May 21, 2011. The date of the Rapture.

Matthew 24:36 -
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

Period. It could be tomorrow. Are you ready?

 

The date of the Rapture... was in the mid 80's...

I remember a neighbor of ours - a SDA member - sold everything over the course of a month and gave the proceeds to the minister, along with the majority of the flock...

They were convinced the rapture was coming... and wanted to be among the 144,000 that got taken to the lord...

They were quite disillusioned when they weren't taken up to heaven and had to still sit it out with us, the unclean sinners that weren't good enough to be sitting in the presence of god when the rapture has passed...

Fools and their books. lead by players of the weakness of human wants to know the answer to why we are here.

The new neighbors that moved into their house weren't too impressed with what the good christians did to the place... and the minister was wanted for embezzling funds...

 

It's the aging process. Lunacy requires time to become raised to the level of legend or myth.

 

^^ Oh, so true!
Future prophecies work well too. Until the date arrives and passes, they cannot be 'proven' false. Remind you of something ?

 

Sounds like folks are setting themselves up for another Great Disappointment, like the Millerites did on Oct 22, 1844. At least William Miller had the date correct. It was the event he got wrong. The prophecy of Dan. 8:14 "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed" did point to Oct 22, 1844 but what Miller took to be the earthly sanctuary actually refers to the Heavenly Sanctuary. When Christ work in the Heavenly Sanctuary will be done, as said in Matthew, no one knows. But only when that work is finished, will the end come.

 

Oh, nuts. Christ returned in 1948 and established His Earthly Kingdom on an almond ranch outside Pescadero, California. All else is tribulation 'till the Day of Judgment.

 

Just like the Cargo Cult.



Between The Nazca Lines: What Is A Cargo Cult?

 

This is why if you believe The Bible, then The Rapture will never come.

Every day SOMEBODY somewhere is predicting The End of the world will be tomorrow, but since NOBODY can know, it can't be tomorrow.

 

Riiiiiight, the planet's just going to poof! out of existence one afternoon. I honestly don't know why otherwise sane and rational people believe this kind of crap.

 

Not true... the Father knows. Yes I agree it is nuts for someone to say the day and or the time.

 

It might happen a lot quicker than that, after all, an afternoon might be 30 hours given that it takes 24 hours for a time to travel around the earth and an afternoon would be 6 or so hours, it's more likely to happen in a flash when the sun is approaching its supernova stage of life. That wont happen this year.

Hey, what ever happened to everlasting life?
Oh we aren't reading those pages of the new testament are we.
If there is a god, which there isn't I'm sure he/she is sick of people sucking up to him/her.
"Oh great and glorious father blah blah blah." I'm sure he/she already knows all that. Will you lot, cut the brown nosing!

Tell ya what I am going to do.
I can talk to god about this whole rapture thing and get it put on hold for a while but these things take time and money. Send me $1,000 US each and I'll make sure the rapture never happens. I can ask god very nicely to delay the rapture for 1000 years. If I fail and the world ends on May 11, then start litigation against me. If I am successful you might like to send me a thank you of another $1,000. Cheap insurance and extra time to get your affairs in order to ensure you go to heaven.
Great deal huh?
PM me for my postal address. Please send US, Canadian or Australian dollars, UK pounds or Japanese yen or Euro in cash only. Wrap cash in plain white paper and seal in envelope.

 

I will get back to all of you on the 22nd. Beers on me!

 

I respect these end-time predictions to exactly the same degree that I respect all other supernatural beliefs.

According to quantum mechanics, an unperformed experiment has no results. The future is an unperformed experiment, therefore it does does not yet exist and has no results.

What this means, is that even an all-powerful, all-knowing god cannot know the future.

This does not prove there is no god, but it does prove that IF there is a god, he does not know the future. (Though he might have a date in mind on which he intends to have judgement day.)

Which just goes to show that the preachers don't always believe what they preach.

The end-times nut jobs do not believe the planet Earth will go poof. What they believe is that god will judge humanity, punish the wicked, and reward the righteous. They differ on the details:

The Adventists believe the righteous will be taken into heaven, the wicked will be killed (not sent to hell) and Satan will be left alone to walk the Earth and (presumably) be unhappy.

Some others (Jehovah's Witnesses, maybe -- I'm not sure) believe that the wicked will be killed and the righteous will stay on the Earth, but it will be a Garden of Eden without strife or unhappiness.

Some believe the wicked will go to hell and the righteous taken up into heaven.

Some believe the righteous will be taken up into heaven, and everyone else will be left on Earth, but it will be beset with wars and natural disasters and general misery for all.

None of them thinks the Earth will go poof.

See my note above. The future does not yet exist, therefore cannot be known. The most a god could know is what plans he has, not what will actually happen.

By the way, the quantum law, mentioned above, that an unperformed experiment has no results, also proves that there can be no such thing as "fate."

 

When the rapture comes may I have your car(s)?

 

That's comforting. Maybe even more than comforting. If the result of the rapture is that all the 'end-times nut jobs' depart for 'a better place', and everything else remains as-is, then it can't come soon enough.

Daniel's clearly not a believer, and won't be going anywhere. He seems like a nice person, though, so he might give you a ride, at least.

 

great......so we get to see who's on the pole but we'll never know who would have WON the 2011 Indy 500! just my luck. for me, THAT would be Hell.

 

GM: Well we would have increased Volt production but with that End of Days thing in the 2nd quarter why bother.

 

I am comforted to know tat we have a Smiley for just this
type of discussion:

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Oops, this is the one:

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