Announcing Bible Truths Meeting!

[Craig]

Just wanted to tell you guys I look forward to seeing you all sometime today.  Let's all meet up just inside the pearly gates by the pavilion on 2nd and Gold.  I heard at least one of you is there waiting.  He said they have high speed internet.

Craig

[Patrick]

Living on the West side, I'll be one of the last to arrive! Save some refreshments, please!

[gmik]

mwhuaaaaaaahhhhhhh




(just one more thing for the late nite comics!!)

[Samson]

Just wanted to tell you guys I look forward to seeing you all sometime today.  Let's all meet up just inside the pearly gates by the pavilion on 2nd and Gold.  I heard at least one of you is there waiting.  He said they have high speed internet.

Craig

If I get raptured up, hope it ain't raining there, that ain't no Heaven for Me. I request Dry, Clear, Sunny Weather, about 75 Degree's, otherwise, I ain't going,  .

[JohnMichael]

65 degrees and no humidity, or no deal.

[mharrell08]

65 degrees and no humidity, or no deal.

And i want my mansion to have a view of the ocean   

[arion]

I can't mock those folks for being so gullible even though I would like to.  By the grace of God you know.....

You can imagine what Camping's fervent believers must be feeling today.  No wonder why Christ said that when the Son of man comes would he find faith on the earth?  A number of these people will cast off any faith whatsoever that they had and be extremely bitter and resist any attempts to reach them with the true gospel.  And the corporation itself after laying low for awhile will pick up where they left off (like last time in 1994) like nothing ever happened and keep on taking people's money with no shame.  If the 'leaders' over there had an ounce of integrity they would admit that they were deceived and shut down all the radio stations but of course that will never happen.  And then too of course the major media will have a field day with their mocking as well.  It's all by God's design of course and not a day goes by that I don't remind myself of that fact...often.  These sort of things must happen but it's aggravating to watch stuff like this happen and see the gullible being sucked into the matrix as it were.

[lostANDfound]

thanks for that, arion.

[Dave in Tenn]

In the early 80's, I was at a revival in our baptist church.  The preacher there was named Anis Shorrosh (if I'm spelling that correctly), and he taught from scripture that the world would end in 1988--forty years after the birth of the nation of Israel.  When I talk to my family (who also attended this church) now, they don't even remember him preaching that.  The year 1988 came and went without them so much as noticing that 'this might be the year'.  I, on the other hand, was a true believer.  I won't enumerate all the ways that this false prophecy has negatively affected my natural life.  In my flesh, I should have hoped that SOMEBODY had stood up in that revival service and rebuked--even mocked--that prophet of Baal.  I should wish that somebody had smacked me around a little and preached what little truth they knew about "the date and hour".  What it might have done to improve my life I can't say.

But nowadays, I'm THANKFUL for the bitterness it caused (and contributed to) and I praise God for what role it played in the 'losing of my faith'.  For me, the Gospel is not additive.  This is not the next stage in my upward spiritual evolution.  Everything that came before, I count as dung.  I know that it wasn't all dung, but I consider it that way in relation to the real good news.  I didn't get to 'here' without going through 'there'.  This is true.  But I also didn't get to 'here' without losing my first love and tasting the bitterness of religion and false doctrine. 

So from that perspective, I can only HOPE that some will be crushed by this day.  When they've been crushed enough, they will be in a better place.  Jesus did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

I hope ya'll understand.     

[arion]

I hope ya'll understand.

Sure do.  What satan means for evil God means for the ultimate good even though as we've been taught that sometimes we can't see that until quite a bit later.  It's just unseemly to give into any temptation to mock those people.  The world relishes in that of course but we've all been deceived.  One of my first trips down the religious spectrum was Herbert Armstrong (as I know others here went down that road) and I ran the gamut of deception after deception until I discovered the 'truth' of full gospel pentacostalism only to discover later it was just another 'ism'.  Deception has been symbolized as an onion with many different layers and I keep telling God I've got to be at about the core of the onion right now.   

[Extol]

I can't mock those folks for being so gullible even though I would like to. 

Looks like I'm one of the gullible ones too. Here I was getting excited about a BT conference or something, only to open the thread and read this. 

[Ninny]

Good words...Thank you Dave... 

And Craig...Since it's highly unlikely that any of us are going anywhere today...except for me...I'm planning on taking my grandson to Pizza Hut!!
Someday soon I hope we all DO get to meet...we are going to have some laughs!! Mostly at the dumb things we have said on BT over the years!!
So listen...if everyone else is taken and we are left...We are definitely gettin' together!! 

Kathy

[Dave in Tenn]

So listen...if everyone else is taken and we are left...We are definitely gettin' together!! 

Kathy

Just think how light the traffic will be.

[One Love]

Oh yeah, just bring it on!

[Craig]

Well it looks like the meeting got cancelled.

Back to the grind.

Craig

[arion]

And my Tigers lost another ball game so a stinky day all around.   

[crazy4bam]

I have something really sad to say about all this! I watched the news this morning ans they reported that over a dozen people sold their homes, quit their jobs, sold everything they owned, and gave away their life's savings because they believed that man. The real sad thing is Mr. Camp didn't give away his 75 million dollars.

[longhorn]

Just started stage 1 of building my Rapture Rocket.  All those who want to get there a " little quicker " shoot me an e-mail, space is limited.  I'm bringing in some of the finest jet propulsion experts to the farm this weekend.  Pet's are allowed but limited to dogs, cat's birds, horses, chickens, goats, pot bellied pigs, lizards, rabbits, camels, white tail deer, butterflies, turtles, gold fish, and lamas.  Don't worry about food, it will be provided.  Anyone with cd's of Journey and Little River Band, The Cars, Head East, Styxx, Foghat, will have priority seating.

Longhorn

[gmik]

 

I too got hoodwinked in 1988....my husband cancelled his dream hunting trip to NewFoundland Canada so we could all rapture up as a family- we even practiced jumping up ....

so, I can't judge too harshly anyone else getting caught up in a fever!!

[Stacey]

Isn't 2012 the Aztec bad news arising?

Yep. That's gonna probably be the biggest end of the world happening in our lifetimes (wonder how many millions of dollars will be wasted on this one) but, after that one passes like the rest of them have and will, we can continue on looking forward to the real return of Christ!