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5/22/2011 - by Chuck Monan, Preaching Minister
Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, “I am the Christ,” and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
~ Matthew 24:4-6
If Harold Camping is correct, then you won’t be here to read the rest of this article.
Camping is an 89-year-old radio host and self-appointed harbinger warning Americans that the end is coming: May 21, 2011, to be precise. You’ve likely already seen the literature, pamphlets, billboards, subway ads, etc. “Judgment Day is coming” reads one of their billboards. Camping and his minions are not tied to any particular church as they claim organized religion has been corrupted by the devil, so they spread their message via the Internet and radio.
This isn’t the first time Camping has pinpointed the end of the world. In the early ‘90’s he published a book titled 1994? which insisted that judgment day would arrive in September of that year. When that date proved wrong, he simply regrouped and kept crunching numbers (and found the key this time in the Book of Jeremiah), which led to the new date for the Rapture arriving on May 21, 2011. Their “infallible, absolute proofs” for May 21 being the day are chron-icled in an article by Peter Finocchiaro of Salon.com:
□ It’s the anniversary of Noah’s Flood: A great deal of effort has been made by biblical literalists over the years to identify the exact chronology of the events dictated in the Old Testament. Some scholars, including Camping, adhere to the theory that the Biblical Flood took place on May 21 in the year 4,990 B.C. Then, in Genesis, God told Noah seven days before the Flood to warn people of the impending cataclysm. And Camping posits that this figure, seven days, holds greater significance than meets the eye. According to the biblical passage 2 Peter 3:8, “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Therefore, argues Camping, Rapture should occur 7,000 years after the Flood. And the 7,000th anniversary of the biblical deluge, by his math, falls on May 21, 2011.
□ It’s the anniversary of Creation ... sort of: Another piece of evidence – explained by Family Radio affiliate eBibleFellowship – suggests that the world began in 11,013 B.C., and its 13,000th anniversary came and went in 1988. During that year, apparently on May 21, the end of the “church age” came to pass. Then, a 23-year time of “tribulation” began, during which Satan claimed dominion over all the world’s churches. (Camping also supports this notion. He claims that the number “23” – far from just being a poorly received Jim Carrey film – also represents “destruction” in biblical symbology.) The end of this particular period of cosmological strife is said to fall on May 21, 2011.
□ Divine Numerology: This elaborate line of reasoning first argues that Jesus Christ was killed on April 1 in the year 33 A.D. Using that date, the crucifixion would have occurred exactly 1,978 years and 51 days – or 722,500 days – before May 21, 2011. It turns out that 722,500 is also the product of an equation – (5 x 10 x 17) ^ 2 – that includes three different numbers of significance, according to Camping. Five means “atonement.” Ten indicates “completeness.” And 17 signifies “heaven.” Thus: Armageddon.
Will these folks never learn? “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Matt. 24:36). If Jesus didn’t know this, how likely is it that Harold Camping does?
The coming of the Son of Man will occur like “a thief in the night” ... not like yet another public pronouncement from a false prophet in the day.
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