Many are scoffing because the Pastors prediction was wrong, well lets examining this prediction.
Pastor Camping, the president of a popular Christian broadcasting company Family Radio, made public announcements that on May 21, 2011, 200 million people will disappear into heaven. He is going ahead of the Bible, but rest assured the Rapture will happen.
Tonight the Rapture Parties will go on. The atheists will gloat, the mockers will mock. Yet there's nothing funny about this for you. You are broken and crestfallen, left abandoned in the ruins of unfulfilled expectations, among them the very highest expectations a human can have — the hope of union with God, the hope of a world made new, the hope that every tear will be wiped away. You are left disoriented. You were so sure of this. People you love and respect — perhaps your parents, your pastor, your mentor, your brother and sister — may have believed it too. You do not feel relieved that the end of the world did not arrive. You are not rid of this world yet, so all of its weight fell back upon your shoulders.
Instead of giving dates, which the Bible tells us not to do. We should do what the Word of God tells us, to make sure that we are in Christ, the Bible tells us that if we are Born Again, we will inherent the Kingdom of Heaven.
Although Camping has been denounced countless times – both by Christian leaders and atheists – Camping continued his belief that "without any shadow of a doubt it is going to happen."
And with that confession of faith we are now "Born Again".
Sinners Pray The
Lord Jesus I believe that you are the son of God, I need you, I confess to you that I am a sinner, thank you for dying on the cross for my sins and rising to live on the third day I open the door of my life and receive you as my savior and lord, I give you permission now to take control of my life make me the kind of person you want me to be.
Jesus answers the question, what must I do to inherent the Kingdom of Heaven?
John 3:2-18: He came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."
Jesus replied to him, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Nicodemus said to him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Don't be astonished that I said to you, 'All of you must be born from above.'
The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"
Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?
Truly, truly I tell you, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.
If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.
For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son
calculations
Camping claimed to have based his calculations on Bible verses. Combining Genesis 7:4 ("Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth") and 2 Peter 3:8 ("With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day"), he came to the conclusion that the Doomsday – May 21, 2011 – will take place 7000 years after the Great Flood (4990 B.C.).
Sorry brother, you were wrong, and you put your money were your mouth was.