Originally Posted by
Fig-bearing Thistle
"Camping's PR aide, Tom Evans, told the L.A. Times that the group is "disappointed" that 200 million true believers weren't lifted up to heaven on Sa****ay while everyone else suffered and eventually died as a series of earthquakes and famine destroyed the Earth. "You can imagine we're pretty disappointed, but the word of God is still true," Evans said. "We obviously went too far, and that's something we need to learn from." The group posted 2,000 billboards around the country warning of the rapture, while Camping--an uncertified fundamentalist minister--spread the word on his radio show."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...orld-didnt-end
And where does Camping get the idea of 200 million true believers? Is this number high, or low in your estimation?
And does this quote summarize your idea of what the Rapture will be like?
Just as when Smith put a date on the return of Jesus, Camping is just as much a cultist as Smith ever was.. It is clear that a real man of God would just believe Jesus as He explained the time of His coming would be:
Matthew 24:36
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Camping took that prophecy away from God and ***igned to himself.. Joseph Smith did the same thing:
"President Smith then stated ... it was the will of God that those who went to Zion, with a determination to lay down their lives, if necessary, should be ordained to the ministry, and go forth to prune the vineyard for the last time, or the coming of the Lord, which was nigh—even fifty-six years should wind up the scene." (History of the Church, volume 2, page 182)
Both men made a prediction both men failed in that prediction. Both men are condemned by the Lord as false prophets for this failure in the p***age on how to identify a false prophet God gave us in:
Deut 18:20-22
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to p***, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
The sin in this p***age is not just Smith's or Camping's it belongs to all who ignore this p***age, the real message of God to Him people, and revere either of this men as a prophet of God.. IHS jim