Broken Bones

We had a group come in from South Carolina come in, and a few of the male chaperones constructed our lovely new playset.  It has two levels, but it's still safer than our old one.  The children are ecstatic, the adults are tired, and I'm feeling like an old lady because I'm worried for their safety.  Maybe it's just our kids.  They tend to try dumb stuff at least once.

Noah Knew

Have you seen these people?  Honestly, I live in a cave with little media influence, and I get most of my news from the front page of yahoo.  And I'm a google user.  Whatever.  But I started hearing people on campus laughing about May 21st.  So I looked it up.  Oh.  My.  Word.

"We Can Know."  Know what?  The date of Jesus' return.  How?  Because Noah knew.  Jesus even said that it will be like the time of Noah.

"As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." (Mat. 24:37).

Of course, Jesus couldn't have been talking about the moral depravity of the time, or anything like that.  Oh wait.  He probably did:

"For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. "  (Mat 24:38-39).

I guess what they mean is that we're like Noah if we're Christians, so we can know.  Or something.  Of course, these verses are preceded by Matthew 24:36

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."


How did they get to May 21st?  There is a looooong-winded numerological reason as to why.  Honestly, I couldn't type it all up.  Basically, since Harold Camping says that since the church is at the end of the Biblical age, it can now be discerned, because of a great verse in Ecclesiastes 8:5

"Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure."  

Note that God is telling them to obey their earthly king in this section.  Even better, though, Ecclesiastes 8:7 says:


"Since no one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come?"


And the numerological lengths he goes to...numbers of shekels and whatnot...it's ridiculous!  What's more, Harold Camping, the man behind it already predicted that the world would end in 1994.  He's already 0 for 1.    Check out more about his illustrious career--here.