Sherri Shepherd revealed how she went to jail for eight days as a result of of a Rapture prophecy.
To be clear, she wasn’t speaking concerning the one which was supposed to occur on Sept. 24, an concept that was popularized by a South African pastor. On her discuss present SherriShepherd mirrored on why she didn’t consider this latest Rapture prediction — as a result of she’d fallen for one earlier than.
“I have been through this before. I used to be in a religion that told me that the Rapture was coming,” Shepherd recalled. “They told us to get our house in order. And I said, ‘Why? I’m not going to need a house where I am going. I don’t need those worldly possessions.'”
Because she didn’t consider within the prophecy, Shepherd determined not to take care of severe bills which can be punishable by legislation.
“I did not pay my payments. I did not pay my taxes,” she defined. “I did not pay my traffic tickets because why would I pay anything when the world’s about to end? My registration had been expired for two years. I had seriously $10,000 worth of unpaid moving violations.”
After admitting she didn’t show up to court to pay for parking tickets, Shepherd revealed what happened when the Rapture never occurred.
“The world never ended. I went to jail,” she said. “I was on my way to perform at the Comedy Store in Hollywood and I didn’t know, so they picked me up. I went to jail for eight days and because I fell for the Rapture, I became a hardened criminal.”
Shepherd gave a somewhat different spin on this time in her life in a 2006 interview. In a conversation with Bubbly justShepherd explained how becoming disillusioned with and leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses left her convinced that “I was going to die and that I was going to go to hell.”
“I felt like, well, I’m not a Jehovah’s Witness and that’s the true religion,” she said. “I can’t go to church because those are from the devil. I felt like one of the walking dead. I was never mad at God. I just felt like God was mad at me.”
It was that mindset, she said, that led her to unpaid tickets and, eventually, jail.
“I felt like…, ‘I’m going to die, so if I’m going to die, I’m going to write all kinds of bounced checks,'” she recalled. “‘I’m going to sleep with a lot of people. I’m going to not pay my bills. I’m going to die anyway!’
“There’s one scripture, ‘Let’s eat, drink, and be merry, because we’re all going to die.’ “That’s really how I felt. Let’s do everything!” she continued. “I went to jail because my registration was two years expired. Police would stop me and give me a ticket to appear in court. I had like eight of those. My bench warrants totaled $9,000.”
The latest Rapture warning came from South African pastor Joshua Mhlakela who claimed that he saw Jesus in a vision returning on Rosh Hashanah.
“The rapture is upon us, whether you are ready or not,” Mhlakela stated in an interview. “I saw Jesus sitting on his throne, and I could hear him very loud and clear saying, ‘I am coming soon.’”