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Judgment Day$–Tests of Faith–Prophecies from May 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012

Breaking World Prophecy News:

In My Opinion:

“But what about the MONEY?”

Sincere, self-styled Biblical scholar, “Doomsday Prophet” Harold Camping, who’s reportedly whipped up quite a profitable frenzy of followers for his alleged $18 million business empire–

thanks in great part to his dire drumbeats of Judgment Day crashing the Earth’s current uneasy wedded bliss between that age-old bickering threesome named Hate, Ignorance & Greed, not to mention smudging the rosy futures of their all-too robust offspring, Faithlessness & Tomfoolery, on May 21, 2011–

faces another difficult test of his own faith:

If Camping really does believe the world faces a horrific 5-month Judgment Day period starting on May 21st (just 2 days away from this time of writing), during which would escalate a horrific degradation and destruction of the human race–or at least, naturally, of those not faithful to his sect’s version of Christianity–

what’s the most virtuous–not to mention pragmatic–thing to do with his wealthy organization?

Business decisions, decisions, decision$:

If he hangs onto his media empire, and Judgment Day DOES kick in on May 21st–won’t his business value crash?

Because, what with an unprecedented accelerating doom of the evildoers of the world (a category that seems to include most humans, but naturally not you or me, dear reader)–

won’t general mayhem incinerate global property values? Or crash our world’s vile economic and satellite communications systems?

Won’t Jesus Christ’s return under such inclement weather conditions trash the dollar’s value even more dramatically than the wildest misdeeds of “Helicopter Ben” Bernanke, who once famously jested–or not–that he’d throw greenbacks to the masses from helicopters if it’d save the U.S. economy?

Of course, if the world’s economy is destroyed–just for starters–Camping and his compatriots could provide invaluable assistance by selling their business properties now, & investing in seeds and plowshares to help later replant & rebuild a shattered planet.

But no, that would be a fatally unfaithful scheme.

Why?

Because–in Camping’s misguided zeal to prove the literal accuracy of the supremely spiritual & mystical Book of Revelations, he says God wont be satisfied with heckling, humiliating & slaughtering all the below-average-in-faith folk–

Instead, He’ll then completely smash the planet to smithereens like a petulant child tired of stacking his building blocks (wait–do any children still play with building blocks?)…

He’ll completely wipe the wheezy memory chip of our planet like a shaken Etch-A-Sketch (wait–do any kids still play with Etch-A-Sketches, either?)…

All the good people will survive. Of course, not many Muslims (too temperamental) or Buddhists (too blase) or Jews (they blew their shot) will sneak past God’s Praetorian Guard, because He has sharp eyes and, what with the Obama administration and Schwarzenegger’s follies, He’ll have completely run out of patience.

Which forces the inevitable first question:

If God says the ways of this world are hopelessly atrocious & doomed, what might be the new ways of His New Heaven and Earth?

After all, with no more destructive capitalism (no Walmart left to sell Jesus a cheap pair of flip-flops made by Chinese slave labor?);

no more militarism (no endless rotating list of mortal enemies left to attack or defend against, or to sell weapons to & then attack or defend against?);

no more sickness or death (them’s that’s gonna go, is already gone, and nobody’s who’s left is likely to give or get AIDS anyhow?);

no more greedy pharmaceutical industry (goodbye, AMA & your licensed pill pushers?);

no more ecological devastation and starving children (sorry, Monsanto, all Frankenfoods & Frankenfertilizers are banned; sorry Nestle, mothers’ milk will do just fine?);

no more tyrannical governments (not when God can run the world quite fairly & efficiently with His tried & tested Republican tribesmen?);

and perhaps most important, no more BAD cultural ideas (let me not be blamed for tainting your innocent imagination with any visualizable examples?)–

will we–sorry, THEY–be reborn again by God into a–gasp–COMMUNAL, PEACEFUL, BLISSFUL dimension of Earthly reality–that is, into the New Jerusalem (again, without those Arabs & Jews cluttering up the golden streets)?

Back to the point, more or less:

Does all this untidy change mean the value of Camping’s business, er, religious organization, will collapse once they leap into– (yes, you heard it here first) –the New Age?

The faithful Camping’s dilemma:

If he really believes his own Doomsday claims, why wouldn’t he sell his church’s business interests now, before May 21st, for top dollar? Distribute the proceeds to the poor of pocket & spirit in a last push to enlighten & save more souls?

(I’d buy it today, for a dozen silver dollars–not to sound Judas-like–just to show my faith in God & mankind)

On the other hand, what if the unthinkable does occur?

That is, what if May 21st, May 22nd, May 23rd, all meekly twitter past us, excuse me, tiptoe past us in a row, with no more than the usual recent horrific dosage of terrible earthquakes, tornadoes, nuclear meltdowns and Charlie Sheen revelations?

Will Camping’s group admit defeat? Disband? Pull a Rev. Jim Jones, Jonestown-style exit to avoid facing their embarrassment? (Let’s hope not!)

Or Heaven forbid, will they fall back to a new defensive goal line stand for their fearful Judgment Day scenarios–

“Excuse me, faithful flock, did you know the Mayan astrologers were actually the three Wise Men in disguise?? Onwards to December 12, 2012–let’s keep those donations rolling in for another great fear-mongering year!?”

In my opinion–and I mean no disrespect to Camping or his followers–what they suffer from is a nasty condition that afflicts us all, every human being, from the most faithful to the most hopeless:

Our common human dilemma:

Yes, we–the entire rabble of us–instinctively DO know the world is plunging into revolutionary–some would say calamitous–unpredictable dangers and opportunities.

But as our world pushes past the brink of what feels like tolerable changes, can we see a hopeful future–beyond our darkest visions of fear?

What New World do we want to invest ourselves into?

What imaginative new visions can we embrace?

Most importantly, how can we picture & work for a New World that’s not only defined by what’s gone–by no more war, no more hate, no more tyranny or taxes or terror–but BY WHAT GREAT VISION WE CAN SAY YES TO?

What YES will we freely, gladly give our resilient hearts, souls, beliefs & sweat to?

I trust that you who read this screed after May 21st–and there will be many–will not at your moment of literary breakthrough be sipping a sarsaparilla at the Pearly Gates, or gargling jalapena hotsauce in Hades. Instead, like all the prophets of Apocalypse and their followers, you’ll be wondering:

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Bless you, your hopes, your prayers and your dreams.
May God guide you, and Camping’s followers, and our world, to reap the very best destiny we can possibly sow!
-Rev. Scott Ufford,
Spiritualist minister
Copyright 2011

2011’s SuperMoon Danger — What’s In Your Future?

Welcome to springtime! If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve survived 2011’s SuperMoon disaster scenarios…

New Spring Resolutions:
With the dawning of this Season of Rebirth, we hope for no more killer earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis & melt-downs in the Pacific Ring of Fire, no more Mt. St. Helen’s-like volcanoes blasting Hawaii or Yellowstone, no more dervish-like forest fires charring California to its very shores, no more 16-foot snowdrifts encrusting Ireland, no more Chernobyls x-raying Russia…

We hope & pray that the seeds we humans collectively plant with our consciousness this Supermoon springtime, grow better results than the man-made disaster that evolved right before the last SuperMoon of March 6, 1993:

On February 26, 1993, the first World Trade Center bombing from explosives packed into a van parked below the North Tower killed 6 and injured over 1,000 innocent people. Days later, now-convicted co-conspirator Mohammad A. Salameh was taken into custody.

This cowardly act of terrorism seemed almost destined to not fail, or was it perhaps forced into reality by the corruptive current of some of America’s own long-term actions?

Consider that the van driver, Salameh, failed his driving test four times! In the two months before their insane deed, he had two serious driving accidents–including one a month before that put him in the hospital in New Jersey! Yet with all their clown-like incompetence, their vicious scheme succeeded.

How was this possible? As a psychically aware Spiritualist minister, I know all things are known by God. Clearly we all reap what we sow sooner or later, in some form, both the bad and the good. Whoever finds this fact controversial is too busy trying to defend his own behavior rather than observe, admit and change it.

As we know, 1993’s bombing was just the warm-up for the horrific 2001 WTC slaughter, as well as USA’s response with its seemingly endless oil wars, and the so-called Patriot Act grab of American’s natural human rights.

Looking in retrospect, how much of this 1993 atrocity was spawned by USA’s unfortunate meddling in the Middle East since before the despotic Shah of Iran was installed on the Peacock Throne? At what fearful cost–both in dollars and in human lives–have we Americans really propped up the oil, gas & nuclear industries–including with our massive insane military ventures & tinpot ruler-making in the Middle East?

Was the 2001 WTC bombing destined to happen at the time of the Supermoon in 1993?

Were the invasions of Iraq & Afghanistan destined to happen as result of the terrorists’ crimes against humanity at the WTC in 2001?

What might be “destined” to happen as a result–as a harvest–of the seeds we’re planting at our current level of consciousness? What direction are we as a nation and as a supposed world leader, headed?

Are we willing to honestly see, debate, and if necessary correct, the possible threads of our actions and results from times of the last Supermoon in 1993, through now–until the next one Supermoon rises on November 14, 2016?

What deeds–what seeds and their harvests–will we look back on that autumn evening? Will we feel regret? Gladness? Confident understanding of a better path?

May this 2011 Spring Supermoon bring revolutionary goodness for the whole world, and for you.


Rev. Scott Ufford
Copyright 2011