Subject: Will He Come Back On May 21, 2011? Mar. 6, 2011.
Here are some people who think that he will come back on May, 21,
2011.
I heard them talking about this on coasttocoastam radio last week
and the person couldn't be talked down about his story. Here is
something about that story.
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Road trip to the end of the world.
By Jessica R-vitz, CNN
March 6, 2011
'The end is near,' group warns.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS.
Ditching jobs and families, a group that believes the end is near sets out
to warn others.
They claim Judgment Day is coming on May 21 and the world will end five
months later. The B-ble guarantees this, say loyal listeners of Family
Radio, a C-ristian broadcasting ministry. Loaded up in RVs, they travel
across the South and face off with drunken pirates in Florida from
Jacksonville to Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- If you thought you had less than
three perfectly healthy months to live, what would you do?
Would you travel? Spend time with loved ones? Appreciate the joy life
has given you?
Or would you ditch your kids and grandkids, join strangers in a caravan
of RVs and travel the country warning people about the end of the world?
If you're Sheila J-nas, that's exactly what you'd do.
"This is so serious, I can't believe I'm here," says Jo-as, who's been
on the road since fall. Like her cohorts, she's "in it 'til the end,"
which she believes is coming in May.
She won't talk about her past because, "There is no other story. ... We
are to warn the people. Nothing else matters."
Such faith and concern drove her and nine others, all loyal listeners of
the Ch-istian broadcasting ministry Family Radio, to join the radio
station's first "Project Caravan" team.
They walked away from work, families and communities in places as
far-flung as California, Kansas, Utah and New Jersey. Among them are an
electrician, a TV satellite dish installer, a former chef, an
international IT consultant and a man who had worked with the
developmentally disabled.
They gave away cars, pets, music collections and more to relatives,
friends and neighbors. Some items they kicked to the curb. In homes that
weren't emptied, clothes are still hanging in closets, and dishes, books
and furniture -- including one man's antique collection -- are gathering
dust. Unless, of course, they've been claimed by others. If you believe
it's all going to be over soon, why would it matter if you close the
front door, much less lock it, when you walk away?
It's a mid-winter morning in Jacksonville, Florida, when CNN joins this
faithful caravan. The "ambassadors," as they call themselves, are easy
to spot. They are the 10 people milling about in an RV park drawing
stares, eye rolls, under-the-breath mutters and, at times, words of
support.
They're wearing sweatshirts and other clothing announcing the "Awesome
News," that Judgment Day is coming on May 21. On that day, people who
will be saved will be raptured up to h-aven. The rest will endure
exactly 153 days of d-ath and horror before the world ends on October
21. That message is splashed across their five sleek, vinyl-wrapped RVs,
bearing this promise: "The Bi-le guarantees it!"
Maneuvering onto the road with such a serious statement takes time and
patience.
Caravans of RVs are crisscrossing the country spreading the "awesome
news" of the end of the world.
The five vehicles in this caravan are numbered 11 through 15, and the
ambassadors line them up in numerical order before hitting the road.
They work hard to stay in one lane and keep other cars from breaking
into the convoy. That's the best way to be noticed, they say.
The drivers, their vehicles spread out in a parking lot, spend about 10
minutes doing a choreographed RV dance to get in proper formation.
From the back of No. 14, we hold tight to our equipment, and our
seats, as the jerking around begins.
Reverse. Forward. Turn to the left.
"Eleven, 15, go back please," a voice crackles over the walkie-talkies.
Spin around. Veer right. Stop. Wait.
"Is everyone in order and ready to come out of there?" Crackle, crackle.
"13?"
"Ten-four."
"I hope the Rapture is smoother than this," one driver says.
Since this inaugural caravan team embarked on this doomsday journey, two
other teams have set out elsewhere -- one is in Pennsylvania, another in
Texas. A fourth and final group will soon follow.
They have been chosen by G-d to spread the news few understand, the
ambassadors say. They liken themselves to bib-ical figures, including
Jonah, who Go- commanded to warn the people of Nineveh of their city's
destruction.
They say their work comes with ample precedence, that the -od they
believe in would never bring judgment on his people without warning them
first. Their job is to "sound the alarm," they say, pointing to Ezekiel
33. Just by being out in their RVs, wearing their T-shirts, jackets and
caps, and passing out their pamphlets -- which they call tracts -- they
are fulfilling a mission.
The RVs pulled out of the Oakland, California, Family Radio headquarters
in late October. The odometers are nearing 30,000 miles as this team,
which first traversed the Pacific Northwest before weaving its way
through the South, heads toward its next destination: Tampa, Florida.
But avast, ye scurvy readers, this isn't just any time in Tampa.
Awaiting the ambassadors are, by some estimates, 400,000 people
gathering for the Gasparilla Pirate Fest -- a Mardi Gras, of sorts, for
throngs of drunken buccaneers.
Blanketing the world with doom. The ambassadors each remember
the first time they heard Family Radio.
Darryl K-itt, left, and John G-llegos prepare to face another day on the
road.
Adam L-rsen, 32, was a student in Phoenix, Arizona, working nights as a
s-curity guard with his Bi-le already open in front of him. Darryl
Ke-tt, 51, remembers flipping through stations back in 1976, when he
might have been sporting his 4-inch platform shoes, looking for disco
music.
Team leader Fred S-ore, 65, was road tripping between Sacramento and
Bakersfield, California, when he first tuned in to the station's
inspirational music and talk 15 years ago.
John Gal-egos, 75, found it five years earlier while driving a truck
between Utah and Wyoming. And David Li-uori, 45, was so taken when he
stumbled upon it 28 years ago that he's gone stretches as long as three
years in which he's listened all day, every day.
The voice that grabbed most of them belongs to Harold Ca-ping, host of
the program "Open Forum" and the force behind Family Stations Inc., home
to Family Radio.
Starting with one station in Oakland, California, in 1959, Camp-ng's
Family Radio now boasts 66 stations across the U-ited States. Thanks to
strategically placed satellites, shortwave radio and the internet, the
message has gone global in 61 languages.
"We pretty much blanket the whole world," says Campi-g, 89.
I know it's absolutely true, because the Bib-e is always absolutely
true.
--Family Radio's Harold Ca-ping
This degreed engineer, who calls the Bib-e his "university," believes
the ch-rch age ended and the "Great Tribulation" (the years leading up
to the end, he says) began on May 21, 1988, when S-tan entered the pews.
Truth, he says, can be found only in the Bi-le and not through the
mouths of c-ergy.
He has dissected scripture and crunched his bibli-al numbers to come up
with the fateful dates. He rattles off mathematical explanations of how
he did this work, throwing out Bib-e verses and calculations that leave
an outsider's head spinning.
But Cam-ing also happens to be the man who once said September 6, 1994,
would be the big day.
Learn about other doomsdays that have come and gone. He explains now
that he originally thought 2011 was the year, but a few verses tripped
him up and he concluded that the Great Tribulation might get cut short.
There was still sc-ipture he was grappling with, end-time signs that
were to come -- he points to the gay pride movement as one of
them -- and truths that had yet to be revealed, "but because of the
urgency of time I had to get it out quickly," he says of his previous
warning.
This time around, he has no doubts.
"I know it's absolutely true, because the Bi-le is always absolutely
true," he says. "If I were not faithful that would mean that I'm a
hypocrite."
'Amazing how Go- works'
Behind the wheel of RV No. 14 is 32-year-old Adam La-sen, the youngest
ambassador on this caravan team.
Adam Lars-n takes the wheel as his caravan team leaves a Jacksonville,
Florida, RV park.
Lar-en hands around his smartphone to share YouTube videos, including
one showing billboards around the world proclaiming the May doomsday
warning. Next he pulls out what looks like a glossy business card, one
he says he likes to lodge in gas pump credit card slots so people are
forced to see it. The card reads: "He is coming again! May 21, 2011."
Spreading this message alongside like-minded people is of great comfort
to La-sen. Back home in Ellsworth, Kansas, he walked this end-time walk
alone and didn't feel heard. The opportunity to focus full-time on what
he believes, to serve -od as a "moving billboard" in his RV, was one
this avid hunter couldn't ignore.
"My favorite pastime is coon hunting," he says, referring to the
raccoons he targets in rural Kansas. "I had to give that up, but this is
far more important."
Much like the animals on Noah's ark, these ambassadors generally travel
in pairs. La-sen's RV partner is Ke-tt, the former disco fan, of
Elizabeth, New Jersey. He seems the most comfortable of the ambassadors
talking to outsiders and doesn't incessantly quote scripture like others
do. After he mentions that he's on a diet, he gets the humor when asked,
"What's the point?"
Part 1.
John Winston. johfw@mlode.com