21 May End of World: If faithful listeners of the Christian broadcasting network Family Radio are to be believed, then the organizers of the Skokie Festival of Cultures picked the wrong date to kickstart the festivities on Saturday.
On that day, May 21, 2011, the world will come to an end, according to the Christian group Project Caravan, which has been crisscrossing the U.S., including the Chicago area, to spread its message. It is a claim widely received with skepticism if not outright dismissal from other religious and scientific communities.
"The end of the world is almost here," Project Caravan proclaims on its radio station, its billboards, its leaflets and its website. "The bible guarantees it."
Five months of natural disaster will commence on May 21, and earthquakes will cause widespread death among nonbelievers, while the believers will be saved from damnation and punishment.
According to the Oakland-based group headed by preacher Harold Camping, only about 200 million people or 3 percent of the world's current population will be saved and "will be caught up [ruptured] into heaven."
Amer Olson is the director of the Skokie-based Jews For Jesus. He told Skokie Patch that setting a definite date for the world to end "seems foolish and contrary to the scriptures."
Olson notes there have been many claims of doomsday scenarios that "have not come to pass."
Jews For Jesus, a missionary group, believes that only God can determine when the exact Judgment Day will come.
"His return is imminent. That means it could be in the next five seconds, it could be 500 years or anywhere in between," Olson said.
"I will not pack my bags and sell all my possessions on May 20," Olson said. "But if the Messiah does return that's great. He's gonna return any day."
Source: http://skokie.patch.com/articles/world-to-end-on-may-21-skeptics-not-buying-it
On that day, May 21, 2011, the world will come to an end, according to the Christian group Project Caravan, which has been crisscrossing the U.S., including the Chicago area, to spread its message. It is a claim widely received with skepticism if not outright dismissal from other religious and scientific communities.
"The end of the world is almost here," Project Caravan proclaims on its radio station, its billboards, its leaflets and its website. "The bible guarantees it."
Five months of natural disaster will commence on May 21, and earthquakes will cause widespread death among nonbelievers, while the believers will be saved from damnation and punishment.
According to the Oakland-based group headed by preacher Harold Camping, only about 200 million people or 3 percent of the world's current population will be saved and "will be caught up [ruptured] into heaven."
Amer Olson is the director of the Skokie-based Jews For Jesus. He told Skokie Patch that setting a definite date for the world to end "seems foolish and contrary to the scriptures."
Olson notes there have been many claims of doomsday scenarios that "have not come to pass."
Jews For Jesus, a missionary group, believes that only God can determine when the exact Judgment Day will come.
"His return is imminent. That means it could be in the next five seconds, it could be 500 years or anywhere in between," Olson said.
"I will not pack my bags and sell all my possessions on May 20," Olson said. "But if the Messiah does return that's great. He's gonna return any day."
Source: http://skokie.patch.com/articles/world-to-end-on-may-21-skeptics-not-buying-it
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