"Before Harold Camping, there were Chuck Smith and Hal Lindsey ... the 1970s and early 1980s were rife with evangelical soothsayers"
Camping did just what William Miller’s group did after his failed prediction that Christ would come on Oct. 22, 1844. Camping now claims it was a spiritual judgement day, not a physical one. The Millerites claimed that Christ did come and judge the world on Oct 22, 1844, but instead of doing this physically, he did it spiritually. Jesus entered the Holy of Holies in Heaven and began the process of “investigative judgement”. This is a cardinal belief of the Seventh Day Adventists which grew out of the Millerite movement.
I talked more about this in my blog post from yesterday: http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2011/05/24/harold-camping-and-a-re… Harold Camping and a Replay of “The Great Disappointment”
I talked more about this in my blog post from yesterday: http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2011/05/24/harold-camping-and-a-re… Harold Camping and a Replay of “The Great Disappointment”
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An eschatology that A) avoids the excesses of dispensationalism (you know, animal sacrifices during the millennium in the temple that the Hebrews epistle told us that Jesus Christ fulfilled and replaced, and the 144,000 Jewish evangelists who will make converts sans the Holy Spirit during the great tribulation over against the promise of Jesus Christ that the Holy Spirit would never abandon believers) and B) didn’t originate as Roman Catholic propaganda really needs to be developed.
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Job, as a dispensationalist who has studied the Bible and the commentaries and theologies for nearly three decades I want to apologize for being so naive. I’ll give it all up immediately on the strength of your post!
Dr. Paul Henebury
I am Founder of Telos Ministries, and Senior Pastor at Agape Bible Church in N. Ca.
Quite a bit of escatalogical hysteria back in the 1970s and 1980s which, for me, culminated in Edgar Whisenant’s book “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Occur in 1988.”
Dr. Peter S. Ruckman made a few failed predictions as well.
Harold Camping came around to prove the point that such lunacy is not exclusive to the Pre-Millenial, Dispensationalist mindset.
Dr. Peter S. Ruckman made a few failed predictions as well.
Harold Camping came around to prove the point that such lunacy is not exclusive to the Pre-Millenial, Dispensationalist mindset.
[Ray S] Quite a bit of escatalogical hysteria back in the 1970s and 1980s which, for me, culminated in Edgar Whisenant’s book “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Occur in 1988http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_C._Whisenant] Source:
- 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1988.
- The final shout: Rapture report 1989. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1989.
- 23 reasons why a pre-tribulation rapture looks like it will occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1993.
- And now the earth’s destruction by fire, nuclear bomb fire. Prediction for 1994.
[Jim Peet]Heard about the 1989 book but frankly lost interst in him after 1988.[Ray S] Quite a bit of escatalogical hysteria back in the 1970s and 1980s which, for me, culminated in Edgar Whisenant’s book “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Occur in 1988http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_C._Whisenant] Source:Had he not died in 2001 there would have been more of them
- 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1988.
- The final shout: Rapture report 1989. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1989.
- 23 reasons why a pre-tribulation rapture looks like it will occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1993.
- And now the earth’s destruction by fire, nuclear bomb fire. Prediction for 1994.
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