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10 years ago today, Harold Camping wrongly predicted the rapture
Patheos ^ | May 21,2021 | Hemant Mehta

Posted on 05/23/2021 4:46:01 AM PDT by Cronos

May 21 2022 was supposed to be the day the Rapture occurred, according to radio evangelical Harold Camping. He staked his entire reputation on it. his company, Family Radio, spent more than $5,000,000 on 5,000 billboards announcing the date, and a media frenzy soon followed.

We're all still around.

And we can say with certainty that nothing even remotely close to that prediction happened that day.

Within months, Camping announced his retirement. Months after that he formally admitted he was wrong. in 2013, Camping died. And in 2018, Family Radio stopped airing his old sermons.


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well, at least Camping admitted he was wrong.


1 posted on 05/23/2021 4:46:01 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

While O don’t know the date or time, the lamp oil is running out.

The time is near.


2 posted on 05/23/2021 4:55:37 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired

And it has been near for 2,000 years


3 posted on 05/23/2021 4:58:51 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: tired&retired

If you really know your Bible then you know the time of the rapture is never. The Bible does not support this end of time lie of satan.


4 posted on 05/23/2021 4:59:12 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: Cronos

I know people who have given the date multiple times. Like a dog returning to its vomit, they can’t help but predict the end.


5 posted on 05/23/2021 5:00:33 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Cronos

But we havent got to that date yet...May 21, 2022

Thats net year...


6 posted on 05/23/2021 5:00:37 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Camping’s still in the game!


7 posted on 05/23/2021 5:11:59 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY
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To: Ronald77

Then you evidently don’t know your Bible, because the Rapture of the Church is a solid doctrine of the true Church and the Bible alludes to it in many locations.


8 posted on 05/23/2021 5:24:21 AM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Cronos

May 2022 still hasn’t arrived. I think someone ought to change the typo.


9 posted on 05/23/2021 5:25:10 AM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: ducttape45
Matthew 24:36 (NIV):"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

Guessing as to when the End Times will be is futile. I trust in the Lord's providence more than my ability, or that of the late Harold Camping or others, to guess the date.

10 posted on 05/23/2021 5:31:02 AM PDT by Wallace T. ( )
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To: Cronos

Tt’s the same old story....fear sells. It sells a lot of books and separates scared people from their money. Sad but despicable.


11 posted on 05/23/2021 5:33:56 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Camping originally set 1994, as the return of Christ. It was 1993. I was driving my car, when I heard him say Jesus would return in 1994. I was so shocked, I almost drove my car into the ditch.


12 posted on 05/23/2021 5:39:07 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
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To: Cronos

I never was much for making fun of people, but Harold Campimg was so crazy and spoke so strangely, that to my whole extended family, “It says here in the book of Jeremiiiiah” is used as a verbal meme for an insane non sequitur.


13 posted on 05/23/2021 5:43:41 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Cronos

For the most part I hold date setting in contempt. However, I felt bad for Harold Camping because I believe his heart was in the right place.


14 posted on 05/23/2021 5:45:46 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Still praying for our country and President Trump)
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To: Cronos

Y'all forgot the Herbiechurch one!

15 posted on 05/23/2021 5:50:20 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Wallace T.

In a deep, slurring, slow voice:

“It says here in Psalm 18:124, ‘This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad.’ And what is happening today? It says here in the Book of Jeremiiiiiah, ‘So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die.’”


16 posted on 05/23/2021 5:54:32 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Ronald77

Matthew 24:30-31 is a portion of Jesus’ teaching about his return. In this passage he says that all the peoples of the earth will see him coming in the clouds. And that with a trumpet call, he will send his angels to gather his elect from throughout the earth.

This is happening now, but most people don’t understand it as they don’t understand His teachings and how to tune our consciousness to His channel. Jesus is already here. We exist within Him.


17 posted on 05/23/2021 5:56:33 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Cronos
I listen to Family Radio mainly for the music--traditional hymns as opposed to the unlistenable "praise music" that nowadays dominates the Christian religion. Their online hymnal is a great resource for those who still like traditional hymns.
18 posted on 05/23/2021 6:01:19 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Cronos



I knew the end was near when I supported a small-government constitutionalist conservative in the Republican primaries and got zotted for it on my favorite small-government constitutionalist conservative website.



19 posted on 05/23/2021 6:09:30 AM PDT by golux
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To: Cronos

I put the blame on the folks close to him. Once someone exhibits strong signs of senile dementia, they should be protected from themselves. By that point, Camping was, to put it mildly, bonkers.


20 posted on 05/23/2021 6:10:14 AM PDT by PAR35
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