Another date for the Rapture!

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(12-01-2010 07:23 PM)YYZ Skinhead Wrote:  http://www.tennessean.com/article/201012...11&h=c0e22

Why?? WHY?? Scripture says that no man will know the hour or something similar but SDAs have previously set dates for the Rapture with identical results (unfortunately I used to go to an SDA school). Is betting verboten on this site?

People do goofy things. Maybe it's for notoriety? One thing I noticed in the article was this comment:

Quote:Richard Landes, director of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, said predictions of the end of the world provide relief from the pressures of daily life for some. That's why they continue to be so popular.

"Whatever the mess that your life is in, it makes everything nice and simple," he said.

I think there is some truth in that. Many people are looking for a way of escape. The problem is, God never that He would whisk us away when trouble comes, but would give us the strength to get through it.

What I found somewhat humorous is this statement by Evans:

Quote: The latest prediction comes from a verse in Luke 17: "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man."

It's a matter of simple math, said Evans.
Calculation of the date

According to Camping's prediction, the Rapture will happen exactly 7,000 years from the date that God first warned people about the flood. He said the flood happened in 4990 B.C., on what would have been May 21 in the modern calendar. God gave Noah one week of warning.

Since one day equals 1,000 years for God, that means there was a 7,000-year interval between the flood and rapture.

"We hope that anyone would get a Bible out and try and prove that this is wrong," he said.

I ask myself, what simple math? Do we even know the exact date of the flood? No. Plus his idea of using the Georgian calendar to compute his time frame is laughable. I just shake my head at how purposefully ignorant some people are To this day we do not know the exact date in time from the creation of the world.

Even the secular community is clamoring to know when the world will end and so the Mayan predictions of Dec 2012 are now the latest trend. The conspiracy theories are flying all over on that one!!!