Posted on 12/03/2010 7:19:35 AM PST by markomalley
There are 24 shopping days left till Christmas.
And 171 days left until Jesus' second coming.
That's the message on 40 billboards around Nashville, proclaiming May 21, 2011, as the date of the Rapture. Billboards are up in eight other U.S. cities, too.
Fans of Family Radio Inc., a nationwide Christian network, paid for the billboards. Family Radio's founder, Harold Camping, predicted the May date for the Rapture.
Their message is simple — "He Is Coming Again" — and their aim is to get unbelievers to turn around quickly. But critics say the billboards are a waste of time, one more failed attempt to predict the end of the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...
A thief in the night makes no announcement.
Bible says we won’t know. So anyone who says they DO know seems to be in disagreement with the Bible.
“But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”
In Camping's case, he's persistent. This is either the second or third time he's said that the world was going to come to an end (I remember him saying it in 1994 or so. And I'm like 90% sure that he set some date back in the 80s, as well). You'd think either he or his followers would figure it out by now. LOL.
Proverbs 26:11 applies here!
Amen
No man/woman/child knows the date. I don’t believe in the Rapture as well (maybe I am wrong but I have searched for the term in Revelations and have never found it). Personally, I think it is man-made and makes people feel better that they won’t be here for when the mud hits the fan. IMHO.
Amazing!!!
The created arguing with our Creator!!!!
Rapture is real.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 (New International Version, ©2010)
15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever
Those that remain will endure whats discussed in Revelations.
End of Times by Tim Lehaye is a pretty good review of this subject. His analysis is there are 4 times that could have been the end times.
Two have already passed, we’re living in another, and the last is some point in the future that I cannot remember.
He also says these are all guesses.
Proverbs 26:11 applies here!
How about Deuteronomy 18:20-22?
As all have rightly pointed out, if Jesus didn't know the day or the hour (but merely the season), then Mr. Camping is not on the Need-to-know-list. Secondly, no where any place in the scriptures (old or new) does it say “Naggeth your brother/sister into the Kingdom of Heaven.” You can pray that God sends the Holy Spirit to ready the ground and then sends the workers, but faith is a GIFT, folks. The signal graces outlined in Paul's letters are GIFTS which, when asked for, are freely given. Our job is to pray and live a joyous, commendable life to the point where others will want what we have. Then we get the happy job of telling them that it's free for the asking. No more, no less.
It is the Father's work, through His Holy Spirit (whom, by the way, I'm madly in love with), and I can happily say the affection is returned daily.
Somehow, I figure if God enforced that law, his followers would manage to misconstrue it as well.
And, thanks, I'm not particularly interested in taking the law into my own hands on that issue.
But, otherwise, good plan!!! ;-)
Actually, it is ‘The Marriage Supper of the Lamb’ ... He invites His friends. There were 10 Virgins 5 were prepared trimming their lamps=light 5 were foolish Virgins unprepared with the proper light of His word. They went to seek the proper understanding...when they returned with that truth the door to the Supper was closed tight. His friends will rule and reign with Him on earth.
The word “Rapture” isn’t found in most modern Bibles. Then again, neither is the word “Trinity” but that doesn’t stop us from understanding the Triune Nature of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
The Latin root of the word “rapture, which is “rapio” is, however, found in the Latin Vulgate rendering of 1 Thess. 4:17. This is actually a translation of the Koine Greek verb “harpazo” which means “caught up” or “taken away”. This Greek verb is only used in two places in the New Testament, in 1 Thess. 4:17 and Acts 8:39, which I list below.
“And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away (Greek harpazo) Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.”
The idea of the rapture is very easy to see, even if the word “rapture” is not actually used.
Guess Harold Camping knows more than Jesus.
I didn’t even know Camping was still Earthside.
“I have searched for the term in Revelations...”
You mean “Revelation”? (No “s” there.)
Well then, that settles it...There's no Trinity then either...
The Rapture is very real! How else would you explain about Elijah llKings 2:11 and Enoch Gen.5:24?
Believing in the Rapture does give me great comfort but not because I think I might escape troubling times here on earth. It gives me comfort because I believe His Word, and as a Christian I will be apart of it whether dead or alive!
It sure does and Proverbs 26:7 also applies well for Camping:
7 Like a lame manslegs which hang useless; is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
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