judgment day on saturday and according to his prophecy believers will be transported to heaven as a massive earthquake strikes us. everyone else will be left to endure famine and other horrors until the earth s final destruction which would happen in october. barbara rossing is a new testament professor at the lutheran college of theology and the author of the rapture exposed. professor, thank you for joining us via skrip. we greatly appreciate it. it s wonderful to be with you. this is one of the hottest topics online. you talk to people, some are wondering are these folks serious. others have joked about it. what down about harold camping and how he came up with this date that tomorrow is it? well, i m glad you introduced him as a fringe preacher. it really is crazy to try to calculate a date. he uses a verse from genesis and ezekiel, first corinthians,
sitting on $70 million. just in case the world doesn t end on saturday. joining me now, new testament professor at the lutheran school of theology at chicago barbara rossing. thank you for joining me tonight. it s great to be with you. thanks for having me. this is a recurring phenomenon, the predicting of the end of the world. this is a very specific version of it. where does this sort of thing come from? well, i mean, one can say it s based on the bible. jesus does talk about the end of the world. but this whole notion of trying to predict it as if the bible were a script laying out predictions, that s a fairly recent phenomenon, really made popular, invented in fact, by a british preacher in the 19th century, john nelson darby. and ever since then, people have been trying to calculate. actually, even before that, in the 1840s.
sitting on $70 million. just in case the world doesn t end on saturday. joining me now, new testament professor at the lutheran school of theology at chicago barbara rossing. thank you for joining me tonight. it s great to be with you. thanks for having me. this is a recurring phenomenon, the predicting of the end of the world. this is a very specific version of it. where does this sort of thing come from? well, i mean, one can say it s based on the bible. jesus does talk about the end of the world. but this whole notion of trying to predict it as if the bible were a script laying out predictions, that s a fairly recent phenomenon, really made popular, invented in fact, by a british preacher in the 19th century, john nelson darby. and ever since then, people have been trying to calculate. actually, even before that, in the 1840s. so it s a longstanding american
language, and that s going to happen between friends, but what we are in complete accord about is that a true peace can only occur if the ultimate resolution allows israel to defend itself against threats and that israel s security will remain paramount in u.s. evaluations of any prospective peace deal. i said that yesterday in the speech, and i continue to believe it, and i think that it is possible for us to shape a deal that allows israel to secure itself, not to be vulnerable, but also allows it to resolve what has obviously been a wrenching issue for both peoples for decades now. i also pointed out, as i said in the speech yesterday, that it is very difficult for israel to be expected to negotiate in a serious way with a party that refuses to acknowledge its right to exist, and so for that reason i think the palestinians are going to have to answer some very difficult questions about this agreement that s been made between fatah and hamas. hamas has been and is an organi
what is it that drives powerful men to be so promiscuous? newt gingrich is heading into day three of damage control, although it s been a terrible eight days for newt gingrich, and the week isn t even over. republicans are outraged. democrats are sprinkling him with glitter. and who sealed gingrich s fate? from sarah palin, from rush limbaugh. who is it? is it rush limbaugh? which member of the conservative fox establishment is the washington cocktail party litterati? i have never been called that ever. don t you think he can come back from this? no, no, no. he did nothing less than attack a sacred cow. the plan would be social engineering and he didn t like it. she defends newt gingrich on an issue that really doesn t matter, and then she zings him. gingrich is done. so who s left? mitt romney is out of the news. and precisely because of newt gingrich. looking for others who are ready to go rogue. let s talk about john huntsman. he worke