DOWNEY MINISTER DOES THE MATH AND RESCHEDULES THE APOCALYPSE
By Christian Brown
Audie Derryberry says that anybody who believes the Mayan calendar’s prediction that the world will end next year will be in for a big surprise next month—which is when he insists the Apocalypse will begin.
“I’m 110 percent sure of this,” said Derryberry, who turns 65 next month. “I’ve been working on this all my life, over 30 years now. This is not a scare tactic − we’ve been warning people for 20 years. We are the last generation. You’ve got to be ready, you need to be born again…only Jesus can save us.”
Derryberry is a Downey minister—as well as a lifelong resident and former candidate for its city council—who served as pastor of Downey Bible Fellowship for 20 years before retiring in 2007.
He is aware that the Mayan calendar abruptly ends on Dec. 21, 2012, but insists that his Bible-based calculations indicate that the end of the world will start on Saturday, May 21—exactly 7,000 years after Noah’s flood.
“In Genesis, it talks about the flood and it tells the day. Using Biblical genealogy, we can construct a Biblical calendar and know exactly when the flood was,” Derryberry says. “Do the math—there’s a lot of math in the Bible and it’s there for a reason.”
Derryberry emphasizes that May 21 is only the beginning of the end, but according to his math, anybody who’s around on May 22 … well … the next five months aren’t gonna be fun.
“When the judgment begins, there will be a terrible earthquake and everything man has built will be destroyed − it’ll be worse than what Japan is going through now,” he said. “Those that are saved will be taken up and it will be hell on earth for five months. On October 21, everything will end.”
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im gonna be at this guy’s house the morning of the 21st with a truck, if he really believes he wont have any problem with me taking his possessions, if he balks then maybe he isnt so sure…
Interestingly, this guy believes Jesus was born on April 1. I am not kidding google May 21, 2011.
Many biblical scholars disagree on when the end of the world -as we know it- will come.
My personal belief is that this will not occur -regardless of whose calendar we use or how much mathematical calculation we attempt- until the Great Commission described in Matthew 24:14 has been completed. Until that time, which Matthew 24:36, makes clear that no one, “not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son” (nor even Pastor Derryberry) knows, many terrible and wonderful things will occur, but the end shall not come until “this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations.”
So long as their remains one single ear in the whole of the world that has not yet heard the Gospel, the earth as we know it shall not end.
Or so I believe.
“They” have been saying this for 2,000 years and “they” have been wrong for 2,000 years and “they” will be wrong for another 2,000 years and another and another…