There is a little over 48 hours left before you can kiss your a....family goodbye. Do you have your Petra Pack ready?
Harold Camping has predicted the beginning of the end-times on Saturday, May 21st at 6:00 p.m. exactly.. He and his little band of idiots will be raptured off to heaven while Flurry and his little band of idiots will still be waiting in Edmond.
People have sold their houses, their businesses and left families in order to prepare for this great day. What is going to happen at 6:05 p.m. Saturday night when they are still sitting on their sofa's? Will Jesus have delayed his coming yet again because people just were NOT ready?
That is what HWA blamed the church for in 1972 when the world did not end according to his plan. It was the membership's fault because they were not ready! Gerald Flurry, the certified dingbat Armstrongite in Edmond, OK has predicted the end-times several times now. They are still parked on their sorry asses in Oklahoma. Rod Meredith has made so many predictions over the decades that no one pays attention to his silliness anymore. Well, may Bob Thiel does. But even Thiel has made his own silly predictions. 2012 anyone?
Harold is just one more in a long line of ministers who are delusional liars. Sunday, May 22 will prove him wrong. Camping is a false prophet just like Armstrong, Meredith, Hoeh, Blackwell, Flurry, Cox, Pack, Weinland, and Steven's.
Below are just a few of HWA's and Meredith's false prophecies:
1964 Coworkers letter: "only 7 years before H-bomb warfare breaks out"
Feb 1965: by Meredith: "documented proof Hitler did not die in his bunker"
Nov 30, 1963, coworkers letter: "we have only eight years to finish the Work"; Nov 22, 1963, coworkers letter: "in eight years all of our ministers will be silenced" - religious persecution on WWCG
13 Dec 1965, HWA in co-workers letter: "We are in the grand smash climax - only 6 years left."
1959 PT: "Doom for US within 10-15 years
1934 PT: "Christ will return in 1936
1940 PT: "Christ will come after 3.5 years of tribulation in October 43
1960's PT repeatedly claimed 1972 would be the year of Christ's coming
after 1969: HWA claimed it would be 1975
Gerald Waterhouse continually: if HWA died, God would destroy the world
through 1960's/70's until 1978 in coworkers letters: he & GTA will be two witnesses Zerubbabel and Joshua
January 1955 PT: hoeh: "We face a national catastrophe by 1975.. . we will be totally consumed and carried away captive to other nations as slaves within twenty years." No.
"Why has God called so many construction workers, plumbers and electricians into HIS Church? It is because we are going to build a city for Him in Petra during the three and a half years the Church is protected from Tribulation." - Carn Catherwood at Feast sites as late as the late 1980s.
If Herbert Armstrong dies before the Coming of Christ, he will sleep until the Coming and then be the top ruler of the world under only Christ himself.
It was Hoeh's 1950s "calculations in that ludicrous "Compendium" which convinced him, and, for at least 15 years, Herbert, that Christ would return in 1975 and that the three and a half years of Tribulation would therefore start at Passover 1972.
1982 Coworkers letter: (for those who claim he mellowed with the years) "I hope to arrange for the use of Petra as a possible refuge or place of safety during the Great Tribulation when I see King Hussein. Pray for this please."
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26 comments:
Personally, I am all but giddy with anticipation for the morning of May 22nd. Watching harold weasle his way out of his failed prophecy should make for some good fun. Maybe the billboards werent the best idea after all! Kinda hard to hide this failure.
Camping will blame either his followers or say Christ was not ready yet. There will be some dumbass excuse. Spanky Meredith still makes the same excuses as does Six Pack Flurry. They are all pathetic losers!
Well, as we know, when there is a non-theological rupture, God will merciful given us more time and also so we can reach so many more new people....with the same bullshit.
How come no one wonders how much personal stress and relationship destruction the Apostle Paul caused with his own "time is short" scenarios? Of course he was wrong as have been all ever since. No one seems to notice this about Paul and that finally he slinks off the stage with his..."I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith...." I, I, I
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Question for the "God is Sure Surprised Blog."
If Jesus is both Jesus and God with a smatter of Holy Spirit making three in one, howz come Jesus doesn't know the day or the hour of his own return?
You'd think there would be some brain/thought leakage from the Father, who knows, to the Son who evidently doesn't.
Does Jesus ever say to the Father, "Aw come on, just a hint...Ok, like is it sooner than a breadbox?"
Dennis Diehl said, "If Jesus is both Jesus and God with a smatter of Holy Spirit making three in one, howz come Jesus doesn't know the day or the hour of his own return?"
MY COMMENT - Good question, Dennis!
Perhaps this is a question that should be posed to my former WCG Pastor Ken Westby and his annual "One God" seminars. Heck, after debating Art Mokarrow (without being condemned to the Lake of Fire by anyone, mind you), perhaps you are ready for the COG debate circuit with the "One God" seminars as your next stop.
Richard
"Rod Meredith has made so many predictions over the decades that no one pays attention to his silliness anymore."
MY COMMENT - No truer words were ever spoken! Ever since the late 1960s, Meredith has been saying every 5 years, "we have 5 years left".
While I have forgiven everyone involved in the WCG fraud, and I wish no ill will on anyone, I have to wonder to myself whether Meredith himself is running out of "5 years left".
I now realize many years later that when Herbert Armstrong would state "Time is short", he was talking about "time being short for Herbert W. Armstrong."
Richard
Hi Richard,
I don't seem to be in great demand..ha. Nor expect it!
den
The COGs have been in so many gun laps, they have finally run out of bullets...
Jace,
I agree that on the morning of the 22nd, there will great fun in the air. Comedy writers will be thinking up jokes(Or maybe they already have, those naughty unbelievers!). Comedy is a great way to cope with religious craziness.
But, what will Harold Egbert Camping say or do on the 22nd? Here's a few Ideas of mine:
a) When confronted by a mob of people who sold their homes and maxed out their credit cards, he will stand on his roof, dressed as Steve Urkel, and ask, "Did I do that?"
b) When confronted by a mob of people who sold their homes and maxed out their credit cards, he will stand on his roof, dressed as Mr. T, and say, "Hey, suckas! I got no time for the jibba-jabba. I pity the fool who believed me!"
c) He will humbly proclaim, "I thought April 1, AD 33 was Christ's resurrection, but Harold Hoehner was right- it was actually April 3, AD 33." And then he'll start singing, "Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love ya, Tomorrow, You're only a day away!", accompanied my Mr. Hoehner on harmonica.
d) He will say, "There must have been a hemorrhoid in the way when I pulled that date out of my wrinkly ass."
e) He will blame it on the optician who gave him his current pair of glasses.
f) He will blame it on a low battery in his calculator.
g) He will blame it on the shock of finding out he's Arnold Schwarzenegger's grandfather's secret love child.
h) He will blame it on Jesus's short-form birth certificate being a forgery, and then become a commentator on Fox news, and a WorldNetDaily columnist.
i) He'll take off, for parts unknown, in world's most expensive RV with a cadre of hookers inside, and there will be a GONE CAMPIN' sign on the door of his house.
- Jimmy D
Jimmy D;
That is really funny stuff but one thing might be missing;
j) all of the above.
DENNIS SAID:
"if Jesus is both Jesus and God with a smatter of Holy Spirit making three in one, howz come Jesus doesn't know the day or the hour of his own return?"
It might be as simple as God doesn't know yet because He just hasn't decided. When He does Jesus will know.
The 6,000 year thing really screws people up as if God is bound by some absolute time table when He is trying to save all of Humanity.
I got a kick out of learning about "Guff" the Catholic explanation for when it all ends.
If I understand it correctly, they teach there are a finite number of "human souls" stored in this place called Guff and when the last soul is dispensed to the last baby born then that is the end.
Then the question comes up, is the Catholic church trying to hasten the end by forbidding birth control? I Wonder if the Pope gets guff updates regularly :<)
Only a stab at the unknown.
"It might be as simple as God doesn't know yet because He just hasn't decided. When He does Jesus will know."
Nothing like a tall, cool glass of stupid to end the work week.
Paul Ray
"Nothing like a tall, cool glass of stupid to end the work week."
Amen to that.
"It might be as simple as God doesn't know yet because He just hasn't decided. When He does Jesus will know."
However, the scripture does say " 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father."
The implication is that when spoken, the author noted that God the Father did know but wasn't tellin.
Apologetics get scriptures that says what it says off the hook every time.
From the "Oh me of Little Faith" Blog:
"Harold Camping won’t apologize for his wrong prediction once May 22 rolls around. Most likely he will say that, because of his efforts — and the efforts of his followers — to warn the world of the May 21 event, God has chosen to withhold his judgment for now. And not long after that, Camping will recalculate and announce a new date."
I see Larry, Curley, and Moe are dialed in again, what a shock.
Dennis, For such an Enlightened Atheist I would think you would have HIGHER things to fill your mind with than "fictional" Bible verses. The only time you get them correct is when you want to insult someone.
But after this following half baked comment I didn't really care what you were writing:
"You'd think there would be some brain/thought leakage from the Father, who knows, to the Son who evidently doesn't."
What is Brain/thought leakage, it sounds like something that requires Depends on old people?
Ring Ring....Venus is calling.
First of all Michael, the quote is
Matthew 24:36 KJV
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
I don't think it needs any commentary. It simply says the father knows and is the only one who does. Take it up with the translators if you think it is fictional.
Secondly, I am not an atheist. I rest firmly in "I'm not sure, the God of the Bible is not all the God there is." I guess that makes me currently in the present truth, agnostic.
I am still waiting on your articles that we'd all like to have a look at. I'll go take a look at your site again and see what others are saying.
I'm pleased you got out of where you were. You have every right to head to wherever you are going just like the rest of us.
Regards
Den
Michael says, "But after this following half baked comment I didn't really care what you were writing:"
Then quit commenting on it and making childish comments of your own. You tend to respond like Pee Wee Hermann when he falls off his bike....
Mr. Maynard tends to respond to those he disagrees with at about a second grade level at times. Rather than explain something, I notice a certain "Na, na, na, na, naaa" quality to his responses.
When the author "Matthew" has Jesus say, "behold I am with you, even unto the end of the age," it can just as well mean the end of the age of Aries the Lamb, which it was.
Jesus as Lamb of God dying on the cross is exactly what was happening at the Spring Equinox of the day with Aries the Lamb crossing the junction of the Ecliptic and Celestial equator.
Astro-theology at it's best
Jesus truly was with us until the end of the Age of Aries, as the lamb that was slain, 2000 years ago in the sky at the Spring Equinox.
The church age was Pices, the fish, or fishers of men for the past 2000 years and is ending yielding to Aquarius the Waterman.
From 4000-2000 BC Taurus the Bull was in the Spring Equinox and thus most world religions were Bull Worship such as Mithraism. Mithras slew the bull and ended the age when the Lamb came up during the Spring Equinox due to the process of the Equinoxes every 2190 years or so.
The Golden calf story in Exodus is the OT message that the age of Taurus and it's religion was over.
It was no coincidence that Jesus found a Ram or lamb in the bush around 2000 BC to be the symbol of sacrifice for the next 2000 years until it ended with the lamb of God dying and the end of that age.
oops, not Jesus, Abraham finding the ram in the bushes .....
brain fart
The sad thing is that there will be some unstable souls who really have bought into this being "it." Some will end their lives in despair when it proves not to be true.
Can you imagine what is going through the minds of the true believers in New Zealand as they realize there is less that 2 1/2 hours left before they leave loved ones behind?
Ah, so since He hasn't returned, He will never return and He doesn't really exist?
Thanks for the info....Stupid.
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