Here We Go Again…
- 01.02.10
- Christian Cheese
- 8 Comments
2012? Mayan calendar? Nope! “That date has not one stitch of biblical authority,” Harold Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. “It’s like a fairy tale.” The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.
Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Bible. One night a few years ago, Camping crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he’d found: The world will end May 21, 2011.
This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about Judgment Day. On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping’s believers gathered to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven. But the world did not end, and Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error.
Rick LaCasse, who attended the September 1994 service in Alameda, said that 15 years later, his faith in Camping has only strengthened. “Evidently, he was wrong,” LaCasse allowed, “but this time it is going to happen. There was some doubt last time, but we didn’t have any proofs. This time we do.”
Would his opinion of Camping change if May 21, 2011, ended without incident? “I can’t even think like that,” LaCasse said. “Everything is too positive right now. There’s too little time to think like that.”
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Why people are so concerned about the world ending baffles me, we know not the day or the hour so why not focus on things that really matter?
I am glad that they have “proof” this time! Gotta love people!
That is so ridiculous! No one knows when the world is going to end. If we did, there would be chaos everywhere.
Did you catch the ‘debate’ between Camping and James White? Camping didn’t participate.
Um, I’m pretty sure in 1 Thessalonians 5: 1-2 it plainly says that no one knows. But I think thats just a red herring, right? lol
Mike…I just finished reading 1 Thessalonians and you are right. I’m certainly not going to waste time trying to figure out when Christ is coming back…think I will concentrate and living God’s Will, and let the rest fall into place where it may.
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only”…” Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” -Matt 24:36,44
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only”…” Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” -Matt 24:36,44
It’s sad that some play with numbers and matrixes to try and find hidden meaning in the Bible that contradicts what the Bible plainly says.