Posted on 10/16/2011 4:35:21 PM PDT by traumer
Doomsday preacher Harold Camping was left a laughing stock when his prediction that the world would end on May 21 failed to materialise. But the 90-year-old Californian may well have the last laugh after revealing that date was in fact Judgment Day - a spiritual moment when the righteous would be chosen - and simply a warm-up for the Rapture which happens exactly five months later.
This means that Friday, October 21, will mark the start of the Apocalypse - when believers will be whisked away into heaven and hell will be unleashed on earth.
And cynics should be warned, as the Rapture Index - a monitor of current affairs for the frequency and intensity of end-time signs mentioned in the Bible - is at an almost all-time high.
It now currently stands slightly lower at 180 - only two points below the 182 it reached in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist atrocities. Unrest in the Middle East, the global economic crisis, the famine in the Horn of Africa and the slowing down of recent volcanic activity are all signs that the world is about to end, it claims. The index, created by Terry James in December 1993, adds on its website: 'The Antichrist: The EU now has President. This office could be a precursor to the AC'. James, of Little Rock, Arkansas, said he did not use his table to make predictions, but to measure 'the type of activity that could act as a precursor to the Rapture'.
He said: 'The higher the number, the faster we're moving towards the end.' And he revealed that any figure over 160 made it time to 'fasten the seatbelts'. Camping, a radio evangelist and president of a network of radio stations known as Family Radio, spent up to $100million
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Me too...tired of getting a whole room of furniture with no payments until...and then having to pay.
It won't be long before I have to organize an "Occupy Royal Furniture."
Me too...tired of getting a whole room of furniture with no payments until...and then having to pay.
It won't be long before I have to organize an "Occupy Royal Furniture."
I thought it already ended. Are there some sort of criteria that will verify when it’s finally over?
And who will broadcast or email us with the news? And how will we know they’re for real?
What if they had the apocalypse, and nobody came?
Does this invalidate the singing career of Skeeter Davis?
I'm cool with the world ending on Friday.
>> Thank God it’s FRIDAY.....
ROFLMAO!
>> Just remember to wear clean undies, folks, and you’ll be OK.
I’ll take that pair in the middle... they’re brown, so who’s gonna *know* if they’re clean.
>> Maybe he just means my moving from California to Texas on that very day will be the tipping point for California and it will be the end of IT.
*After* you pass over the fault, get out of your car and cross back over and stomp real hard and maybe it’ll break off into the Pacifc.
Oh, and welcome to Texas! :-)
>> Anyone know of sin-free programmer who won’t be needing his job after this week?
Dude. That’s just wrong on so many levels. :-)
Anyway, there aren’t any sin-free programmers since Edsgar Dijkstra passed on to the other side.
“Darn,I just made a car payment....”
You think you got it bad, I finally get to take a vacation, 3 whole days, and now the world ends as I am driving down the road!
Will hold off paying Blue Cross/Shield. Wait a minute, I think they will have that in Heaven.
roaring laughter!
>> doesn’t the Bible say that no one will know?
The Father knows... no one else, though; not even the Son.
Anyway, who cares... live every day like it’s tomorrow! Or this afternoon. Whatever.
You’re bad!
So much for the 999 plan!
You can forget about iPhone 5, too!
The Rolling Stones’ 50th Anniversary Tour ain’t gonna happen, Jack!
>> now the world ends as I am driving down the road!
No, the world won’t end. Just all the *good* drivers will get taken to Heaven, leaving you to dodge their unoccupied cars (while fending off the usual quantity of *bad* drivers).
And wherever you’re going, beware of the unusually high percentage of pickpockets. ;-)
:’)
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