Dick Yarbrough
Somebody forgot to tell God the world was ending
eBible Fellowship, a group out of Philadelphia that does all their worshiping online (“Alright, users, let us bow our heads and Twitter.”) said recently that the world was going to end last Thursday, Oct. 7.
Trusting soul that I am, I took them at their word and figured I could skip writing a column this week because chances were pretty good that you would not be around to read it and even if you were, you would likely have other things on your mind — like where you were going to spend eternity.
Now Oct. 7 has come and gone. We are still here and so are the editors who are looking for my column. I am scrambling like mad to pull some subjects and predicates together, along with a few adverbs, some participles, a couple of prepositions and to make sure everything fits the proper syntactic category while tossing in a bunch of commas for good measure. Thanks for nothing, eBible Fellowship.
eBible Fellowship’s founder and leader, a guy by the name of Chris McCann, had seemed pretty sure of himself and of the date. He was quoted as saying, “God destroyed the first Earth” — I was not aware that there had been more than one earth. The things you learn worshiping online — “with water, by a flood in the days of Noah and he says he’ll not do that again, not by water. But he does say in 2nd Peter 3 that he’ll destroy it by fire. It’ll be gone forever. Annihilated.”
McCann went on to say, “According to what the Bible is presenting it does appear that 7 October will be the day that God has spoken of in which the world will pass away.”
Right there I should have been suspicious. I know for a fact that God doesn’t go around revealing scary stuff like that to just anybody and never online. If He really was going to deep-fry the world, chances are that Dr. Gil Watson, the World’s Greatest Preacher, would have known about it first. It is a theological fact that God likes Dr. Gil a lot. And for good reason. Dr. Gil doesn’t go around predicting the end of the world and embarrassing God, who I am pretty sure will be solely responsible for deciding when to pull the plug on us and not some online Bible bunch in Philadelphia.
You may recall that when Gov. George E. Perdue was dealing with a severe drought in Georgia in 2007, he asked the World’s Greatest Preacher to come to the Capitol to pray for rain. Of course, since it was Dr. Gil doing the asking, God answered his prayer almost immediately and the state has been pretty much mildewed ever since. Even the atheists were rumored to be building an ark although unlike Noah, they were having trouble convincing animals to participate with them. There are some things even a goat won’t do.
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Now Oct. 7 has come and gone. We are still here and so are the editors who are looking for my column. I am scrambling like mad to pull some subjects and predicates together, along with a few adverbs, some participles, a couple of prepositions and to make sure everything fits the proper syntactic category while tossing in a bunch of commas for good measure. Thanks for nothing, eBible Fellowship.
eBible Fellowship’s founder and leader, a guy by the name of Chris McCann, had seemed pretty sure of himself and of the date. He was quoted as saying, “God destroyed the first Earth” — I was not aware that there had been more than one earth. The things you learn worshiping online — “with water, by a flood in the days of Noah and he says he’ll not do that again, not by water. But he does say in 2nd Peter 3 that he’ll destroy it by fire. It’ll be gone forever. Annihilated.”
McCann went on to say, “According to what the Bible is presenting it does appear that 7 October will be the day that God has spoken of in which the world will pass away.”
Right there I should have been suspicious. I know for a fact that God doesn’t go around revealing scary stuff like that to just anybody and never online. If He really was going to deep-fry the world, chances are that Dr. Gil Watson, the World’s Greatest Preacher, would have known about it first. It is a theological fact that God likes Dr. Gil a lot. And for good reason. Dr. Gil doesn’t go around predicting the end of the world and embarrassing God, who I am pretty sure will be solely responsible for deciding when to pull the plug on us and not some online Bible bunch in Philadelphia.
You may recall that when Gov. George E. Perdue was dealing with a severe drought in Georgia in 2007, he asked the World’s Greatest Preacher to come to the Capitol to pray for rain. Of course, since it was Dr. Gil doing the asking, God answered his prayer almost immediately and the state has been pretty much mildewed ever since. Even the atheists were rumored to be building an ark although unlike Noah, they were having trouble convincing animals to participate with them. There are some things even a goat won’t do.
For the complete column pick up your copy of The Baxley News-Banner on newsstands today or CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.
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