[Jerry_M]

What if you have to buy a 2008 calendar? Plenty of people had to eat crow when they purchased 1989 calendars, and they based their assumptions on the same Scriptures that you do.

What if you don't get "raptured" out before things get bad? Maybe those who can't or don't rely solely on Christ during those times of tribulation will be the fulfillment of the "great falling away".

[streetpreacher]

What if you don't get "raptured" out before things get bad? Maybe those who can't or don't rely solely on Christ during those times of tribulation will be the fulfillment of the "great falling away".

That and those who hang on to the health and wealth gospel; they'll take the mark because "God certainly wouldn't want Christians to suffer."