Apparently, a few weeks ago, some nut job in Philadelphia came up with this wacko idea that the Rapture is supposed to happen tomorrow at 6 p.m., and now everybody's making a big deal about it. I'd just like to say that I think it's all a load of BS. In defense of my viewpoint, I offer the following passage from the Bible:
"If anyone says to you then, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. False messiahs and prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told it to you beforehand. So if they say to you, 'He is in the desert,' do not go out there; if they say, 'He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. For just as lightning comes from the east and is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.... But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.... Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come." (Matthew 24:23-27, 36, 42-44; emphases mine)My point is, the return of Christ is supposed to happen at a time when we least expect it. I can say with absolute confidence that Jesus is not going to return on May 21, 2011, simply because that's exactly when we're expecting Him to. John Blanchard said it best in his booklet Where Do We Go From Here? when he said that when Jesus does return, it will be "business as usual" - i.e., everyone will be going about their daily lives as if nothing were going to happen. Any attempt to pinpoint a specific time and place for Jesus' return is merely a fraudulent attempt by some attention-seeking whack job to cause chaos in the streets. So can we please just calm the heck down, people? It's not the end of the world!
(Well, it'd better not be! My sister's supposed to graduate on Sunday!)
Stay frosty, y'all! B-)
