Ok,today is June 19, 2011 for those of you keeping track, but something odd strikes me. Can't seem to put my finger on it. I get this feeling something was supposed to happen on May 21st 2011 and well, it didn't.
Hmmm.
Of course it didn't, much to the surprise of Harold Camping. The surprise was that the world did not end like pastor Camping thought it would.
It won't happen in october either.
See, the problem with what is known has pre tribulation believer's is that some of them go too far and it can be one of two things, one they are either out of their minds or two their down right scary talking about death and how pretty it is going to be. The pretty part is getting to Heaven.
Its a goal that all Christian's want to and will reach, but I personally don't think it should be somethig that consumes your every day thought that you go about planning what you and your friends are gong to do in Heaven once you get there.
A pastor I once heard give a sermon said this: "Even though Heaven is going to be fun and we will finally get a chance to meet Jesus face to face, we shouldn't go making plans for what we are going to do once we get there, because it will amaze so much, we wont have time to make plans."
If I am getting long winded and what I just wrote makes no sence, let me put it this way: Maybe we should just live our lives the way do, worshipping God the way we do and leave the party planning to Him.
Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to going to Heaven when I die, but I have never made plans of what I will do once I get there.
Here is a question that may or may not have been asked during the months leading up to that May Saturday. Why is this guy saying this?
I can't speak for him, but I can give you my hypothesis and its this: Once we become Christians we want to share the Good News of Christ with other people. We want them to know the same joy that we feel and the fact that we are going to heaven. We want them to come with us.
We made the choice,why can't they?
It's a fair question that I think I have the answer for. I have stated this before.
Christians and non christian alike like doing what ever it is they do and they don't want to be told that it is wrong. Doesn't matter if it is or isn't. Alot of people in todays society love doing the wrong thing just for the sake of doing it.
People may say to you, 'why are you a Christian? Why is it so important to you to have God in your life'? Another simple answer, it is because we are tired of living our lives the way we used to.
When I became a Christian in 1993, I was dealing with alot of issues. I didn't know how to deal with them. Some of it anger, some it just nonsence I had brought on my self. Thing was, I wanted to get rid of it all, but I didn't know how to.
Now, granted there are doctors, therapist's etc that can help what ever ills you, but, the problem comes back.
What I found is that God is the ultimate healer. Once you give him a problem in your life, he takes care of it. Now, you may find your self thinking about it from time to time, but you know God has it in control.
Once again, when we become Christians we want to share it with other's so they can know the same peace we do.
So there for when some one like a Harold Camping says what he says, even though he has no more insight than you or I do, he is doing it because he wants people to know Heaven is a real place and he doesn't want people to go to hell.
It's unfortunate that people choose to go there.
The only flaw with Camping's message is this: No one on earth knows when Jesus will comeback. NO ONE.
Only Person that knows is God himself.
I will leave you with two things
One: I am sure you have heard many people say this: 'You're funnier than hell or you look like hell or worse yet, go to hell.
Hell is not funny and it wont be a party.
everyone knows what hell looks like and I doubt there is one human on earth that looks like it or feels like it
and third, if you are a Christian and want people to come to heaven with you why would we tell them to go somewhere we are trying save them from?
It your choice. To all that will read this, I can't say I will never meet you personally because I don't know if I will or not, but if I don't I hope to meet you in Heaven.
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