>No! It wasn't supposed to end like this...
>Jesus... was supposed to return... in my lifetime...
>I told everyone... he was returning soon...
>He said I would never taste dea- BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
>No!
>No! It wasn't supposed to end like this...
>Jesus... was supposed to return... in my lifetime...
>I told everyone... he was returning soon...
>He said I would never taste dea- BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Every Christian of the past 2,000 years
what the fuck is this shit
im not a christian and even i know the dead christians are supposed to rise
In 2 more weeks?
i didn't say the zombie version made sense, but the premise of the meme is wrong
Every Christian that ever lived said they would see Jesus's return and not die. Starting with Paul.
well then they didn't read their own fucking bibles then
No.
2 more millennia.
some fringe sects think 'the wages of sin is death' is to be taken literally. westboro baptist church, for instance, thinks that dead = damned.
>satanic trips
sorry bro, eternal torture is real
>westboro baptist church, for instance, thinks that dead = damned.
So they admit that all their deceased ex members are damned?
Didn't heil hard enough
>So they admit that all their deceased ex members are damned?
yes. no one is sinless except jesus, and jesus was the only one so far to cheat death etc etc. their founder died a couple of years ago, and they considered him a damned sinner for it.
Another stupid gaytheist thread.
Off with you, Yiddish apes
Post something about history or the humanities
"I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns"
James G. Watt (January 31, 1938 – May 27, 2023)
what a bizarrely niche flex lol
It's a reverse of the "no atheists in foxholes" flex really.
>At the age of 64, Joanna Southcott claimed she was pregnant with the new Messiah, the Shiloh of Genesis (49:10). 19 October 1814 was the planned delivery date, but Shiloh failed to appear, and it was given out that she was in a trance. Southcott had a disorder that made her appear pregnant and this fueled her followers, who numbered about 100,000 by 1814, mainly in the London area.
>Southcott died not long after this. Her official date of death was given as 27 December 1814, but it is likely that she died the previous day, as her followers retained her body for some time in the belief that she would be raised from the dead. They agreed to her burial only after the corpse began to decay.
>Southcott left a sealed wooden casket of prophecies, usually known as Joanna Southcott's Box, with instructions to open it only at a time of national crisis and in the presence of all 24 current bishops of the Church of England, who were to spend a fixed period beforehand studying her prophecies. Attempts were made to persuade the episcopate to open it in the Crimean War and again in the First World War.
>A campaign on billboards and in national newspapers such as the Sunday Express was run in the 1960s and 1970s by a prominent group of Southcottians, the Panacea Society in Bedford (formed in 1920), to try to persuade the 24 bishops to have the box opened, claiming: "War, disease, crime and banditry, distress of nations and perplexity will increase until the Bishops open Joanna Southcott's box."
>Southcott prophesied that the Day of Judgement would come in the year 2004, and her followers stated that if the contents of the box had not been studied beforehand, the world would have had to meet it unprepared.
lmao
>"My principles in brief, are, that Jesus Christ will come again to this earth, cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all the saints, sometime between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844."
>March 21, 1844, passed without incident, and further discussion and study resulted in the brief adoption of a new date (April 18, 1844) based on the Karaite calendar (as opposed to the Rabbinic calendar).
>Like the previous date, April 18 passed without Christ's return. Miller responded publicly, writing, "I confess my error, and acknowledge my disappointment; yet I still believe that the day of the Lord is near, even at the door."
>Henry Emmons, a Millerite, later wrote,
>I waited all Tuesday [October 22] and dear Jesus did not come;—I waited all the forenoon of Wednesday, and was well in body as I ever was, but after 12 o'clock I began to feel faint, and before dark I needed someone to help me up to my chamber, as my natural strength was leaving me very fast, and I lay prostrate for 2 days without any pain—sick with disappointment.
>Miller died on December 20, 1849, still convinced that the Second Coming was imminent. He is buried near his home in Low Hampton, NY and his home is a registered National Historic Landmark and preserved as a museum
>On April 6, 1861, Morris and his followers organized the Church of the Firstborn and called all of his followers to gather at Kingston (Kington) Fort. By midsummer 1861, the group reached 300 followers.
>Morris told his followers that the Second Coming was imminent and not to bother with planting crops. They may have trampled some of their crops into the ground as evidence of their faith. The group pooled available supplies and waited at Kingston Fort.
>By spring 1862, food was scarce and some members were becoming discontented. Morris repeatedly designated certain days for the Second Coming, only to have those days pass uneventfully. Each time that happened, a handful of members would recover their possessions from the community pool and leave the congregation.
>Three departing members seized a load of wheat en route from Kingston to Kaysville for milling. The Morrisites sent a group of men after them, and the group soon captured the three and the wheat. The church held the men prisoner in a small cabin, to be "tried by the Lord when he came."
>Eventually, the Utah territorial militia was ordered to arrest Morris and the other leaders of the church. On June 15, 1862, Morris was killed in a skirmish, and other Morrisite leaders were taken prisoner.
>Ultimately, many of the members of the church began to regather in Deer Lodge County, Montana, under the leadership of George Williams, who declared himself to be the "Prophet Cainan" and Morris's rightful successor. In January 1879, Williams prophesied that Deer Lodge County would be the site of the Second Coming of Christ.
>After Williams died in 1882, the church divided into a number of schisms, each claiming to be led by Williams's rightful successor. The largest group, based in Montana, was led by John R. Eardley, who renamed the church the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Most High. By the 1950s, most of the members of the church had died, and it was officially disbanded in 1969.
>After the 1862 Morrisite War, Davies moved with a number of Morrisites to Deer Lodge County, Montana. While in Montana, Davies claimed to have had a series of revelations which instructed him to establish the "Kingdom of Heaven" on Mill Creek near Walla Walla, Washington.
> When his son Arthur was born on 11 February 1868, Davies declared that the infant was the reincarnated Jesus Christ; the child came to be called "Walla Walla Jesus". After the announcement, the size of Davies's followers doubled; most of the new converts came from San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon. When Davies's second son, David, was born in 1869, he was declared to be God the Father.
>The Kingdom of Heaven began to collapse in 1880, when both Davies children died of diphtheria. Some of Davies's followers sued him and won a $3,200 judgment against him. As a result, Davies was forced to sell the Kingdom's property, which essentially brought the Kingdom to a close. At the time of its break-up, there were 43 members of the group. Davies moved to a camp he owned on Mill Creek and briefly attempted to revive his following, but eventually gave up and moved to San Francisco. Davies returned to Walla Walla shortly before his death in 1906
>instructed him to establish the "Kingdom of Heaven" on Mill Creek near Walla Walla, Washington
how can americans experience such clownworld and not recognize it
ah yes the kingdom of heaven of JEEYZUS of WALLA WALLA
It's really funny how budding cult leaders choose locations such as Waco, Walla Walla or Nauvoo instead of, I don't know, Newark or Providence or St. Croix
>Herbert W. Armstrong, Pastor-General and self-proclaimed "Apostle" of the Radio Church of God, and then the Worldwide Church of God, felt the return of Jesus Christ might be in 1975. Of particular note was the book 1975 in Prophecy! written by Armstrong and published by the Radio Church of God in 1956. Though, never explicitly stating a date in the booklet, the title led people to believe the date was the second coming. It was actively preached in sermons in the 1960s by all of his ministers that his church would "flee" to Petra, Jordan in 1972 and Christ would return 3 and a half years later.
>After the failure to flee in 1972 (and a defection of his ministry) Armstrong was careful not to set specific dates but claimed that Christ would return before he died. He died 16 January 1986.
Do americans really?
>As we look at the world scene today, it would appear that the coming of the Lord is very, very, close. Yet, we do not know when it will be. It could be that the Lord will wait for a time longer. If I understand Scripture correctly, Jesus taught us that the generation which sees the 'budding of the fig tree', the birth of the nation Israel, will be the generation that sees the Lord's return; I believe that the generation of 1948 is the last generation. Since a generation of judgment is forty years and the tribulation lasts seven years, I believe the Lord could come back for his church anytime before the tribulation starts, which would mean anytime before 1981.
Charles Ward "Chuck" Smith (June 25, 1927 – October 3, 2013)
>Camping gained notoriety owing to his incorrect prediction that the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011, and that the end of the world would subsequently take place five months later on October 21, 2011. Followers of Camping claimed that around 200 million people (approximately 2.8% of the world's 2011 population) would be raptured, and publicized the prediction in numerous countries. It has also been reported that a 14-year old Russian girl named Nastya Zachinova committed suicide over his prediction.
>Reuters reported on May 21 that the curtains were drawn in Camping's house in Alameda, California, and that no one was answering the door. Camping emerged from his home on May 22, saying he was "flabbergasted" that the Rapture had not occurred. He stated that he was "looking for answers"
>On May 23, 2011, in an appearance before the press, Camping stated he had reinterpreted his prophecy. In his revised claim, May 21 was a "spiritual" judgment day, and the physical Rapture would occur on October 21, 2011, simultaneously with the destruction of the world.
>Camping and his followers largely avoided the media in the months following May 2011, and he remained in seclusion after October 21, 2011, had passed without his predictions coming true.
>Camping died on December 15, 2013, as a result of complications from a fall at his home two weeks earlier.
Literally says in the book - no man will know the hour
These megachurch Protestant "clergy" are evil, they get off on playing with elderly believers' hopes
Christnaggers exposed badly in this thread for what they are: shudra semitic baboons.
Test
Anon none of these guys believed any of it
The only reason to become a pastor is if you want to get away with fucking kids
I was talking about their followers
this is that JW homosexuals future, they think rabbi Yeshua will return "soon"