According to Harold Camping and Family Radio!
A traditional Christian hymn about the Rapture:
I'll Fly Away
Are you expecting to take a trip on that good old Camping ship to the heavens?
Gospel Ship (Traditional American)
Don't Forget Your Pets!
Check out this from Good Morning America:
Wondering about the fate of your pets after Judgment Day? Well, for $135, a loving atheist will care for your animal if you're not around anymore.
Eternal Earthbound Pets offers a service to rescue and take care of pets once their owners have been taken away to the heavenly realms. Though doomsayers say this Saturday will be the latest day of reckoning that's not expected to leave animals behind either.
Bart Centre of New Hampshire, co-owner of the pet business, launched it in June 2009. He has zero belief in Judgment Day, but began to see an increase in sales inquiries in December, which, he believes, is related to Family Radio's heavy marketing campaign around the May 21 date.
The retired retail executive said he has sold 258 contracts so far.
"That's out of 40 million targeted 'rapture' believers, so it's not like we're making a billion dollars," he said.
Still, Centre is among the opportunistic entrepreneurs who have made the most of doomsayers' predictions and people's eagerness to believe them, although some of them have seen no bump in business and Family Radio can't imagine anyone operating a business amid the ruins of a post-apocalyptic world anyway.
Family Radio, a non-profit, listener-supported religious organization based in Oakland, Calif., has declared that May 21 will mark the end of the world when Jesus Christ arrives for his second coming and the "rapture" of his believers. The organization encourages people to visit its website.
Eternal Earthbound Pets' sales increased during the first quarter of this year by 27 percent compared to the first quarter of last year, which Centre attributes to the May 21 campaign.
"My business partner [in Minnesota] and I launched in a handful of states initially. Now, it's much larger," he said, adding that he has designated rescuers in 26 states.
Centre increased his rates in January. It now costs $135 to rescue one pet and $20 for an additional pet at the same address, which he collects up front. That's up from $110 for the first pet and $10 for an additional pet.
And Centre takes his business seriously. He said he performed a credit history and criminal background on his 44 rescuers: those who are assigned to rescue any pets left behind. The contract fees are split among them.
Other profiteers are practicing a quote by newly inaugurated Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
Emanuel was referring to energy policy in 2008, but Joshua Witter, a software engineer, shared that mentality when he started Post-Rapture Post, a message delivery service to those left behind after the apocalypse.
This story continues with part 2 on their website
ABC Videos on May 21st 2011:
AllFaith Flix: The Rupture of the Church
Don't Forget Your Pets!
Check out this from Good Morning America:
Wondering about the fate of your pets after Judgment Day? Well, for $135, a loving atheist will care for your animal if you're not around anymore.
Eternal Earthbound Pets offers a service to rescue and take care of pets once their owners have been taken away to the heavenly realms. Though doomsayers say this Saturday will be the latest day of reckoning that's not expected to leave animals behind either.
Bart Centre of New Hampshire, co-owner of the pet business, launched it in June 2009. He has zero belief in Judgment Day, but began to see an increase in sales inquiries in December, which, he believes, is related to Family Radio's heavy marketing campaign around the May 21 date.
The retired retail executive said he has sold 258 contracts so far.
"That's out of 40 million targeted 'rapture' believers, so it's not like we're making a billion dollars," he said.
Still, Centre is among the opportunistic entrepreneurs who have made the most of doomsayers' predictions and people's eagerness to believe them, although some of them have seen no bump in business and Family Radio can't imagine anyone operating a business amid the ruins of a post-apocalyptic world anyway.
Family Radio, a non-profit, listener-supported religious organization based in Oakland, Calif., has declared that May 21 will mark the end of the world when Jesus Christ arrives for his second coming and the "rapture" of his believers. The organization encourages people to visit its website.
Eternal Earthbound Pets' sales increased during the first quarter of this year by 27 percent compared to the first quarter of last year, which Centre attributes to the May 21 campaign.
"My business partner [in Minnesota] and I launched in a handful of states initially. Now, it's much larger," he said, adding that he has designated rescuers in 26 states.
Centre increased his rates in January. It now costs $135 to rescue one pet and $20 for an additional pet at the same address, which he collects up front. That's up from $110 for the first pet and $10 for an additional pet.
And Centre takes his business seriously. He said he performed a credit history and criminal background on his 44 rescuers: those who are assigned to rescue any pets left behind. The contract fees are split among them.
Other profiteers are practicing a quote by newly inaugurated Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
Emanuel was referring to energy policy in 2008, but Joshua Witter, a software engineer, shared that mentality when he started Post-Rapture Post, a message delivery service to those left behind after the apocalypse.
This story continues with part 2 on their website
ABC Videos on May 21st 2011:
AllFaith Flix: The Rupture of the Church
Here's the Truth
- Revelation 6:9 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for proclaiming the Word of God, that is, for bearing witness.
10 They cried out in a loud voice, "Sovereign Ruler, HaKadosh, the True One, how long will it be before you judge the people living on earth and avenge our blood?"
11 Each of them was given a white robe; and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow-servants should be reached, of their brothers who would be killed, just as they had been.
The people of God will remain HERE ON THE EARTH resisting the Antichrist and his New World Order throughout the seven year Tribulation Period.
Most of us will die before the end of the seven years: Some as martyrs, some from the earthquakes, some from the plagues and so on.
- Revelation 7:13 One of the elders asked me, "These people dressed in white robes - who are they, and where are they from?"
14 "Sir," I answered, "you know." Then he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the Great Tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb.
After the (just shy of) seven years the people of HaShem will come out of (or through) the Great Tribulation and receive the blessings of the Messianic Kingdom.
Some Believers will come through as martyrs and some few will survive the ordeal and enter the Kingdom without tasting death.
- Matthew 24:21 For there will be trouble then worse than there has ever been from the beginning of the world until now, and there will be nothing like it again!
22 Indeed, if the length of this time had not been limited, no one would survive; but for the sake of those who have been chosen, its length will be limited.
Were the planed seven years not shortened no flesh would survive. But to rescue People Israel (the Elect or Chosen) the seven years will be cut short by some measure (probably weeks).
It would be wonderful to take a trip on the good old Gospel Ship!
But friend, that is NOT what the prophets say is going to happen!
Don't be deceived by promises of a Rapture, whether by Harold Camping or anyone else.
As Paul warns:
- II Thessalonians 2:1 But in connection with the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and our gathering together to meet him, we ask you, brothers,
2 not to be easily shaken in your thinking or anxious because of a spirit or a spoken message or a letter supposedly from us claiming that the Day of the Lord has already come.
3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way. For the Day will not come until after the Apostasy has come and the man who separates himself from Torah has been revealed, the one destined for doom.
4 He will oppose himself to everything that people call a god or make an object of worship; he will put himself above them all, so that he will sit in the Temple of God and proclaim that he himself is God.
5 Don't you remember that when I was still with you, I used to tell you these things?
6 And now you know what is restraining, so that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For already this separating from Torah is at work secretly, but it will be secretly only until he who is restraining is out of the way.
8 Then the one who embodies separation from Torah will be revealed, the one whom the Lord Yeshua will slay with the breath of his mouthd and destroy by the glory of his coming.
9 When this man who avoids Torah comes, the Adversary will give him the power to work all kinds of false miracles, signs and wonders.
10 He will enable him to deceive, in all kinds of wicked ways, those who are headed for destruction because they would not receive the love of the truth that could have saved them.
11 This is why God is causing them to go astray, so that they will believe the Lie.
12 The result will be that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken their pleasure in wickedness, will be condemned.
The Order of Events:
Verse 1: Our gathering together: Moshiach will gather ALL Jews together in Jerusalem (Hosea 3:4-5, Isaiah 2:4, Isaiah 11:6-9). Once that happens we will have a sign that he is here -- BUT it appears that the Rex Mundi will do this first (Matthew 24:15-20)!
Verse 2: False prophecies and promises (like the Rapture) will abound. Don't be fooled. This includes the so-called "Sanctuary Message" of the Seventh Day Adventists which Y'shua specifically rejected (Matthew 24:26) and the Rapture in general (Matthew 24:27).
Y'shua is CLEAR:
- Matthew 24:26 So if people say to you, `Listen! He's out in the desert!' don't go; or, `Look! He's hidden away in a secret room!' don't believe it.
27 For when the Son of Man does come, it will be like lightning that flashes out of the east and fills the sky to the western horizon.
28 Wherever there's a dead body, that's where you find the vultures.
We will know Y'shua is here as HaMoshiach when we see the vultures eating the dead at the Battle of Armageddon (Revelation 19:18).
Continuing now with II Thessalonians 2 Verse 3: The Great Apostasy: The apostasy and eventual "vomiting out" of the seventh and final Church period (Revelation 3:14-19). This apostate religion will become the foundation of Babylon the Great (a global false religion lead by the False Prophet from Rome). This Universal Religion will embrace the coming Global Dictator as the "Second Coming of Jesus."
This coming leader will "separate himself from Torah" or as the KJV has it, "that man of sin." The Greek has it as the man of Lawlessness. Torah is the ultimate Law and he will oppose it in every way.
Verse 4: This coming Rex Mundi (global potentate) will place himself above all religions, above all knowledge, and proclaim himself (and be accepted by the world as) Sovereign Authority. He will cause the Jerusalem Temple to be rebuilt, then he will enter the Holy Place and proclaim his divinity there.
Verse 5: We don't need "new revelation" etc. The Scriptures are clear on these matters if we simply ignore what the false teachers say and read the texts its all clear. Camping and his ilk "spiritualize" the texts to the point that they become meaningless. if they seem to support their heresies the "must" be taken literally. If not, they must be taken "spiritually." One can prove ANYTHING with this leeway!
Just read and accept what the prophets say.
Verse 6: The Hinderers: God's people, morality, decency, true religion, faith, biblical knowledge and wisdom... these things have been restraining the New Order of the Ages (Novus Ordo Seclorum) but those restraints are being systematically removed. Without them evil is becoming pervasive.
Verse 7: The "New World Order" that has been controlling the earth for many many years is hard at work to establish the global government of Rex Mundi. Once he arises their intentions will be made clear (although I don't see how anyone could still doubt the accuracy of the prophecies at this point -- they are being fulfilled right before our eyes!)
Verse 8: Remember the topic of this section: Be not deceived: Here is how Y'shua will return... He WILL NOT RETURN until the Apostasy happens (verse 3) and the Son of Perdition is revealed. This means there will be NO RAPTURE and NO SECOND COMING until AFTER the Antichrist takes the stage as global leader. The Apostasy is well under way. Paul flatly says this here.
Verse 9: Rex Mundi will have super-human powers (as will the False Prophet) and he will deceive most people. His powers will come from Heylel (Lucifer).
Verse 10: The world will embrace Rex Mundi and they will reject salvation.
Verse 11: Had there already been a Rapture this point would be moot. Rex Mundi and his False Prophet will be working wonders to deceive people. This implies that some will not be deceived and they be seeking to bring them into their evil fold.
The comment that God will send this delusion needs to be understood in a Jewish context. God controls everything. Heylel is NOT God's opposite. HaShem has no opposite. Since these people choose to reject the Truth God will allow them to accept the lie and allow Heylel to deceive them even as He allowed him to deceived Adam and Eve. It is however by their own free will that they are being deceived.
The final seven years of this age will be the most horrific in history.
You PROBABLY will not survive -- deal with it!
The Rapture theory offers a false hope. We need to understood the Truth and to mentally prepare for what's coming: (Philippians 1:21: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain).
- II Timothy 4:3 For the time is coming when people will not have patience for sound teaching, but will cater to their passions and gather around themselves teachers who say whatever their ears itch to hear.
4 Yes, they will stop listening to the truth, but will turn aside to follow myths.
5 But you, remain steady in every situation, endure suffering, do the work that a proclaimer of the Good News should, and do everything your service to God requires.
Do Not Be Deceived!
~ Rosh Yeshiva Yochanan Levine
Yeshiva Beth HaShem
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