End Time Things that never happened....

Answered13 · #1 02-12-2011, 09:06 AM

Because of the thread about The Pale Horse, I started thinking of a million things I heard growing up about the end time that never happened.
What are some you had heard?
I will start:
A television that will blow up if you do not bow to it

A person was driving down the street and passed a hitchhiker. They looked back and the hitchhiker was in their backseat. They said " I am an angel sent to tell you Jesus is coming back soon" I had heard this story claimed as true.(I found this on Snopes.com)LOL

The big Belgum computer (I also found this on Snopes)

Sam · #2 02-12-2011, 09:08 AM

The "rapture" hasn't happened.

missourimary · #3 02-12-2011, 09:26 AM

Everyone was going to get a barcode tattooed on their foreheads.

Austin · #4 02-12-2011, 09:32 AM

We today are much similar to the apostles in the early church. Also throughout the church history people have used various events and stories to implicate that Jesus is coming.
In the early church the apostles actually believed that Jesus was going to return in their life time. Second, during the first great persecution by the Roman government around 50-70 AD the church at that time thought they were going through the great tribulation. Later when the so-called christian churches began to kill and persecute the believers in Europe then those in that time thought the end had come.
We today have the tendency to be the same in that belief. Most of all because we have a tendency to be overly anxious to see the coming of our Lord.
Today in this century it is more evident that we are approaching not just the last days, but the latter days. In other words we are at the end and nearer to the coming of Christ.
One of the most important things to watch for is the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. This is the main time clock to the last seven years of this present world system. When it is built and the daily sacrifice begins then you can number the days until the coming of Jesus.
Now there are a lot of other signs to watch for and to take into consideration which point to the end of all things. Maybe someone else on here may what to post thoses

ReddMann24 · #5 02-13-2011, 09:24 PM

I dont remember this because I was only 5, but I have a pamplet/small book titled 88 reasons the rapture will happen in 1988. It was in some stuff my grandpa gave me. I decided to keep it around to remind me to be cautious of jumping on these kinds of bandwagons.

pelathais · #6 02-14-2011, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by ReddMann24

I dont remember this because I was only 5, but I have a pamplet/small book titled 88 reasons the rapture will happen in 1988. It was in some stuff my grandpa gave me. I decided to keep it around to remind me to be cautious of jumping on these kinds of bandwagons.

LOL. I remember driving down the street toward the east at sunrise on that very morning in 1988 (Can't remember the exact date, September something) and wondering what was going through the heads of the people who believed that pamphlet.

Of course, the very next year the same nimrod came out with a new pamphlet - "89 Reasons..." He confessed that he had forgotten to count the "year zero." As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a maroon... what an imbecel."

The "Year Zero" had zero months, zero weeks, zero days, zero hours and zero seconds. In other words, it never happened. But this guy wasn't happy being wrong once, he wanted to be wrong twice.

... and so it goes.

The Mrs · #7 02-14-2011, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ReddMann24

I dont remember this because I was only 5, but I have a pamplet/small book titled 88 reasons the rapture will happen in 1988. It was in some stuff my grandpa gave me. I decided to keep it around to remind me to be cautious of jumping on these kinds of bandwagons.

I remember reading this in '88! Scared the tarnation out of me!!!

Timmy · #8 02-14-2011, 09:41 AM

In the mid-nineties, a man in our church (a preacher, but not the pastor) said God's calendar doesn't go past 1999, so Jesus would be coming back before 2000.

Answered13 · #9 02-14-2011, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Timmy

In the mid-nineties, a man in our church (a preacher, but not the pastor) said God's calendar doesn't go past 1999, so Jesus would be coming back before 2000.

Really!

OnTheFritz · #10 02-14-2011, 03:23 PM

This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder about some of the "doctrines" that have been "inspired by God" over the years. I mean seriously. I would assume that some really respected folks received really strong "feelings" before making these endtime predictions. These give us a little chuckle, but Lord help us if we have a organizations built on similar "feelings".