http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100605/LIFE/6050321/Save-the-dateSave the date: Newark man believes Jesus returns in 2011As dusk is coming on, Gary Daniels hands a pamphlet to the men and women boarding buses at Rodney Square.
"May I offer you something to read?" asks Daniels, a 26-year-old from Newark.
Mostly the riders seem unfazed to read that Judgment Day is only a year away and the world is close to the 7,000-year anniversary of the flood that wiped out all but Noah and his ark.
"I get a few heckles from people saying I'm a false prophet," Daniels says.
He's used to people crumpling the paper or pastors saying there is no way to know the day when Jesus will return.
Every now and then a person will say with interest, "This is the first time I've heard the world is going to end next May."
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Daniels, a trim and respectful young man who works in a health care office, is passionate on this issue. And he points out that many Christian sects and denominations believe that the end of the earth as we know it is near. But he believes most Christians fail to appreciate how near the end really is.
So in big block letters he proclaims on a black T-shirt: "Judgment Day May 21, 2011." The message is printed on the side of his rust-colored Honda Element, too.
A focus on apocalyptic teaching is common to many paths of Christianity, says Barry Brummett, professor of communication studies at the University of Texas. It's been that way since the crucifixion when early worshippers expected Jesus to return.
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