End of the world rescheduled

Apocalypse pushed back to Oct. 21, preacher says
23/05/2011 9:56:48 PM

CTV.ca News Staff
A Christian radio host who predicted the apocalypse would come last Saturday, now says he made a mistake and it will occur on October 21.

California preacher Harold Camping said the Rapture will come five months to the day after May 21, his original prophecy.

The 89-year-old said he felt so bad his prediction didn't come true on Saturday, he sought refuge in a motel with his wife.

Camping made the statement to the press at the Oakland headquarters of his media empire, Family Radio International.

He also predicted the apocalypse would happen in 1994, but blamed the world's survival then on a mathematical error.

Camping had stated there was no way the Rapture would not start on Saturday at 6.p.m, and told the San Francisco Chronicle he was "flabbergasted" his doomsday prophecy didn't come about.

Camping preached some 200 million Christians would be saved and those left behind would die in a series of plagues until Earth was destroyed in a fireball on Oct. 21.

While his latest prediction was mostly met with online ridicule, some believers took it quite seriously. One man in New York spent his life savings on advertisements warning of the coming doom.

Camping's media empire has assets of more than $100 million and had $18 million in donations in 2009.

Tony Marino wrote:If people would ignore him he will go away.

Forgiveness Man wrote:He only got this attention recently. lol

Chris wrote:A Christian radio host who predicted the apocalypse would come last Saturday, now says he made a mistake and it will occur on October 21.

California preacher Harold Camping said the Rapture will come five months to the day after May 21, his original prophecy.

He also predicted the apocalypse would happen in 1994, but blamed the world's survival then on a mathematical error.

Camping had stated there was no way the Rapture would not start on Saturday at 6.p.m, and told the San Francisco Chronicle he was "flabbergasted" his doomsday prophecy didn't come about.

Camping preached some 200 million Christians would be saved and those left behind would die in a series of plagues until Earth was destroyed in a fireball on Oct. 21.

captainbryce wrote:More proof that a large percentage of so-called Christians are more ignorant about their own religious texts than the non-religious, educated folks out there. Clearly, none of them actually read the part in the bible where it says:

"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows." Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32

Forgiveness Man wrote:

captainbryce wrote:More proof that a large percentage of so-called Christians are more ignorant about their own religious texts than the non-religious, educated folks out there. Clearly, none of them actually read the part in the bible where it says:

"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows." Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32

Well, aside from the part about non-religious folks being educated, I agree for once. Of course, most Christians still saw this guy for the false prophet that he is. Still, others fall into similar traps. Not me of course.

Hyacinth Girl wrote:And that's exactly why as a Christian myself, I don't affiliate myself with any church and/or religious denomination--I've learned quite a bit from being a Lone Ranger in my own walk with God, Scripture interpretation and being able to sniff out Doctrinal error, being some of it. Sometimes going it solo opens your eyes to a lot more than you can get by sitting in a church building every Sunday.

Forgiveness Man wrote:

Hyacinth Girl wrote:And that's exactly why as a Christian myself, I don't affiliate myself with any church and/or religious denomination--I've learned quite a bit from being a Lone Ranger in my own walk with God, Scripture interpretation and being able to sniff out Doctrinal error, being some of it. Sometimes going it solo opens your eyes to a lot more than you can get by sitting in a church building every Sunday.

Well, I kind of take a different approach. IMO, it's people interpreting things on their own that leads people like Harold Camping to the conclusions they reach.

alan smithee wrote:October 21? Damn...I already made plans!

Hyacinth Girl wrote:I guess for more clarifcation, I should say that just because I'm a loner in faith, doesn't mean that I shun the company of other believers--I just don't go sit in church with them. I also follow along with a few online ministries which I feel are sound and of good teaching. So I do have others' input as to interpretation aspects, but I find the best approach to Scripture is to just take it for what it says--if the Matthew passage says that no one but God knows when the end will happen, then that's that--cut and dried, done. It's when people like Camping try to read into it and make it say what they want it to say, is when you start getting into trouble.