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.”
it is sinful to even try to guess when the Rapture will take place…..Only Jesus knows that…..and the End will come sometime Jesus will take the people that love Him and obey His word…people need to realize that just because you are a "nice person" it wont get you to Heaven….you have to do what the Bible says…love others love God with all your heart and soul…and do his Commandments….those who dont do that will be cast into the lake of fire where there is no quenching…Jesus loves us all and He doesnt want anyone to perish….Please start living the right way We all go thru trials but thats what makes us stronger….God never leaves us….He is always there invite Him into your life….The End times are here i believe…everything that is said in the bible is coming true…..
bullshit when you die you go to a grave or cremated ffs GOD AINT REAL, THE BILBLE IS A SHITTY STUPID STORY THAT SOME ONE MADE UP.
who are u people "GOD" saying that you u know the end of the World i have to say one thing to you author if that date then the end wont happen you will be ashame of your self or kill your self of this blog just a stupid idea
Then why are you here? The articles posted in this site is just a made-up stories just for fun and enjoyment of individuals.
It makes me laugh, in the article it says may 21st 2012 then says we are 5 months late but in the photo on the van it says may 21st 2011, my math may not be brilliant but even i know that is longer than five months. any how if all these people who are working so hard to promoted the end of the world put there efforts into say making the world a better place imagine what they could do? and then maybe they won't want the world to end…
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no human calculation can distinguish the date of the world's end.., whether you are a genius..
The world WILL NOT END in October OR December 21st! Get it straight, people!
If the world is coming to an end in October, then we don't have to worry about the 200 mile spaceships coming in November. Everybody enjoy the holidays.
Yea, and it’ll be useless to everyone who sell their sour to satan, they dont even have chance to enjoy their money, fame n women. Act in vain
LOL… I'm a bit more scared about those spaceships… Good thing I watched Independence Day a few days ago…LOL…MESSAGE TO WILL SMITH: Prepare to not just do a movie,but the real thing…LOL!!!
U 're not God neither angle.Don't rubishly
m sawin some strange visions tat wrd goin 2 end soon…
People, People. I agree on both sides here. However, the world will not end, we are. It has happened before where man was nearly wiped out. There has been mass destruction wither from a meteor, Planet X, supervolcanos, etc. Trust me way things are going something is coming. But please for the people that do beleive in doomsday, just live day to day and live life. If something does happen no one can do anything about it so why talk about it. If your trying to get closer with GOD then do anyway not just because the world is going to end. We all have a better chance getting hit by a car. FOR THE PEOPLE THAT DO NOT BELEIVE IN THIS DOOMSDAY – I can see all the predictions looks fake however something will happen maybe not October 21, or Dec 21, 2012 or even 10 years from now, but something one day will happen
Oh please… This is a bloody joke! Even the Bible CLEARLY states, "… not even the Angels in Heaven know when the Earth is about to come to an end and when I (Jesus) shall be returning on the clouds…"
The Bible also warns us about the false prophets during the end times. Sit back and go and think about that for a while… I haven't seen anyone that disappeared, or that's been missing all of a sudden. So – how could the Rapture have taken place then??? PS – If you believe in the Rapture concept, that is…
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no one can knows when will be the world will end even the angels
wheather the world will end on 21 october or december no one can escape from the death, all humens and all the things in the world are born, live for a certain period and dead this nature is common to all the things. Just think does it have any of single thing beyond this nature. This is the world through. Even we are ,our body is adding few soil to the earth at last, how far how fast we run untill this, at last we gain nothing, so then there should be a meaning of this life, why do we born? whats the meaning of this livehood, you should find the answer.. and there is a answer in this universe thats the universal through, “The fire is burning because of the suitable materials are in there and Oxygen, if we remove the oxygen or the materials the fire will dissapear , then where does that fire gone, no where just no reasons no production” like that all the things are made because of the reasons and when there is no reason there will be nothing thats all. May you find the secret of your inner world with the universal through…
Only God knows the time
pwahahahahaha.. Funny!! May almighty God punish those fallacies and those who wrote them.. Imagine, “the world is ending”.. Where? In ur house or? As we know, no one, I mean no one at all knows when that’s gon’ happen. So fuck U and ur fuckin old age. If it’s ending, it wouldn’t be anytime expected. Maybe soon maybe later.. But, stop hypothesizing.. Don’t even talk about it. Its left for God to decide this. Don’t be foolish!!
Pfsffs…. 1st of all nobody knows when the world will end and odds are it probably won’t, so stop with your ignorant theories. 2nd of all, uhh.. one question… are you god? Please anwser that because I would absolutley loooove to meet you. Oh yeah that’s right you are NOT because last time I checked GOD lives in HEAVEN and you guys are some fools that tells everybody the world will end when it won’t! Watch when October 21st comes and the world doesn’t end you guts are gonna get beat up and I’m gonna laugh.
my birthday is October 21 2012 and i will be 11 that year. are they trying to say i'm the devil's daughter.i am not EVIL. ok maybe i am on the evil side and do pretend my father is satan BUT I WILL NOT BLOW UP THE WORLD.ONE MORE THING MY FRIEND SHARES THIS BIRTHDAY WITH ME AND SHE WILL 12
Here comes another fat one, right to the shitter…
a bunch of idiots if you ask me
Got That right , My brother in law was a Preacher now he sells cars ,I guess he feels better about himself now that he is not a phony life insurance salesman .
Isn;t there a law to put con artist in jail , oh I guess it OK if it is done in the name of god .
Or should I say the book that man wrote saying it was gods word.
I have seen in my life time Zombies and they go to church , they know nothing about death because they have never been there no one has .
They become total Zombies eating up all the Preachers B.S and he himself is a Zombie creating more pestimistic Zombies who have nothing better to do than created fear in everyone they come in contact with speadin there measage of doom and distruction , this supports there therory in Saying thet have the only answer and it is Jesus {as they roll on the floor in some cases }
Santa Clause and the Easter bunny must also be real to these people seeing they pray to some one they never meet and do so out of fear tatics created by man to make other man slaves to this BS,
Wars are fought over religion that in itself should tell you something
The sky is falling , The sky is falling said chicken little
I guess it ok if your Power hungry pesimistic Asshole that gets everyone to beleive in your religious B.S. using fear tactics so everyone will join their cult or organization .
Its all about power and money and Religion is at the time of the list .
My Brother in law sold Jesus know he sells cars, I guess he felt a little guilty about selling something that was make up of mans imagination to control the masses .
That is who wrote the bible Man to control other men women children ,etc.
People know who the easter bunny is , Santa Clause ,. Lots of beliefs out there in the world and beliefs is what they are . Facts is one thing Fiction is another .If you believe the bible is gods word then you will be controled by men and man wrote the bible to use it as a tool to control the masses and for for power and money
Here we are, October 21st, nothing happens
Totday it is oktober 21, à beautifull day, and today, also nothing will happen……
It is funny how although the months differ, all the doomies agree on the 21th ….
4 more hour. Still waiting.
Still here bro? Haven’t you guys predicted the world lets see not 1 not 2 not 3 not 4 but 5 times? Damn you sound like LeBron James Camping.
i THINK this is RIGHT !
WORLD END STEP ————————
Start—————————5 . 21 . 2012
Step 1————————-9 . 21 . 2012
step 2————————10 . 21 . 2012
step 3————————-11. 21 . 2012
step 4————————12 . 21 . 2012 #
step 5————————-2 . 21 . 2013 #
end—————————-3 . 21 . 2013