Judgment Day went by, but..
Following on from http://wheelingcircles.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/judgment-day-may-21-2011/ we are now at May 26th, alive and well, and thinking that maybe all the raturists will all now settle down and get on with living in the real world.
However, our doomsayer, brother Mike (as he likes to call himself) has published his new view of the world following the May 21 debacle that he deliberately immersed himself into fully. Here is the opening paragraph, which at first makes you think that he has come to his senses at least a little.
First of all, let me apologize to everyone for having said that there would be a huge earthquake and a literal rapture or catching up into heaven of God’s people on May 21. Obviously, this did not happen. I have no pride in this issue. I was sincerely wrong at least in this respect, and for this, I beg your forgiveness in like manner to how the Lord Jesus Christ has already forgiven me.
So, he knows the mind of jesus and that he is forgiven. Too bad he did not know the mind of jesus when telling everyone that he was all fired up (pardon the pun) to get on down here and set about torching the whole world and (nearly) everyone in it. I guess now feeling that jesus has let him off the hook, he doesn’t need to take any further time feeling guilty about all the poor gullible folks that he has caused to do things that are harmful to their lives because he filled them up with guilt and fear. But that is standard procedure for these people who claim to know god so well they can predict what he is about to do, and never feel any concern for other people, especially those who don’t believe as they do.
Mike goes on, predictably, with some quotations of scripture, carefully selected to ram home his point about saying that jesus loves him, has forgiven him, and everything is now all patched up between them. He then wanders off even further into this bible inspired fantasy world – if you can believe that possible after then nonsense prior to May 21.
The Rapture, NO! But Judgment Day, YES! – screams the next headline.
I must still believe based on all the biblical proofs and evidences that, although May 21 was not the time of the earthquake or rapture, May 21 was the beginning of Judgment Day and the end of any possibility for salvation as we have always taught. I must also still believe that the world is set to be destroyed on October 21 as we have always taught.
Dear brother Mike then goes on to make some more of his own interpretations of bible passages that also conclusively show that he is, once again, infallibly right! He also puts a lot of emphasis on the children’s story of Noah from the bible, and taking every word of this as if it were journalists accounts of real events instead of fables written by primitive people who had no real understanding of anything. Now, of course, we know conclusively that these things did not happen. Indeed, they could not happen, and only someone who is totally given themselves over to these fantasy stories, calling it faith and thinking that makes it virtuous and so all the better, could possibly think otherwise.
God’s people were never meant to be raptured on May 21, and this misunderstanding of believing they were to be raptured has certainly not invalidated the biblical calendar in any way, which still reveals that the time for salvation is now gone forever since May 21 – exactly what we had declared – and the end of the world will still be October 21, 2011 when this world will be completely destroyed by fire – exactly what we had and are still declaring.
So, there is it. The vengeful god of death is still there and just waiting to pounce and kill billions of people because they have not been willing to be reduced to the status of abject slave, close their minds, and commit their lives to the eternal praise of the dictator in the sky. Old testament stuff with a new testament revelations twist to really make you cringe in fear.
This stuff would be quite comical if it weren’t so terribly sad. Such delusions in society are becoming very dangerous, and certainly are harmful to those who harbor them. With the zealous spreading of this kind of nonsense, there will always be gullible people who will be made to suffer fear and emotional distress. So sad when there is so much about the world and humanity that we should be spending our time celebrating. Life is to be lived, and not to be wished away and only spent in fear and hoping for some mercy and salvation from a celestial power that does not exist, and never has existed.
It does seem that another 5 months of this nonsense are now going to be infilcted on the rest of us. I will be so looking forward to October 22 this year when we can be sure that there will be whole new interpretation to cover all the absurdities preached above and once again, put judgment day on the calendar for a not-too-distant date in the future.
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UPDATE May 29
I sent dear Mike an email at the time that I posted this, but still have not received a response. Oh well, I guess we will probably have to wait until October 22. Content of my mail is below:
Subject: My response to your response to May 21!
Dear Mike,
To read your new take on things is certainly a surprise. Your assumptions are nothing short of total delusion. You are mentally ill and should seek help.
What will you do after you continue in this way for another 5 months and we get to October 22 and there is still the same result? Perhaps when jesus fails to show up again to take you off to heaven, you will do what you have to do to go off and be with him, as so many others have done before you when this mental virus of religion is let run out to its full and monsterous conclusion.
I feel sorry for your children. It must be terrible for them living with you. Your world is world of death, and you worship a god of death. The world has so much joy and human achievement, and all you yearn for is for it all to be over, ended, and destroyed with the wholesale death of everyone except, of course, for yourself and people who have the same mental virus you have.
I hope that you can seek help and maybe you can actually find some worthwhile purpose for your life other than this insanity.
Regards,
Geoff.
