Seriously. WTF. Are the courts now deciding that the Rapture is a True thing? Because that’s the only thing I can think of that would actually allow this nonsense to go ahead.
~M
‘Rapture’ preacher makes fourth end-of-the-world forecast
In an recent audio message, Family Radio’s Harold Camping told his followers that the end of the world will “probably” happen on Oct. 21.
Camping has wrongly predicted the Rapture on at least three occasions, in 1992, 1994 and on May 21 of this year.
“I do believe we are getting very near the very end,” Camping said in audio posted on his website. “We’ve learned that there is a lot of things we didn’t have quite right and that’s God’s good provision. If he had not kept us from knowing everything that we didn’t know, we would not have been able to be used of him to bring about the tremendous event that occurred on May 21 of this year which will probably be finished out on Oct. 21. That’s coming very shortly. That looks like at this point, it looks like it will be the final end of everything.”
But the preacher also had some good news: “There will be no pain suffered by anyone because of their rebellion against God… We can become more and more sure that they will quietly die and that will be the end of their story. Whereas, the true believers will quietly receive the new heaven and the new Earth.
Camping, who is 90, is recovering from a stroke he suffered in June.
This audio is from Family Radio, uploaded Oct. 14, 2011.
From The Raw Story
Yupp. Definitely getting bored of Harold Camping now.
~Mooglets
Rapture: For real this time?
According to evangelical Christian talk radio host, Harold Camping the Rapture is right around the corner… for real this time. Harold Camping famousy predicted that May 21st, 2011 would be the beginning of the end for humanity on Earth. Despite all evidence that showed that nothing supernatural actually happened on that fated day, Camping insisted that the first stage of the Rapture did indeed occur as scheduled.
Harold Camping admitted that he was wrong in his prediction that on May 21st there was to be massive climatic upheaval followed by five months for Hell on Earth for the unsaved. This clearly didn’t happen. However, he maintains that God did indeed judge and doom non-believers on this day. His view is that Jesus is no longer taking applications to Heaven. The pearly gates are closed. If you weren’t saved by May 21st, you can’t be saved now. So no more billboards and no more travelling vans with an apocalyptic date painted on them.
The time table of the Rapture is however still on course and the end of the world will happen as scheduled according to Camping on October 2lst, 2011. On this date nothing will happen but Camping and those who believe as he does claim the world will just stop and all the saved will be Raptured to Heaven and the rest of us will be damned to be torture for all eternity in Hell. Camping claims that God is a good God so he decided to spare us the five months of Hell on Earth. Is he not merciful?
Many religious believes still insist that the Rapture is real and that Camping just has it all wrong. They rely on a small number of verses in their ancient story book which says that no one can predict the time or the day of the End of Days and that the end will come like a theif in the night. Camping has been bombarded with such verses for at least two decades and one would have to be a complete idiot to think that Camping must have missed this in his intense Biblical calculations. Camping actually has quite a lot to say about these verses including the multiple other verses that contradict those verses. He claims that the verses that have been quoted at him were taken out of context and then shows other verses that support his view that, “We can know.”
But you don't need to be a Bible scholar to figure this out. We all know or at least we all should know that nothing supernatural will happen on October 21st, 2011. There will be no Rapture on October 21st or any other day because the idea of a Rapture is fictional. In fact, most of the Bible is fictional. My prediction is that there will never be a Rapture and I dare anyone to prove me wrong.
From Examiner
Anyone else getting terribly bored of Camping and his followers?
~Mooglets
Preacher [Camping] says world will actually end in October
A California preacher who foretold of the world's end only to see the appointed day pass with no extraordinarily cataclysmic event has revised his apocalyptic prophecy, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.
Harold Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before catastrophe struck the planet, apologized Monday evening for not having the dates "worked out as accurately as I could have."
He spoke to the media at the Oakland headquarters of his Family Radio International, which spent millions of dollars_ some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.
It was not the first time Camping was forced to explain when his prediction didn't come to pass. The 89-year-old retired civil engineer also prophesied the Apocalypse would come in 1994, but said later that didn't happen then because of a mathematical error.
Through chatting with a friend over what he acknowledged was a very difficult weekend, it dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, May 21 had instead been a "spiritual" Judgment Day, which places the entire world under Christ's judgment, he said.
The globe will be completely destroyed in five months, he said, when the apocalypse comes. But because God's judgment and salvation were completed on Saturday, there's no point in continuing to warn people about it, so his network will now just play Christian music and programs until the final end on Oct. 21.
"We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," he said. "The fact is there is only one kind of people who will ascend into heaven ... if God has saved them they're going to be caught up."
Josh Ocasion, who works the teleprompter during Camping's live broadcasts in the group's threadbare studio sandwiched between an auto shop and a palm reader's business, said he enjoyed the production work but never fully believed the May 21 prophecy would come true.
"I thought he would show some more human decency in admitting he made a mistake," he said Monday. "We didn't really see that."
Follower Jeff Hopkins said he spent a good deal of his own retirement savings on gas money to power his car so people would see its ominous lighted sign showcasing Camping's May 21 warning. As the appointed day drew nearer, Hopkins started making the 100-mile round trip from Long Island to New York City twice a day, spending at least $15 on gas each trip.
"I've been mocked and scoffed and cursed at and I've been through a lot with this lighted sign on top of my car," said Hopkins, 52, a former television producer who lives in Great River, NY. "I was doing what I've been instructed to do through the Bible, but now I've been stymied. It's like getting slapped in the face."
Camping's hands shook slightly as he pinned his microphone to his lapel, and as he clutched a worn Bible he spoke in a quivery monotone about some listeners' earthly concerns after giving away possessions in expectation of the Rapture.
Family Radio would never tell anyone what they should do with their belongings, and those who had fewer would cope, Camping said.
"We're not in the business of financial advice," he said. "We're in the business of telling people there's someone who you can maybe talk to, maybe pray to, and that's God."
But he also said that he wouldn't give away all his possessions ahead of Oct 21.
"I still have to live in a house, I still have to drive a car," he said. "What would be the value of that? If it is Judgment Day why would I give it away?"
Apocalyptic thinking has always been part of American religious life and popular culture. Teachings about the end of the world vary dramatically — even within faith traditions — about how they will occur.
Still, the overwhelming majority of Christians reject the idea that the exact date or time of Jesus' return can be predicted.
Tim LaHaye, co-author of the best-selling "Left Behind" novels about the end times, recently called Camping's prediction "not only bizarre but 100 percent wrong!" He cited the Bible verse Matthew 24:36, "but about that day or hour no one knows" except God.
Camping offered no clues about Family Radio's finances Monday, saying he could not estimate how much had been spent advertising his prediction nor how much money the nonprofit had taken in as a result. In 2009, the nonprofit reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities.
From Yahoo!News
Harold Camping said it had "dawned" on him that God would spare humanity "hell on Earth for five months", and the apocalypse would happen on 21 October.
The evangelical broadcaster who left followers crestfallen by his failed prediction that last Saturday would be Judgement Day says he miscalculated.
Mr Camping said he felt "terrible" about his mistake.
This link leads to a video on the BBCNews website.
Harold Camping speaks!
And say's fuck and all.
How unexpected.
~Mooglets
Family Radio turns over a new leaf - Will Harold Camping do the same?
Non-profit Christian radio network Family Radio seems to have turned over a new leaf, post Doomsday May 21, 2011, by launching a newly designed website. Will Doomsday prophet Harold Camping do the same by repenting and asking forgiveness from those who have been hurt, financially or otherwise, by his failed prediction?
If someone visits Family Radio website (www.familyradio.com), the old mundane white background is gone and is replaced with a bright blue background.
The new website has included a new logo and has new features like "Mission Trip," "Literature," and "Inspiration."
In the center, it says "Sound of the New Life."
Most interestingly, the new website has a "Donation" page.
Perhaps funding the Doomsday news worldwide has made Family Radio, which runs 66 stations worldwide, poorer? The network's estimated worth is at least $70 million.
Meanwhile, everybody is waiting for Family Radio President Harold Camping to explain what went wrong with his May 21, 2011 Doomsday prediction.
Relying on Biblical verses viz. Genesis 7:4 ("Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth") and 2 Peter 3:8 ("With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day"), Camping had concluded that May 21, 2011 is supposed to be exactly 7,000 years after the Great Flood (4990 B.C.).
Despite a failed September 1994 Doomsday prediction, Camping said he was confident about the May 21, 2011 prediction. "We know without any shadow of a doubt it is going to happen," he said.
The followers of Camping had put their faith in his words and many of them sold their possessions, quit their jobs and spent their entire life savings on promoting the Doomsday prediction around the world.
For instance, Adrienne Martinez and her husband quit their jobs and spent their last penny in renting a house in Orlando. "We had budgeted everything so that, on may 21, we won't have anything left."
Similarly Robert Fitzpatrick of Staten Island, NY, was so sure of the May 21st Doomsday prediction that he spent his entire life savings of $140,000 on New York City subway ads about the Doomsday.
Not surprisingly, when the appointed time came and passed and nothing happened, Camping's followers were crestfallen.
Fitzpatrick was one of them.
"I don't understand why nothing has happened. I did what I had to do. I did what the Bible said," Daily mail quoted him as saying.
"For those who were invested in this prediction, their world did end Saturday," said Rev. Jeremy Nickel, minister at Fremont's Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation. "They thought they were going to heaven and they didn't. They may have donated all their money. They're going to be in a world of hurt."
Agrees Christian author Jason Boyett. "Camping's faith will survive the impending disappointment, as will his ministry and radio empire. He'll make excuses and set another date. I don't worry about him; I worry about his followers and their families," Boyett wrote on The Washington Post' On Faith page. Boyette has written several books, including "Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse" and "O Me of Little Faith."
"It is easy for us to sit here and to poke fun at Harold Camping...he'll get past it," he said. "But what we got to remember is that he has a whole lot of people whose lives and faith will be devastated."
"As a result, many of them will have lost money; many of them who quit their jobs will be in a tough spot," he added.
Many Christian leaders said Camping should repent and turn back to Christ.
"The great tragedy today is that when he believes the world is coming to an end, what he's preaching and teaching is 'you need to repent and call on God and God might save you.' And in that message, there's no reference to Christ and no reference to the Cross," W. Robert Godfrey, president of Westminster Seminary California, said.
Camping told International Business Times (IBTimes) on Sunday that he would make a public statement on or before Monday night. He is expected to speak on his weekly radio show "Open Forum" at 5:30 p.m. PST, according to the Associated Press.
Will Camping say he made another calculation error or will he repent and ask forgiveness from everybody, especially those who have invested in the prediction?
What do you think Camping will say today? Did you or someone you know believe in the May 21 prediction? Leave your comments below.
From IBTimes
Really? No Rapture?
TACOMA, Wash. -- As the last minutes of May 21, 2011, left the Pacific time zone, with it went any hope here that this is indeed the biblical beginning of the end predicted by a California-based Christian radio broadcaster.
To celebrate, atheists in Tacoma threw a "Countdown to Backpedaling" party at Dorky's Arcade, where the only "game over" were the ones flashing on the gaming machines inside.
"This is really a celebration of the world isn't ending, the world will continue as before, and we'll be fine," said organizer Sam Mulvey, who produces a radio show called "Ask an Atheist."
Supporters donated millions to 89-year-old Harold Camping's cause, but even the majority of American Christians called him a false prophet.
His prediction may actually have brought more attention to atheism than anything else -- case in point, Mulvey said he spent Friday interviewing with several local and national news outlets.
"Harold Camping has definitely raised awareness of what we're doing in Tacoma," he said.
Camping's and his followers on Family Radio spent millions on billboards, pamphlets and broadcasts around the world claiming on Saturday we'd see the second coming of Jesus Christ.
"It will begin with a huge earthquake, probably on the other side of the world, where the day begins," he said.
But from the Philippines to Time Square, 6 p.m., the predicted time, passed with no results.
"There is a long history of people making prophetic statements about the end of the world and Harold Camping is just the latest in a long line of failures," said Anthea Butler, professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Recent Old Testament-worthy disasters might have some still wondering, including the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, tornadoes in the south, a volcano eruption in Iceland, and floods along the Mississippi River.
And some worry how Camping's faithful, especially those who spend their life savings, might take waking up Sunday still on Earth.
"I think it is important to watch out for people who were in the midst of this group to make sure they don't harm themselves or that they don't harm others," said Butler said.
In the meantime, party-goers in Tacoma were outside screaming that "the end was naaah!" and cherishing the last few minutes of their unexpected limelight.
From King5.com
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A distinction without a difference….
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That awkward moment when the guy who predicted the world would end still has his announcement of earth’s demise on his website after the date and time came and went without incident.
Brilliant XD
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The World Didn't End: What Will Camping's Followers Do?
While followers of Harold Camping and Family Radio prepare for the a giant quake that will signal the beginning of the end of the world, nonbelievers are preparing for what will happen to followers when the Rapture doesn’t come.
Suicide prevention hotlines have been set up because experts fear despondent followers who are depressed that the expected event did not appear on May 21.
Suicides after failed predictions have before. When Camping made a false Rapture prediction in 1994, a man committed suicide in New Jersey. When the world didn’t end in 1997 as Heaven’s Gate thought it would, 39 members of the cult took their lives.
Other followers may face financial woes. The New York Times reported that some Family Radio adherents have stopped making their house payments or saving up for their children to go to college. Again, there is a precedent for this. Thousands of Millerites who thought the world would end in 1844 were left penniless after they sold or gave their posessions away because they assumed they would not be needed.
Mark Vrankovich, director of the Christian group Cultwatch, whose aim is to warn people about cults, told the New Zealand Herald he worries that some followers might break off relationships when the Rapture doesn’t come.
Still others may be left pet-less. A man in Sonoma, Calif. has alarmed neighbors with the announcement that he will be euthanizing his animals before the end of the world.
Source: Washington Post
