Posted on 04/24/2011 1:50:08 PM PDT by Gamecock
I guess we’ll know on May 22nd.
Friend of mine said somebody was doing something like this along the southern half of the NJ Turnpike. I thought the end of the world was that Mayan Calendar thing, you know Dec. 21, 2012 is supposed to be the end of the whole shebang here. What’s the deal? May 22nd 2011 or Dec.21,2012? I got a lot riding on this. I’ve stopped talking to a good half of my family and in-laws in anticipation of the end of the world.
Tell ya what, if he’s wrong I’ll meet you at noon on May 23rd, top of the Empire State Building.
Well, our church is a cowboy church and we’re having a barn dance on May 21st. So, if the world ends, we’ll go out dancing. Our pastor has an appointment with a Camping follower on May 22nd.
lol
Will you be posting part 2 on May 22nd?
be sure not to look UP on your way there!
this is not his first time predicting judgment day...
Oh, how I remember fishing trips and fog and the forlorn cry of the loon.
Often when camping.
i take that back... previously he said Christ MIGHT return in 1994...
While listening on my shortwave, I’ve heard Camping’s predictions on this subject. I would describe them as numerologist mumbo-jumbo.
Darn. I already mailed that check for my mortgage for the month of May.
I wonder what his plans are on May 22nd?
ON, NTSA !
I was listening to Family Radio in 1993, when I first heard him say it would be 1994. I almost drove my car into the ditch. Now he is saying it again. I wonder if people in 94 were giving away their possessions and business, while waiting for the end? Many could be left destitute. I do, on the other hand, really like their Gospel music.
One of this guys flunkies was outside our church this morning. See you on the 22nd idiots!
I know this is long but here goes.
I Listened to Camping many years ago when I was a young Christian. He was on WFME which seemed like a very sound biblical station.
He was extremely legalistic and logical. Eventually he started getting into sort of a numerology. It went something like this:
God doesn’t put anything into the bible spuriously. It all must mean something, or why would it be there? So when you hear about 153 fish being pulled up, why thats a strange number, right? Why would the gospel writer count a bunch of fish? So (this part I’m making up, I don’t remember what he said really) 23 is the number of God’s wrath and you take that away from 153 and then you have 130 left, so 13 is the number of the apostles and 10 the number of completions and that means that the apostles will complete God’s wrath in a whatever...
He had many of these. It was all intensely logical and he made it all work out if you listened. In fact, it was striking how logical he made it. Trouble was, he was way off on his hermeneutics and leading others astray.
I was a new Christian and listened with interest, but I did sense he was off. One night on his advice show a woman called up that her husband was beating her. He told her that the Bible says she just had to submit to the beating (”Turn the other cheek”) and she started to cry because she was afraid he would kill her - to which he had no answer. I thought he sounded totally cold.
I also knew no Christian or pastor who understood the bible would have told her that, and realized at that point he was more than a little off - he was out in the Twilight Zone.
I listened only occasionally after that, and he started putting numbers together to figure out the return of Christ. Sadly, back in 1984 I remembering seeing banners about Christ coming in a few days and heard about garage sales where people sold everything they had and gave the money away because they thought the world was ending. He’s caused major damage.
If you listened to him, he sounded like a learned bible teacher until he started to wander into these areas. So people not fully grounded got trampled. I can’t imagine how many people had their faith destroyed by him.
Excuse me, that’s 1994.
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