{"id":239,"date":"2011-05-12T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/may-21-2011-judgment-day.html"},"modified":"2011-05-12T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:32:00","slug":"may-21-2011-judgment-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/may-21-2011-judgment-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May 21, 2011 \u2013 Judgment Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever been involved with a religious group that spouted false prophesies? Did such prophesies alter your life? <\/b>
Christian Radio Broadcaster Harold Camping<\/a>, and his followers, are predicting that Judgment Day will occur on May 21, 2011. In the past, he also made a false prophesy for September 1994. As I\u2019ve been driving to work each morning, I\u2019ve been seeing homemade signs, made with white paint on wooden billboards, stating that Judgment Day is on May 21, 2011.<\/p>\n

I say, BULL! I wish Camping would get a grip and remember the following scriptures:
Matthew 24:24 – 24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.<\/em>
No One Knows the Day or Hour<\/span><\/strong>
Matthew 24:36-37 \u2013 36 \u201cBut of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why is Camping doing this? He\u2019s a false prophet and needs to stop! I guess I get emotional about this because I think of my days with the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. They didn\u2019t predict days \u2013 they predicted years, and have been wrong every time. In my last dealings with them in college, they stated that the end would come BEFORE the generation of 1914 passed away\u2026HUH? They \u201cbacked this claim up\u201d with scriptures in a very convoluted way, taking pieces of one chapter\/book of the Bible and meshing it with another piece. Soon, you had a hodgepodge of convoluted scripture to \u201csupport\u201d this claim. When a JW came to my door a couple of years ago, I asked if they were still saying that Armageddon was coming before the generation of 1914 passed away. He and his wife said, \u201cOh, no. We changed the way we interpret generation. So, we don\u2019t say that anymore.\u201d Hmm. Just like the false prophecy of 1975, maybe? The JWs have said that nobody knows the day or the hour, so, I guess, in essence, they felt it was okay for them to predict the year, even if it was false? <\/p>\n

At the time, this was their reasoning against higher education \u2013 the generation of 1914 would not pass away before we saw the end to this system of things? So, instead of pursuing higher education, we need to be warning people about the end of times?<\/p>\n

Have you ever been involved with a religious group that spouted false prophesies? Did such prophesies alter your life? <\/b><\/p>\n

~Cecelia Dowdy~ <\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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