May 11
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Debunking Doomsday
I was just going to leave this subject alone seeing as how the failure of Harold Camping’s May prophecy speaks so eloquently for itself. But now he’s gone and made another one for this October, so I just have to put my two cents in. I have little doubt that many of the same people who jumped on his May prediction will, sadly, also blindly believe in the doomsday he now predicts for this coming October.
Harold Camping’s prediction of the end of the world was so ironic in the first place. Having based his calculations on information he cobbled together from the Holy Scriptures, (dare I say, to serve his own interests?) how is it that he could digest all the information that led him to the awesome conclusion that the world was going to end on May 21st, but completely ignore contradictory information within the very same Scriptures?
In Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 Jesus talks very clearly about some of the signs we are to watch for; signs which must come first, and after them the end will come. Read these verses and immediately the most striking thing that should jump out at you is THE SUN IS STILL SHINING! Matthew and Mark further include a statement by Jesus that no one, not even He Himself knows the day nor the hour when the end will come. Only our Father in heaven knows the time. Instead we are admonished to “be ready”. The idea being if we are truly ready for our Lord’s second coming, and the end of this age, we don’t need to know the day or the hour. Does Harold Camping think these things are in the Bible for no reason? Camping also ignores a fair portion of the book of Revelation. How is it that he got away with all of that without his own audience screaming, “Foul”?
I have been pondering why this man has any credibility. Why would anybody listen to him? Are some people just that gullible?
All is not lost, however. There is a great lesson to be learned here. And it’s the only reason I bother to comment on this character’s prophesy. And it’s just this: the more important an issue is, the more important it is to find the truth for yourself. Do not rely on anyone else to dig it out for you. Human beings are notoriously unreliable.
Not many things are more important than the end of the world. Therefore, since Camping bases his prophesy on the Bible, it would have been the most rational and sensible thing in the world to simply search the Bible yourself and find out what it says about the matter. I tell you, even if you are a slow reader like me, you could have found out in 30 minutes, or less, enough information to discount his doomsday prophesy.
Don’t get me wrong, Harold Camping wasn’t wrong that the world was going to suffer great tribulation. But, just what made him think he had the hour and the day figured out when Jesus Himself doesn’t know.
Be Ready, but Don’t Worry!
p.s. don’t take my word for this, either. READ IT YOURSELF!!
Mike
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