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“It Must Be True — We Read It On The Internet!”

You heard it here first friends — the end of the world — the day of Christ’s revealing and God’s final judgment will occur on April 5, 2007. How does this writer know? I read it on the Internet, of course. An 80-year-old Sanford, North Carolina man named Frank J. Potter, is proclaiming Christ’s second coming via his web site entitled, “2nd coming of christ.com.” He proclaims that the end of the world will arrive in 2007 on the Preparation Day before Passover — that’s Monday, April 5, for those not versed in reading the Hebrew calendar. And Mr. Potter should know. After all, according to his web site, he is Jesus!

Mr. Potter writes:

“Christianity’s Lord is alive and has been living on the earth in the flesh since February 17, 1924. I am Jesus. I am indeed God’s son, and I will be the one who guides God’s people Israel, and the Gentiles into and through the Millennium. God took 64 months to convince me that I am the Second Coming. I am advising you that I am the prophet that Moses predicted in Deuteronomy 18:15, “The Lord thy God would raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto Him ye shall hearken.“

Mr. Potter also wants us to know he’s sorry that he previously announced the date of the Lord’s return as April 16, 2003 — “Now I know that I was wrong! And I apologize,” he says — now the date has been revised to 2007. This writer wonders whether Mr. Potter, who quotes from Deuteronomy 18:15, has ever read Deuteronomy 18:22 of that chapter? Don’t think for a moment that no one is going to believe the delusional rantings of some individual who thinks he’s Jesus, because some folks will! Why? For the simple reason — they read it on the Internet — thus it has to be true! By inspiration, the Proverb writer stated long ago, The simple believeth every word: but the prudent [man] looketh well to his going.” (Proverbs 14:15 KJV).

Brethren and friends, we live in an age of immediate, voluminous information. However, the fact that we have access to unprecedented amounts of data, doesn’t mean all that data is valid or true. The Internet teems with the Frank J. Potters of the world, spewing nonsense into cyberspace, just because a computer and a modem will allow them to do so. And unfortunately, many folks will believe whatever they read on the Internet just because — well it wouldn’t be on the Internet if it weren’t true, would it?

Today, more than ever, we must heed the inspired counsel of the apostles, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). The apostle Peter warned, “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed” (2 Peter 2:1-2).

Brethren and friends, whatever we hear and read — from whatever source, we should follow the example of the wise Bereans, who “searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11) — and that includes the articles presented within this writer’s blog!