Make My Bed? But the World Ends Tomorrow!

Everyone seems to be talking about the end of the world...which according to Harold Camping and his followers, is supposed to happen tomorrow, May 21, 2011.  So what's a family to do if the parents think tomorrow is the day Jesus is coming, but your teenage kids simply ain't buying it?

Today's New York Times article has just such a story;

The Haddad children of Middletown, Md., have a lot on their minds: school projects, SATs, weekend parties. And parents who believe the earth will begin to self-destruct on Saturday.

The three teenagers have been struggling to make sense of their shifting world, which started changing nearly two years ago when their mother, Abby Haddad Carson, left her job as a nurse to “sound the trumpet” on mission trips with her husband, Robert, handing out tracts. They stopped working on their house and saving for college.

“My mom has told me directly that I’m not going to get into heaven,” Grace Haddad, 16, said. “At first it was really upsetting, but it’s what she honestly believes.”

Ms. Douglas and other believers subscribe to the prophecy of Harold Camping, a civil engineer turned self-taught biblical scholar whose doomsday scenario — broadcast on his Family Radio network — predicts a May 21, 2011, Judgment Day. On that day, arrived at through a series of Bible-based calculations that assume the world will end exactly 7,000 years after Noah’s flood, believers are to be transported up to heaven as a worldwide earthquake strikes. Nonbelievers will endure five months of plagues, quakes, wars, famine and general torment before the planet’s total destruction in October. In 1992 Mr. Camping said the rapture would probably be in 1994, but he now says newer evidence makes the prophecy for this year certain.

See it here; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20rapture.html

So what really is going to happen tomorrow?  Most likely it's going to be just another Saturday.

But what is happening behind the scenes...in the battle that is taking place in the heavens...just beyond our view?  Satan may gain a few more points when May 22 rolls around because there will be even more scoffers, there will be even more non-Christians who will see this May 21 story as a reason to ridicule genuine prophecy watchers, and it is certainly being used as a tool to desensitize people to the severity of the situation that the world is actually in. 

Last night Jay Leno opened his joke telling-monologue about May 21 Judgment Day.  So now even someone whose eyes may have started to open...will now re close them...and drift back to sleep...ignoring the quiet knocking of Jesus Christ....and when the rapture TRULY happens....they will be left behind.  This is EXACTLY what Satan wants....and how he is currently using the tool by the name of Harold Camping.

"NO MAN KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR....", says Jesus Christ whom Camping claims to follow.