Phil - One Year Later

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PHIL 5.22.2012

It has been one year and a day since the big failed prediction

 of the end of the world by Harold Camping and his Family Radio. 

So I sent Phil a short message hoping he's well. 

Phil responded with the following. 

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Hello, I guess i am doing good. Life is full of surprises , but not all of them were good.

I became so broken in heart on May 21 last year. I cried and was so depressed for weeks. I still see that from the flood to may 21 is 7000 years to the very day, but i know it was not to be the rapture nor Oct 21 to be judgment day.

The majority of us who love family radio have repented. We became prideful in our quest for the end time date. We honestly did not see it that way and God himself allowed us to go down a dead end road that we would fall and fall quite hard. There has been quite a few consequences for all of us, some still continue today, teaching that May 21 was spiritual and no longer is salvation taking place until Christ returns.

These are people i knew and it is so sad that this has happened to many. Now i find i evangelize within my friends of like minded who loved family radio.

Not everyone at family radio approved this, but we looked down upon them and there was nothing they could do but leave the ministry or stay and hope that we would come around some day.

Harold had a stroke around mid June of 2011, He will never be back on the open forum live. he does talk from time to time but it is difficult for him. he is sharp and knows whats going on, but he simply cannot teach anymore.

He finally repented also but much later than some of us. It was slow coming from him. But i do have a letter from him saying it was sinful for him to search and declare a date. Now many who he taught have thrown him over the cliff. its just really sad.

Family radio has many stations and sold some and will sell some more if and when they need to. they are keeping the world wide network going but here in the USA the stations are worth so much that they might sell them and people can always tune into the computer and hear the station.

Off course i still believe in predestination. Because of May 21, i had a few relatives that asked me to go to church with them if the world did not end. It had been 10 years for me to be in a church.

Well that day came and I had agreed thinking I would not be here, but I told them I did not want to go to their free will baptist church with my boys, so we went to a reformed baptist church in [...]. Well they loved the church and kept going and left their church soon after. I have told them, they believe like Harold now except his eschatology.

they actually understand Gods sovereignty now. So i am no longer the only one in my family reformed in faith but [...others...] also are Calvinist now. [...] my niece [...] said to me," [Phil] I now get it, we cant do anything to be saved or get saved, it is all 100% the work of God, and we believe as a result of salvation, not the believing causes God to save us."

Well you see, I am not longer so depressed. I live each day knowing what it is like to believe it might be my last day.

I apologize for lying to you. We told a lie and no body could convince us that we were making a big mistake. God used time to show us that we did not know as much as we thought we did. It all came down to admitting our own pride took root and pride is one of the worst worldly sins to overcome.

I do see that God kept track of time in the bible, Adam was 130 years old when seth was born and Seth was 105 when Enos was born, but we still dont know the exact day of creation. God has nt revealed that. So the biblical calendar could be off by a day or hours, which would not work with everything we said.

God said those years for a reason, but I now have come very humble before God as a child and prayed, Lord I know nothing you teach me.

While I do not believe all free will are lost or not saved, I can only teach as I know and what i dont know I will leave that with God which salvation if of the Lord and He will have mercy on whom he will have mercy and its not for me to judge who is saved or not. The more I read the bible, the more I find I am wrong and God is true.

THANKS FOR SAYING HELLO!

[[note: spelling got touched up by blogger this time]]