I am endlessly entertained by the human ability to draw others into their own grand delusions. Among this most entertaining group is the lowly-regarded but highly amusing quacks in what is probably the world’s second oldest profession, doomsday prophet.
Doomsday profiteering has gone mainstream these days. By golly almost every other show on the History channel these days involves the apocalypse. “Apocalypse Man”, “Life After People”, and every other episode of “The Universe” involves at least one grisly scenario on how the world might meet its end. But these days the entire doomsday industry revolves around the fanciful and highly extrapolated idea that the end coincides with the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012. Leaving aside the embarrassing fact that the Mayans failed to predict their own extinction centuries ago, Mayan doomsday prophecy is all the rage.
This kind of thing can be very frustrating to “Bible Scholars” such as Harold Camping. Camping scoffs at the very notion of December 2012 being the date of the big ouchy. Says Camping, “That date has not one stitch of biblical authority, it’s like a fairy tale.” What a relief. Not a chance says Camping, because the end will come on May 21, 2011; a full eighteen months earlier.
Now before you run out to buy that big screen TV with a payment plan that doesn’t require any payments until June of 2011, you should know that Camping has made this prediction before. Back in the early 90’s Camping and his followers were convinced that the end was coming on Sept. 6, 1994. So they all went out and bought the latest in lightweight cellular phone technology (6 lbs) only to have to pay off their Discover Cards on September 7.
Camping, a civil engineer by trade who now runs an evangelical radio station, admits his math may have been a little off in ‘94, but this time—This Time—he has got it for sure. Camping makes his prediction based on some pretty irrefutable logic.
The number 5, Camping concluded, equals “atonement.” Ten is “completeness.” Seventeen means “heaven.” Camping patiently explained how he reached his conclusion for May 21, 2011.
“Christ hung on the cross April 1, 33 A.D.,” he began. “Now go to April 1 of 2011 A.D., and that’s 1,978 years.”
Camping then multiplied 1,978 by 365.2422 days - the number of days in each solar year, not to be confused with a calendar year.
Next, Camping noted that April 1 to May 21 encompasses 51 days. Add 51 to the sum of previous multiplication total, and it equals 722,500.
Camping realized that (5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17) = 722,500.
Or put into words: (Atonement x Completeness x Heaven), squared.
And bingo! May 21, 2011. As we all know, so sayeth scripture…
“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father and that weird little engineer guy from California.”
You may be skeptical, but follower Rick LaCasse in on board. Sure, Rick was one of the dudes stuck with the six pound cell phone and a credit card bill back in ‘94, but that doesn’t have him down.
“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.
Can’t even think like that. Exactly.
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Only eight people believe Noah after being warned and given seven days to decide what to believe, every one else died. How about you. God does not lie.
Ron,
God does not lie. you betcha. So when God said that nobody knows the day, was He lying?
They laughed at Noah too. There is much evidence that Dec 21, 2012 is the end of the world as we know it.
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to Don, Pat and Ron….. do you hear faint laughter….? Look up, look way up….. It’s God LOL about humanity trying to figure what he’s up to! Just be good and everything will take care of itself…
To Pat, I respect your response. The Bible goes futher and our eyes can be open more since in these last time the Book in Daniel Has been opened by Christ as it says in Revolationns. Ples read1 Thes 5:5, Dainel 8:19, Amos3:7 ....
True believers, the elect, can know the time of the end.
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Bless you, Ron
Read 1 Thes 5:4. God does not lie.
“But ye, brethren (TRUE BELIEVERS)are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as od Thief”
Most people have not read Mr. Camping’s book entitled “1994?”. Therefore, they fail to recognize that he placed a big fact question mark on the cover to indicate that he may have missed something. Later, he discovered that he misunderstood verses like Matthew 24:22 where we read that God shortened part of the tribulation. We refer to this shortening as the latter rain which is a time when God will save His elect after they leave the churches (Sept 1994 to May 2011 . Moreover, Camping clearly noted in the book “1994?” that the year 2011 could also be the end of the world. What’s interesting about the year 2011 AD? The year 2011 AD is exactly 7000 years from the Noah’s flood. In II Peter 3, God compares the flood to judgment day. In this context, he also informs us that one day is as 1000 years. In other words, Noah was given 7 days to enter the ark and we are given 7000 years to escape judgment. It’s that simple.
Mt 24:22 And except those days should be SHORTENED, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
II Peter 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
So, while the 722,500 days is significant. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. Visit www.familyradio.com and read the book “We’re Almost There”. This is serious business.
This is your brain on the Bible:
1) A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2) He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3) He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4) Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5) Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6) Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
THIS is your brain on the Family Radio Bible Calendar Timeline:
1) The total length of Paul’s third voyage in Acts 27:1 - Acts 28:30 was 120 weeks or 840 days.
2) April, 33 AD to May 21, 2011 is 722,500 days - including start date.
3) Both days can be divided by 7 and therefore identify with the 7th day sabbath, pointing us to the beginning of the eternal Sabbath of the elect 365242 weeks after day 2199904.
4) I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Family Radio (which has been used mightily by God to send the gospel into the world) will be 52 years old in 2011.
5) 276 x 30.43685 days per month (that’s 1/12 of 365.2422) is 8400.5706 (again, no rounding to preserve the main # in view with its spiritual meaning).
6) There are 740 days from May 11, 2009 to May 21, 2011, 740= 4 x 5 x 37 (all encompassing, atonement, judgment).
Any questions?
What good is that going to do you to “know” “the” date?
He wants us to be ready because he will come like a thief in the night.
Pat, God doesn’t lie but we can misunderstand Scripture or read into it what we THINK it is saying.
Mt 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, TELL US WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? And WHAT SHALL BE the sign of thy coming, and of the END of the world?
Mt 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them…
“Don’t ask me, it’s not for you to know these things”
Of course Jesus never said the above quote. But according to some this is what Jesus must have said, yet if we read the entire passage he explains what will happen as the end draws near and what to look for. If we can’t know, then why does God give us this information in Matt 24 and many other passages?
In Heb 10:25 where God is talking about the end of the world He tells us.”..as ye see the day approaching.” How can we see the day approaching if we cannot know the day or hour? Throughout the NT God tells the believers they will know but the unsaved will not understand, see Daniel 12:10.
Pat, Louis has a kool aid-inspired answer for each one of these verses. Just wait. He’ll be back with more of his gobbledeegook.
Mt 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Mt 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Mt 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Mr 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Ac 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
I can only give Mr. Camping partial credit on the math. The astronomical and historical evidence strongly suggest Christ was crucified April 3rd, not April 1st.
I know that in order to make any type of decision on this matter you have to look at the evidence presented. The only evidence is the bible. I suggest anyone who cares about the end of the world being so close should check out what Mr Camping has written. Go to Family Radio’s website and read ” We’re almost there “. The question does not really center around Mr. Camping. Does the bible teach that we will know when the end will be?.....That is the question to be answered.
I suggest that anyone who cares about sin, judgment, repentance, humility, mercy and salvation should check out what God has written. And as Dan has suggested, anyone who cares about the end of the world being so close should check out what Mr Camping has written. What should we care about and which writing should we check out?.....THAT is the question to be answered.
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