It Might Be Funny if Not So Sad
The thing is, I don' find it funny at all. But all too many people on May 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm when on Times Square in New York City, cheered and scoffed, when they found they were still on earth in spite of all the dire warnings that Jesus would be coming back to take millions of people to heaven, while millions more would be left behind to die in of the horrible destruction of planet earth.
Enter Robert Fitzpatrick who was had left his home that day, after not doing his dishes, because he "didn't expect to be going back home," and was among those in the streets waiting for the miraculous event, whether they would be lifted to heaven. Or not.
When the predicted time came and nothing happened, he with his bible didn't seem to know what to say as people surrounded him. Some making fun and some asking for the money back that they had donated to Harold Camping's cause. See: Short Cuts: “We Will Forget,” a documentary about the man who predicted ... / The Dissolve
According to reports, he was not really a part of the radio program that was accepting the donations, but he himself had donated his life savings of $140,000 on doomsday ads.
When doomsday did not happen, he came to believe that the Rapture would occur on October 21st of that year. That May 21st was the cut off date for salvation, and no more preaching or trying to warn people was viable. People that could be saved were already saved.
The following report comes from this link on what he believed what was still to happen:
Time to mark the calendar - the year's second, spinoff, apocalypse is due Friday. Even so, Staten Island's doomsday devotee says he won't reclaim his front-row seat. "I won't be [in Times Square]. I'll be here," Fitzpatrick said before going inside. Fitzpatrick, 60, left midtown deflated and befuddled last spring when the Earth didn't explode in a giant earthquake as he and Family Radio evangelist Harold Camping had predicted. He later said May 21 was an "invisible" Judgment Day, and that five months of destruction and resurrection will compress into one brimstone bonanza Oct. 21.The retired MTA worker, who bought $140,000 worth of advertising for his book, "The Doomsday Code," even took aim at his "scoffers" in an Oct. 8 essay posted online. "The world is being 'set up,' so to speak, for the enormous shock they will experience on October 21," he wrote in the rambling, 26-page warning. Thankfully, the Earth's destruction "may be over in only a couple of minutes," he wrote. "There should be no suffering whatsoever for the unsaved," he said. "They will simply vanish into nothingness."
I could not find any up to date reports on Robert Fitzpatrick and what he might be doing today. But as from the above article, he did not have to be in Time's Square on October 21, 2011. No doubt he was glad he wasn't there but safely at home out of the public's eye.
Another sad and confusing day for one man so intent that Jesus was indeed coming back, and then didn't. Come back next time, (I am taking Thursday and Friday off and will be back Saturday the 8th) as we may have another story of some soul that was there and learned the hard way that you don't trust everything a man says unless you line it up with God's word where there is "no shadow of turning."
(Please note: the photo above, is not me)
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