I don't know if anyone else remembers reading the Sunday newspaper comic strip section in 1964 (I was 8 years old), but at that time, there was a Yogi Bear comic strip. I remember reading that script one Sunday, when the subject was the movie "Hey there, It's Yogi Bear" being released. As I recall, the plot in that comic strip that day was that Yogi Bear was nominated for an award for his performance in the movie, and was at the awards ceremony. He heard his name called as the winner, and very amusingly, not just he went up to the awards podium, but also Yogi Berra the (already retired by that time) baseball playing great. Yogi Bear was carrying a banner with him that said "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear" on it, and Yogi Berra was carrying a similar banner that, instead, said "The Baseball Movie" on it, quite a good joke, since the mame Yogi Bear is obviously a take-off on the name Yogi Berra. Presumably, "The Baseball Movie" is not a real film but just something made up to allow the comic writer to make his amusing plug for the Yogi Bear movie.
By the way, until I read that Sunday comic in 1964, I hadn't heard of "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear" at all. I also admit that I never did get to see that movie when I was a child (I didn't see very many movies at all until I was an adult), though for some reason my parents took note of "The Man Called Flintstone" and suggested that we all see that one when it came out, so I did see that one. I actually didn't see "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear" until the late 1980s on TV -- I liked it very much, since it's classic Yogi Bear, who was always one of my favorite cartoon characters.
We actually don't have the time-of-day. There are a number of people who know that Jesus is returning on May 21, 2011 who have theories about what time-of-day it will be, but thus far, nothing definite and overruling of other theories has been discovered from the Bible. So, that's where we stand, that we have only a date, and not even a statement that that date will be in effect in the entire world or just in part of it when He returns. As a result, we have at least a 48-hour window where that date will be true somewhere in the world. We might be seeing it tighten to within a 24-hour window, if we can determine that the Lord must visibly return while it is May 21st in Jerusalem. There is reason to believe that we are in process of learning that. Hey, you asked.
> Let me ask you; what will you do on May 22, 2011 when you wake up and the > world is still there just as it was a couple of days before?
That is the question we are most asked. My answer is that it isn't possible, because of the many miraculous corroborative proofs found after we discovered that May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day. These proofs were not made by man, and they weren't imagined, and they cannot be faked. We found them, within the Bible, while obeying the Bible's own rules for coming to truth in the Bible. They simply overrule the question, because with these shocking, unassailable proofs, God is signing His name to the GUARANTEE that this is going to happen. Let it sink in that prior to this instance, no group which ever claimed to know the date of the Lord's return EVER had any type of miraculous corroborations, things that can be independently verified as being statistically impossible. That's why I ask you to just look at the data. I'm a trained engineer, a science guy, and I know what real data look like, and I can tell you, this is not imaginary! Please, check the proofs for yourself. Read any of these.
It's still ending. As I already reported, Judgment Day is a 153-day period that began on May 21, 2011 and ends on October 21, 2011, when the world (the whole cosmos is meant) will be destroyed by fire. The only errors we made were in assuming that the earthquake that kicks it off on May 21, 2011 was meant physically. It was actually meant as a spiritual shaking of all the unsaved, and they *did* feel it. There will be a very physical earthquake on October 21, 2011, the one that will raise all the dead bodies of the unsaved to the surface to be thrown out as dung. It will also open the graves of the saved dead, who will be given new, perfect bodies that will live forever. These people will be seen rising to Heaven, and then the saved who remain alive on this Earth will also be transformed into new, perfect bodies and rise to Heaven.
We assumed that the earthquake on May 21, 2011 was going to be physical -- on better inspection with the Hebrew and the Greek original of the Bible, we should have seen that a spiritual shaking was in view. We also made an assumption that the Rapture would occur at the beginning, another error of not double-checking the translation using the original languages, because translators had used a word that implies immediacy that is not always a correct translation of the original Greek word. So, the error was on our part, but that is the nature of even obedient Bible study, always being continually corrected as we study in more careful detail.
There is no error in the fact that the Bible declared that May 21, 2011 was the end of the Day of Salvation and the beginning of Judgment Day, and that October 21, 2011 is the end of the world. The false Christians (those who are not truly saved), are currently being tormented, spiritually, by the continual reminder that they are not saved and that salvation is not possible for them. Those who did not claim any relationship with Christ are not in torment at this time. They remain blissfully ignorant of their situaiton, which is God's intention, right up until October 21, 2011, when they will be destroyed.
So, now you have my response, though you insisted on bringing this discussion to this inappropriate spot for it.
Your last message expressed a wish of yours, but that isn't true.
First of all, he Bible does not have any contradictions, only apparent contradictions, things that are snares for casual readers, people who have not taken the time and done the very lengthy comparison work, verse to verse, **exhaustively** in the Bible, making sure to look at the original Hebrew and Greek to remove the effects of translators' assumptions. I have taken that time, and I am here to tell you that every single one of those so-called contradictions separately are resolvable under careful, exhaustive and **honest** analysis. I've done all of that difficult work for myself, so I can say that.
Second, there will be NO October 22, 2011. Time itself ends on October 21, 2011. Wait for it, set yourself to watch what happens, because it will happen.
Now, that said, there will be NO more discussion in this thread on this subject. Take it elsewhere. What's more, I'm not going to debate it anywhere else, either, because there is no possible benefit to it, the Day Of Salvation having ended, forever, on May 21, 2011. No one else can become saved. The ark door was shut on that day.
This is my last statement about this in this thread. Again, please take this issue elsewhere, for everyone's benefit. This is a discussion about a movie that isn't related at all to this issue.
I did say that I won't discuss this matter further, in this forum for a completely unrelated topic.
However, this is an interesting question, sort of a stand-alone one, in my opinion, and worth an answer.
The answer, though, as far as I can furnish it (hey, this is a difficult concept to discuss): Time had a beginning when this world was created. Time, as a concept and a dimensional reality, did not exist before that, because it is a feature of this cosmos of ours only, not one that extends beyond it. Time was created, and it ends as does this entire cosmos, this entire scope of reference, on October 21, 2011. Eternity, a different state entirely, is what is in view. The whole concept of Eternity is beyond our minds, though, because our mental processes are currently bound by time. Those who have been given eternal life will live unbounded by time, and our minds will be able to grok that, once time ends.
I'm not just talking through my hat, by the way. God clearly states, in Revelation 10:6, that time is an institution that shall end. Here is the verse (emphasis added by me on the words that demonstrate what I am saying).
{REVELATION 10:6 (KJV): And sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, ***THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER***.}
And he's inactive on Facebook too: http://www.facebook.com/larry.d.gillespie (from 23 october, what a surprise!). That's too bad, I enjoyed reading his foolish theories :D
While I was thinking further about this movie and about that comic-strip tie-in, I remembered more clearly the title of the made-up movie of which the comic joked that Yogi Berra was the star. I now clearly remember it wasn't "The Baseball Movie" that was its name, but "The Baseball Story". I only mention this in the desire to be accurate. "The Baseball Story", of course, doesn't exist, either (feel free to search for it on IMDB if you want to make certain -- I did), but was merely a made-up concept and name for purposes of making a joke that would also plug the Yogi Bear movie. Anyway, that's the actual title, not the one I previously incorrectly stated; memory is like that.