I have never seen such convoluted thinking in my life. The false prophets claim they get the rapture date straight from the bible and call those who do not believe their false prophecies 'unbelievers' (or worse) and when that "rapture date" false prophecy fails - they go on without missing a beat and give more false rapture date prophecies - no apology - no admittance that their prophecy was wrong - NOTHING but new false prophecies.
Only those who are willingly deceived will follow a false prophet and the false demon "god" they serve - ba-al (aka - tammuz, mithra, etc.)
The false prophets are the five foolish virgins who believe they have time to go off and buy oil (do things for G-d) because they are watching a future date. The five wise virgins are anxiously awaiting the Bridegroom to arrive at any time and they have continually done the L-rd's work and are prepared for His any time soon return.
Fruitcake false prophet Gary Rich completely and totally agreed with satanist false prophet Ron Reese that the tribulation started on october 29, 2008 with obama's infomercial (making obama the antimessiah) and that there was 75 days after that until the rapture (which was january 11, 2009) They even took Daniel's prophecies that related to the end of the tribulation and falsely (and deceptively) applied the prophecies to the time between obama's infomercial and the failed false prophecy rapture date of january 11, 2009 (never mind the book of Daniel says 45 days and there is not even 75 days mentioned in Daniel's prophecy as false prophet Ron Reese and false prophet Gary Rich claim)
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http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2009/garyr112-2.htm
Gary Rich (12 Jan 2009) "Rapture Warnings = Soul Winning"
It would be quite normal to play monday morning quarterback and pick apart what went wrong with all our prophecy timelines , 111s, dreams ,visions etc that all pointed to a major event happening yesterday, Sunday Jan 11th. But before that happens, may i remind us all that rapture watching is guess work, its not an exact science. No one i know of has received an e-mail from God yet as to the exact day for His returni am truly surprised that nothing seemed to have happened yesterday of any major bibical importance. Let alone the hopes for our rapture. Jan 11th had so much going for it to be a hopeful day for our rapture flight. Remember - we have been wrong many times since the 1988 rapture movement. But we only need to be right just oncei believe many of the rapture watch dates we have had over the years served as warnings to wake up the Christian church and the secular world. The rapture warnings that went out during the summer of 1988 help win many lost souls into God's Kingdom. There was a mighty soul winning harvest that summer when the rapture warnings went out. And born out of that rapture alert summer came several evangelistic ministry's. Many of us woke up to realize that Jesus is coming back soon and we better get busy sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with people around us. I know, i am one of them. I started my evangelism tract ministry after all the excitement that Fall of 1988 was over. No Jesus didn't come back then, but knowing that the rapture was coming moved me to have compassion for winning lost souls to Jesus Christ. And i have been passing out salvation tracts & bibles on beaches, in parking lots, campgrounds and special public events ever sinceThe Left Behind rapture book series has won many people to Christ all over the world. That is what rapture warnings are all about. Alerting people to how close Judgement Day really is. Yes those of us who already know Jesus benefit, we get all excited about going to our eternal homes in heaven. But think of how many people over the last 20 years have come to know Jesus as their Savior thru rapture alerts, rapture books, rapture warnings, rapture internet forums like this onedo we how many people have accepted Christ in just the last couple of weeks thinking that His return was going to happen on Jan 11th, and they didn't want to be left behind. We don't , but God doesGod has sent us end-time messengers to give us warnings about just how soon Jesus is coming back. God even said he would send us servants to let us know when He is going to return. I enjoy being a rapture watcher, i love knowing what's happening in the bible prophecy world. Most Christians are clueless as to just how close the return of Jesus is, we aren't. So i thank God for sending us watchmen to alert us, like the NASA engineer who wrote the 1988 rapture reasons booklet. And current bibical watchmen like Hal Lindsey, Grant Jeffery, Ron Reese, Ted Porter, and so many otherskeep giving us warnings watchmen, cause you never know when one of the dates you give us will be The Day when Jesus does finally return !!!
God Bless, Gary
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