Save The Date: Jesus Returns May 21, 2011!

By on December 22, 2010 in News 88

Jesus Is BackBob Smietana writes in the Tennessean:

That’s the message on 40 billboards around Nashville, proclaiming May 21, 2011, as the date of the Rapture. Billboards are up in eight other U.S. cities, too.

Fans of Family Radio Inc., a nationwide Christian network, paid for the billboards. Family Radio’s founder, Harold Camping, predicted the May date for the Rapture.

Their message is simple — “He Is Coming Again” — and their aim is to get unbelievers to turn around quickly. But critics say the billboards are a waste of time, one more failed attempt to predict the end of the world.

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  • http://www.xenex.org/ xen

    Have these people ever actually *read* their Bibles? Their holiest of books is rather clear that one cannot possibly know when their Messiah will be back in town. He’s like that one friend from college who calls from the airport and asks to crash with you, even though you haven’t spoken in 2000 years.

    • Anonymous

      He has an argument for that, I saw the video of a Christian phoning in saying exactly that and Camping gives some sort of argument why he can know, hence “WeCanKnow”.com

    • RevFred

      Churches never mention these verses that state the believers will know more than the unbeliervers like when christ will return, ask your minister what these verses mean! I am sure that he will not have an answer.

      1 Thessalonians 5:
      4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
      5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
      6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

  • http://www.xenex.org/ xen

    Have these people ever actually *read* their Bibles? Their holiest of books is rather clear that one cannot possibly know when their Messiah will be back in town. He’s like that one friend from college who calls from the airport and asks to crash with you, even though you haven’t spoken in 2000 years.

  • http://twitter.com/boredgamergirl Gamer Girl

    Xen is absolutely right! It is clearly said that nobody will know when Jesus will return! And it is also said, it will be when we least expectit!

    • nondescript

      Actually, I know exactly when Jesus will return: Never!

      If the guy existed, he’s long dead.

      • RevFred

        Daniel 12:
        8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
        9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
        10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

  • http://twitter.com/boredgamergirl Gamer Girl

    Xen is absolutely right! It is clearly said that nobody will know when Jesus will return! And it is also said, it will be when we least expectit!

  • chinagreenelvis

    This site is going to look awfully silly on May 22nd.

    • Gilbert Armenta

      it looks silly now, no need to wait

      • RevFred

        Remember Camping is not selling anything on the radio to make money. Family radio was always free to the listerners.
        What has he to gain by sticking his neck out like this???
        If the end comes, he is off and if the end does not come he is off. He is doing this because he truly believes God is using him for this message. What does he have to gain? I don;t have the kind of courage he has. Just think what he is putting out there.
        I remember the professors in Seminary telling us that the Genelogies in the Bible are only important to trace the line of the prophets. They discounted the actually life spans. Think of it, It would take an engineer to learn the significance of the numbers so God could give us a warning of the actually end.
        Whether he is right of wrong we will know it in less than 4 months.
        But, you have to ask yourself, look at the state of the world. That is more scary than judgment day. What the heck is going yo happen to us if May 21, 2011 does not happen.

        • Andrew

          The state of the world is scarier than judgment day? Sounds to me like you’re really motivated more by fear than hope, which is true of most of us, and that’s why you try to frighten people into believing in your God with threats of damnation.

  • chinagreenelvis

    This site is going to look awfully silly on May 22nd.

  • justagirl

    time to get out my styrofoam boots.

    • GoodDoktorBad

      What are you babbling about? Tee HeeHee

      • justagirl

        the “said” rapture. take a listen. 1 2 3 4!

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li30NxCsJ7w

        • GoodDoktorBad

          That’s a wacky song and you’re a wacky chick…..that’s why I like you.

          • justagirl

            AW! i am liking you, too, gooddoctor. but, what will the neighbors think? (lol)

  • justagirl

    time to get out my styrofoam boots.

  • AP

    You just have to laugh about this ridiculous stuff and not get upset that most people are stupid sheep! If you take it all too seriously, then you’ll go nuts!

  • AP

    You just have to laugh about this ridiculous stuff and not get upset that most people are stupid sheep! If you take it all too seriously, then you’ll go nuts!

  • Ironaddict06

    Does anyone know why they choose that date?

    • GoodDoktorBad

      Its just the arbitrary date that we all must pull ourselves together by or Jesus won’t be pleased.
      Jesus smash puny humans!!

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/LZNJUGQUKQ5GBYR3FZ3D4FJF7I Donald

      There’s a bunch of calculations on their web pages (yes, I’ve actually read them). Let’s just say their math is so wildly different from the long-accepted calculations that even I had to stare at the end, uncomprehendingly, at their stuff.

  • Ironaddict06

    Does anyone know why they choose that date?

  • http://www.facebook.com/winterisoverrated Fabian_Ramos

    Yes, “Like a theif in the night..”

    I was in NYC for the first time last month and a guy on the street was calling out and giving away pamplets on this May 21. I still have the paper. havent read it yet but I will

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Santos-Fabian-Ramos/554995370 Fabian_Ramos

    Yes, “Like a theif in the night..”

    I was in NYC for the first time last month and a guy on the street was calling out and giving away pamplets on this May 21. I still have the paper. havent read it yet but I will

  • Alturn

    According to Share International, Jesus has been in a Syrian body for the last 670 plus years and now lives outside of Rome. Many daily see him around the world. So his coming could be seen as old news.

    If it is about everyone seeing him, that is indicated to happen when his teacher, the World Teacher Maitreya, introduces him. Maitreya has been on an American television program at least 27 times since last December.

    As far as a timetable for wider viewership, it has been said to be predicated on reaction to the message of the need for global sharing. The viewpoint that many hold of sharing being socialism – with socialism being viewed negatively – has been a major reason for Jesus not being able to come forward. Everyone seeing Jesus could have happened in the early 1980s but too many Americans, including Christians, were not ready.

    • Andrew

      You lost me at the first sentence.

      • Alturn

        Jesus is not a figment of the imagination but a real historical person. Since his historical mission, it is indicated that, just like the rest of us, he has reincarnated. The difference is that Jesus now is what is called a Master of Wisdom, or one who has transcended the limitations of the standard human state. When you are a Master you have purified your body to the degree that it can last for hundreds, or thousands, of years without degradation or aging. That is how Jesus can be in the same body for that long. There are numerous Masters in the world in bodies of significant age. Leonard Orr was one that researched what he termed the ‘immortals’.

        The limitations of our knowledge of what we can become limits the understanding of the beauty of our journey.

  • Alturn

    According to Share International, Jesus has been in a Syrian body for the last 670 plus years and now lives outside of Rome. Many daily see him around the world. So his coming could be seen as old news.

    If it is about everyone seeing him, that is indicated to happen when his teacher, the World Teacher Maitreya, introduces him. Maitreya has been on an American television program at least 27 times since last December.

    As far as a timetable for wider viewership, it has been said to be predicated on reaction to the message of the need for global sharing. The viewpoint that many hold of sharing being socialism – with socialism being viewed negatively – has been a major reason for Jesus not being able to come forward. Everyone seeing Jesus could have happened in the early 1980s but too many Americans, including Christians, were not ready.

  • Andrew

    You lost me at the first sentence.

  • Alturn

    Jesus is not a figment of the imagination but a real historical person. Since his historical mission, it is indicated that, just like the rest of us, he has reincarnated. The difference is that Jesus now is what is called a Master of Wisdom, or one who has transcended the limitations of the standard human state. When you are a Master you have purified your body to the degree that it can last for hundreds, or thousands, of years without degradation or aging. That is how Jesus can be in the same body for that long. There are numerous Masters in the world in bodies of significant age. Leonard Orr was one that researched what he termed the ‘immortals’.

    The limitations of our knowledge of what we can become limits the understanding of the beauty of our journey.

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  • Andrew

    I disagree.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Highlander Jesus…epic win.

    I love u man.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    I’m fortunate enough to have a copy of an old Christian 1912 newspaper, complete with whacky screeds against whatever sin was on the ‘shitlist’ that day. Included were prophecies regarding the end times, the Rapture, and the dates for said events.

    Batshit has always sold well…especially when it promises a free ticket out of having to live with the consequences of your actions. This is no different.

    • RevFred

      Sooner or later one of these predictions has got to be right! Look at the world today. How would you fix it?
      The world is in such a mess our only hope is God’s return. You who don’t want him to return, ask yourself: Who is going to help the world. The world is truly beyond any human help. No jobs, no money, no future. Governments around the world in unrest! Greed and violence and vice has already destroyed our world. Now our only salvation is the Lord’s intervention.

      • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

        Uh huh…so your theory is that…since no one is doing enough to make thing’s better…the answer is to quit entirely and encourage others to quit trying as well…and then just wait for God to end the world so that no one has to deal with the mess they made?

        No thanks…your kind are the source of the laziness and apathy that have infected the world and Christianity. God is not a Merry Maid service…neither is God a parent who cleans up his childrens messes for them…if anything, like a good parent…he’ll let us stew in our own mess until we clean it up.

        The end of the world won’t come and rescue you from living with the consequences of your choices…I’d recommend working hard in your community to actually improve it like the liberals here do…but thats too much to expect of the fringe cases who choose a death cult over life and hard work.

      • vexact

        Come Jesus, can I have your car?

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    I’m fortunate enough to have a copy of an old Christian 1912 newspaper, complete with whacky screeds against whatever sin was on the ‘shitlist’ that day. Included were prophecies regarding the end times, the Rapture, and the dates for said events.

    Batshit has always sold well…especially when it promises a free ticket out of having to live with the consequences of your actions. This is no different.

  • Anonymous

    Rub some oil on your forehead on May 21, 2011. You too can be the annoited one….

  • GoodDoktorBad

    I’m sure Jesus really digs it when people use his name to spread lies and fear. Its what the annoited one wants to see when he comes back. All is fair in Love and marketing….

  • Anonymous

    What are you babbling about? Tee HeeHee

  • Anonymous

    Its just the arbitrary date that we all must pull ourselves together by or Jesus won’t be pleased.
    Jesus smash puny humans!!

  • Oli42

    Homer Simpson, was close, he had it pinned down on the 18th

  • Oli42

    Homer Simpson, was close, he had it pinned down on the 18th

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/LZNJUGQUKQ5GBYR3FZ3D4FJF7I Donald

    There’s a bunch of calculations on their web pages (yes, I’ve actually read them). Let’s just say their math is so wildly different from the long-accepted calculations that even I had to stare at the end, uncomprehendingly, at their stuff.

  • Potter

    How much to buy those billboards a few years? Keep them up as a monument to these folks.

  • Potter

    How much to buy those billboards a few years? Keep them up as a monument to these folks.

    • RevFred

      These people are spending their own money in an effort to help people like you.
      That is the thanks they get. You really deserve judgment day! I hope you enjoy it!

      • justagirl

        spoken like a true christian there rev… good job.

  • Guest

    I wish they would come up with a date every believer could agree on, just so there would be many many people with their faith crushed the day after.

  • Guest

    I wish they would come up with a date every believer could agree on, just so there would be many many people with their faith crushed the day after.

    • Excusem

      Agreed. At least Camping isn’t a coward like most Christians who just say the Rapture is “coming soon” but of course they have no actual timeframe to lay out. Then when they’re on their deathbed they’ll say “any day now I’m sure of it!”.

  • justagirl

    the “said” rapture. take a listen. 1 2 3 4!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li30NxCsJ7w

  • Anonymous

    He has an argument for that, I saw the video of a Christian phoning in saying exactly that and Camping gives some sort of argument why he can know, hence “WeCanKnow”.com

  • Anonymous

    That’s a wacky song and you’re a wacky chick…..that’s why I like you.

  • justagirl

    AW! i am liking you, too, gooddoctor. but, what will the neighbors think? (lol)

  • Ken

    I want to know NOW what they will say when it doesn’t happen. Someone needs to ask them what it means if/when it does not occur. Of course they will first insist it will happen… but o.k., what if… just suppose…if doesn’t. let’s get the excuses out right now. What I want them to admit, but they will not do so, is that their failure to be correct on this NECESSARILY implies that everything they believe about this bullshit is also not true.

  • Ken

    I want to know NOW what they will say when it doesn’t happen. Someone needs to ask them what it means if/when it does not occur. Of course they will first insist it will happen… but o.k., what if… just suppose…if doesn’t. let’s get the excuses out right now. What I want them to admit, but they will not do so, is that their failure to be correct on this NECESSARILY implies that everything they believe about this bullshit is also not true.

  • Gilbert Armenta

    it looks silly now, no need to wait

  • Marc

    I better start voting Republican…

  • Marc

    I better start voting Republican…

  • fred

    Daniel 12:
    8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
    9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
    10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

  • Fred

    1 Thessalonians
    4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
    5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
    6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

  • nondescript

    Actually, I know exactly when Jesus will return: Never!

    If the guy existed, he’s long dead.

  • RevFred

    Churches never mention these verses that state the believers will know more than the unbeliervers like when christ will return, ask your minister what these verses mean! I am sure that he will not have an answer.

    1 Thessalonians 5:
    4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
    5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
    6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

  • RevFred

    Churches never mention these verses that state the believers will know more than the unbeliervers like when christ will return, ask your minister what these verses mean! I am sure that he will not have an answer.

    1 Thessalonians 5:
    4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
    5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
    6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

  • RevFred

    Remember Camping is not selling anything on the radio to make money. Family radio was always free to the listerners.
    What has he to gain by sticking his neck out like this???
    If the end comes, he is off and if the end does not come he is off. He is doing this because he truly believes God is using him for this message. What does he have to gain? I don;t have the kind of courage he has. Just think what he is putting out there.
    I remember the professors in Seminary telling us that the Genelogies in the Bible are only important to trace the line of the prophets. They discounted the actually life spans. Think of it, It would take an engineer to learn the significance of the numbers so God could give us a warning of the actually end.
    Whether he is right of wrong we will know it in less than 4 months.
    But, you have to ask yourself, look at the state of the world. That is more scary than judgment day. What the heck is going yo happen to us if May 21, 2011 does not happen.

  • RevFred

    Daniel 12:
    8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
    9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
    10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

  • RevFred

    These people are spending their own money in an effort to help people like you.
    That is the thanks they get. You really deserve judgment day! I hope you enjoy it!

  • RevFred

    Sooner or later one of these predictions has got to be right! Look at the world today. How would you fix it?
    The world is in such a mess our only hope is God’s return. You who don’t want him to return, ask yourself: Who is going to help the world. The world is truly beyond any human help. No jobs, no money, no future. Governments around the world in unrest! Greed and violence and vice has already destroyed our world. Now our only salvation is the Lord’s intervention.

  • RevFred

    Sooner or later one of these predictions has got to be right! Look at the world today. How would you fix it?
    The world is in such a mess our only hope is God’s return. You who don’t want him to return, ask yourself: Who is going to help the world. The world is truly beyond any human help. No jobs, no money, no future. Governments around the world in unrest! Greed and violence and vice has already destroyed our world. Now our only salvation is the Lord’s intervention.

  • justagirl

    spoken like a true christian there rev… good job.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Uh huh…so your theory is that…since no one is doing enough to make thing’s better…the answer is to quit entirely and encourage others to quit trying as well…and then just wait for God to end the world so that no one has to deal with the mess they made?

    No thanks…your kind are the source of the laziness and apathy that have infected the world and Christianity. God is not a Merry Maid service…neither is God a parent who cleans up his childrens messes for them…if anything, like a good parent…he’ll let us stew in our own mess until we clean it up.

    The end of the world won’t come and rescue you from living with the consequences of your choices…I’d recommend working hard in your community to actually improve it like the liberals here do…but thats too much to expect of the fringe cases who choose a death cult over life and hard work.

  • Andrew

    The state of the world is scarier than judgment day? Sounds to me like you’re really motivated more by fear than hope, which is true of most of us, and that’s why you try to frighten people into believing in your God with threats of damnation.

  • Anonymous

    Come Jesus, can I have your car?

  • Elijah

    Come Jesus, COME!!! :D

  • Elijah

    Come Jesus, COME!!! :D

  • Excusem

    Agreed. At least Camping isn’t a coward like most Christians who just say the Rapture is “coming soon” but of course they have no actual timeframe to lay out. Then when they’re on their deathbed they’ll say “any day now I’m sure of it!”.

  • Davemorin

    the old testament was replaced by the new testament after christ died on the cross in 33 AD  now if you add 7000 years to that you get the date 7033AD

  • Davemorin

    the old testament was replaced by the new testament after christ died on the cross in 33 AD  now if you add 7000 years to that you get the date 7033AD

  • Davemorin

    the bible also states that the rapture doesnt begin untill the 116th pope in rome has fled the city for a coming war, well ratzinger is the 112th pope we have 4 more popes to go, and thats roughly 430 more years, so i think we have some time. i wouldnt listent to this cause #1 like the doomsday of 2012 and that guru from 2006 that claimed the world would end then,  never came true, the mayan calender doesnot predict the end of the world in 2012 it predicts that the cycle ends and starts again, it did so in 1615AD, the cycle is like the odometer on a car, it goes to all zeros and starts a new count from one. the mayan calender also mentions a celebration of the 5000 year anniversity of its mayan kings jublation in the year 4884AD

     its all hocus pocus nonesense, why hasnt any of this gloom and doom happened 20 years ago in newspapers its because 98% of the worlds population is on the internet, their easy pickins to these scare tactics dont believe a thing untill the pope in rome makes a statement and the leaders of the world relay it to you. nomatter what your religion, the pope in rome is a representitive of God. i will not believe a word of this unless i hear it from the pope!

  • Davemorin

    the bible also states that the rapture doesnt begin untill the 116th pope in rome has fled the city for a coming war, well ratzinger is the 112th pope we have 4 more popes to go, and thats roughly 430 more years, so i think we have some time. i wouldnt listent to this cause #1 like the doomsday of 2012 and that guru from 2006 that claimed the world would end then,  never came true, the mayan calender doesnot predict the end of the world in 2012 it predicts that the cycle ends and starts again, it did so in 1615AD, the cycle is like the odometer on a car, it goes to all zeros and starts a new count from one. the mayan calender also mentions a celebration of the 5000 year anniversity of its mayan kings jublation in the year 4884AD

     its all hocus pocus nonesense, why hasnt any of this gloom and doom happened 20 years ago in newspapers its because 98% of the worlds population is on the internet, their easy pickins to these scare tactics dont believe a thing untill the pope in rome makes a statement and the leaders of the world relay it to you. nomatter what your religion, the pope in rome is a representitive of God. i will not believe a word of this unless i hear it from the pope!