Be careful at whose table you allow yourself to be fed.

I am not going to blog today. I am not going to blog today. I AM NOT GOING TO BLOG TODAY! Who am I kidding with a subject this big I have to blog today. Ok everyone who has been taken up in the rapture please raise your hands. Everyone else look around. I want you to note there is no one with their hand up. I am not going to give bible verses explaining why the rapture is not as one man says because the morning news already did that. Let me repeat; the morning news quoted the bible today. Under normal circumstances this would be a good thing. Right!? Alas all this rapture talk on mainstream TV has not been good for the gospel. All it takes is one heretic to wreck the witness of many orthodox Christians. I spent more time today hearing jokes, defending my witness against the proclamations of one Mr. Camping and explaining this is NOT what the Gospel is all about. I am not shy about my faith. People KNOW I am a Christian and today I felt like a target. Thankfully most people understand that Mr. Camping is not speaking for mainstream Christianity.

     There is a real danger with this kind of teaching. People believe it. People have been dooped. Folks have stopped paying mortgages given all their savings to this man’s campaign to spread his doomsday message. This man has spread his teaching through a medium called “Family Radio.” Near Chicago the closest “Family Radio” outlet is in Joliet 91.9 fm. This is in an area where “Moody Radio” is fading out. For some unchurched people this is the only Gospel they are hearing.  “Some devotees reportedly sold all their possessions and took to the streets to warn of the second coming of Jesus”-The Telegraph. Do you still think he’s a harmless old man?

     I had an old preacher say to me once, “be careful at whose table you allow yourself to be fed.” I never really understood what he was saying until I heard this story. I wasn’t saved when Mr. Camping proclaimed doomsday in ’94. I may have believed it then, who knows, but I do remember hearing him this year. It had to be the end of January or the beginning of February. I was on my way to Springfield, IL and “Family Radio” was the only Christian station on. Mr. Camping was teaching a bible study. He was calling everyone listening “beloved.”  He sounded like he could have been my Grandpa. Then he claimed to have had an exclusive revelation from God to interpret the bible. WHAT!? Not even 5 minutes later he’s saying May 21^st 2011 is Judgment day. I turned off his program and prayed his message would go away. Last week it went viral. Tell me Satin isn’t alive and well disguised as beings of light. I’m angry and I’m just say'n.