We last check in with the nutcases at the The True Bible Code and Lord’s Witnesses website back on May 15, 2008. They were up to failed prediction number seventy at the time and predicting that a terrorist attack would strike New York City on either the weekend of the 23rd or 27th of that month.
Have they given up yet? Ha ha! What are you, stupid?
There will be a dual terrorist attack on the US and the UK taking the form of fire from the heavens and a rising mushroom cloud, in 2008Heshvan (before 2008December3). The US arm of the attack will hit Westside Midtown Manhattan producing a man made mushroom cloud rising from the Hudson river. The UK arm will most likely occur on the same day but may be a few days later.
Now would be the time to buy 12 months supply of candles, solar power, wind power, food, water, gas bottles, deisel etc. for yourself your loved ones and some guests.
So they’ve expanded their list of potential targets to include someplace in United Kingdom in addition to New York City. They’re up to the triple digits in number of failed predictions so far and are they at all embarrassed about it? No, not at all. In fact it’s become a point of pride for them:
Now some churches have attempted to deduce the date of the begining of the Kingdom of God from the scriptures and got it wrong a few times. God bless them! The Watchtower was the most tenacious of these and made perhaps 6 or 7 steps towards that date, their last step being 1975, which is 6,000 years after Adam was born according to their pre-flood chronology which is very good. But then they gave up at what was actually the last fence. Because the Kingdom of God begins not 6,000 years after Adam was born but 6,000 years after he sinned, since his sin was the founding of the world, not his birth. And he sinned aged 33½, the same age that Jesus was when he paid for that sin. So the Kingdom of God began on 2008Nisan17, 6,000 years after his sin on 3993Nisan14 BC.
[…] Yes, 7 steps in humiliation was the most that any church had made before us. This was the largest number of mistakes any church was prepared to make publicly before they let embarrassment in front of men trump their fear of God. The LWs, standing upon the shoulders of the work of the JWs, got the date of the start of the Kingdom of God after a few weeks of independent research in one step on 1992February1!
But getting the date of the start of the Great Tribulation was not a one step journey. It was at least a 125 step journey. This was the lock that the holy spirit put on that knowledge. And no church on this earth loved the glory of God and detested the glory of man enough to make that journey. No church other than the LWs.
Let me repeat that: They’ve been wrong 125 times and they’re still guessing. Come tomorrow they’ll be wrong 126 times and they’ll just keep pushing the date back a couple more weeks. This is the power of faith. The ability to keep believing in something with absolutely no basis in reality despite being shown to be continuously wrong literally hundreds of times. Chances are they’ll still be at it when we check back in another six or seven months.
Maybe they think they’ll be right on the 666th attempt.
Well if they guess wrong enough probablity says they will eventually guess correctly on coincidence. That is enough for them and probably the rest of the world as everyone will flock to them.
“Making a virtue of necessity” has a kind of twisted logic to it. But “making a virtue of bone-headed stupidity” is somehow not very impressive.
Nothing happened. Surprise?
It’s the “detested the glory of man” part that gets me.
If we’re supposedly made in his image, shouldn’t it be right for us to be glorious?
Some people aught to be shot. At least they’re not in any way seeking glory… except by proclaiming themselves glorious in their attempts at divining gods will.
This is the kicker:
Translation: “We can’t be right until one of our guesses comes true, so we’ll keep guessing until we’re right, and that will prove we’ve been right all along, even though we’ve been wrong up until the last guess.”
Wow… just… wow.
It’s a great pity that they’ve closed their comment forum. Along the lines of AngryArchaeologist, I would suggest, nay, I would prophecize, based on my understanding of the True Bible Code, the prediction they should make next, which will certainly come true, and cause the whole world to flock to them:
There will be a humanitarian disaster somewhere in the world sometime in 2009.
Haha, this is freakin hilarious. Stupid predictions. Just like the Pat Robertson.