Now, I have to get rapture ready again
A California preacher who foretold of the world’s end only to see the appointed day pass with no extraordinarily cataclysmic event has revised his apocalyptic prophecy, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.
Math errors, apparently.
May 24th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Not bad math, bad Jesus for not reading the bible right. According to the prediction there was supposed to be a 153 day “bad things are going to happen to you” period before the judgement, and Jesus just decided to skip that part (and the rapture of the saved, maybe he couldn’t find any). We’ll still all die Oct. 21st.
May 24th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Every end of the world prediction ever made in the entire history of the human race has been wrong so far. Odds of him being right are slim to none and leaning heavily (very heavily) towards none.
The idea that human beings are somehow tapped into some divine intelligence that has sought to notify us in advance of our collective demise is nonsense that has never been supported by reality. The reality is that people can be superstitious and misled by charlatans – just look at how many Democrats there are.
May 24th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Let’s see… add two plus Genesis… carry the Deuteronomy… divide by apostles…
Yeah, I could see where you could get that wrong.
May 24th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
How can this guy (or any other) still have followers after making these insane predictions. It is unbelievable what some will follow just to be part of a group
May 24th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Eric, I feel the same about Al Gore.
May 24th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
One would think hucksters would learn from the mistakes of their predecessors, but apparently not. Never let yourself get pinned down to specifics. It’s happened plenty of times just in this country in the last two centuries, it’s not much of a trade secret.
Unless you plan to take an active hand in making sure the doomsday predictions come true on a personal level. Then it’s peachy. Or if you believe your own bullshit, and then, well…
May 24th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
OOORRRRR….
He was right and…no one qualified to be ascended…….
Or maybe he’s supposed to use the Jewish calendar.
May 24th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
“How can this guy (or any other) still have followers after making these insane predictions. It is unbelievable what some will follow just to be part of a group”
Look at some of the doomsday preachers from the Nineteenth century. They predicted specific end-of-the-world dates, the obvious happened (or didn’t, I guess), and instead of the followers leaving, they became even more devoted (at least for a while).
The human psyche is a dark, weird place.
May 24th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
It’s always on the last prediction, just like my keys are always in the last place I look. Typical.
May 24th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
But if there’s one thing gambling has taught me, it’s that eventually I’ll be right!
May 24th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
The guy is clearly a kook or willful flimflam artist. I do find it funny that the truly shrill leftists that hate even the loosest of religions will crap on the idea of a Judeo-Christian judgement but buy the 2012 Mayan crap like its set in stone. Because they were one with Gaia and such before the evil Euros came and shoved crufixes up people’s asses.
May 24th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
“Calling John Frumm – White Courtesy Phone!”
I’ll be out in the bamboo tower, standing-by the cocoanut-radio waiting for that call…
May 24th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
As P.T. Barnum said, “A sucker is born every minute”.
Geeze, who would believe that idiot, oh right, suckers!
May 24th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
I don’t think the Bible could be any more unambiguous, but he’s somehow talked himself into being able to know not just the year or the month, but the exact time.
Here’s his explanation. Note that family radio has failed to scrub or edit this page, only the website’s home page, so the rapture is still on for last weekend.
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May 24th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Forgot to carry the 666
May 24th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Hey, my Birthday is October 22nd! And they plan on having the Rapture the day before? Frack Him! Where’s my copy of the Necronomicon? I’ll show Him! Try and screw up my party, that miserable, rotten, Bible-Thumping….
May 24th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Paul Erlich is making “population bomb” predictions again?
May 24th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
I think God only came for Randy Savage,pro wrestler for the WWF.
May 24th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
So now he has a few months to cash out and get out of Dodge before his followers’ get lawyers and the law suits kick in.
May 24th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Les,
In case we don’t get to say it….Happy Birthday!
May 24th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
This same douche-bag made the same prediction for 1994.
I say this guy is a douche-bag because only I know when the world will end, and if you send me all your cash, I’ll tell you about it.
May 24th, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Maybe it was a metric conversion error.
May 25th, 2011 at 7:20 am
“Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.”
Not necessarily THIS Oct 21st, just A October 21st!
May 25th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Well,……..shit. Now Halloween is REALLY ‘goona bite.