From the SF Chronicle:
Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.
"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," 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.
The Mayans and the recent Hollywood movie "2012" have put the apocalypse in the popular mind this year, but Camping has been at this business for a long time. And while Armageddon is pop science or big-screen entertainment to many, Camping has followers from the Bay Area to China.
Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, 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.
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The problem with all attempts to find "the date" is that only the Father knows. If Jesus did not know, then how can we presume to do better?
The warning to "be ready" is that it could happen any time, not to calculate the date. Be ready by preparing your heart to meet with God.
I don't believe this guy! "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is."Oh why do these people give Christianity such a bad name with this nonsense? Never mind, I know.
ReplyDeleteThey are always with us, sadly.One of my favourites was a group in the 1990's that posted signs all over the place, including Narrabri, which said something like: "Jesus will return on Sunday May 12th at 8 pm (9 pm if Daylight Saving Time applies)." In other words, we've worked out the deep secrets of the Bible which nobody else has ever seen, but we can't work out when daylight saving time ends- for which I have some sympathy becasue they keep changing it.
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