I just talked to Family Radio spokesman and board member Tom Evans ? one of the sources I contacted a couple months ago for my first story on the May 21 rapture craze.
Evans and his colleagues with the California-based network seem to be clinging to shreds of hope that their Judgment Day prophecy will materialize, even though their proclaimed 6 p.m. local time deadline has come and gone for New Zealand, Australia and other nations in that region of the globe ? with no earthquakes, no raptures reported.
?We?re waiting patiently for the day to be completed and see what happens,? he said from his home in California.
But Evans added that once we reach midnight local time in the holy city of Jerusalem ? about four hours away as I type this, unless like Family Radio I?ve miscalculated ? he will be ready to concede that today?s rapture is a bust.
.../cont/...