Posted on 01/03/2011 1:09:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
RALEIGH, N.C. — If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she'll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts, websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.
To get the word out, they're using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling in countries from Latin America to Africa to spread the news outside the U.S.
"A lot of people might think, 'The end's coming, let's go party,'" said Exley, a veteran of two deployments in Iraq. "But we're commanded by God to warn people. I wish I could just be like everybody else, but it's so much better to know that when the end comes, you'll be safe."
In August, Exley left her home in Colorado Springs, Colo., to work with Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio Worldwide, the independent Christian ministry whose leader, Harold Camping, has calculated the May 21 date based on his reading of the Bible.
She is organizing traveling columns of RVs carrying the message from city to city, a logistics challenge that her military experience has helped solve. The vehicles are scheduled to be in five North Carolina cities between now and the second week of January, but Exley will shortly be gone: overseas, where she hopes to eventually make it back to Iraq.
"I don't really have plans to come back," she said. "Time is short."
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OMG! THe sky is falling! The End is near! We’re all doomed!
What? May 21st?
Oh heck, we’ve all got 4 months! Let’s partay!
Camping can go on for hours describing his biblical “proof”. It’s really quit amazing.
Man, they just never give up do they?
The world does end for everybody, someday, sometime and nothing can save you. You WILL end up in a graveyard.
These end times cults are beyond stupid.
"Don't buy any green Banana's
I don’t see how this could matter. God already knows when, and in what state of grace, each of us is going to die.
No matter what we may do, God already knows it.
If the world ends in fire. Then they will be roasted nut’s.
Hey now! That's a great way to generalize specific predictions. When May 22nd rolls around and nothing has changed, he can just say, "I was right! The END has started just as I predicted." ... Smart move ...
I’m not worried so much about going for myself, I just hope I can take a hundredfold of red diaper doper babies with me on the way out!
My sources say the God is really ticked off with these people. That Assange guy wasn’t supposed to leak the date. Just to embarrass them, He is going to move it up one week! :)
Did a little googleing. Seems like Camping also predicted the end was going to happen in 1994.
should be ready anytime... because the END will come...
if your lamp is low, get on your knees and get it filled...
With my luck one of these times they might be right about the end of the world coming, and I will be kicking myself for not cashing in my 401(K) and partying like there is no tomorrow...
Oh, Wow!!! I thought time ended six months ago!! Sheeeesh!! What a disaster. I didn’t pay my Discover bill.
His 1994 prediction was tentative. He said at the time that if it didn’t happen in September 1994, it would be May 2011.
Jesus himself said that no man (and I am pretty sure than he meant no woman, either) knows the day that he will return. If anyone says that they know the day, they are lying.
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