Billboards to proclaim Jesus' return on May 21, 2011

[Faygo Kid]

Mark your calendars and get ready.

According to 20 billboards to appear Monday across metro Detroit, Jesus is returning on May 21, 2011. And if you aren't saved, it isn't going to be easy, says the Christian Web site behind the billboards, which are to read "He Is Coming Again!"

The goal is to convince people to accept Jesus and that the Bible is the infallible word of God, said Allison Warden of Raleigh, N.C. She's with www.wecanknow.com , the site putting up the billboards along with a Christian radio network, Family Radio.

The billboards are to dot various locations in metro Detroit and in eight other cities, Warden said. First reported by the Tennessean, the billboards are being erected during the Christmas season to remind folks of the message of the season. In Detroit, they will stay up until early January. Warden would not say how much the billboards cost or who is paying for them. But a spokeswoman for CBS Outdoor, which was contracted to put up the billboard posters, said each poster costs $500 per four-week period. They will be placed on surface streets, not off highways. . .
http://www.freep.com/article/20101204/NEWS05/12040397/1319/Billboards-to-proclaim-Jesus-return



P.T. Barnum was right: There IS one born every minute.



Damn, and I was hoping to have a spring barbecue that day, and maybe listen to a ball game. If He has to return, why does He have to do it on a Saturday, and screw up a spring weekend?

[Catshrink]

1. Oh goody.

That's right before spring finals. My students will be thrilled to get out of them. See? Prayer does work!

[donco6]

2. Matthew 24 says these guys are liars

36“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. 37“For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 38“For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40“Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. 41“Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.

[dgibby]

30. Thanks. You saved me the trouble of posting that. n/t

[Kievan Rus]

3. That Family Radio guy is already 0-1 in predicting this

He said Jesus would return in 1994, and of course, was wrong.

Apparently this guy never read Matthew 24:36.

[Poll_Blind]

4. My secret wish: When he descends from the heavens let him be flanked by Liberace and Freddy Mercury.

Preferably playing "Princes of the Universe".

That would be awesome. I would become a Christian for that.

PB

[Speck Tater]

5. How "infallible" will people think these nut-cases are the day after it doesn't happen? nt

[Tesha]

24. You know, we still see the occasional placard from the old Moonie rapture date.

When was that? Oh yeah, October 28th, 1992. Those placards
sure have staying power!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/30953842/



You'd think that as often as people have been wrong on
proclaiming the Second Coming, that the masses would
start to figure out that it's all fairy tales told to the gullible/
excessively credulous.

Tesha

[madmom]

6. So is there going to be a big stink about putting these up and "antagonizing" non christians?

[theothersnippywshrub]

7. .

[wtmusic]

8. I've been let down too many times before

so that day I will go to the mall.

[warrior1]

9. boy is he

going to pissed at the republicans for shitting all over the poor.


If he existed.

[Catshrink]

11. Jesus WAS a historical figure

that is supported by documents other than the Bible*. I don't doubt that a man named "Joshua ben Joseph" lived in that era. The whole Son of God stuff I'm not so sure about.

But existed? Yes, historically the man lived.


* Josephus (A.D. 37 - c. A.D. 100)
Josephus' Antiquities (early 2nd century A.D.) refers to Jesus in two separate passages. The common translation of the first passage, Book 18, Ch. 3, part 3, is disputed and is most likely from an altered source. F. F. Bruce has provided a more likely translation:

Now there arose at this time a source of further trouble in one Jesus, a wise man who performed surprising works, a teacher of men who gladly welcome strange things. He led away many Jews, and also many of the Gentiles. He was the so-called Christ. When Pilate, acting on information supplied by the chief men around us, condemned him to the cross, those who had attached themselves to him at first did not cease to cause trouble, and the tribe of Christians, which has taken this name from him is not extinct even today.

http://www.rationalchristianity.net/jesus_extrabib.html

[sakabatou]

20. The Josephus account is in dispute.

[Catshrink]

21. More info?

[sakabatou]

41. I don't have a link

However, from what I've seen cited before, the Josephus account of Jesus probably is a forgery.

[Catshrink]

45. Then it's opinion.

Provide a link.... I'm not going to accept (or reject) a statement based on something you remember reading. If you can't offer a source, better to not post.

[cachukis]

52. Here's a link to one woman's position.

http://www.truthbeknown.com/josephus.htm

[kpete]

10. mr. pete

wants to know what time?

[Faygo Kid]

12. Good question. I hope it's not mid-afternoon.

Would ruin a nice day in May to get zapped, I would think.

[madrchsod]

13. ya ,jesus saves...but he`d better save himself..

they`ll lynch just like they did a couple thousand years ago....


would`t the Torah be the infallible word of god?

[kenny blankenship]

14. And if it's raining that day, then he'll come on June 23rd, 2013

with Feb 1st, 2015 as a tentatively scheduled make up day, should unforeseen circumstances arise...

[somone]

15. On what airline?

[pinboy3niner]

16. Doesn't matter. Once TSA touches His Junk...

...this world will be toast, anyway.

[onethatcares]

32. now that was funnny, I don't care what anyone thinks

:toast:

I think even Jesus would have like that one.

[pinboy3niner]

36. Well, no lightning bolts in my vicinity...

...yet. :hide:

I cling desperately to the thought that if God didn't want us to have a sense of humor, he wouldn't have given us one--or put us into a world where we need it so much. :)

:toast:

[JBoy]

17. LOL. I thought that billboard reminded me of something:

[CatholicEdHead]

58. Ironically both groups are referencing Epiphany, not Christmas

It is celebrated at different times (not May in any modern Christian Calender). On the Catholic Calender it is 12 days after Christmas (second Sunday after). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28holiday%29

[safeinOhio]

18. I'm taking bets and

giving some great odds.

[tavalon]

19. Maybe he can slap some sense into the DC idiots

Or maybe he sent Assange to do recon.

[Swamp Rat]

22. When he leaves again, I hope he takes Dickhead Cheney with him

might as well take the entire Cheney and Bush families, and a few other rich, worthless bastards.

[Tesha]

23. There seems to be a lot more than *ONE* born every minute; this whole country...

...is full of 'em!

Tesha

[PeaceNikki]

25. LOL, "the rapture will take place on May 21, 2011 and that God will destroy this world on...

October 21, 2011"

Mark your calendars.

[Tesha]

26. Should I put these dates in my iPhone?

I mean, I wouldn't want to miss them.

Tesha

[PeaceNikki]

27. I'd put the May date. This will give the rest of us FIVE MONTHS of fun

since the "believers" will be raptured at that point.

[pinboy3niner]

29. Jon Stewart's 'Mission Accomplished'--Sanity Restored...

...for 5 months. Time enough for us sane sinners to party!

[Bozita]

35. Do they have a Rapture App at the Apple store?

[sarcasmo]

28. No exact time, just the day?

[Tesha]

47. They probably know the time, but can't figure out which time zone was specified.

After all, does God use Universal Coordinated Time?

It's a pretty damned-big Universe!

Tesha

[dgibby]

31. As long as it isn't tonight.

Va.Tech is playing FSU for the ACC championship. Anything that would interrupt me watching my Hokies would seriously piss me off.

[AlinPA]

33. I can't understand why the 5 month wait for the universe to end after the rapture.

I guess it takes a long time to wipe out some of those galaxies.

[Tesha]

46. It's the paperwork -- it's just Hellish. (NT)

[NightWatcher]

34. Jesus is coming? Quick, look busy

[ellie]

37. How fucking blasphemous.

[Stevenmarc]

38. He must have really pissed off Mary Magdalene

[adamuu]

39. Can someone please explain this?

Why is it necessary to anticipate or pray for Jesus's return? You can get the gist of what he said by reading the Bible. Are we expecting he'd have something different to say this time?

[Stevenmarc]

40. It's like hitting the spiritual lotto

Jesus returns and sucks you up into the sky and all your earthly shit is no longer a problem.

[Tesha]

48. This time, his speeches will begin:

"Look, I don't know how I can make this any simpler for you;
what part of 'Love your fellow man' *DON'T* YOU DOLTS
UNDERSTAND???"

Tesha

[salin]

56. I think that some expect a gun-toting warrior figure telling them its good to discriminate

just in order to confirm their warped read/acceptance of propoganda from the politicized religious right.

[adamuu]

59. Thanks all. That helps. :) n/t

[Vickers]

42. I wish he'd wait until after the school year ends.

This is going to be a HUGE distraction for my kids.

[DemoTex]

43. "When The Man Comes Around" - Johnny Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtK-QCiD-FE

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

44. Sweet! That gives me enough time...

...to sell my house, cash in all my chips, and blow everything I have on drinking and whoring throughout Europe.

Thanks for the heads-up! :thumbsup:

[eShirl]

49. Never nail down an End of the World scenario to a specific date.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

[pinboy3niner]

51. ...

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim, da do da do...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQrTGE4wwwA

[Owl]

50. What a bunch of crap.

[Stevenmarc]

53. May 21, 2011.....THE VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXuNpF6NVg

[Stevenmarc]

54. .

[mstinamotorcity]

55. Yep heard that one!!!!

Will I need to stock up on duct tape and bottled water and lithium batteries or need a satellite phone? :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[treestar]

57. I saw one of those

I had the thought that whoever was behind that really is risking their credibility.