Judgement Day

You have probably seen a billboard or two and might have noticed people carrying signs and in all likelihood have paid little attention to them. According to some fringe Christian groups tomorrow, May 21st is Judgment Day and basically the end of the world as we know it. The believers say that Jesus is coming to earth and will take the good people with him to Heaven and leave most of us behind to suffer over the next five months before it all ends.

Far be it for me to know exactly what this is all about but it would see ridiculous to cancel your plans or move everything up to today which I guess is supposed to be the final full day as we know it. This latest doomsday prediction is in large part courtesy of California-based Family Radio, a non-profit evangelical Christian group that has purchased thousands of billboards, signs and bus displays across the country touting this latest end of you know what. The President of this group by the way one predicted that September 6, 1994 would the end of mankind and when that day came and went said he had made a mistake in calculations because he mis-read something in the Bible.

Naysayers point to the fact that the Bible itself tells us we can’t know when the real Judgment Day will come. In the Book of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 36 says “No one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”

However despite the fact that most rational-thinking people are dismissing this latest “end of it all prediction” there are apparently some who are banking on it.
Reportedly people have been living their life as if it will end Saturday, spending in some cases all their savings because if life is about to end what are you saving for.
Can you imagine their despair when they wake up Sunday morning? However in all fairness if they are correct then you better approach today as if it’s the first day of the rest of your life.

With my luck I will probably hit the lottery today and tomorrow’s dire predictions will come true.

With what might be my final Hometown View, I’m Kevin Williams