Judgment Day May 21, 2011

The person who is responsible for www.may-212011.com is one of the many who are actively preaching about the rapture (as Christians have come to call it) and judgment day coming on May 21 (next week as I write this).

I have been intrigued by the claim that “the bible guarantees it” and then goes on to give a hodgepodge of verses selected from all over the place from the bible to back up this claim. I am always amazed, and perhaps a little bemused, at how such people can become so passionate about their cause, even in spite of all the evidence against everything that they believe to be true. The garden of eden, talking snake, original sin, universal flood with a man hundreds of years old saving ALL the species of animals on the planet, woman turned to a pillar of salt, build a tower but they all only got separated by all the languages of the world, on and on… the list is endless – and all totally baseless in fact. But these people read the bible like they are reading journalist accounts of actual events. Quite incredible to me that an intelligent mind in the 21st century can actually believe in the same way that uneducated peoples of the primitive middle east did thousands of years ago.

Being just a little skeptical, I wrote an email to this website as follows:

I so look forward to your website postings on May 22 and in the days and months following, when all this rubbish will be shown up for what it is – rubbish. I do wonder if you will be publishing apologies for leading so many gullible people astray, and causing them loss and shame because they believed people like you.

Perhaps after this debacle, you will start to think again…. or maybe not. I am sure that this is a great money spinner for you promoting this kind of nonsense on people who live in fear due to your teachings and the threats of what will happen to them if they don’t believe.

Well, maybe I was a little more than skeptical. Okay, I can take that criticism.

I was surprised to receive a reply:

GEOFF, I first address your message and then give some updates!

We have no option but to declare what the Word of God teaches. What you think about it is not important. As the scriptue says,

Ac 5:29 … We ought to obey God rather than men.

If you will carefully study all things on the Lord’s site, hopefully you will see that all this comes from the Word of God. I encourage you to listen to “The only Way of Escape” and “How cAn I Be Saved?” as well as many other biblical teachings on salvation here.

In my prayers!

Brother Mike

http://May-212011.com

So, brother Mike is going to keep me in his prayers while I go and listen to his on line audio files and here is how the first one gets warmed up:

“Hello and welcome! This is brother Mike, of may-212011.com and in this section I will ask “how can I be saved?”. This is without a doubt the most important question for each and every one of us…” blah blah “path to glory or path to eternal destruction” and then.. “Salvation has not been taught correctly by any of the churches or by anyone else.” Then on to “Time has become far too short” … “Make sure that you know the only way to escape the just anger and wrath of almighty god which is soon to be unleashed on the entire human race beginning on May 21, 2011 as taught by my website at May-212011.com.”

All this in the first 88 seconds of this 35+ minute audio file. Fantastic stuff that, for this guy, even all the churches are wrong, and only by going to his website can you learn what is the right way and save yourself from the fire.

I did not bother to listen any further, and I am sure that you can see why. No one would want to listen to this tirade of self righteous, bible bashing nonsense! The other links were to more audio files of Brother Mike thrilling himself with the sound of his own voice as he warns us of the same stuff and in the same tone.

Now, I am an obliging sort of guy, and this person who wants to identify himself as my brother so much that he only refers to himself as “Brother Mike”, had taken the time to send me a personal reply deserved to at least receive a reply from me in return. I started in the same way that he did to me:

MIKE, Thanks for taking the time to send me a reply.

I have read the bible, and thanks for offering to explain it to me, but I think that I get it already, and don’t need the little snippets that people are always offering me to explain things. The entire context is the important thing.

I would love to “study all things on the Lord’s site”, however, I cannot find any domain that the Lord has registered – only the sites made by people. If you can direct me to his site, I will be most happy to log on and study it.

As said, I will be most interested to read the postings that you and all the rest of the doomsday preachers have to say then. I do hope that there will be apologies and you will be making amends to the gullible people whose lives you have damaged by filling their heads with all this nonsense..

Geoff.

Now, my newly found brother did respond again to me, but this time did not start with any kind of salutation, nor even put my name at the top of the email. He simply started off, predictably, with another carefully selected bible quotation, then gives me the bad news:

Lu 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

If you will not hear God’s people, you will not hear God either. As much as you would like to separate God’s people from Him, it is not possible. Whenever one of God’s people register a site, the Lord has done so with them. Therefore, It is not my site, but the Lord’s site, and you would be wise to listen.

You have offered nothing from God’s Word to refute what we are saying. Quite frankly, I would not want to be in your shoes, for as a false prophet, you will perish.

Brother Mike

http://May-212011.com

Now, as you can guess, I am really starting to warm up to this guy – after all, he is my brother. And, I felt truly inspired by his message, and sent him the following reply:

Thanks again, Brother, for your response to me. I do feel that I have to write to you again just to clear up a few points that you have now raised with me.

First, you have stated that I want to separate gods people from him, but this is not true. If people want god, and think that they can find him, then I totally respect their right to carry on as they choose. As far as I am concerned, they can cognate in their churches, synagogues, mosques, whatever, and carry on whatever rituals they choose. They can pray, recite incantations, verbalize their testimonies of faith, and conduct whatever other practices they choose as much as they choose, and I have absolutely no objection to that whatsoever.

However, what I cannot agree with is that these same people continue to send out missionaries, flood the internet, news media, billboards, leaflet handouts, etc. etc. in an effort to make otherwise ordinary, rational, and genuine people believe as they do… and they don’t seem to be happy until they can indeed “convert” or “save” (read – make them think as we do or they are wrong) as many other people as possible.

And then, when such other people respond in a way that is anything other than total agreement with their views, they start to become belligerent, and throwing around the crazy notions of hell fire, damnation, false prophet, and “you will perish” kind of statements.

“You have offered nothing from gods word”…. That is quite an absurd statement, although I can understand why you made it. Since you are totally committed to believing that the ramblings of some eccentric and schizophrenic writers from the primitive middle east living in a flat earth society, you cannot accept any evidence from any other source.

I quite simply believe that people should do as they choose and that there are only two taboos…. do no harm for other people, and, live in such a way that maybe you can leave the world some small legacy that makes it a better place than it was when you arrived.

You have also avoided my question entirely. Simply tell me that when, on May 22, and the world is not changed in any way, will you then concede that you are wrong, and will you do anything to apologize to the people that you have harmed by your “prophesies” and statements of “truth” that if they don’t start to believe as you do, they will die horribly at the hand of your dictator and vengeful god?

Just one more point on the “false prophet” accusation made in your response… I never claimed to be a prophet – that is, someone who claims to have been contacted by, or in communication, with a supernatural power – in your case, the christian god. But, by your same statement, will it make me a true prophet on May 22 when nothing happens? And will it let you see that it certainly is not I who turns out to be a false prophet?

I am not your enemy, so don’t bother to waste any time praying for me, or loving me, as you have been “commanded” to do. I would just ask that you also do no harm to other people and start working toward doing something that will leave the world a better place for your having been in it – not just focusing on doomsday and how you are going to do what you think you have to do to dodge a bullet for yourself.

Cheers, brother.

Geoff.

I am still waiting for a response, and I do hope that he can get that to me quickly. Given that god is about to start on the genocide and willful destruction of the entire world by arson in only a matter of days. Oh, yeah, that is right, he said that he would never do it again with water, and put up a rainbow to prove it. So, after this one, I wonder what next? Ah, we have done the burning bush thing, and a flaming cross smacks a bit of KKK in southern USA in the 60′s so not a good one. Um…. Oh well, I am sure that he will figure out something – clearly he is quite creative when in the mood, that just does not seem to happen all that often.

I will update this post as soon as possible and just hope that I can get that before my newly found brother is taken up to the clouds to be with jesus, and I am left just cruising around down here trying to figure out how the fire extinguisher works.

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UPDATE – MAY 19, 2011 – Received an email (spammed out to his mailing list) from my brother Mike.

Subject: My Final Farewell & Final Updates!

Dear Email Subscribers to May-212011.com:
Let me first of all apologize for not being able to answer many of your emails in these last few days,or having not been able to answer them with the detail in which I would have liked over the lastseveral weeks. I am now receiving up to hundreds of emails a day, and I must surrender to the fact that I will not be able to get to most of your emails before May 21. And, beginning Friday, I am completely resigned to spend the last day or so with my family members. PLEASE PRAY FOR MY FAMILY (wife, 5 kids and I) as most do not believe they are saved. I have prayed for you all!
I thank all of you who have helped this ministry in some way, and I look forward to seeing God’s people on Saturday May 21 in heaven. This is all the fulfillment of what we believers have been awaiting for thousands of years – absolutely awesome!
Next, with respect to final updates, I have completed a radio tour of 6 radio stations this morning, which should air tomorrow, and I have already received and put an audio copy of one of these on the site for listening to here (scroll down to bottom of page). As I receive the other audio copies, which I hope to receive more of them tomorrow, I will put these on site as well as time permits.
Tomorrow, Thursday, May 19th I have 3 more radio interviews to do listed below. Pray, pray, and pray!
In farewell, I beg you out of love to examine yourselves whether you are in the faith before it is too late on May 21. Listen to “The Only Way Of Escape” (or download) and “How Can I Be Saved?” (or download) and many other teachings on salvation here. The pamphlet entitled “I Hope God Will Save Me” is excellent!

I have no comment on all this stuff, but post it here as it needs to be kept for reference on May 22 and onward so that we can all remember how misled some people can be with their fanatical reading of the bible and interpreting it to say just about anything that they have currently rattling around in their empty heads.