Posted on 12/16/2013 7:02:09 PM PST by Borges
OAKLAND, Calif. - The radio preacher who predicted "Judgment Day" would come in May 2011 has died in northern California.
A statement released late Monday by his Family Radio network says Harold Camping "passed on to glory" at 5:30 p.m. PT Sunday. He was 92. The statement revealed Camping had a fall at his home November 30, but he was in weak health due to a stroke since 2011.
Camping gained a national following through the Family Radio network of stations he helped found in 1959. He conducted daily on-air Bible studies and hosted a nightly "Open Forum" call-in show about Bible questions. The network includes a station in Emporia.
But Camping became an international laughingstock when he warned "Judgment Day" would occur May 21, 2011 with the second coming of Jesus Christ. He went on to say the world would end October 21, 2011.
Camping admitted to reporters he was "flabbergasted" when his prediction proved false. Donations to his ministry dropped noticeably after that, and Family Radio was forced to sell several of its most powerful FM stations to stay afloat financially.
The Family Radio statement notes Camping is survived by a wife of 71 years.
Joan Fontaine.
Where do Nelson Mandela, Peter O’Toole and the guy who played Billy Jack fit in?
Nelson Mandela was part of a previous long forgotten threesome, and I can’t remember the other two, sorry. (I’ll try to look them up.) PeterO’Toole’s 3 is listed elsewhere on this thread.
“According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw - easy one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. It anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:10-15)
Very little of Harold Camping’s work will survive. He himself, however, may be saved, for salvation is by grace, through faith, for Jesus’ sake.
However, how sad that so much effort was poured into foolishness. And how sad that many listened to such foolishness. Let the wise take note.
Harold Camping now stands before the the throne of judgment. Nothing more can be said with certainty … to do otherwise would be to build with wood, straw, and hay.
“Real circumstances” in the “real world” have a way of correcting false views of prophecy. That’s generally true, unless someone is so far out — and “off” — that they cannot even connect with reality, and in that case they make up some very elaborate “cover story” to explain it away.
I think Camping probably believed what he was saying - however - he was simply wrong, and he recognized that he was wrong. At least he did realize that he made a mistake (in his understanding).
Here we go: Nelson Mandela, Paul Walker, Paul Crouch.
He recognized he was wrong? Sure, he did. I remember how he “corrected” his prediction to take place a few weeks or months later.
> Camping became an international laughingstock when he warned “Judgment Day” would occur May 21, 2011 with the second coming of Jesus Christ. He went on to say the world would end October 21, 2011. Camping admitted to reporters he was “flabbergasted” when his prediction proved false.
Thanks Borges.
1 Corinthians 2:11
For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.
Doomsday is coming - nonetheless ... :-) ...
We don’t know the exact timing of it, but Jesus gave clear warning that we would know when that time period was drawing near and was at hand.
Jesus indicated that the people who did not recognize that the time was at hand are going to be like the people of his own day, who did not recognize that their time was at hand (for the coming of the Messiah) and they were held responsible for that. Likewise the people at the time of his second coming will be held responsible for not recognizing that the time is at hand. He said that they will be judged just like they were in the days of Noah.
We’re told, in the Bible, that believers should not be surprised or taken unawares - that they should definitely know that the time is at hand.
Yes, he did that. He knew he was wrong in the first instance, and then he tried to figure out why and he came up wrong again when he tried to adjust for “reality”. At the end he realized he was completely off base!
I never did “follow” him or listen to him, because what he was saying contradicts the “Doctrine of Imminence” - concerning the Rapture. The Bible’s teaching on that is there is nothing else prophetically that must happen prior to the Rapture - for it to happen. It can happen at any time.
Once it gets into the 7-year Tribulation - then things go like clockwork and you’ll be able to calculate the return of Christ to set up his Kingdom on earth - down to the very day it happens.
Camping violated the Doctrine of Immimence, regarding the a Rapture.
RIP.
“We’ll know the season but no man knows the day, is what scripture tells us.”
God does. And He told John to write to the seven churches to tell them it would be “soon” and the time was “at hand.”
Camping was always wrong because he didn’t take God’s word seriously. I hope God won’t hold that against him.
“But we have been explicitly told the return date is top secret, knowledge held by God alone.”
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. Matthew 24:36
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, Revelation 1:1
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Revelation 1:3
God alone knows and yet HE sent word to the churches through John almost 2,000 years ago that the time was “at hand.”
How do people justify their lack of faith in such clear and simple words?
God said it. John wrote it. That should end it. Anything else is man made doctrine and not worth believing.
Pride and Vanity never cease in this imperfect world we live in.
God help me to see my own and turn away.
But Camping became an international laughingstock when he warned "Judgment Day" would occur May 21, 2011 with the second coming of Jesus Christ. He went on to say the world would end October 21, 2011.Camping admitted to reporters he was "flabbergasted" when his prediction proved false. Donations to his ministry dropped noticeably after that, and Family Radio was forced to sell several of its most powerful FM stations to stay afloat financially.
Meanwhile former Veep Al Gore Jr. still rakes in the millions on his way to securing illgotten BILLIONS.
HAROLD CAMPING — FALSE PROPHET
He must have had strokes going back decades then.
2,000 years and ‘at hand’ seem to be diametrically opposed.
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