GARY DEMAR: A few years ago I received an email from someone who made a prediction about when the end would come. I told him that if he was serious that he would sign over his assets to me effective on the day after he was sure the end would come.
He wouldn’t do it. I did email on the day after the supposed end-of-the-world date reminding him of his folly. He emailed the following to me, “I was hoping you had forgotten.”
If you know anyone who truly believes that end is coming on September 23, 2017, have them message me on Facebook and I’ll send them a contract.
For more than 40 years I have been following the views of prophecy speculation and the claims made by people about end-of-the-world scenarios. The latest is said to happen on September 23, 2017.
People have short memories or have no memory about prophecy speculators who have assured an anxious public that Jesus would return by this or that day, week, or year. His coming is always said to be “near.” The 1980s was described as the “terminal generation.”
In 1970, Hal Lindsey wrote The Late Great Planet Earth that included a prophetic teaser that something called the “rapture” would take place before 1988. It was based on his claim that when Israel became a nation again in 1948 that the “rapture” would occur within a 40-year prophetic window.
In 1988, NASA engineer Edgar Whisenant wrote 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be In 1988. When the “rapture” didn’t occur, he revised his book with 89 reasons why the rapture would be in 1989. MORE
That’s unfair for you to get all the money!!!!
Date setters and date suggested are dead wrong. But Demar, a preterist, is also dead wrong.
I predict that on September 21st , a Basketball sized Meteorite will hit the guy who predicted this ! Somebody warn him !!!
Promises promises…
Algore was given a Nobel prize for his predictions.
If Alfred were still alive he would shove a stick of his invention up Algore’s and O’Baja’s bum.
Make that two sticks for O’Baja, there’s room.
‘Nobel Prize’ has become as noteworthy as a ‘Harvard’ degree.
Who knows what will become of us. Just in case, I’m willing to unburden myself of some liabilities. And if we manage to see the following day I’ll be a sport and still let you keep them.
I will hand over my assets. My 73’Dodge Dart and $81.50.The Dart is not running though. Oh, I have a really pretty rock.
This all falls under the heading “HIS business”.
Wooohoooo!! I’ll finally get a day off from work! 😀
The bible states No man knows the day nor hour. So i will just do my best each day and hope im ready when he does finally return. 😎
Sadly, there are many people jumping on this bandwagon due to the HUGE number of supposed coincidences in celestial and earthly signs coming to a “crescendo” on 9/23/17 including supposedly the prophesies of a Rabbi given over 800 years ago and the seeming astrological fulfillment of the Biblical signs of Revelation 12: 2 (I’ll let you look it up if you are interested.)
Foremost the Bible specifies that none will know the hour so setting dates and such are pretty much a fool’s game.
Three things to learn from this:
First, Gary Demar’s beliefs and the money he makes will benefit by the Lord’s not coming because of his denial of Biblical principles (i.e. he’s just as bad as the ones who are betting on a date — Look up “preterism” if you doubt me.
Second, there are just as many false teachers on both sides of this issue who are using it to their own benefit and not God’s kingdom. Be wary and test them all.
Third, the real lesson is that each of us must have our relationship with God and Jesus Christ caught up and refreshed every day because we don’t know when He’s returning. So we must be ready.
The devil’s benefit is always in the details. As the saying goes, “stay frosty my friends.”
Uh oh, I think I may have found a manipulative loop hole for Lucifer.
If no man can know the day,
What happens if every day from here on is predicted to be the rapture?
Eventually right, or keeps God away?
“Come on, comet!”
– Frank Barone
Back in the late 50’s, early 60’s I knew some folks who got all wrapped around the axle about a radio evangelist named Herbert W. Armstrong and his “Radio Church of God” (later renamed Worldwide Church of God). Armstrong’s religion was a goofy mix of regular Christian teachings and a lot of Old Testament stuff (Saturday Sabbath, observance of Jewish dietary laws, believing there was no rain before the Great Flood, etc.). But I digress. Anyway, the RCOG predicted a lot of catastrophic events starting in the 1970’s and 80’s – great worldwide famines, floods, pestilence – followed by Armageddon and the Second Coming (around the Millennium, I think). Very worrisome for the faithful, but definite indicators that the End Times were almost upon us. Al Gore would have been envious, had he been old enough.
Well, needless to say, none of that came to pass. Herbert W. and all the other adult church members I knew (I was pretty young then) have all passed on to that Great Evangelical Tent in the Sky. Same for most all the people who were building fallout shelters at the time as well.
Nowadays when I hear people predicting similar events, I just tell them to wait around another fifty years or so and they won’t be worrying about it (or anything else) at all.
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Sweet Jesus… I’ve got to return my library books and pick up my dry cleaning that day!
what are you offering up front?
Just looking for some instant gratification before the end,
otherwise I have no modification to tease you with all my earthly goods.
@VietVet: I remember always being entertained by his son, all-media Super Preacher and all around horndog,Garner Ted Armstrong
You couldn’t swing a dead Rosicrucian around the TV or radio airwaves without running into GTA’s harangues.
JESUS IS COMING SOON! THE END IS NEAR!
Actually, this is right. How long do you live? Probably not 1000 years or so. You may have a few decades left. By your perspective, the end IS near.
@Birdie Num Num: Our landlady at the time somehow managed to get my mother sucked into that stupidity and they would sit around and listen to Herbert W. on the radio like it was the voice of God Himself. Bad thing was, she stopped eating bacon or pork chops because it was forbidden by the Bible. Bible also said that no shellfish or fish that did not have fins and scales could be eaten. Well, there went clams and oysters. Not that I cared about those, mind you, but I draw the line at bacon. Finally she agreed to cook it for me and Dad, but she wouldn’t eat it herself.
The really bad thing was she would send that charlatan money when we had very little for ourselves, and were behind on a lot of bills. That’s the main reason I have no use for any of these televangelists today. They are nothing but a bunch of crooks and thieves, without exception, and I will say that to anyone who asks for my opinion of them.
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I’m putting a deposit on a new blue 2018 Mustang GT.
Dammit, maybe I won’t get it back if everything goes down the sh!tter on the 23rd. 🙁
When the Rapture does happen, there will be so few true Christians left in the world that nobody will notice. Some churches might see a 1% drop in attendance, but that’s about it.
Vietvet, my Dad listened to The World Tomorrow with Herbert W. Armstrong on Sunday nights on KHQ AM 590 when we were coming home from visiting my grandparents in CDA, Id. Probably because it may have been the only thing on the radio to listen to. Even as a kid (back in the late 50’s and early 60’s) riding in my Dad’s maroon 53 Packard I always thought HWA was full of crap. The one thing I remember most was the address for the Worldwide Church of God, box 111 Pasadena, Cal. He along with Hal Lindsay were total false prophets in scaring a lot of gullible Christians and others to believe this crap and they’re still dead wrong and always will be.
I perdickted taht the US, Mother Soviet Union, England, France, and a smattering of utters would win World War too, and this was in 1997!
I’m rite all the time! Oh! O! The Franky-Pushkin War is gonna be won by the Krauts.
And the Spanglish Armando will be distroyt by a title wave.
And the Grate Remuneration will be soon … reel soon …
The “End of the World” occurs for some 32,000 people every day (not the same ones).
izlamo delenda est …
@geoff the aardvark: Sounds real familiar to me.
BTW, According to Wikipedia:
“…after Armstrong’s death in 1986, Worldwide Church of God leaders came to the conclusion that many of his doctrines were not biblical. These doctrines were subsequently rejected and the church is now in full agreement with the statement of faith of the National Association of Evangelicals.”
IMHO, Armstrong’s doctrines were TOO Biblical, or maybe I should say too Old Testament Biblical for today’s modern Christian tastes. After all, nobody in America wants to give up their BLT sandwiches just because the Bible (Leviticus 11:7-8) tells you that you shouldn’t eat pork.
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Well, we have 2 more days. I’d say it was the end of the world for Maria victims, end of the world for Irma victims, and Lee is on the way, Lee may just finish off the east coast. Remember Harold Camping who predicted the end of the world numerous times? Harold Camping, a Christian radio entrepreneur and biblical soothsayer who stirred consternation, ecstasy, complaints to the Federal Communications Commission and widespread ridicule by repeatedly prophesying the end of the world — twice in 2011 — died on Sunday at his home in Alameda, Calif. He was 92. He put up several billboards proclaiming the end of the world, when it didn’t happen he came up with an excuse “I miscalculated.” So, I expect to be around September 23, I have travel plans for next month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/us/harold-camping-radio-entrepreneur-who-predicted-worlds-end-dies-at-92.html?mcubz=3