking about? In the so-called Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21) we find the largest body of prophecy outside of the book of Revelation. Here Jesus gives a list of things that will happen, including the destruction of the temple. And he gives a time line when they will all happen—his generation. This is perhaps clearest in Luke 21:22 and 32. Since the thrust of the prophecy is the temple, it makes perfect sense that Jesus is talking about the end of the Old Covenant Age. The Old Covenant Age ended in 70 AD when the temple was destroyed, over a million Jews were killed by the Romans, the nation of Israel ceased to exist—and the ancient system of temple sacrifices for sin ended forever.
By the way, the phrase “this generation” which is the time-line Jesus puts on his prophecies, appears 23 times outside the Olivet Discourse. Every time it clearly means the generation of people living at the time of Jesus. There is no rational reason for translating it any other way in the Olivet Discourse.
This time line— the first century—is confirmed in 100 other Bible passages! Most if not all Bible prophecy was fulfilled in the first generation unless Jesus and the writers of the New Testament were false prophets.
The other place people try to find the end of the world is Peter’s epistles. But Peter does not say the end of the world. What he does mention is the expectation of a cataclysmic event to happen very soon. In 1 Peter 4:17 Peter say, “The end of all things is near/at hand.” Since the end of the physical universe did not come to pass in the time frame he spoke of, either he was a false prophet or he was speaking about something other than the end of the world. We conclude that Peter was speaking, as Jesus was, about the end of all old covenant things.
Peter uses a variety of phrases in his epistles such as the “Day of the Lord,” the “destruction of the heavens by fire,” the “new heaven and earth,” etc. But such astronomical language is commonplace language throughout the Bible to speak in non-literal language about actual judgments by God on guilty people—all of which are past events!
It fits in precisely with the prophecies of Jesus, from whom Peter would have gotten his own ideas about the coming judgment upon the Jews. All these prophecies, as well as many in the Old Testament were about the coming desolation of Jerusalem and the temple, not the end of the world.
He is an egoistical, prideful, narcissistic maniac.
When callers to his show quote scripture (chapter and verse) that clearly contradicts what he is saying, he ridicules people and hangs up on them....and the composes himself and says (with mock sincerity): "But thank you for calling and sharing."
He is NOT a disciple of Jesus Christ. When May 21st comes and goes, he will simply say "My calculations were off" like he did back in the early 1990's (the last time he tried this trick) and move on. Sadly, gullible jerks will follow him yet again - just like Democrat voters.
These events have not happened yet. May 21 is not the day of the Lord.
>> “Did you know that the Bible does not even mention the end of the physical universe?” <<
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What a stupid lie!
2Pe 3:10
¶ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:12
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?