Posted on 01/03/2011 6:30:31 AM PST by markomalley
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 and 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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So sad that so many Christians don’t even read the Bible. Even a cursory reading of The Word would blow any possible human-calculated date out of the water.
Unfortunately, she can't be a Darwin candidate. She'll just breed anyway, later on.
I agree. The funny thing is, these are usually the people that tell Catholics to find a “bible-based” church. Go figure.
I guess Marie Exley decided to quit paying on her mortgage ....
Now THAT takes faith. LOL.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. Matthew 25:13
Most be running out of money and are ready to publish another book. These end time con artists need to be burned at the stake with there own crap they publish, well maybe not that harsh of a punishment but maybe make them eat their books in prison.
“the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011”
Great..it’s the girlfriends birthday!!
Instead of birthday ‘dancing between the sheets’, we’ll have end of the world sex!!!!
Camping published a book called “1994?”, which claimed or intimated the end would occur in that year.
The Lord will allow Harold Camping to be humiliated again like in 1996 and this time every viable Christian organization should formally denounce him as a false prophet and censure him.
He also said it would end in 1996.
“the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011”
My question would be, “how long will the end of the world last?”
A parody religion, the Church of the SubGenius, spoofed these kind of predictions by saying the “Rupture” would occur on July 5, 1998. When it didn’t happen they said, oops, we got the year upside down. We are safe until...8661!
I still occasionally see posters with a big cross and the words “Are You Ready For the Rapture? Jesus Is Coming on
Oct. 28, 1992” It was a Korean Christian church sect/cult. Not quite accurate.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/16151713/
According to them the process only begins on May 21, so you can celebrate for a little over a year and a half. All of the other hooey about the end being December 21, 2012 could mess up our 40th wedding anniversary on December 22, 2012...if we believed in that crap.
Until December 21, 2012 according to the other nut case predictions.
I forget who wrote it, but I remember a book named something like, “88 Reasons For 88” which “proved beyond doubt” that ‘88 was the year when the Rapture would come. Of course, Hal Lindsey wrote “1980, Countdown to Armageddon” that made pretty much the same case for they year 1988 and which he followed with, “The Late, Great, Planet Earth”.
All I can say about Hal is I hope he’s enjoyed the nice cars he collects with the proceeds from his writings because I know he can’t be enjoying how accurate his readings of Scripture are.
This shouldn’t be so hard to understand what they are doing. Scriptures tell us that Satan, in subtle ways, perverts what the Scriptures say. Using some truth with deception thrown in is his way. He uses these instances to reinforce the scoffers of true Biblical truth. Rather then hate or scoff at them we should pray that the Holy Spirit opens their eyes and supports those who would be drawn into discouragement.
The funny thing to me is that if I add up years they way these sorts of folks say they do I keep coming up with something like 2060 and no earlier. I guess I need a better decoder ring so I know what to include and what to leave or or what equals years and what equals months of something.
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