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TagsNew Jersey man advertises Judgment Day
BY PAT SUMMERS
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
Edwin Ramos, of Vineland, New Jersey, wants to spread the word about when the world will end — May 21, 2011, to be precise. So far, his efforts to warn the populace have included
* leasing three billboards — one in front of his home; the second, on Delsea Drive in Vineland; the third, in front of a Dollar & Up store on Rt. 49 outside Bridgeton, and
* wrapping his work trailer with a message matching the billboards — "Judgment Day, May 21, 2011, THE BIBLE GUARANTEES IT." A circled "2010" has a diagonal red line through it — Ramos's way of rejecting the date of choice in both a recent movie and a Mayan calendar.
A line in red at the bottom cites www.FamilyRadio.com. This is the radio network Ramos has reportedly listened to for some 10 years. Its leader, Harold Camping, is the source of Ramos's conviction about the end coming next spring. (Neither Ramos nor his billboard campaign are mentioned on the site.)
As Ramos has figuratively blown the trumpet to warn people (Ezekiel 33:3), he has lost customers, friends and family. He's thankful his wife, Jessica, is supportive. The couple has three daughters under 10; their views are not known.
With his business — American Industrial Electrical Contractors — faltering, Ramos considered giving it to his father, with whom he works. However, that would leave little time for any "under new management" changes.
On-line comments about Ramos and his campaign ranged from the reproachful to the compassionate. According to one, Ramos has been badly misinformed by a false prophet named Harold Camping, who was wrong in his previous end-of-world prediction for 1994. And, Ramos had reportedly advocated staying away from church for private bible study — something that's "not biblical."
Elsewhere, another person noted that Sarah Palin's supposed to start her campaign on that May date, but if Ramos's warning is accurate, she won't be able to. If he really wanted to get the word out, he'd get more billboards, wrote one, apparently unaware of Ramos's cash-flow problem. Still another wondered how Ramos will deal with it when the world doesn't end on May 21 and "he'll have lost everything."
