An Ipsos poll in 2006 said that 25% of adults believe it is at least somewhat likely that Jesus Christ will return to Earth in 2007. Among white evangelical Christian adults, 66% believed this. Yet three years later Jesus still has not returned. Want to know why Jesus did not come in 2007 and still won’t come in 2010?
Update: Although this article was written in 2007, it is far from outdated. I'm sure if another poll were done for 2010, most Christians would still believe the Return of Christ was somewhat likely to happen in 2010. Yet they still would be wrong for the same reasons they have been wrong every year since 2007. Find out how I knew the Second Advent would not happen in 2007, 2008 or 2009 and why it will not happen in 2010, either. Read on:
When I first heard the results of this poll, I was surprised at how large a percentage of Christians thought that Christ was somewhat likely to return in the next year. Of course, after studying Bible prophecy seriously for over a decade, I have more than a casual knowledge of this subject. From my studies I have learned many important details about the end times roadmap that the people surveyed do not know. If they had surveyed me, I would have looked for a box to check that said Jesus’ return was “impossible” in 2007, not just “highly unlikely”. And 2010 is going to be no different. How do I know this and how can I be so sure?
Legal Prerequisites To Jesus’ Return
It is simple. There are several prerequisites given in Bible prophecy for the return of Jesus Christ and none of them are present or fulfilled yet. Without them happening, it is impossible for Jesus to come in 2010 or even in the few years following 2010. Being unaware of these prophecies, Christians are able to believe an event is possible that Scripture tells us is currently impossible.
[b]Conclusion[/b]
According to the Bible, Jesus won't be returning in 2010 2007 or the next 3½ years for sure. The belief that the Second Advent can happen imminently or without warning breaks Scripture. Scripture teaches there are prerequisites that must come first (as were listed above). Scripture is supposed to be our guide, not fictional books like "Left Behind".
Jir I’m sooooo looking forward to 2014 when I come across this kinda shite! (wtf!!)
3.5yrs give them enough time to suck da thumb and live of other suckers
hard earned money! Very profitable business this!!!
For goodness sakes, these idiots piss me off to the extreme. Same with the 2012 morons. I have posted an offer to these idiots on several forums. I offered to buy their homes for R 100 000, today, whilst allowing them to live in their homes until the 22nd Dec 2012. This way, they will be able to live in their homes until the “end of the world”, whilst having a few bucks in hand for a lovely holiday or whatever. Guess how many of these wombats have taken up my offer. Yep, not one.
Sometimes I swear the human race is getting dumber by the day. Scratch that, by the second.
It gets worse if that’s possible. Harold Camping managed to accumulate a sizeable bunch of uncritical dupes, obsessively pushing the idea that beginning on 21 May 2011 and ending five months later, their god will decimate humanity except for a select few devotees. Needless to say, Camping’s cronies’ end-of-the-world predictions, like many thousands of other predictions of that kind, have come to naught in the past but this has hardly dampened their taste for cataclysm. Not unexpectedly, none of these people is prepared to put their proverbial money where their mouth is.
Come 22 May 2011 when nothing unusual is happening, they’ll come up with a list of excuses as long as your arm for why they got it wrong, as well as a new date for global calamity. What they will most certainly not do is to acknowledge that likely their inferential and deductive methods are fundamentally and irreparably flawed and dippy to begin with.
I can’t help feeling that people latch onto such end-of-the-world fantasies mainly because they’ve convinced themselves that they are unhappy with their lives and hopeful for something much better afterwards. And perhaps more than a little of the idea that if they can’t be happy, then nobody else should have the right to be, either.
LMFAO Good one, I would definitely offer a 100k to these people in the future, but in their face, can’t wait to see the reaction!
Ghee would this Omie see this D date, I sure as hell hope so, even if it is his last lesson in life! But on the other side, he has experienced so MANY of these already in his lifetime, if he still clings to it, nothing would convince him otherwise!
Damn good point you’ve made Mefi, I think the reason they convince themselves that
They are unhappy with their lives is because of all the PROMISES made since birth. The promise of a Heaven and all its glory, which let earth and “normal” life seem an unhappy and boring place to be! They choose to ignore the saying: “The grass always seems greener on the other side”, in their opinion it is only applicable to married people
y’all know, that science has thought up this little miracle, called an anti-depressant, so if you are really kak unhappy about your meagre existance. hey presto! you feel better, and you are less of a winy spineless little git to boot.
and btw, THH, your quip in the boobies discusion, none of those pics are my girls, they dont have any tattoos on
old stevo, they are allready saying it. the earthquakes are making them tremble in the vellies. and the volcano also doesnt help. im like, for bob’s sake, its called nature. there are plenty earthquakes about, and as many active volcanoes. just they dont disrupt some country’s something or other, doesnt mean they dont exist.
sure, its freaky that all these are happening within such a short time of each other, but ya know, its called plate tectonics and continental drift. google it.
OK, you know what. It’s time someone claims to be a profit with a message from god, saying that all believers should kill themselves before the “end of the world”, in order to prove their faith. And as a final measure of magnanimous goodwill they should bequeath their earthly possessions to an atheist to show them the glory of god. The world will be a better place without them and there will be less crappy viral e-mails in my inbox.
Jeesh GCG, way to shatter the illusions of your stalker!
Nah, the talk is about the world literally coming to an end. The apparent increase in seismic and volcanic activity is just that: apparent. The numbers are well within statistical expectation, and it just so happened that the recent spate of earthquakes occurred in populated areas. That doesn’t mean that seismic activity is increasing globally, and there’s no indication that it is. Besides, to interpret these things as precursors of Armageddon doesn’t remotely fit the model the end-of-the-worlders are advancing, namely a sudden, unmistakable appearance of their god’s hand that then proceeds to rend this sinful world asunder – except for those who had the wisdom to keep up with their contributions to an Old Eternal forgiveness policy.
Nothing short of the complete devastation of this planet can possibly validate these ridiculous prognostications.
Hey GCG, I’ll stalk you for your brain any day - I’ll leave the boob-stalking to our moral Christian brethren.
If you set your spell-checker (spell-checker is what witches have on their PCs) to British English (the correct English) then your spelling of superiour will be honoured (as will honour, saviour etc.).
And THH,
It’s time someone claims to be a profit with a message from god
I will, of course, claim that the misspelling was deliberate in order to make fun of the monetary motives of the clappies. That’s my story and I am sticking to it.
