May 21st is a bad day for the Rapture
WARNING: tongue-in-cheek sarcasm ahead!
As you may know, the Rapture is scheduled for 6 pm tonight with a bang and a big earthquake, according to Harold Camping, leader of Family Radio Worldwide.
“Because the year 2011 AD is exactly 7,000 years after 4990 BC when the flood began, the Bible has given us absolute proof that the year 2011 is the end of the world during the Day of Judgment,” the website of Family Radio says.
“Amazingly, May 21, 2011 is the 17th day of the second month of the Biblical calendar of our day.
“Remember, the flood waters also began on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the year 4990 BC,” it adds.
Camping claims that come 6pm, a powerful earthquake will be felt before all the noble spirits are transported off the earth.
Everyone left behind will then suffer until October 21, when God will pull the plug on entire planet.
I wonder if Camping has been reading Johan Calleman, whose research suggests that the end of the Mayan calendar is not December 21 2012, but instead October 28, 2011. I wonder what transpires between October 21st, when God pulls the plug on the planet, and October 28 when the world ends.
It’s also an interesting synchronicity that Comet Elenin will be at its closest to earth in mid-October, and some websites hypothesize that as the earth passes through the tail of the comet we will encounter some doomsday scenarios. (NASA, of course, disagrees.)
In any case, Christian leaders are up in arms against Camping since Jesus made it very clear in the Bible (and everyone knows the Bible is nothing if not consistent) that […]