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Posted on 01/17/2011 9:26:22 AM PST by topcat54
Soon it will be spring again. The snow will melt, the dogwoods flower. Trumpets will blast, graves will open, and Earth will begin a five-month descent to its fiery end.
Radio evangelist Harold Camping can hardly wait.
May 21 is Judgment Day, when "this world will be a horror story beyond anything we can imagine," he asserts.
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In a phone interview last week from his Oakland, Calif., office, [Harold] Camping warned that those who do not accept his complex calculations, including even devout Christians, will face "sudden destruction" when Jesus returns.
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Essentially, he argues that May 21, 2011, is "exactly 7,000 years after 4990 B.C., when the [great] flood began," and that these 7,000 years mirror the seven days God gave Noah to warn the world to get ready for destruction.
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Five months later, on Oct. 21, "the entire universe will be annihilated."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Camping pulled the same stunt in 1994, only not as elaborate. Presumably his slide rule is working better now.
The true believers continued supporting him. They’ll wait with bated breath for the new date. Just like futurists in general, they always do. Just change the plot to fit the events.
I shall be sure to have consumed all my Laphroaigh and Maker’s Mark by then. Starting today I will eat roasted pork twice a week, T-bone with the fat the rest of the week and screw going to the gym.
(I pity those who bought gold the past year.)
This Camping guy or his Church predicted this type of end of the world scenario before in the '80's or '90's if my memory serves me correctly.
Gee, I hope so.
With the Phillies’ pitching lineup this year, it was looking pretty unlikely for the Reds, anyway ;P
Being named a minister, preacher, priest, pastor or whatever moniker you prefer doesn’t impart knowledge regarding Bible prophecy or interpretation.
Assuming we get past May 21, of course, heh.
Give yourself to God, not man’s churches, which are only tools to control your life and steal your treasure while promising that which they cannot deliver.
I'm sure he's using the "day with the Lord is a like a 1000 years and 1000 years like a day" verse. But even if that is the case, fixing the day of the flood is practically impossible. Most biblical scholars think the flood happened about 4000 years ago, not 7000 years.
I thought the 7000 years went like this. 2000 years from Adam to the Flood. 2000 years form the Flood to Jesus. 2000 years from Jesus till now. That makes for 6000 years. The next 1000 will the the 1000 year reign of Christ, which would correspond to the 7th day of the week, the day of rest. But before you start the 1000 year reign, you have to get through the 7 year Great Tribulation.
The population of Mankind will be greatly reduced after the 7 year tribulation. But there will another 1000 years (Rev 21-22), after which, man will again turn from God, and there will be a final war and a final judgement. Then the universe melts.
We should have at least 1007 years left before the universe melts and a new heavens and a new earth is created. But the Great Tribulation could start almost any time.
It's all about him and his calculations instead of about Jesus. If the date fixing didn't warn you off, that should.
NO ONE KNOWS THAT DAY OR HOUR... only the Father... so fugetaboutit.
Hookers and booze should be selling briskly!
Good ol’ Harry... How about you sell all your worldly possessions to me for $1000, effective May 22, 2011. Deal?
When he was a young reporter, H. L. Mencken (journalist, writer, and social ceritic) was assinged to interview a local group who was expecting the end of the world. He conducted the interview, went back to the paper, and wrote the standard article. He started to turn it in to his editor, then stopped, returned to his typewriter (remember, this was well before word processors) and wrote a second story, dated on the predicted date of the group’s Armaggedon: “The world ended today.”
Wars and rumors of wars, and so on.
http://washington.netadvent.org/history.html
Yeah, I’m sure that’s it, LOL!
I Googled Camping’s name, yes he did make an earlier prediction. In 1992 he wrote a book called “1994?” in which he claims Jesus Christ could return on September 6, 1994.
He and his disciples are mental.
“Ain’t gonna be a lot of love in the room on May 22 when it’s business as usuual...”
The funny thing is that Camping made a similar prediction in 1994, retracted it after the day went by, and now is preaching the same thing. James White, the Christian apologist, debated Camping on a radio program, but it was not really a debate because all Camping kept doing was repeating the same thing. It is not open for discourse in his mind. Very weird.
Camping not only believes that May 21, 2011 is the end of days, he also believes that since 1988 the Church age has attended. According to Camping, those still clinging to the church are deceived. The only real Christians are those who left the churches and worship listening to his radio broadcasts.
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