Posted on 06/16/2020 3:10:39 AM PDT by Cronos
If you're going about the business of living as usual Saturday, either you were not chosen to be lifted to heaven or the 'rapture' did not occur as predicted by a former NASA engineer.
In 'The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989,' retired NASA engineer Edgar Whisenant used clues from the Bible in claiming that 40 million born-again Christians will be lifted to heaven Friday.
The pamphlet has been a big seller at three area Christian bookstores, even though Whisenant was proven wrong last year when his first pamphlet predicted a rapture date in September 1988.
In his current book, Whisenant says he miscalculated the date in his earlier book because he failed to consider that the modern Gregorian calendar counts only 99 years in the first century.
That error put his prediction off by a year, he said.
'We sold out,' said Rose Rhymes, manager of the Gospel Lighthouse Bible Book Center in west Pensacola, who said 'several hundred' copies of the $2 pamphlet have been sold at the chain's threeeoutlets in Pensacola and Foley, Ala.
The chain's last book was sold Thursday. Rhymes said the bookstore has ordered several hundred more copies that were expected to arrive Friday or Saturday -- the day of and the day after the predicted rapture.
Rhymes said buyers did not necessarily believe the rapture would occur on the date Whisenant predicted, but she said many of her customers 'like to use his book as reference.'
In his first book, 'On Borrowed Time; 88 Reasons Why The Rapture Is In 88,' Whisenant predicted the rapture would occur Sept. 11-13. One believer in Pensacola put up billboards proclaiming Jesus' arrival.
Both books are about the rapture, a 170-year-old doctrine held by some Christians who believe the followers of Jesus -- living and dead - will be removed from Earth -- body and soul -- before mankind is plagued by catastrophies.
The doctrine claims non-believers left behind will go through seven years of war, fire, death and pestilence under the leadership of the anti-Christ. The troubles end when Christ and his followers return to rule for aemillenium.
The belief is not universally held among Christians. And predictions of the start of the 'end times' have been made multiple times in the past, religious experts said.
It is foolish for anyone to try to predict Christ’s return. Regardless, there is no conflict between these verses...it is the nature of the lost to know what God promises but that they will scoff anyway.
Matthew 24:36 “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”...….44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
2 Peter 3:3 “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 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 the creation.
The Millenium is a spiritual reign of Christ that has been present in the community of Christ since Pentecost.
The Bible continually uses the terms Kingdom of God, Kingdom of heaven, Messianic Kingdom and Church interchangeably
The entire bible is amillenial and the Rapturists can only distort Revelation 20:1-6 -- note "distort" to put their 19th century rapture philosophy
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Yet we need to read what the Apostles themselves were taught and what they believed
Notice that they state that the Apostles and their listeneres were in the last days or the end of the age -- because the Messiah had come
Peter never changed his mind about this - as we read in 1 Pet 1:20 Christ was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake
This is relected in Pauline epistles like 2 Tim 3:1 "In these last days" and Jude 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
We have been in the last days since that first advent of Christ
Since the Ascension God's plan has entered into its fulfillment. WE are already at 'the last hour'. Already the final age of the world is with us, and the renewal of the world is irrevocably under way
Don't forget all the predictions made right here on this forum that the "rapture" would happen in October, 2017, because of some astronomical alignment of Jupiter and Virgo.
down the Memory Hole, just like the rest of them.
Remember Comet Elenin? Blood moons? The Mayan calendar thing?
Lol
...and people ‘interpreting’ nostrodamus have been wrong a hundred times... and I think the jehovas witness watchtower thing stopped drying after a century of getting it wrong... and Nibiru never game like the mayan clock readers thought it would or however that one was supposed to work in 2012. Lets not forget Y2K or the people who said we were finally being told about UFOs by the government for a reason.
To be honest, I would say secret factions of civil terrorism being completely overlooked by law enforcement investigation as well as covered for by the media is probably a bigger sign of doom and gloom than anything some NASA nerd put in a pamphlet
Anybody ever get “The End Times” magazine? What a worthless rag that my wife subscribes to. I’ve tried to ban it unsuccessfully.
Why dwell on such negative vibes? What is the point of this?
I guess everybody is OC about something or other. As a preoccupation though this one escapes me.
Didn’t the Mayan calendar run out in 2012?
And whatever happened to Nostradamus?
it’s fanned by those who are misled by con-men peddling the 19th century pre-Trib secret rapture fantasy
Well, one of these guys will be right, eventually.
Didn’t the Mayan calendar run out in 2012?
I remember seeing, in the Barnes & Noble "Christian stuff" section, a book tying the Mayan calendar thing to Revelation and the end times.
This was in January 2013. Ooops.
Agreed. I had a friend who was constantly trying to connect dates and events. I finally asked him to show me where the scriptures tell us to 'figure out the dates and times'.
“In a Twinkling,,,”
John felt he was going through the tribulation and if anyone should know, it would be John.
This indicates that the book of the Revelation was written in a time of perseuciton - repeated in Rev 2:10, 12:11 and 13:15To: CronosRevelation 1:9 I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.John felt he was going through the tribulation and if anyone should know, it would be John.
This was only wide-spread during Nero's time, not in the 90s under Domitian
Tacitus relates how Nero amused himself with the torture of Christians - in his Annals
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