The Colorado Springs Gazette reports:
Marie Exley of Colorado Springs is convinced that Armageddon, the end of the world as written of in the Bible, will come next year.
Her conviction is so strong that, though unemployed, she’s paid $1,200 to buy advertising space on 10 Springs bus benches through October to get the word out. The ad says, “Save the Date! Return of Christ: May 21, 2011, WeCanKnow.com.”
“I want to do all I can to get the message out,” Exley, 31, said.
Exley got the idea for the ads from listening to Family Radio, a Christian broadcast heard on 55 stations in the United States, including KFRY, 89.9 FM, in Pueblo. It’s hosted by controversial Christian leader Harold Camping.
Camping predicts Christ will return on the date in Exley’s advertisement. Listeners in other states have also purchased outdoor ad space to proclaim the date.
The ads are written and designed by the creators of WeCanKnow.com, an Ohio-based web site devoted to reminding people of Christ’s return’……
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Most people will hear this warning and still not “know”, as the Bible says, “no man knows the day or hour” (Mattew 24:36). On the other hand, THE ELECT are NOT IN DARKNESS, THAT THAT DAY SHOULD OVERTAKE THEM AS A THIEF (1 Thess 5:4) and they will know. There are in-depth tracts explaining this phenomenon at ebiblefellowship.com and at familyradio.com.
Doesn’t such knowledge contradict the Bible itself? I seem vaguely to remember a passage that states that no one will know the day nor the time of the return. If these folks are literalists, how can they make such a claim?
We, atheists, should start organizing a party for May 22, 2011.
We should call it, “Jesus did not return.”
@ Time Has An End – I hope you’ll drop back by on May 22, to explain what went wrong.
Meanwhile, may I assume that you’re selling off your long-term investments, cashing in the kids’ college fund, and like that? That’s less than a year, after all, to get the word out so that God can quicken the hearts of as many people as possible.
@ Lorena – that was my first thought, too – and it would have been even if I were still a Christian.
I’m sure there is some way we Agnostics and Atheists could capitalize off this. There are so many things Christians won’t need in the after life they may be willing to sell.
Remember this song?
Jesus is coming soon
Morning or night or noon
Many will meet their doom (Christians love this line)…
My family and I sang Jesus is Coming Soon as a special in Church one time many years ago. The song was on a quartet favorite and I have heard it many many times over the years.
Bruce
I’ve been thinking the same thing for many years, Amy C., although my point wouldn’t be so much to make a killing as it would be to scare these imbeciles into reality. Somehow a kind of public wager would have to be set up, that doesn’t give the appearance of gambling, which they would reject. They would have to go to great pains to first publicly demonstrate their faith in this nonsense, and then publicly be embarrassed. They won’t be so quick to make another prediction then.
As it stands, they keep getting away with doubletalk like “he’s definitely coming, but if he doesn’t, then that’s just his will. God is sovereign, after all.”
I’d be interested in reading something from Bruce about his former end time beliefs.
http://www.wecanknow.com/
should be ripped and archived for future reference!