Harold Camping's ancestors

Harold Camping has been in the news of late, and the pro's and con's of his calculations as to the Bible's DEFINITE mention of when time will end. Predictions such as this get the 'headlines' so to speak, however, their seeds have been sown for years.

The false teaching that the Bible SPECIFICALLY mentions an amount of $1,000.00 to be sown in order to receive blessings in 'health, family, & finances' is more prevalent than end of time predictions, and has been 'sown' for years. It is interesting that a false teacher has to promote & sell HIS writing of how you can find out where this knowledge can be found it God's writing, the Bible. Yet His book is sold, and people read His writing and conclude that God's writing says so.

These "seed-sowing" false teachers are the ancestors of the Harold Camping's of the world.

Physical blessings from God are NOT dependent upon how man lives, for both the evil and good receive them.
Matt. 5:45 - "for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
This is in accordance with God's words after the flood: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." - Gen. 8:22



Spiritual blessings, however, are conditional. But NOT upon sowing a physical seed of $1,000.00, (or any other amount). No such amount is found in the Bible; nor is the time and day of Judgment.

Spiritual blessings were purposed and promised to the righteous. But how does a person become righteous? This is where the bulk of false teaching seeds are sown.

Righteousness is inseparable from obedience. Obedience is contingent upon faith in God's word. Thus, righteousness is imputed to those who believe and obey God's word (see Abraham in Romans 4:4, 8-10; James 2:21-24).   Abraham was not sinless, but because he believed and obeyed God's commands, God regarded him as righteous ~ God's righteousness was 'imputed'.

We see this exemplifed elsewhere. Notice what we read of John the Baptist's parents in Luke 1:6 - "And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord."
Christians were told in Phil. 2:12-15 - "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always OBEYED, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: THAT YE MAY BE BLAMELESS AND HARMLESS, THE SONS OF GOD without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world..."

Many centuries earlier, Moses had stated, "And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us."- Deut. 6:24-25

Man is not righteous, but God's commands are. When unrighteous man, because of his faith in God's word [which said, that keeping these commands will result in restored fellowship], obeys those righteous commands, righteousness is imputed to that man. This is the blessing that will result from this...forgiveness and fellowship; it is a spiritual blessing!

If a specific dollar amount is to be 'sown' in order to receive this blessing, then a passage containing a command of God to do so, would exist as is true of passages containing commands from God to believe and obey.

False teachers exist because of what the apostle Paul warned of in Acts 20:29-30 - "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them."

Jude wrote in Jude 1:16 - "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage."

John warned in 1 John 4:1, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."

Righteousness is inseparable from faith and obedience. True teaching will point this out.

How is it that the Harold Campings of the world are believeable? 

His ancestors have been fertilizing the ground for centuries with $1,000.00 seeds.