gravitybow

That would be <a href="http://www.isitso.org/guide/whise.html" target="_blank">Edgar Whisenant.</a>

Jimmy Higgins

I was running one day, well right after the end of 1999, and the prophesized end of the world. One church I ran by had a sign that read:
Of course this was complete rubbish. The new millenium wouldn't begin until 2001 anyway.

babelfish

I really enjoy all this end-times stuff.

At my mother-in-law's church down in Pensacola on the Sunday before New Year's Eve 1999, the preacher kept asking everyone if they were ready, if they were excited; without ever saying that he thought Jesus was coming on New Year's, he hinted that it was going to happen. When we attended church the following week, he didn't say oops, guess I was wrong. But then again, he'd never actually articulated anything, at least not in so many words...

So in 50 years, when we're all still here, and you corner a Christian and ask them when the rapture is going to happen, they'll still be saying "soon, very, very soon! You better be ready!"

I guess time is all relative anyway.

MortalWombat

Yeah, they've been saying it for 2000 years, so I'm not holding my breath.

Illithid

I had long thought that Hal Lindsey had written "88 Reasons the World Will End in 1988", followed next year by the sequel, "89 Reasons...", but on reasearching it, I can't find it! I did find "Late Great Planet Earth" from the '70s, and "The '80s; Countdown to Armageddon". Yet he still has a time slot on Fundie cable.

Anyone heard of the first two books, or am I misremembering the book mentioned earlier in this thread?

Illithid

Oh, yeah, almost forgot to answer the topic:

1-his fingers are clenching
2-his toes are curling
3-he's sweating
4-those pelvic thrusts...
5-his testicles are retracting
6-he's squeezing my thumb really tight with his..
7-I taste salt (but is it kosher?)
8-he's moaning "Oh Dad!, Oh Dad!

I know, it's obvious, but somebody had to do it.

sullster

You were born in 75?
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!

I guess it still shocks me that to think that people were born later than 1955. Godamn that makes me old. A friggin geezer. Please be kind to us old folks, you may be one of us someday.

gravitybow

The author you are looking for is Edgar Whisenant.

The book title seem to change slightly from site to site. The consensus seems to be 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988. But it is not clear to me, so far, that he actually wrote one the next year called 89 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1989.

If you want to pursue this further, do a Google search with "88 reasons" and/or "Edgar Whisenant."

babelfish

Don't worry sullster, you're not getting older, you're getting better.......or is that "bitter?"

David Bowden

In 1992 I ventured into a Christian bookstore in Kankakee, IL, and saw it sitting on the discount shelf. No joke.

What boggles the mind is that even after stupidities like this, "Prophecy" remains one of the largest departments in Xtian bookstores.
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