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.”
Lol DID THE WORLD END YET ITS oct21
Well since it was supposed to be an hour and half ago and it is a beautiful day, my bet is on nope hahaha. This old geezer is still at it since 1994. Give him props he is sticking with it haha
tHE ONLY Shit that this pitiful brainwasher knows, it that he'd full of shit.
tI'S REALLY SAD THAT PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE IN CRAMP LIKE THIS.
Using fear tactics to get people to join your religion is getting very old
Not to mention he is praying on the weaker ,to bring them to his cult as any othe religion does.
After all Religon is created by Man to control the masses.
I think that this guy should serve time in jail , cause he is nothing but a con artist.le was writti
No one knows nothing about the after life because they have never been really dead and back from the grave
If you believe that the bible was written by God , I have swamp land in florida to sell you.
But isn"t the Preacher's or should I say con artist way ,to make you believe that it is gods word.
If you do not believe it is gods word they do not have any hold on you ,so they must convince you that it is gods word , when it was paper and ink and scrolls and stone all man made to control people .
The biggest money maker is religion of all kinds My Brother in law was a Preacher for a short time then he became a car Salesman ,I guess he did not want to sell religion anymore
fuck the end of the world
Well, it's October 21, 2012 now, and nothing has happened. Bunch of bullsh*t right here.
You know… I'm still alive, and its monday over here in Denmark.
october 21 has passed and this shows all this is a lie
You fucking Americans got fuckall to live for so put an end to your missery and jump into the see. You will do the world and God a big favour. The world is not coming to an end ever, but, the human race is.
You are as much of a joke as this Oct 21 stuff. Loser!
Oh my god. Thank you so f'ing much for that comment! If we really believed in god then we wouldn't listen to what anyone has to say about the end of the world
If the world ends gonna miss the next big bang theory episode, oh well . This false prophet phoney baloney guy is only a bit better than the idiots who follow him. At least he knows its all made up!
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Looks like us being alive is going to be hard to explain.
I'm still here!!!!!lol!!
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The world has ended!!! I'm in Heaven!!! Everyone is dead!!! And yet I'm still able to type this!!! Great going Mr.Falsapocalypse!!! Now we just have to worry about spaceships!!! LOL!!!
Its october 23, 2012.. epic fail
ok so, the poster of this article is completely distorting the facts, he said that the world would end on october 21 2011, idk where this man or women got the idea of 2012, but he should be banned from creating any more articles.
I stopped taking end of the world predictions seriously when nothing happened at the end of 1999, you can't imagine my disappointment when I awoke on the first day of the year 2000 with all the established drudgery still in place, not a terminator or a mother ship in sight
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Um it’s November… Feel stupid yet?
right….
HAH! I am reading this in November just laughing because they said this last year. This isn't a legitimate news site.It talks about celebrities. How can we believe this junk then?
fuck you americans spreading rumours for end of world!!!!!!!! GET A LIFE
It was the Mayan calendar that ends on 112/21/12 and Nostradamus and his quantrans advised of the great threat
from the east, and the Bible talks about the end, the Apopoclyspe………I do not think it will be the end of the
physcial world, just the world as we have known it. Unfortunately in this era of nuclear weapons,and the
countries that are all too willing to utilize them against other nations, makes one wonder or at least consider
the possibility of annihilation .
so wats up with all these new dates first 2000 then october and ppl are still saying december 21 2012…. -.- im still here by the way and its november
According to bible scripture no man will know the time of his coming so please quit thinking you do for it will be added unto according to scripture
bushit news. please don't put something like this in the future. Thank you!
You're so stupid by trying to control what gets posted on this site. If you don't like it just leave the site and let others express what they want. It's called freedom of speech and it's in our Constitution. Thank YOU!
Shut the **** up Matt! Who are you to supress someone's freedom of speech? Anyone is free to post whatever bull**** they want.
Freedom of speech is in our Constitution, I'm totally on your side, Lourdes!
Lol its gone October
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