"Good evening Mr Camper, I would like some advice on how to witness to family members who I know are not going to want to hear this and ummm..." (caller to radio program.)
"Well, you are speaking for all of us. We all have that problem because family members, if they know that we've become really concerned about May 21, about judgement day. They don't want to talk about it. They will walk out of the room and you have to get accustomed to that. The subject matter is too heavy for them. And they just can't face it." Harold Camping/Wheats and Tares/Amazon Prime
And then immediately the video goes into the next clip with people on the street trying to warn people about what is coming.
In his comment to this caller, did you hear any advice to her about her question?
No. I didn't either. Suppose that were you in his shoes and you really believed judgment was coming that day, and someone asked you what you would advise the person to say to your friends and family. What would you say?
We could certainly start it off with that. Because as in Noah's day, people did not want to hear him preaching either that they had better get into the ark. And they didn't and God did do as he promised. But that was then.
If Camping really believed what he was preaching in those days, what should he have said in addition to what he did?
Maybe, to not give up trying. Perhaps asking God to give her the right words to say to her family, and friends? To ask God for wisdom? To love them no matter what they say or do when they confront them with these things?
But I think most of all, he should have told her to be on her knees praying God's mercy for her loved ones that He would get to their hearts because only God can do that.
Did he say any of those kinds of things to her?
We don't know? Maybe he did. But the video does not give us any more information about that conversation at this point. And it should have, if he did. And if he didn't, why not. It seems like an important part that was left out to me.
In the next clip, people who believe in Harold Camping's message, are on the streets again. And it gets to our pregnant lady that is then shown walking and talking with her two children and another lady who is passing out pamphlets.
She says to the lady, "I have decided to stop talking to my mom, like I know she is against the message, but I was thinking as my mom she would have said, 'Oh, that's nice.' She got so mad. She just came like...her true feelings showed up, and she said (inaudible name) 'this is not going to happen. I am concerned about my grandchildren.'"
The pregnant woman goes on to say that her mother seen her granddaughter only three times in her life, and how she doesn't question her parents and how it had been a really ugly conversation it had been.\
That conversation cuts away to another conversation where she is speaking into the camera about what seems to be saying more about her situation with her mother.
What else is she telling about that? I don't know. That is for the next post. But let me ask this.
What did she really expect? There could be at least two answers.
1) The mother is a born again Christian, who knows what the Bible really says about end times (which we would hope) or...
2) Her mother is a person that isn't a Christian and doesn't know, and doesn't believe anything about judgement day in any way, as those that lived in the day of Noah.
Which way is it? Maybe we will find out. Or maybe we will find out something different then what I thought of. But in the meantime, no matter what, I would argue again: What really did the daughter expect? She said she thought her mother would say "Oh, that's nice."
Really?
Thanks for coming as I 'pick' apart this Wheat and Tares documentary available on Amazon Prime. Have a blessed day!
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