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.”
hahaha its november
Hahhahhhahaha….The stupidity of these people just astounds me.
Can someone tell us what month we’re in now? If the world is to end, you can’t predict it. Doesn’t it say that in the bible? I thought these idiots read the bible every night before bed?…get a life!
Gosh, why can't people just get a good laugh out of it and stop calling us Americans stupid! We actually have a good sense of humor!! Thumbs up for this article.
ragazzi,siamo seri!! io x primo capisco che con il caos che c'è nel cosmo,ogni giorno vissuto è trovato….ma che a tutt' ora di un certo giorno finisce il mondo…NO NON SONO D'accordo…tranne che effettivamente….sono morto,e non mi sono accorto di niente?!…so meglio di quando possa dire,che il nostro sole ha una compagna scura….negli anni 50,mi costò la promozione,aver portato questi seri discorsi in classe…vorrei vedere ora i miei insegnanti e compagni ….ne ho parlato su una pagina ripetutamente,la pagina …-è meglio sapere che ignorare-.. prima che mi si dica la qualsiasi cosa (….) leggetela, magari è da cercare nella pagina….c'è tantissimo!! posso anch'io sbagliare….ma ne vedo di casi penosi di disinformazione…leggete la pagina…i vari articoli,poi dite la vostra…siamo quì x discutere,DISCUTIAMO
non escludo che le famose centurie di Nostradamus,abbiano un fondo di verità… dò x scontato che era un grande medium… se leggete la pagina accennata—è meglio sapere che ignorare–capirete!!
Too funny. It is now November and we are still here. Hmmmm Oh my gosh….just maybe the world will end on December 21st. Gee….we better all prepare. These dumb asses need to stop playing God and actually get a real life.
Chill, this is just a joke.
OMG! I just took a huge gigantic poop and the world ended.
The world will be ended by werewolfs,vampires and dumb women
O wait this isnt twilight
If jesus wanted the bible to be left behind as a way of predicting the end of the world, he either has an iq of over 900000 or he should have just written '7 days'
If World does not end on 21-12-2012, then who put this video his end will be on 22-12-2012… Ha ha ha …don't try to fool people..
hmmmmmmm it's actually 21st of October now
i wont make a christmas plan then
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Hahahaha….its all rubbish…its november now….
november and still breathing
This is the morning of November 26, 2012 and it’s a clear, peaceful and beautiful morning for that matter. So those who wish to die should better go and find a job. We are getting to a time when anyone who talks of an end of the world date will be either flogged or jailed!
the world will be ended by nigros and their guns
It was the end of the world as you see it! Adam and eve were marred on that day and you will see them on the 21st of December 2011. When you see the 13th disciple!!! May translates as the Way the date translates as 2 plus 1 and equals 3 the trinity farther son and daughter the same as December 21st 2012 the 2 become one flesh which makes the date add up to 13 equal numbers can be placed on top of each other to make a single digit (Codex) X means the cross in the English language. When we show up we are going to turn this would upside down. God planted a garden in the east (The future (Back to the future) the flux capacitor the human brain that travels in time) and there he put the man with the plan. See you then LITTLE CHILDREN!!
PS: Some hints are above and all will be made clear on the day of disaster.
The word Maya translates to A WAY calendar date (12.21.2012) ads up to 13.
Yours truly Christ (Rich St (Translated))
Adam and eve are going to show up!! The beginning of the bible is the end of your world and the beginning of their world god transcends time. So nothing can happen in time with god. The whole bible will live itself out on that day. One man and one woman!!!
Question to think about:
If I took all time and reference to it off the earth would you die?
Is time a game that god is playing with man?
Lol You sound like A Faggot !!
Get a life :3 God is just another person who people like :p cause of a dumb story
fail retard it's late November
People stop the world is not going to end
Now, u can laugh as u want, but wait until Dec 23-25 when earth in the darkness for 3 days due to alignment of the universe, something even worse is going to happen to the world
I'm bookmarking this article. Care to come back here on Dec 26th so I can laugh at you ?
Good to c all again
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is that my newborn?
OK well Harold Camping misjudged the Bible (SURPRISE!!!), but with this Mayan calendar thing, which timezone is it meant to start in? If I'm on the West Coast do I get it 3 hours after the East Coast or will it all happen at the same time? What if it's not Dec 21 yet but it's Dec 21 elsewhere in the world? WHAT THEN?
Don't let such measly details get in the way of delicious panic created by people to whom life is so boring and vapid that the only thing they can find interesting enough is ways in which it may end for everyone.
haha its 1 dec we all r still breathing
U notice everything says October 21st?? When the hole major dilemma is abt December 21st?
I didn't get this MEMO and ummm yeah i'm still here! lol