I’ve dandelions to pull and got to finish the recording of Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday song

Bob Dylan Saved, but not yet

I’ve heard it “all before and I know the score.”

The world is not ending nor will some religious people get raptured to Heaven.

There is a lot of work to do, here there and everywhere.

All the religious people who want things to come to a climactic end aren’t going to force God’s hand, despite trying to get some action for almost 2,000 years.

Check out the dozens and dozens of false predictions in the past on the “end of the world.”

What is it that drives people to make those predictions.  Most likely the people who want the world to end are “socially disconnected” by way of political, economic or personal impotence. That would define a lot of people in the past and even today, like Liberals in Canada.

The Watchtower, announcing the end of world date over and over

During the 1800’s in the US, the muscular growth in the US caused a backlash against progress that saw EOW predictions skyrocket.

Mormon founder Joseph Smith, when he was in trouble with the law, said the world was going to end in the 1830s.

He was followed by Millerites (1840s) and Second Day Adventists (1840s and 1850s). Not having learned any lessons, Charles Taze Russel started publishing The Watchtower with predictions of the Second Coming circa 1880s.

The big Jehovah’s Witness prediction was The End in 1914. When World War I started, they changed that to the Beginning of the End.

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Bob Dylan’s When He Returns (no date supplied)

Since then Jehovah’s Witnesses have predicted the end in 1915, 1920, 1925, 1932, 1941 and the biggie 1975. I was around for 1975. God forgot to read his Watchtower and things just continued on merrily.

I stopped reading that kind of stuff after that but the new rapture of May 21, 2011 has everyone abuzz.

Take it from me: God isn’t coming.  Even Bob Dylan figured that out after he converted to Christianity.

We’re better off to live our lives to the best of our ability and wait on God.

Now back to mixing Make You Feel My Love.

With research from Religious Tolerance.