Golly, I nearly forgot, what with the World Series, the Wall Street protests, and clipping my fingernails: the end of the world will be taking place tomorrow, Friday, October 21st. Don't believe me? Well, you'll at least believe the folks at Family Radio, right?
Thus we have learned that except for a somewhat different understanding of the words “earthquake” and “rapture” or “catching up” no other past teachings of Judgment Day or the end of the world have been changed. The time line, the certainty of it, the proofs, and the signs are all precisely the same. No other past teachings have been changed or modified. Indeed, on May 21 Christ did come spiritually to put all of the unsaved throughout the world into judgment. But that universal judgment will not be physically seen until the last day of the five month judgment period, on October 21, 2011.
We have also learned that God is still teaching that God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked and will not punish the wicked beyond what is called for in Deuteronomy 25. That is, there is a distinct limit to God’s wrath.
Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period. On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21. [emphasis added because, well, it seems kind of important]
Oh, also: the Oregon Ducks will be playing the Colorado Buffalo on Saturday, October 22nd, the day after the world ends. And in case you are wondering, I do believe that Colorado (who is a 31 point underdog) has a better chance of beating the Ducks than the Family Radio folks do of prophecying the end of the world. Truth be told, if Oregon does lose on Saturday, some people around here will feel like it is the end of the world. But since that would be on Saturday and not Friday, it wouldn't count.
• Rapture, Rinse, Repeat (May 24, 2011)
• Call for Captions for a May 22nd, 2011 Billboard (May 21, 2011)
• The Rapture: A short history and some basic facts (May 20, 2011)
• The Revelatory Quote of the Day... (May 20, 2011)
• A few thoughts about the not-so-rapturous May 21st Harold Camping Trip... (May 19, 2011)
At last,some good news for all those manic depressant's out there :-)
Posted by: Peter l | Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 05:36 PM
Stay tuned for "What Happened on October 21", while resting assured that qualified professionals are looking for a billing code for treatment.
Posted by: Charles E Flynn | Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 08:01 PM
Carl,
Was there a time when this was supposed to take place? Hopefully it hasn't happened by the time you get back to me.
Posted by: Brian Jones | Friday, October 21, 2011 at 08:39 AM
Brian: I think it happened about an hour or so ago here. If so, it seems a bit anticlimactic. ;-)
Posted by: Carl E. Olson | Friday, October 21, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Well with about 5 Hours and 45 Minutes remaining in the day [as I write this] it looks like the Fundamentalists Loons are Proved Wrong AGAIN! Maybe I should hold my breath until the last second of the day though. ;) haha! We really ought to give some true evangelization on matters pertaining to the Second Coming, before these Fundamentalist loons discredit all of Christianity, because there are people out there who want to lump us all together with these utterly insane people.
Posted by: Jim Andersen | Friday, October 21, 2011 at 03:17 PM
They can ask the Jehovah's Witnesses for advice on how to handle this.
Posted by: Howard | Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 09:19 PM
Jim Andersen,
You make a very good point. Much of what Catholics say or have said on this is couched in terms of responding to wild Protestant theories. Apologetically speaking that is great. I know Carl has written books on the subject.
I have mentioned it before, but some years ago Colin Donovan and Desmond Birch did a 13-part series on EWTN which was available in the archives as "Last Things in Time and Eternity." The beauty of that was it started with the eschatological foundation of the faith from the liturgy and the sacraments right through to the teachings of the Church on the end times. Thorough I thought, without getting too deep in any area, but it was not attention grabbing enough for the average listener, in my opinion. Colin Donovan is a solid theologian and good apologist but he has a radio and TV personality much like mine, sleep inducing. (I tried radio in high school and college and still have a DJ demo to prove it) Desmond Birch brightened it up somewhat with his ready laugh and sense of humor.
However, as they point out themselves at the time, since St. Robert Bellarmine there has been little high profile and comprehensive teaching on the part of the Church regarding eschatology. Interestingly enough, Bellarmine was in the main responding to the wild-eyed Protestant accusations of that day regarding the Catholic Church as the "whore of Babylon" and pope as the "anti-Christ." The early forebears of Jack Chick I suppose.
This would be a great project for someone like Fr. Robert Barron. His Catholicism Project was so well done, he might be the guy to do a comprehensive eschatology project, aimed primarily at Catholics but with Protestants and New Age pagans in mind as well.
But perhaps I've missed something in this area that Carl is aware of.
Posted by: LJ | Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 01:54 PM