Proof positive that many bible thumpers especially this one don't listen. That seems to be all they preach in church!

psst, cuz it is a scam and end times type material is the stuff upon which they have been busted for being a scam.

it is the same reason ya never see any wooden nickels nymore, we are all wise to it.

I guess it depends on how you read Revelations. What is the point of the 7 letters beyond the immediate point of addressing the 7 churches. Why would we need to read about that nearly 2,0000 later? Obviously they represent something more.....

There is a sequence. It says explicitly no none knows the the exact date. And there is always the possibility that the collapse of the United States doesn't mean the end of the world.

Sometimes I wonder if it's only in our own arrogance do we think the fall of the republic of the United States is somehow meaningful in the cosmic scope of things.

Frankly any power great enough to tear down this shithole of a system has my support. This needs to end and humanity as a whole seems powerless to stop or change it. So is it really that unusual that people hope for the return of one of the few who managed to make a difference even a little in the past? I for one am not ashamed to admit I hope for it daily.

What are you smoking? That's practically all they preach.

40% of Christians think the rapture will happen in their lifetime.

What's sad about it is that even non-Christians have their brand of eschatology internalized.

There will be no "end of the world." If we fuck thing up on this planet, we have to *live* with it.

Maybe if people understood that, they wouldn't sit around wishing for destruction.

Because the whole narrative is hocus pocus. There is no end times coming. Only a self fulfilling prophecy of human destruction of the planet.

I think it's because they lost a lot of cred with Harold Camping and they don't want to get burned again so soon. They'll probably wait a while before preaching it again.

"Camping predicted that Jesus Christ would return to Earth on May 21, 2011, whereupon the righteous would fly up to heaven, and that there would follow five months of fire, brimstone and plagues on Earth, with millions of people dying each day, culminating on October 21, 2011, with the final destruction of the world.

In March 2012, he stated that his attempt to predict a date was "sinful", and that his critics had been right in pointing to the words of Matthew 24:36: "of that day and hour knoweth no man" that he no longer believed that anybody could know the time of the Rapture or the end of the world"

It's just become so obvious that no one feels the need to beat a dead horse.
It's like we've all somehow accepted doom from all those Hollywood movies.
To me the end of time simply means the time where clocks and money no longer rule our hectic world.

They save it for later, after the plea for money and your free will.

if the churches preach the end of times, they won't be able to collect any money from the members.