Michael Stifel was an ambitious young German monk whose apparent capacity for numerical mysticism and cabalistic interpretation landed him in a great deal of trouble. Despite his fellow clergymen’s attempts to get him to shut up about it, Stifel proselytized that the end of the world would come on Oct. 3, 1533, at precisely eight o’clock in the morning. His congregation was appropriately freaked out by this news, so when the hour came and went, he was summarily ejected from his ecclesiastical quarters and flogged in the streets.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
A doomsday prophet
Michael Stifel was an ambitious young German monk whose apparent capacity for numerical mysticism and cabalistic interpretation landed him in a great deal of trouble. Despite his fellow clergymen’s attempts to get him to shut up about it, Stifel proselytized that the end of the world would come on Oct. 3, 1533, at precisely eight o’clock in the morning. His congregation was appropriately freaked out by this news, so when the hour came and went, he was summarily ejected from his ecclesiastical quarters and flogged in the streets.
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Therefore, Harold Camping should be flogged?... I like where you're going with this. :)
I guess Camping is just another one of many who have predicted the rapture. Do they do it for recognition? If so, it's the wrong kind.
As I stated in some of my facebook responses, this person, possibly with good intentions but went about it the wrong way, opened this subject to the whole world which is something we should be doing. I honestly feel that we are living for the end, that Christ will be coming very soon (closer every day) and that we should be shouting from the rooftops to all those who will listen (friends, family, neighbors, etc) that eternity is a long time and where are they going to spend it. This guy no way could have predicted the exact coming of Christ but it certainly opened up our minds that this is a real thing. Just something to think about.
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