Bible Rapture site sends unbelievers their last chance ... via email
Pastor Dale Morgan
Bible Rapture site sends unbelievers their last chance ... via email*
* Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
* The Guardian,
* Monday June 16 2008
For most people, messages from heaven are usually accompanied by choirs
of angels, spectacular miracles or at least the odd burning bush. But
one website says it will offer devout Christians a more prosaic mode of
communication from the beyond - by letting them email unbelievers when
the second coming takes place.
YouveBeenLeftBehind.com promises subscribers "one last opportunity to
reach your lost family and friends for Christ" by automatically sending
them a series of emails and documents if the rapture should occur.
For an annual fee of $40 (£20), customers are offered the chance to send
these messages to their loved ones to convince them to believe in God.
The site suggests preparing messages which could prove useful to those
who remain on earth, which are then fired off if the second coming of
Jesus happens.
According to the website, such a biblical event would mean that "there
will be a small window of time where they [non-believers] might be
reached for the kingdom of God".
The website, which is based in Massachusetts, is run by a small team of
Christians who must log on every day to indicate that the rapture has
not yet taken place. If enough of them fail to log in, however, the
system assumes that the second coming is nigh and sends out messages
from all its subscribers.
"The people on my team are Christians who expect to be raptured," Mark
Heard, the site's creator, told the Guardian. "They must continually log
in to the system. The team is spread out as far apart in the US as is
possible to prevent against more than one member being taken out by,
attack, natural disaster, or epidemic."
Heard told the Guardian the subscription fee was only intended to cover
his initial investment but he hoped he would be able to cut the price -
or even provide it for free - as more people signed up.