Ascough hasn't seen such visible activities like billboards from Family Radio in Canada before. He credits technology with allowing the group to reach more broadly into Canada and worldwide.
Family Radio is hardly the first group to predict the end. Movies, literature and television have told tales of a coming apocalypse, in many forms. The most recent prediction is also being mocked in the comic strip Doonesbury and has inspired "Rapture parties" across the U. In Vietnam, the prophecy has led to unrest involving thousands of members of the Hmong ethnic minority, who gathered near the border with Laos earlier this month to await Saturday's event. The government, which has a long history of mistrust with ethnic hill tribe groups like the Hmong, arrested an unidentified number of "extremists" and dispersed a crowd of about 5, Ascough sees both a cultural fascination with end-of-the-world scenarios and a fascination with the Bible behind the appeal that religious groups such as Family Radio can hold for followers.
While Ascough predicts the world will survive any suggestions of the beginning of its demise on Saturday, he fully expects such ideas will be revived from time to time. Canada May 21 is Judgment Day: Christian group If the signs are to be believed, the end of the world as we know it starts on Saturday. Social Sharing. If the signs are to be believed, the end of the world starts on Saturday. Doomsday predictions End-of-the-world predictions — or suggestions of other calamities — have been made for centuries.
The billboards come with a biblical guarantee. But one way or the other, the suspense is almost over. The doomsday ad campaign, on billboards and at bus stops coast to coast, is courtesy of Family Radio, a California-based nonprofit Christian network.
The Rapture entails God plucking up true believers into heaven. Those left behind will hunker down or slug it out until God destroys the world five months later, according to Camping, on Oct.
To be swept up in the Rapture means that you're released from this vale of tears. Swept up to heaven in the blink of an eye. So much for Jesus saying that we need to take up our crosses.
This is to say nothing of the fact that only , are supposedly going to be saved. That's one healthy block in Brooklyn! Thus leaving a lot of righteous-minded Christians wondering where they went wrong. Now, I don't like to cast aspersions on anyone's beliefs. But when religion gives way to fear mongering that insults our God-given intelligence, it needs to be called out for what it is: bad Biblical interpretation and bad theology.
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