Failed prophet Harold Camping now says that the earth will be totally destroyed on October 21st, 2011. What really happened on May 21st was an 'invisible spiritual judgement day'.
His new theory is that God decided to spare humanity horrible pain and death through five months of tribulation and now will instead, just kill everyone in one swift move on October 21st. One minute you will be here, the next you will be fried to a crisp. Of course, he and 3% of the world's population will be in heaven playing harps on a fluffy white cloud.
This entire episode with Camping should be a reminder to Armstrongites of the same lies that came down from Herbert Armstrong and Rod Meredith in the late 1960's when they predicted that the end times would start in the 1972 and the millennium would start in 1975. It should also remind Armstrongites that they are all a product of the failed prophecies of William Miller who told the same lie in the 1844.
Armstrongism is currently filled with numerous liars and false prophets. Rod Meredith, Gerald Flurry, Dave Pack, Ron Weinland, and numerous others. When will people stop listening to these liars?
His new theory is that God decided to spare humanity horrible pain and death through five months of tribulation and now will instead, just kill everyone in one swift move on October 21st. One minute you will be here, the next you will be fried to a crisp. Of course, he and 3% of the world's population will be in heaven playing harps on a fluffy white cloud.
This entire episode with Camping should be a reminder to Armstrongites of the same lies that came down from Herbert Armstrong and Rod Meredith in the late 1960's when they predicted that the end times would start in the 1972 and the millennium would start in 1975. It should also remind Armstrongites that they are all a product of the failed prophecies of William Miller who told the same lie in the 1844.
Armstrongism is currently filled with numerous liars and false prophets. Rod Meredith, Gerald Flurry, Dave Pack, Ron Weinland, and numerous others. When will people stop listening to these liars?
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We get to skip The Great Tribulation!? Yessss!
I wonder how he is circumventing that whole Book of Revelations thing.
Paul Ray
Radio host now says Judgment Day coming in October
Camping says he took refuge in a motel when his May 21 prediction didn't come true
By GARANCE BURKE
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.
Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.
But 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."
It's not the first time the independent Christian radio host has been forced to explain when his prediction didn't come to pass. He also predicted the Apocalypse would come in 1994, but said it didn't happen then because of a mathematical error.
Rather than give his normal daily broadcast on Monday, Camping made a special statement before the press at the Oakland headquarters of the media empire that has broadcast his message. His show, "Open Forum," has for months headlined his doomsday message via the group's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website.
When the Rapture didn't arrive Saturday, crestfallen followers began turning their attention to more earthly concerns.
Jeff Hopkins had figured the gas money he spent driving back and forth from Long Island to New York City would be worth it, as long as people could see the ominous sign atop his car warning that the End of the World was nigh.
"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 said Family Radio would never tell anyone what they should do with their possessions. .."That is between them and God," he said.
But he said 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.
In 2009, the nonprofit Family Radio 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.
It was hilarious when Camping said, "Jesus did come this weekend, but it was Spiiiiritually not literally"
Sounds like Ron Weinlands, "I said it was spiiiiiritual..you people..." (as in blame them for misundertanding).
How the mind grasps to ever avoid saying, "I was wrong."
M.T.Promises
I Corinthians 13:8 says:
whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
The prophecies have failed.
Therefore the Bible stands proven.
My greatest problems with all of this stuff are that 1) These mental cases are shooting all of us in the foot. They make all Christians appear to be ridiculous, even though most of us believe Matt. 24. 2) False teachers are hurting people, co-opting and ruining their lives.
It'd be nice to be able to isolate and quarantine this whole batch of kooks to the National Enquirer. Many years ago, I saw an NE at a supermarket check out line. There was an article explaining that dinosaur flatulence had caused many of the prehistoric species to become extinct. The article was accompanied by an artist's rendition of dinosaurs emitting huge brown clouds of toxic gasses, on which neighboring dinosaurs were choking and dying. This struck me as a very appropriate venue, for popularizing the ACOG gospel! It would all fit in so perfectly!
BB
Preacher flatulence is just as bad!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4aHRnrqhPY
Perhaps someone needs to do one of COG ministers.......
Haven't any of these people read Revelation 22 where it says that liars will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Of course not.
They don't know one thing about the Bible as they sign their notes and letters, "In Jesus' Name".
If I were Jesus, I'd be ticked.
"They make all Christians appear to be ridiculous..."
Christians already look ridiculous, thank you very much.
Paul Ray
"If I were Jesus, I'd be ticked."
How can a syncretic invention of the idiots of the Council of Nicea be "ticked" about anything? He's a fiction. He doesn't exist.
There aint gonna be no rapture, no great tribulation (oh, there will be plenty of tribulatory disasters), no second coming, no world ruling kingdom of god -- none of that stupid nonsense.
Time to get real and put the nursery rymes and fairy tales of the "Bible" in the trash heap where they belong.
Harold Camping looks like one of those caricatures that Basil Wolverton drew for the Spokesman's Club manual. :-)
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