RALEIGH, N.C. – The Apocalypse didn’t happen in 2011 but Harold Camping has confirmed that it will happen – October 21, 2012.
May 21st, 2012 has come and gone. The Rapture is over. Now the dread can begin because on October 21st, 2012… all of us that have been Left Behind, will die.
As crestfallen followers of a California preacher who foresaw the world’s end strained to find meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyptic prophecy Monday, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.
Here’s a recap of how we got here:
Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than two months left on the planet and she is going to spend her time spreading the word: Judgment Day is almost here.
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin May 21, 2012.
Technically, May 21st was Judgment Day, or The Rapture, so the world won’t end that day, it’s just the beginning of the end… But, don’t worry, it will end VERY soon after. Probably by October 21st of this year – at the latest.
To get the word out, they’re using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling through Latin America and Africa to spread the news outside the U.S.
“A lot of people might think, ‘The end’s coming, let’s go party, let’s drink and have multiple sex partners” said Exley, a veteran of two deployments in Iraq. “But we’re commanded by God to warn people. I wish I could just be like everybody else, but it’s so much better to know that when the end comes, you’ll be safe.”
Last August, Exley left her home in Colorado Springs, Colo., to work with Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio Worldwide, the independent Christian ministry whose leader, Harold Camping, has calculated the May 21 date based on his reading of the Bible.
Her husband left for Vegas to drink and spend his life savings on prostitutes.
Exley, in the meantime, is organizing traveling columns of RVs carrying the message from city to city, a logistics challenge that her military experience has helped solve. The vehicles are scheduled to be in five North Carolina cities between now and the second week of January, but Exley will shortly be gone: overseas, where she hopes to eventually make it back to Iraq.
“I don’t really have plans to come back,” she said. “Time is short.”
Not everyone who’s heard Camping’s message is taking such a dramatic step. They’re remaining in their day-to-day lives, but helping publicize the prophecy in other ways. Allison Warden, of Raleigh, has been helping organize a campaign using billboards, post cards and other media in cities across the U.S. through a website, We Can Know.
The 29-year-old payroll clerk laughs when asked about reactions to the message, which is plastered all over her car.
“It’s definitely against the grain, I know that,” she said. “We’re hoping people won’t take our word for it, or Harold Camping’s word for it. We’re hoping that people will search the scriptures for themselves.”
Camping, 89, believes the Bible essentially functions as a cosmic calendar explaining exactly when various prophecies will be fulfilled. But he’s 89, so he’s not so worried about the world ending. He’s already done all the living he wants to do.
The retired civil engineer said all his calculations come from close readings of the Bible, but that external events like the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 are signs confirming the date.
“Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment,” he said.
The doctrine known as the Rapture teaches that believers will be taken up to heaven, while everyone else will remain on earth for a period of torment, concluding with the end of time. Camping believes that will happen in October.
“If May 21 passes and I’m still here, that means I wasn’t saved and I will be dead on October 21st. Does that mean God’s word is inaccurate or untrue? Not at all,” Warden said.
The belief that Christ will return to earth and bring an end to history has been a basic element of Christian belief since the first century. The Book of Revelation, which comes last in the New Testatment, describes this conclusion in vivid language that has inspired Christians for centuries.
Few churches are willing to set a date for the end of the world, heeding Jesus’ words in the gospels of Mark and Matthew that no one can know the day or hour it will happen. Predictions like Camping’s, though, aren’t new. One of the most famous in history was by the Baptist leader William Miller,who predicted the end for Oct. 22, 1844, which came to be known as the Great Disappointment among his followers, some of whom subsequently founded the Seventh Day Adventist church.
Ron Hardeski of Bayonne, New Jersey also predicted the world would end on February 27th, 2004 – his wife’s 50th birthday. The world didn’t end, so Ron beat his wife to death with a Bible. He’s serving a life sentence.
“In the U.S., there is still a significant population, mostly Protestant, who look at the Bible as kind of a puzzle, and the puzzle is God’s word and it’s predicting when the end times will come,” said Catherine Wessinger, a professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who studies millennialism, the belief in pending apocalypse.
“A lot of times these prophecies gain traction when difficulties are happening in society,” she said. “Right now, there’s a lot of insecurity, and this is a promise that says it’s not all random, it’s part of God’s plan.”
Past predictions that failed to come true don’t have any bearing on the current calculation, believers maintain.
“It would be like telling the Wright brothers that every other attempt to fly has failed, so you shouldn’t even try,” said Chris McCann, who works with Bible Fellowship, one of the groups spreading the message.
“If you want to say we’re crazy, go ahead,” she said. “But when you’re dead on May 21st (or soon after), you’ll know we were right. And you’ll thank us.”
in the bible it says that “thy shall not know the day or time ”
come on how and where from the end date no one know is saying is in the news they wrong as they wrong about many things ,all they do to say to get more money i watch news every day and believe me day so wrong or talking no sense
just a mother fu-cking a-s-s, the world will not end.
This world will not end, time will change lot of things but the earth will remain the same. Nobody know when the Armageddon will occur only the almighty father knows that , So praise almighty father and live a happy life. As God has made us in his own image he cant be so cruel as god loved us so we have to do the same with everyone whom we met in our daily life. So praise almighty father and be good to everyone….!!
October 21, 2012 has come and gone? What calendar are YOU using? Last time I checked, it was still September.
We are in September next mounth is October
hahahahahaha wat. Have you been smoking crack my mentally challenged sir
Quoting from the text above: “If you want to say we’re crazy, go ahead,” she said. “But when you’re dead on May 21st (or soon after), you’ll know we were right. And you’ll thank us.”
- Excuse me, but how exactly will we thank you when we're dead?
haha…!!! Are you the christ or messiah to predict the day of christ’s coming that is a total shit! bulshit!! fallacy shit men!!! don’t ever try that men kus i’m gonna hate everything about you.
Ok so you say it will be the end of time there for the world will end, but she said that she is gonna be safe in otherwords so what is it torment or the end of world?????? Make up your mind. And why if in May this was said and it's just been put up here???
Also I'm a big belever in the pole shift and I know that you can't determin a date as said in the bible. So how is October confermed may I ask? No one can say they know and if the time passess and your dates are wronge and you said confermed as you said you are going to make people more disbelieve this is going to happen.
Look on her car window 2011.
jejeje bullshit
shit, donot ever belive on this Article, world never end…………………….what this people talking………..what is proof that world wil end, whos said that
iam sorry to say that……………….. donot worry , THE WORLD NEVER END OK
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It's all about KNOWING!
You people ARE NOT God.
Stop trying to predict things that WON'T. HAPPEN.
The world end when GOD says so. Not when YOU say so.
only god know you stop it the world not end 12-21-12 only god say
wat.
Translation: Only god knows when the world will end. The world won't end in 12-21-12 God sayd.
What if I told you all, we are all dead, we never lived. We are just someone else's dream in a world we don't understand, the guy will just wake up in the day they talk about. Ignorant fools
Thats philosophy. You Ignorant fool!! There are many beliefs don't judge as yours is just a belief you can't prove this!
You my friend is what we refer to as a fucktard !!
you my friend are what we like to call fucktard's!!
Thats what we call philosophy.. Do you have proof of this? There are meny things we don't understand. Don't call people Ignorant fool's when you don't have a clue yourself. Peolpe have meny beliefs with proof. Befor you storm in here and say your crazyness have some proof you should be speding the word no telling people they are ignorant when they have no knowledge of this topic! So please enlighten!
If they're wrong about this, it's no big deal… you know… it's not the end of the world.
I will post this to 9gag when this not happens…
cristians ??? Dnt u knw u have da power 2 mke a blief cum true only u so if u belive in that means u ar hopin 4 it y nt hope for a beta world as in wer america does nt bully ada countries 4 their munerals to me its funny every thng has to come from america da begining wil b da end. So here iz sumthng 2 thnk abt. U ar a war veteran ryt , u planned ppls deaths ryt ? Nd yet u hav da ballz 2 claim the holy vision told u that the world iz gona end nt by lng short the world wil change as in a shift in power nd da american nd european empire will fall nd a new one will rise
New evidence was found in this so called end of the world bullsh**t
And it will not end or be destroyed at the end of October or on December 21, 2012. Try like a another fifty years or so get real people.
Its not completly true but one day our beautiful world had no more,the earth will be history in future.Our technology nothing does not help for earth
I believe nothing I hear, and only half of what I see.
Moral foundations of this country have been destroyed.
Transparent energy from beyond will always exist. As cosmic dust falls from the heavens, why worry about something you cannot change. I live my simple life one day at a time. No worry here for the increments of time will always be speeding up as we grow older. Time is like tape on a reel, so go figure ! The only prayer an unsaved sinner has is “God be merciful unto me as a sinner”. Focus on your daily living.
This article is completely false… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping Fourth paragraph from top, he admits LAST YEAR that he was SINFUL for even trying to predict the date and OPENLY ADMITTED that NO ONE PERSON can know or predict the end
The world is not comming to an end.. Its the population that will suffer.. Something is comming and it’s big.. And a lot of people will be killed.. The planet will suffer so much because of this it will seam like the end of times.. What I do know is an alien invasion is comming to collect what they wan’t, who they wan’t, and what they need before everything is distroyed.. Just live life as normal and wait for the changes to come.. Believe me it’s gonna happen.. Just don’t always believe what this news site says cos they do tend to exaggerate.. Good luck
Really ppl?!?!?!! ARe we still gooing trough this again? The world WONT end soon! Belive me! Weekly World News is just putting thi crap to entertain us! My grandfather has lived drough ALOT of "End of world's" So please Weekly world news, PLEASE! Stop!