Sometimes it’s good to work in Philadelphia. Today, for instance I got off the train and started walking to work when I was handed a flier from some young woman with a thick accent mumbling something about the Bible. I just grabbed it and put it in my pocket for later review (hey, it’s cold in Philly at 7am).
Upon later review, I found that it was a good thing I kept that flier because it outlines “THE END OF THE WORLD!”
Seriously, this particular flier names the rapture date as May 21, 2011 and the EOW itself at Oct 21, 2011. We all know that Nostradamus and the Mayans want it in 2012, maybe this is an effort to get a jump start on things?
As it turns out, this pamphlet is full of various types of numerology based on Old Testament dates, etc., and brought to me (and you too) by EBible Fellowship.
Here is what worries me……:
The secular world only knows Christianity from what they see. They are inundated with sunday morning money grubbing prosperity preachers, crazies wearing billboards, and nice people like this who hand out information which LOOKS on it’s face as if it may be legitimate (to someone who hasn’t read the book).
What are we to do?
I certainly understand and agree with your frustration. I, too, am so tired of people who call themselves Christians who choose to propagate such false teaching. Do I believe that we could be nearing the end? Absolutely. Then again, it could be another century or two off. Nobody knows, and that is a fact. Don’t believe me? Read the Bible. Neither the Mayans, nor Nostradamus, nor anyone else using various forms of divination can tell us the date and time it will be.
“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. But that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.” (Mark 13:31-32)
The Great Commission was not “Go ye therefore and figure out when I’ll be returning and the world will end.” While reading Revelation and study of the end times is important, (it’s in the Bible, after all,) it is there so our eyes can be open to the signs and to remind us that time here is limited and we are to be about His work, which is to “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19)