The end WAS nigh... False Christian Prohpets

The following is from the USA Today regarding the false prophecy of the Christian apocolypse and how some believers put their life at stake.  I haven't seen much/any activity in the forum about this prophecy, was it ever beleivable (I doubt it), why people beleived in it anyways, or whether it will ever happen.  Anyone want to chime in with their thoughts?


One day after the world failed to come to an end, mistaken prophet and California preacher Harold Camping has gone missing, various news organizations are reporting.

Camping, the 89-year-old founder of Family Radio Worldwide, was nowhere to be found Sunday after his predictions that at 5:59 p.m. ET on Saturday, massive earthquakes would rock the planet and those chosen by God would ascend into heaven, ABC News is reporting. He also predicted that those left behind would witness the destruction of the Earth, which would take place around Oct. 21.

Camping's home in Alameda, Calif., appeared deserted. The Oakland headquarters of his 66-station network had a sign on the door that read, "This Office is Closed. Sorry we missed you!" the International Business Times reports.

Camping used billboards, fliers and posters to spread the word. "I am utterly, absolutely absolutely convinced it is going to happen," Camping said last week.

The figurative drumroll leading up to Saturday - and the anticlimactic non-event - seemed to generate more jokes than fear, Cathy Lynn Grossman reported in USA TODAY's Faith & Reason blog. Some Rapture believers expressed shock when the end did not take place.

Robert Fitzpatrick, a doomsday believer and retiree who sank almost all he had - $140,000 - into warning fellow citizens about the impending end, told the New York Daily News he did not understand what went wrong.

"I can't tell you what I feel right now," Fitzpatrick, 60, said Saturday in New York's Times Square, after Armageddon failed to happen. "Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here."

Keith Bauer, a doomsday believer who drove his family from Maryland to experience the Rapture at Family Radio's Oakland offices, told the News he was disappointed.
"I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this Earth," Bauer said.

Camping has had experience with mistaken prophecy. He once predicted the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994, but later said he'd made a mathematical error.

In the buzz leading up to Saturday, clergy in various news reports had pointed out that the Bible says the day of Rapture will not be known.

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False Christian Prophets

     Jesus made it clear that false prophets (and false Christs) would appear frequently near the end of this age, yet less clearly and somewhat more importantly, they would do so by design. The former, more than the prophets themselves, is the message everyone should be internalizing right now—that the end is near. The latter, if one accepts that these intermittent counterfeit prophets are supposed to stir elevated religious awareness as the Galactic Alignment steadily approaches, prompts the palpable question: Why? To answer this question one must examine what these false Christianity-based prophets are actually predicting, and that’s where the inflammatory issue of The Rapture comes obtrusively to the forefront.
 
     While many Christian clergy for well-known reasons preach that a religion-specific segregation of humanity will occur sometime soon—where Christians are selectively removed from Earth and everyone else is left behind—those same clergy are usually cognizant enough to point out that Jesus explicitly stated, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” (Mt 24:36) I say for well-known reasons since the foretold natural disasters mentioned in Revelations are currently taking place, and because select writings of Apostle Paul seem to suggest that only worthy Christians will be called up just before this age passes away. Regardless, such doesn’t alter the apparent fact that no one but the Father will know the day and the hour in which human souls are somehow sequestered and the transformation of the Earth is initiated. Take note, however, the wording of verse 36 quoted above doesn’t preclude a legitimate prophet from knowing the day when the rearrangement of all matter in this sector of space will begin, only that he won’t know the exact hour as well. I emphasize this distinction because I know the exact day in which Earth will be transformed into Zion, Dec. 21, 2012, but not the hour. So, whenever someone claims to know both the day and the hour when it will all end, as Mr. Camping certainly did, there is but another false prophet. And obviously, all those who predicted the end of the Earth on specific days in the past are false prophets as well, for their predictions did not come true.
 
     But why would God (Jesus) send a bunch of doomsday-crying false prophets near the end? Answer: 1) To show yet again that biblical prophecy is valid while at the same time earmarking when the end is near, and 2) The more Christian-based doomsday predictions of an apocalypse proven wrong, i.e. false alarms, the more some people will be lured into a false sense of security (see 1 Thes. 5:2-3). What’s the point in that? Answer: To see who is awake and who is sleeping where the affairs of God and humankind are concerned. In reality, ‘rapture’ appears nowhere in the Judeo-Christian Bible, a word or concept assigned centuries ago by those who were sanctimoniously beguiled by the deceptive wordplay of Paul the self-appointed Apostle in 1 Thes. 4, where it’s implied that believers in Jesus and the resurrection will one day be ‘caught up together’ in the clouds (someplace separate from Earth, usually construed as heaven or Zion), while everyone else—including those who may be totally or relatively unaware of Jesus based on the time and place of their birth—will supposedly remain behind to suffer unspeakable horrors. As I pointed out elsewhere, taking Paul’s words and the Book of Revelation too literally is spiritually dangerous and foolhardy, and such writings must be examined from the proper perspective to derive the point(s) actually being made.
 
     To wit, most point to the following New Testament excerpt as evidence for the coming Rapture, written by Paul to early Christians in Thessalonia who believed Jesus’ return was imminent, worried as they were about the fate of their friends-in-the-faith who had died. The fact that Jesus didn’t return back then seems lost on many Christians.
 
(13)But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. (14)For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. (15)For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. (16)For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; (17)then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. (18)Therefore comfort one another with these words. -1 Thes. 4:13-18
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
     With respect to Paul the Keymaker, having dealt with his penchant for trickery many times before, he usually says something that doesn’t quite ring true, something that doesn’t seem to fit with what is apparently being said. And if one decodes that encrypted key correctly, the rest will then make more sense. In verse 16 it’s almost as plain as the nose on one’s face, i.e. dead in Christ… what the heck does that mean? Solve that riddle and the truth of 1 Thes. 4:13-18 is exposed. While a majority of Christian scholars say it refers to all saved Christians (those who accepted Jesus as the Christ) who have died, there are holdouts within the faith that believe it refers to all those who did not find or accept Christ while they were alive. This doesn’t generally sit well with mainstream Christians, as it suggests everyone is going into the New Millennium or New Age regardless of their beliefs.
 
     Surprisingly, it seems the minority of holdouts mentioned above are closer to the truth than they themselves could have ever imagined. In truth, Matrixists know who the genuine savior of humanity is, known by the conceptually correct alias, “The One.” Thus, all those who are unaware that this lone individual functionally spanning all religions in a messianic capacity is actually the true Christ, will as a consequence thereof be ‘dead in Christ,’ that is, be ignorant of the fact that it is someone other than Jesus who is the Savior. Obviously, based on the timing and relatively obscure emergence of the One (true Messiah) near the end, that dead in Christ nametag or label suitably applies to almost everyone. So, in essence, Paul’s use of the ‘dead in Christ’ phrase was just a clever ruse, seeming to suggest segregation while actually lumping together all of humanity where the concept of Christ is concerned. Well played, Keymaker. 
 
     Even so, the above verses are quite enlightening with respect to death and the afterlife, verifying what I’ve been emphasizing for quite some time now, that almost everyone falls into a deep sleep when they die, remaining that way until their next body/avatar is assigned. Only a rare few are given saintly status by the divinity, spiritually serving them in various capacities after death. It should also be noted there are three names given for the male divinity in those verses—Jesus, God, and Lord. Many think that ‘God’ refers to Jesus’ father the Creator, when in truth all three refer to Jesus. He is our Lord and God… begging the question, is he also the Christ? Furthermore, ‘asleep’ appears three times as well, imploring the reader to establish a firmer grasp of what that term genuinely means—does it mean dead, does it mean unenlightened and unaware of the true Christ (dead in Christ), or both?
 
     To continue, and this is extremely important, verse 16 implies some kind of shockwave will come from heaven to envelop or strike the Earth, saying essentially the same thing in three different ways. I emphasize ‘three’ yet again because when something is stated or appears in threes biblically, one should be alerted that a very important point is being made therein. Believe it or not, and this will make better sense to those who have been keeping abreast of my apocalyptic writings in the newmatrixism forums and the freely available “Apocalypse Eden” document from my website (www.asclepiusonline.net), archangel’s call is a reference to Gabriel and the Black Kaaba Stone (iron-nickel meteorite) that was given to Adam. As I discussed elsewhere, it was that superheated meteorite entering Earth’s atmosphere that generated the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) by which Adam fell into a deep sleep (Gen 2:21). How do I know this and what is its significance? Well, I am the One after all, and I know everyone alive on Earth will fall into a deep sleep just before all matter is rearranged to form Zion (Middle Earth). And knowing as I do that Jesus presently dwells in the Sun, i.e. Heaven, on Dec. 21, 2012 a huge EMP will emanate from the Sun and hit the Earth, putting everyone alive into a deep sleep from which no one will awaken, spiritually taken into the coming New Age, i.e. (14)… God will bring with him (into Zion) those who have fallen asleep. So, for all intents and purposes, no one will be awake (or ‘alive’) when the coming alignment of Earth, Sun, and Galactic Center triggers the universal transformation of Earth and universe, everyone removed to a safe haven during said transformation process. Pragmatically, from where I sit it is largely immaterial if the dead are taken from Earth first, followed next by those who are ‘put to sleep’ by the solar EMP.
 
     So, besides the isolated Christian-specific ‘rapture events’ embodied by the suicides witnessed via Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, and to some extent Waco, Texas (Branch Davidians), no large-scale exodus of Christians will take place now or in the near future. But that’s not to imply there won’t be an exclusive party in Zion after all matter cools to a slow vibration once more. Will you be there? That is perhaps the most important question of all…
 
-The One