God and A Few Nuts in Detroit
- 12.06.10
- Christian Cheese, Stupid Church Signs
- 6 Comments
I’ve always wondered…and now I know. According to 20 billboards to appear today across metro Detroit, Jesus is returning on May 21, 2011.
An organization called www.wecanknow.com put the billboards up with the goal of reminding folks to prepare themselves for the end. They claim that the “rapture” where Christians will vanish from earth to be with Jesus will take place on May 21. Five months later — on Oct. 21, 2011, to be exact — they claim that the world will end with God destroying the universe and everything in it.
How did the group arrive at May 21, 2011, as the date Jesus will return? The Web site says it has to do with what the Bible says, citing May 21, 1988, as being the start of 23 years of tribulation. I graduated from high school on May 21, 1988 but had no clue the tribulation began that day. I thought it had just ended.
The organization says that it hopes to convince onlookers that the Bible is the infallible word of God through these billboards. Not quite the method I would suggest for communicating that message. How stupid will they look on May 22 when they’re still around? And how stupid will they look on October 22 when the sun comes up for the start of another day?
In Matthew 24:36, Jesus says, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” However, if you read the fine print at the end of this verse, you’ll see that it says, “…and a few crackpots who pay for billboards in Detroit.”
I think I’m gonna push back my dentist appointment to the 22nd.
A couple weeks ago, my girlfriends and I had a shopping date at the mall. As we arrived together, we saw a truck parked with “The World will end on May 21, 2011″ and lots of scripture plastered all over it. We parked nearby and decided to go talk to the guy. We asked him how he arrived at that date when Jesus himself doesn’t even know. He gave us pamphlets, told us how he quit going to church (because it’s full of hypocrites) and quit his job two years ago to help spread this “gospel”. He gave us no straight answers to our many questions (I had to read the pamphlet to discover that we’ve been in the Great Tribulation for the past 23 years), but just spouted off his script. One of my friends asked him what will happen to his faith if he’s still here on May 22. He said, we’ll see what happens.
I remember back in the 80′s the movement that the world would end in 1988. I guess when nothing happens this coming May, they’ll change their data to show that that is the start of the Great Tribulation period and we’ll all get another 23 years.
They obviously have more money than sense.
Trust me, I haven’t told anyone when I’m coming back. And by the way that trust me part is good advice!
Of course, our LORD may come today! — Do you suppose they would request to wait until May?
What bugs me most about this, is that honest Christians get a bad rap for what these “crackpots” are spewing. To the general public or the non-believers they see those signs and categorize believers like us with them by virtue of the name Christian. Society is already making it difficult to live a Biblicly moral lifestyle by undermining the Christian value system. We don’t need so called Christians doing it by advertising false promises.