Will the rapture come before I've completed my renewal?
According to Harold Camping, I've should have picked an earlier time to have made all of these plans. Camping is the head of the Family Radio Broadcast Group. He has quite a substantial operation. According to World Magazine, Family Radio is broadcast over 150 stations in the US plus dozens of shortwave stations that send his programs all over the world.
Camping has predicted that the rapture - as described in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, chapter four - will take place Saturday afternoon. Then, as I understand it, in October 2011, the world as we know it will come to an end.
Camping's educational background is engineering and he says he's used this training to scoure the Bible for clues to know when Jesus is coming again. This isn't the first time Camping has predicted the second coming - he came up with a couple of dates in the 1990's - but obviously he was wrong. But he says he's absolutely certain this time.
Could he be correct? Jesus said just prior to His ascension that no one knew the time or date when he would return for His church, except His heavenly Father. If this is true - and Jesus' word is truth - then Camping and his followers are going to be disappointed again.
So don't feel that you're not going to have to make June's house or car payments. Enroll your kids for school in the fall. Live life as a faithful follower of Jesus and keep looking up - the Lord will come again, when He's good and ready. And those of us who have placed our faith and hope in Jesus will not be disappointed.
And I'll probably finished my renewal...whatever is fine with the Lord!
