I was hoping that the next post I wrote about Harold Camping and his end of the world predictions, was that he had apologized and asked for forgiveness for not believing God’s Word (the part that says no man knows the day or hour of the return of Christ). Unfortunately, my hopes have gone unfounded:
… Camping said that he’s now realized the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted. He had earlier said Oct. 21 was when the globe would be consumed by a fireball.
Saturday was “an invisible judgment day” in which a spiritual judgment took place, he said. But the timing and the structure is the same as it has always been, he said.
“We’ve always said May 21 was the day, but we didn’t understand altogether the spiritual meaning,” he said. “May 21 is the day that Christ came and put the world under judgment.” (USA Today)
It is late, and I am tired, but is this guy serious? A “spiritual judgment” took place on Saturday? Christ returned on Saturday and “put the world under judgment”? Did anyone see Jesus on Saturday?
The Family Radio Board of Directors has been indicating all day they wanted Camping to apologize, but obviously that didn’t happen. In 1994 when Camping was wrong he blamed it on a math error. This time he claims it did happen but we didn’t see it because it was “spiritual”. This man is a false prophet.
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Maybe he’s wanting attention? Is this helping his radio show or something? And of course the media is having a good time with it. What a riot. He should be embarrassed but instead he just makes an excuse and creates another future date. How many times does he have to fail at his predictions before everyone will stop giving him the attention that’s fueling him?
This whole thing has been awful, sadly making Christ’s very real second coming just a joke.
I did a little more research on Camping and his teaching last night, and I found something even more disturbing than his predictions of the end time dates. He also encourages his followers not to associate with any churches as they are all apostate. It’d be easy to fall into Camping’s heresies if you don’t have the iron-sharpening-iron of relationships within a local church.
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Ronnica – it has been incredibly sad, especially as I was reading a few of the comments left on an article on Huffington Post, such hate and ridicule of Christians and the Bible.
Yes, his urging Christians to leave all churches is very disturbing.
Kerri – Thanks for the prayers! We are definitely in need of them in my neck of the woods. The complex I live in is putting a disaster preparedness plan into place because it looks like it is going to be a busy couple of months.
As for this man, I’m always reminded that the Bible tells us in the last days that even the ‘elect’ will be decieved. I think I could make a case that his ‘church’ is a cult but that is a whole nother ball of wax.
Hello Dominique – it is good to see you! As I was watching the news with tornadoes swirling around OKC, I thought immediately of you. So good to know you are safe.