The After Hours Rapture Thread.

http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x898209889/Valley-residents-sit-mow-as-End-Times-pastor-goes-0-fer-3

Pardon the long post but parts of this are just class...God Bless America !!!!


Valley residents sit, mow as End Times pastor goes 0-fer-3
By Tricia Pursell
The Daily Item The Daily Item Sat May 21, 2011, 10:09 PM EDT

The hour came. The hour passed.

Scott Barron, of Northumberland, was sitting on his chair watching television at 6 p.m. Saturday when the Rapture was supposed to take place — at least according to preacher Harold Camping, from Family Radio.

Barron thought nothing of Camping’s claims.

“I didn’t believe it,” he said. “I didn’t buy extra canned goods or anything.”

Others in the Valley reacted similarly.

“I wasn’t really worried about it,” said Izzy Soto, of Northumberland. “People read too much into stuff.”

Putting no stake into Camping’s very precise claims of the date and time of Christ’s return, Jim Simpson, also of Northumberland, said he was mowing a lawn at 6 p.m.

“If there’s going to be a Rapture,” he said, “I don’t think anyone is going to know when it’s going to happen. I don’t think any man can predict the outcome.”

The Bible is clear that no man can predict the day or the hour when Jesus returns, said James Plank, pastor of God’s Missionary Church, Beavertown.

“It’s not for man to predict,” he said Saturday. “They (Family Radio) were wrong on that very first account.”

Added Fred Pyer, an elder at Sunbury New Testament Fellowship: “My personal feeling is, he (Camping) really doesn’t have a good hold on the Scriptures, even though he has a program, and he’s very successful.

“He has espoused the Scriptures, in my opinion, the wrong way,” Pyers said, adding this is the third time Camping predicted the Rapture would occur and it didn’t.

As atheists scoffed and celebrated Saturday, Plank called Camping’s very vocal claims “embarrassing and very sad.”

“This man was able to get so much attention out of nowhere,” Plank said, and now, “It’s challenging for the church to get the real truth out there.”

Rich Earl, pastor of Mountainside Assembly of God in Coal Township, gives a warning to those who take Camping’s unfulfilled claims as evidence that Jesus will not return as promised.

“The Bible even predicts what people would say on account of false interpreters like Camping,” he said, sharing Bible verses from 2 Peter 3:3-4, which say, “...Scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.’”

Said Earl: “Camping fell into a trap that has plagued Bible teachers for generations. His Bible knowledge surpassed his wisdom and humility and produced not a false prophecy, but a false interpretation of prophecy.

“Scripture is a powerful tool for bringing life and light when used humbly and wisely,” he added. “This event shows how powerful scripture can be, when twisted to say things God never intended.”

Even though the exact date is unknown, the Second Coming of Christ is a significant doctrine in the Christian faith, according to Arlie Davis, pastor of Christ Wesleyan Church, Milton, and Christians look for it with extreme joy, not dread.

“If we believe in Jesus’ first coming, we have to believe in His Second Coming, because He promised that He would come again,” Davis said.

“Unfortunately there are those who will make a mockery of our faith and our expectancy about Christ’s return by making false prophecies.”

The only good, Plank said, is that people are talking about end times.

“I think of all the things that are happening in our world — all of the earthquakes, strange weather, the wars, the unrest in the Middle East, even (President) Obama’s coming out against Israel in the last couple of days — people start thinking about it,” he said.

Pyers agreed.

“I do believe good will come of this,” he said. “A lot of people are talking and asking questions. It gives those that stand for the truth the chance to give their side.”

“Will His return happen on May 21, October 21, or any other day?” Davis asked. “Well, I don’t know when it is, but I know it is soon ... and I am looking forward to His return!”

Camping’s next prediction: Oct. 21.

Elliemental wrote: »

Then, to the intense shock of the Icelandic natives... This happened! :eek:

That was about to happen but luckily wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage died and saved us all.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/...1qzma4ho1_500.jpg

Come on 2012. It's all down to you now.

Looks like they might have been right all along..
arrrgghh!

Apparently, he says he didn't understand the spiritual meaning, and it's really going to happen on October 21st. :rolleyes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_apocalypse_saturday

California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.

Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.


But Camping said that he's now realized the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted. He had earlier said Oct. 21 was when the globe would be consumed by a fireball.


Saturday was "an invisible judgment day" in which a spiritual judgment took place, he said. But the timing and the structure is the same as it has always been, he said.


"We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," he said. "May 21 is the day that Christ came and put the world under judgment."

Lucky me, my holidays from work satrt on the 21st October. Roll on the Rapture version 2.0 I'll be packed and ready to go.

He needs a new calculator

Isn't this the second time he fµcked up? He predicted the end of times back in '94, and got it wrong that time, too.

How can people still believe this mµppet?

You really have to wonder about some people.

Someone close this thread.