A doomsday date for your diary! World ‘will end on Friday’ says preacher

Doomsday preacher Harold Camping was left a laughing stock when his prediction that the world would end on May 21 failed to materialise. But the 90-year-old Californian may well have the last laugh after revealing that date was in fact Judgment Day – a spiritual moment when the righteous would be chosen – and simply a warm-up for the Rapture which happens exactly five months later.

This means that Friday, October 21, will mark the start of the Apocalypse – when believers will be whisked away into heaven and hell will be unleashed on earth.

And cynics should be warned, as the Rapture Index – a monitor of current affairs for the frequency and intensity of end-time signs mentioned in the Bible – is at an almost all-time high.

It now currently stands slightly lower at 180 – only two points below the 182 it reached in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist atrocities. Unrest in the Middle East, the global economic crisis, the famine in the Horn of Africa and the slowing down of recent volcanic activity are all signs that the world is about to end, it claims. The index, created by Terry James in December 1993, adds on its website: ‘The Antichrist: The EU now has President. This office could be a precursor to the AC’. James, of Little Rock, Arkansas, said he did not use his table to make predictions, but to measure ‘the type of activity that could act as a precursor to the Rapture’.

He said: ‘The higher the number, the faster we’re moving towards the end.’ And he revealed that any figure over 160 made it time to ‘fasten the seatbelts’. Camping, a radio evangelist and president of a network of radio stations known as Family Radio, spent up to $100million

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End of the World.. October 21st.. ‘Probably..’

End of the World.. October 21st.. ‘Probably..’

cbs47 ^ | 10-4-11 | cakid1

Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2011 7:10:54 PM by cakid1

End of the World.. October 21st.. ‘Probably..’

Remember Harold Camping?

He’s the Christian broadcaster who said the rapture would happen on May 21st.

He later said he was “flabbergasted” that the rapture didn’t happen. Well, now he says the ‘real rapture’ will happen on October the 21st – probably.

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Harold Camping says Judgment Day will occur Oct. 21 (for real this time)

Yes, this again.

There are fewer billboards this time, but the people who brought you the popular Rapture “scare” of May 2011 are back with a more subdued sequel titled “Wait, Wait, We Meant October.”

You may recall the excitement earlier this year when Grand Rapids received a visit from the followers of Family Radio Worldwide, a California-based Christian group led by 89-year-old Harold Camping, who were traveling the country to loudly and colorfully proclaim Judgment Day’s imminence.

It didn’t happen. OR DID IT!? The conspicuous lack of a world-ending earthquake left Camping and his followers scrambling to explain why life somehow continued as normal after May 21. Here, according to Family Radio’s website, is what they’ve settled on:

What really happened this past May 21st? What really happened is that God accomplished exactly what He wanted to happen. That was to warn the whole world that on May 21 God’s salvation program would be finished on that day. For the next five months, except for the elect (the true believers), the whole world is under God’s final judgment. To accomplish this goal God withheld from the true believers the way in which two phrases were to be understood. Had He not done so, the world would never have been shaken in fear as it was.

What does that mean? The statement goes on:

Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period. On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21.

In the months since the non-Rapture, Camping turned 90, suffered a stroke, and was awarded an Ig Nobel prize for his dubious contributions to human knowledge.

As his revised date approaches, Camping seems less confident — the Christian Post notes Camping’s proclamations about Oct. 21 have been heavy on the probablys. So if you find yourself unable to muster the same enthusiasm for Rapture 2011 this time around, you’re definitely not alone.

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Maybe doomsday is near

Maybe doomsday is near

Maybe doomsday is near:

“Bible prophecy may have a bad name in the light of Harold Camping‘s misguided date-setting, but the biggest sign of the end may have been overlooked in all the rapture hysteria of last weekend.

Once again, we’ve seen the U.S. hit with a series of deadly superstorms following Barack Obama’s pledge to return Israel to pre-1967 borders.

Just days after Obama insisted Israel must give up lands it won through military victory with its enemies, some 200 people were killed by a tornado in Joplin, Mo.

There’s a pattern here.

We saw it in Katrina, when George Bush forced Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza. In fact, as everyone from Israeli rabbis to U.S. senators have noted, it seems to happen every single time the U.S. pressures Israel to divide the land.

The phenomenon was best documented by Bill Koenig, author of ‘Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel.’

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com …”

Posted by Gunny G at Saturday, May 28, 2011

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Dancing Towards Doomsday

Dancing Towards Doomsday

Dancing Towards Doomsday:

“The Bible speaks of a time to come in the ‘last days’ that will involve the whole world at war. Jesus himself says in Matthew 24 that in that war everyone on earth would die unless God himself stepped in. II Timothy 3:1 calls these last days ‘perilous times’, and they are.

Think about it.

Throughout most of earth history the entire population of the earth being wiped out simultaneously was hard to picture. That changed, however, with the invention of the atomic bomb in 1945. Suddenly the prediction Jesus made didn’t seem far-fetched at all!”

Posted by Gunny G at Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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Why Modern-Day Prophecy Theorists are More Dangerous than Harold Camping

Why Modern-Day Prophecy Theorists are More Dangerous than Harold Camping

Why Modern-Day Prophecy Theorists are More Dangerous than Harold Camping: “

Even though Tim LaHaye denounced Camping’s prediction as “not only wrong but dangerous . . . not only bizarre but 100% wrong!,” he still claims “that the recent earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan are signs of the apocalypse just as he laid out in” in his fiction end-time Left Behind novels.[1]

(Excerpt) Read more at americanvision.org …”

Posted by Gunny G at Monday, May 23, 2011

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The Rapture Is Not Saturday — It’s Tonight

The Rapture Is Not Saturday — It’s Tonight

The Rapture Is Not Saturday — It’s Tonight: “The end of the world will be at exactly 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, says Camping, who along with his organization, Family Radio, are behind those billboards across the country forecasting the Rapture this Saturday. The Rapture, the Last Days, Armageddon and the Final Days of Judgment are all interchangeable. It’s when God will destroy the Earth to show his love for humanity.

Is that Eastern Standard or Pacific Standard Time?

Neither, says Camping, whom I interviewed recently for my online news show TYT Now. The Rapture is at 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, where ever it’s 6 p.m. first, with the ‘fantastically big’ world-ending event taking place on a time zone by time zone basis.

That means we can expect the Rapture to start when it hits 6 p.m. at the International Dateline at 180 Longitude — roughly the between Pago Pago, American Samoa, and Nuku’alofa, Tonga. We’ll know it’s Judgment Day because there will be an earthquake of previously unprecedented magnitude, Camping predicts.”

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Judgment Day May 21 [Why the Bible Never speaks of the End of the Physical Universe]

Judgment Day May 21 [Why the Bible Never speaks of the End of the Physical Universe]

Judgment Day May 21 [Why the Bible Never speaks of the End of the Physical Universe]: “Judgment Day May 21 [Why the Bible Never speaks of the End of the Physical Universe]

Prophecy Questions blog ^ | May 18, 2011 | Prophecy Questioner

Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:52:51 PM by grumpa

Here we go again—Judgment Day. This time Harold Camping called it for this weekend, May 21. His billboard ads read: “The Bible Guarantees It!” We even heard this mentioned this week on CNBC, of all places. Confused Christians have been calling for the end of the world for a very long time, embarrassing themselves and the rest of Christianity.

Did you know that the Bible does not even mention the end of the physical universe? I’m sure this will come to a shock to Christians who do not know their Bible. So let’s take a look.

(Excerpt) Read more at prophecyquestions.wordpress.com …”

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Apocalypse Now?

Apocalypse Now?

Apocalypse Now?

Townhall.com ^ | May 17, 2011 | Cal Thomas

Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:28:14 AM by Kaslin

Politicians and political activists frequently declare the end of the world will occur if their candidate isn’t elected, or if the debt ceiling isn’t raised. Some conservative Christians think the end is on the way because of behavior and practices they judge immoral. Somehow the country, not to mention the planet, survives and when “doomsday” passes, the prognosticators live to predict Armageddon on another day.

Now comes radio preacher Harold Camping, the nearly-90-year-old owner of a network of stations he calls “Family Radio.” Camping once belonged to a traditional church. He then decided all churches are corrupt and people should leave whatever congregation they’re in and listen only to him because only his interpretation of Scripture is true. I believe that is one characteristic of a cult.

Camping paid for a full-page color ad in USA Today, proclaiming May 21 as the day the world will end. According to the biblical standard, a prophet must always be right to be a spokesman for God. Camping falls considerably short of that standard because he has previously declared the world would end on other days, though the last time he left the door open, saying, “I could be wrong.” At least that “prophecy” came true.

The late Jeane Dixon fancied herself a psychic. She made many predictions that went unfulfilled. The one prediction that did come true was President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and that lucky “prophecy” made her an international celebrity. It doesn’t take much to get attention these days.

The earliest recorded doomsday forecaster, according to Isaac Asimov‘s “Book of Facts” (1979), was written on an Assyrian clay tablet circa 2800 BC. It bore the words “Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common.”

That guy should have lived to see modern-day Washington, D.C.!

Down through the ages many people have made predictions that the world would end — in 70 AD (a group of Jewish ascetics with apocalyptic beliefs, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/), the year 365 (credit that one to Hilary of Poitiers), and 500, the year Roman theologian Sextus Julius Africanus calculated the End would come, 6,000 years after his dating of Creation.

There are many

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James White on Harold Camping and the end of the world

James White on Harold Camping and the end of the world

James White on Harold Camping and the end of the world

Alpha & Omega Ministries ^ | 05/14/2011 | James White

Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 2:15:20 PM by Choozer

Every time some maverick like Camping decides to go off the reservation and promote a prophecy like this, scorn is brought on all of us who believe Jesus is coming again. The mockery factor will be quite high come Monday the 23rd.

I do not know what Camping is going to do. He has closed every door on his options. He has said the Bible guarantees it. There is no plan B. This is it, plain and simple, no question marks after May 21, 2011? or the like to fall back on.

I have thought he might spiritualize it, like Miller did back in 1844 or so, but he has really not left that option open either. He could always claim a blown calculation, but that would leave him without much credibility as a number-cruncher, and his system is nothing if it isn’t based on number-crunching. Will he even show up on Open Forum on Monday? I mean, at 89 years of age, you’d think retirement would all of a sudden become a very viable option.

I can’t imagine what a Monday, May 23rd, 2011 Open Forum broadcast would be like. Can you imagine the calls? Not only the mockery from unbelievers, but the anger from his own followers? It would probably be the highest rated program ever.

Their servers would melt down on the Internet side. But that would be temporary, and one can surely predict the collapse of Family Radio as a result of Camping’s second major prophetic failure. One would hope, at least, that finally he would be removed and taken off the air so as to deceive no more.

But, you would have thought that would have happened back in 1994. It didn’t. There is always an audience for false prophets.

(Excerpt) Read more at aomin.org …

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Irish American spends $150,000 on warnings of end of world (His Warning: Judgment Day is Next Week!)

Irish American spends $150,000 on warnings of end of world (His Warning: Judgment Day is Next Week!)

Irish American spends $150,000 on warnings of end of world (His Warning: Judgment Day is Next Week!)

Irish Central ^ | 05/14/2011 | AISLING REDICAN

Posted on Saturday, May 14, 2011 4:08:25 PM by SeekAndFind

An Irish American man has spent almost $150,000 in preparation for what he believes is the beginning of the end. Robert Fitzpatrick, 60, spent what he called his “life savings” on bus and subway advertisements throughout New York City in preparation for May 21, 2011 – or Judgement Day as Fitzpatrick has referred to it.

Fitzpatrick, a recently retired MTA engineer, is so convinced that the fast approaching date is the end of the world, that he published a book titled “The Doomsday Code.” In an interview with the New York Post Fitzpatrick reasoned that his book provided “proof that cannot be dismissed” that the end was at hand.

This journalist encountered Fitzpatrick on the N train on the New York subway the other day. He was sitting by himself in the back of the last car, billboard and all, and got off at Herald Square. He did not preach or talk to any strap-hangers, despite his attention-grabbing sign proclaiming the end of the world.

Fitzpatrick believes that just before 12 midnight Jerusalem time on the 21st of May, the whole world will experience a massive earthquake which will “render the earth uninhabitable.” His predictions are reminiscent of a disaster movie.

Fitzpatrick’s obsession with the end of the world stems from the Evangelical radio programs hosted by Harold Camping. Camping uses a formula based on numerology in which he looks for codes and clues in the Bible to predict Judgement Day.

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Static on the airwaves (“the rapture”?)

Static on the airwaves (“the rapture”?)

Static on the airwaves (“the rapture”?)

World Magazine ^ | Chu/Glader

Posted on Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:03:25 AM by flowerplough

Christian radio tycoon says the world will end May 21—and surprising numbers believe him.

Ralph Workman believes what he hears on Christian radio. He believes preacher and Family Radio chief Harold Camping is right about Judgment Day. He believes the world is coming to an end May 21, 2011.

An engineer at Boeing’s avionics lab, Workman helps manage an RV caravan winding its way around the United States—from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh to Virginia—sharing the belief that biblical numbers point to the specific expiration date for the world. He also runs a website called eBible Fellowship, which distributes Camping’s teachings.

“I hope many people will get saved and God will have mercy like Nineveh, but most are just scoffers,” Workman said. Even his wife does not agree with him on Camping’s teaching.

The timing coincides with earthquakes, tsunamis, and Middle East turmoil, feeding greater than usual response to end-times predictions. It precedes the Mayan 2012 prediction, which broke into popular culture through the 2009 big budget movie 2012 .

Theologians, former listeners, and skeptics warn that Camping’s teaching is unbiblical, prediction off-base, and message harmful to followers.

But many seem to be listening to Camping rather than his critics—funding ads, signs, and postings from Iceland to India, along with YouTube videos, some with more than 300,000 views and titles like “Rapture Soon,” “Jesus Coming,” and of course “May 21, 2011.”

Family Radio is sponsoring the caravan of four RVs, plastered with Camping’s message, and has bought space on 1,000 billboards nationwide.

This is Camping’s latest prediction after followers were disappointed in 1994, when he gave a range of dates.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldmag.com …

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Is The End Nigh? We’ll Know Soon Enough (World to end May 21)

Is The End Nigh? We’ll Know Soon Enough (World to end May 21)

Is The End Nigh? We’ll Know Soon Enough (World to end May 21)

NPR ^ | May 7, 2011 | Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Posted on Sunday, May 08, 2011 12:27:55 AM by tlb

May 21, “starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake,”. The true Christian believers will be “raptured”: They’ll fly upward to heaven.

“and on top of all that, there’s no more salvation at that point. 153 days later that the entire universe and planet Earth will be destroyed.”

“I no longer think about 401(k)s and retirement,” he says. “I’m just a lot less stressed, and in a way I’m more carefree.”

Brown is married with several young children, and none of them shares his beliefs. It’s caused a rift with his wife — but he says that, too, was predicted in the Bible.

But it appears that many became believers in 2009 after turning on Family Radio, a Christian network.

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The End of the World According to Harold Camping: Part 1 Westminster Seminary, California ^ | 3 / 25 / 2011 | W. Robert Godfrey

The End of the World According to Harold Camping: Part 1 Westminster Seminary, California ^ | 3 / 25 / 2011 | W. Robert Godfrey

The End of the World According to Harold Camping: Part 1

Westminster Seminary, California ^ | 3 / 25 / 2011 | W. Robert Godfrey

Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:50:08 PM by Gamecock

If you were to drive the freeways of southern California, you would see from time to time billboards proclaiming the Judgment Day on May 21, 2011 and declaring that the Bible guarantees it.

Presumably these billboards may be seen in many other parts of the country as well. Who is responsible for these signs and what do they really mean theologically?

The signs have been placed by Harold Camping and his followers to warn people that the end is at hand. To understand these signs we must know something of the history as well as the theology of Harold Camping.

I am in a somewhat distinctive position to write on this subject since I first met Camping in the late 1950s. I learned a great deal from him then, and so I find what follows a very sad story.

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May 21, 2011 – Judgment Day!; October 21, 2011 – The End of the World

The purpose of this tract is to inform you of the great urgency there now is in the world for each and every person to be reconciled to God. The Bible is the Word of God! Everything the Bible declares has the full authority of God Himself. Now, at this time, information is coming forth from the Bible which clearly reveals God’s plan for Judgment Day and the end of the world itself. The Bible has opened up its secrets concerning the timeline of history. This information was never previously known because God had closed up His Word blocking any attempt to gain knowledge of the end of the world. We read about this in the book of Daniel:

Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

However, now in our present day, God has opened up His Word (the Bible) to reveal a great deal of truth concerning the end of time (and many other teachings). Also, in the same chapter of Daniel, it says:

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Doomsday campers travel the country preaching the Apocalypse…on May 21

Most people like to push thoughts about the end of the world to the back of their minds, hoping that the apocalypse, if it ever comes, will be a long way off.But for one group of not-so happy campers, doomsday is a lot sooner…May 21 to be precise.According to the predictions of the Family Radio ministry, on that date a massive earthquake will shake the world apart, littering the ground with ‘many dead bodies’.

The Church Age Ended In 1988…??? ~ May 21, 2011 – Judgment Day!; October 21, 2011 – The End of the World …

Earlier it was mentioned that the church age came to an end in the year 1988 AD. It so happens that the church age began on the day of Pentecost May 22nd in the year 33 AD. Then 1955 years later, the church age came to its conclusion on May 21st, which was the day before Pentecost in 1988.

The Bible teaches that the end of the church age would occur simultaneously with the beginning of the great tribulation: Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.On May 21st, 1988, God finished using the churches and congregations of the world.

The Spirit of God left all churches and Satan, the man of sin, entered into the churches to rule at that point in time. The Bible teaches us that this awful period of judgment upon the churches would last for 23 years. A full 23 years 8400 days exactly would be from May 21 st, 1988 until May 21st, 2011. This information was discovered in the Bible completely apart from the information regarding the 7000 years from the flood……..

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The Bible Reveals WE CAN KNOW May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day!

The horrible truth is that the Lord Himself has abandoned the churches of the world. The Bible teaches us that the church age is over it ended in 1988 A.D.. The Lord has left the churches in spiritual darkness.

They cannot see the awful truth that we are now at the very end of the world. The Lord vividly describes the spiritual leaders of the churches today in Isaiah:Isaiah 56:10-11 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark…they are shepherds that cannot understand…

God Himself indicates that many who profess to be His people will not see the warning signs of the coming end.

The Lord uses Old Testament Israel/Judah as types and figures of the New Testament churches and congregations…………………

May 21, 2011 – Judgment Day!; October 21, 2011 – The End of the World

The purpose of this tract is to inform you of the great urgency there now is in the world for each and every person to be reconciled to God. The Bible is the Word of God! Everything the Bible declares has the full authority of God Himself. Now, at this time, information is coming forth from the Bible which clearly reveals God’s plan for Judgment Day and the end of the world itself. The Bible has opened up its secrets concerning the timeline of history. This information was never previously known because God had closed up His Word blocking any attempt to gain knowledge of the end of the world. We read about this in the book of Daniel:

Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

However, now in our present day, God has opened up His Word (the Bible) to reveal a great deal of truth concerning the end of time (and many other teachings). Also, in the same chapter of Daniel, it says:……………..