contemplativeI find all this to be absolutely crazy! I can't believe what some professing Christians believe about the End Times/Eschatology!
The Great Tribulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Tribulation
"Worried the pearly gates won't have clean water? TV evangelist Jim Bakker has your back.
Twenty years after his release from prison following rape and fraud allegations, the disgraced pastor is busy selling unique survival kits apparently for the Apocalypse.
On his website for his latest TV program, "The Jim Bakker Show," the 74-year-old sells everything from bulk "End of the World Biscuits," "Extreme Survival Bottles" — two for $57 — and extreme cold-weather apparel.
The evangelist, who considers himself one of today's experts on the Book of Revelation, appears motivated by the prophetic scriptures in the Bible, which warn of the Rapture — where Christians will be taken by God into heaven — and the second-coming of Christ.
As seen on his website under "Love Gifts," he sells plastic tubs packed with one to seven years' worth of food with 20-year expirations.
Love Gifts/Jim Bakker
http://jimbakkershow.com/lovegifts/
On Bakker's website under 'Love Gifts,' he sells everything from plastic tubs packed with one to seven years' worth of food to 'extreme survival bottles.'
On Bakker's website under 'Love Gifts,' he sells everything from plastic tubs packed with one to seven years' worth of food to 'extreme survival bottles.'
The majority of the food sources appear in the form of beans, such as the $3,000 "Time of Trouble" tub, which contains 7,728 servings of black bean burger pouches.
Others include a mixed array of "End of the World Gravy" and "Kevin's Krazy Lasagna" in large, tightly-packed containers.
Bakker's online specialty store follows his 1994 release from prison for an original 45-year sentence for 24 counts of mail and wire fraud in 1989. That sentence was later reduced to eight years but he was released after serving nearly five.
He was additionally accused of raping one of his church's secretaries, Jessica Hahn, in the 1980s. In that case he argued the sex was consensual.
On his website he lightly addresses his troubled past.
"In 1987, Pastor Jim Bakker resigned as President of [The PTL Club] after a moral indiscretion he had committed seven years earlier that was brought to the public's attention," his biography reads.
Among the other activities keeping the pastor busy is his promotion of Morningside, the Christian retreat and retirement community outside of Branson, Mo. where his TV show is taped.
Since his release from prison he has also authored four books: “I Was Wrong,” “The Refuge,” “Prosperity and The Coming Apocalypse” and “Time Has Come.”"
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/tv-evangelist-jim-bakker-sells-survivalist-kits-jail-time-article-1.1940417
http://www.thewire.com/national/2012/05/jim-bakkers-doomsday-survival-gear-way-overpriced/52499/
http://www.tribulationtruth.com/resources-safety.cfm