ARKANSAS CITY (AP) -- A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sun roof during an incident best described as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of eye witnesses. Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile up resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman who was apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then passed a man on the side of the road who she claimed was Jesus.
"She started screaming "He's back, He's back" and climbed right out of the sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene. "I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I stopped," Williams said. She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky," he went on to say.
"This is the strangest thing I've seen since I've been on the force,"said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene. Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released twelve blowup dolls filled with helium which floated up into the air.
Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by several of his friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in frustration, and said "Come back here," just as the Williams' car passed him.
Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up into the sky as they passed by him, according to her husband, who says his wife loved Jesus more than anything else.
When asked for comments about the twelve dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen."
2007-10-24 11:36:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is from "The Onion", right?
If you wrote that, please submit it for publication in the Onion. It's a beautiful piece of work!
Edit: It was already published, oh well. It was funny, just the same!
2007-10-24 11:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No. No one knows when the Rapture is going to occur, let alone when Jesus is going to return, as seen here:
Acts 1:7-9 (New International Version)
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7He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
9After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
What we DO KNOW about it, is found in:
1 Corinthians 15:50-54 (New International Version)
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50I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."[a]
When the rapture DOES happen, it will happen so fast, (according to this passage), as fast as the "blink of an eye".
2007-10-24 18:44:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I got a kick out of this one way back when it was circulating around, like five years ago. I did a little digging (Snopes-based, of course), and it's a complete fabrication. Yet still hilarious, and that fact that it's so easy to believe is indicative of how loony religion can make people.
2007-10-24 18:44:29 · answer #3 · answered by damlovash 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Weekly World News or Midnight Globe? That story is hilarious.
2007-10-24 18:43:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This proves the poor woman must have been somewhat crazy or something. I kind of feel sorry for her. Well, it's her fault for thinking he was Jesus I guess, she was horribly mistaken. I'm glad I don't believe in that stuff.
2007-10-24 18:42:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
written by Elroy Willis been on the internet since 2001
2007-10-24 18:46:31 · answer #6 · answered by robb 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The cure for Premature Rapture is to think about baseball.
2007-10-24 18:40:04 · answer #7 · answered by S K 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
at first i thought it was a true story (i'd never heard it before), and then i realized it was fiction. duh...i checked out the snopes site...lol
funny!
sad thing is it could have been true...
bb
2007-10-24 19:05:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Today? That urban legend goes back to 2001.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.asp
2007-10-24 18:42:04 · answer #9 · answered by Simon T 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I think people are too eager to die. She should get a nomination for a darwin award. (Yes, I know you have to die to get a darwin award)
2007-10-24 18:40:02 · answer #10 · answered by Cameron C. 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋