Hear Harold Camping’s New Prediction: World Will Really, Really End on October 21
- Posted on May 24, 2011 at 4:55am by
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The end is still near, radio preacher Harold Camping said in a broadcast Monday night, but the world will be around until Oct. 21.
Camping, the 89-year-old East Bay preacher who gained international fame with his prediction that the rapture would come at 6 p.m. Saturday, said that he misinterpreted the Bible and that May 21 was not really the end of the world but the spiritual beginning of the physical end.
“Were not changing a date at all; we’re just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this,” he said in a rambling 90-minute radio broadcast that was part sermon, part press conference. “But on Oct. 21, the world will be destroyed. It won’t be five months of destruction. It will come at once.”
“I can tell you very candidly that when May 21 came and went it was a very difficult time for me, a very difficult time,” said Mr. Camping, 89, a former civil engineer. “I was truly wondering what is going on. In my mind, I went back through all of the promises God has made, all of the proofs, all of the signs and everything was fitting perfectly, so what in the world happened? I really was praying and praying and praying, oh Lord, what happened?”
What he decided, apparently, was that May 21 had been “an invisible judgment day,” of the spiritual variety, rather than his original vision of earthquakes and other disasters leading to five months of hell on earth, culminating in a spectacular doomsday on Oct. 21 — something he had repeatedly guaranteed. On Monday, however, Mr. Camping seemed satisfied with his new interpretation, which apparently spared humankind its months of torture for a single day of destruction.
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saltydawg101
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:47amDoh;)
Report Post »kerf
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:47amGive me a break, this BS has nothing to do with Faith, God or religion, this guy is a fraud and his followers are the terminally stupid among us. Just ask yourself, is money changing hands and follow it, you‘ll see he’s a crook!
Please Blaze, no more stories about Harold Camping, we have plenty of charlatans in America, pick another one.
Report Post »bew0576
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:31amHe shouldn’t get another second of air time on any station, this web sight included. He is a fraud and it seems like everyone would stop promoting him – WAIT – SO IS OBAMA!!!!
Report Post »penismightier
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:49amTell that Camping man that he is ungodly to his face. Judge not lest ye be judged.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:44amincoherent rambling,sounds as if he has old timers ,and is off his meds, or he knows he is about to get sued and lose everything and to top off that sundae with the cherry,he really knows that he will never see heaven, the only door that opens for him,is hell,so either way he is screwed,and he knows it.
Report Post »liberalsarealiens
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:43amI will never fault someone’s belief and dedication but one has to root oneself in reality. You only need to look to the past to see the ones that predicted armageden failed in their “cifering”. The Lord will come but in his time and only he knows when that will be. So, the thing to do is to live a good life so as to be ready when it does happen. Just stop trying to predict it!
Report Post »jumbles
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:24amYou will “never fault someone’s belief and dedication”…..Unless they are Liberals.
Report Post »earthrise
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:56pmJUMBLES
ROFLMAO! you nut :D
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:32amThis is starting to sound more and more like a man who does not want to face reality or his own mortality.
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:20amRead his prediction, he used the 7 day‘s of God’s pronouncement to Noah, and then counted seven thousand years from that date (of the Great Flood). Problem is the promise of destruction in 7 days was Just for the flood and had nothing to do with the timing of the final judgment. I read it before the event and saw his flawed logic. There are many people who’s logic is flawed. We must think for ourselves. It’s that simple.
Report Post »nedinme
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:28amAt 89 years old, he may be right…the end will come for him VERY SOON. I think his mind has already come to an end!!!
Report Post »Rip Curly
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:20amI qualify for 100% of my retirement on 12/20/2012. Wouldn’t you know it, the world ends the very next day! It’s a fitting end to my story.
Report Post »RPK
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:14amThis guy is either senile or crooked. But I wonder about the sanity of those who still believe in him.
Report Post »penismightier
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:47amBut maybe he is sane like all believers that have faith but just wrong on this one thing? You can’t call all people of faith insane if part of what they believe happens to be in error. Every religion could be wrong in some way and by your definition that makes almost the whole world insane.
Report Post »CARBON HOG
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:11ami wonder who’s gonna change the date on all the billboards?
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:31amillegal immigrants with spray paint.
Report Post »starznbarz
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:42amthe word is they cut a deal with the guy that does the lottery billboards – he`s said to be enraptured with the new business.
Report Post »louh2010
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 2:10pmHow about all of the vehicles that had the banners painted on sides??
Report Post »MuskratProblem
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:04amThis again? Oh gosh this guy is ridiculous. Guess I have to post this again…
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penismightier
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:45amLOLOL! That is great! HAHAHA
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:54amThe rapture you have been looking for takes place at the second coming of Christ, no sooner.
Report Post »outsidethebox
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 9:15amLMAO XD. That was a good one.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 9:52amgood one!
haha
Report Post »1stAdmendment
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:52amMay 21, october 21, blah blah blah whatever it’s just noise to my ear!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:48amOK, when he gets to Dec. 21,2012 (the Mayan calendar date for the end of time) maybe he will be getting closer.
Report Post »tomloy
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:43amPeople should just ignore this crackpot.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:39amCamping says he’s not changing his date, leads me to believe he’s attempting suicide.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:34amHoiw many more will spend their life savings .This old man is a fraud.He needs to be in jail ,how moch was donated to his church.And why don`t they return it.This man has done a lot of damage to people.I think this is akin to yelling fire in a crowded building.People got hurt.
Report Post »heavywx
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:25amTwo words: Duct Tape. Whats actaully sad is that there are people still gullible enough to follow the old geezer.
Report Post »heavywx
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:29amAtcually i just thought of two better words, Ball Gag!
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:19amNot again! Anyone who seriosly studies “End of the Age” events knows there has to be a seven year treaty signed with Israel.This treaty will kick off the time period called “The time of Jacobs troubles,or The Birth Pangs of the Messiah.” It will start and end in the Fall,as Yom Kippur is in the fall and these fall feast days have yet to be fulfilled.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:13amHarold it”s time to retire!
Report Post »Joshua Tyler
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:10amIf nothing else, Christian mythology is very entertaining – always providing secular America with a good chuckle after their failed end of the world prophecies. Stewart, Maher, and Colbert will have a field day with this date readjustment. Can’t wait.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:22amYou lump all Christians in with this nutjob? Please. This guy is as lost as you are…
Report Post »Joshua Tyler
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:31am“You lump all Christians in with this nutjob? Please. This guy is as lost as you are…”
The difference between Camping, and your average Christian, is negligible. He’s on the same page, as most Christians, with 99% of the Bible’s interpretation. He just thinks that he’s deciphered a precise End Time date. How does that 1% difference make him “lost” compared to ‘non-specific End Time’ believers?
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:41amIf you’re interested in mythology you should read up on where your Masonic eye came from.
BTW even scientists state that at some point life will end on earth. Guess there a bunch of crazies too.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:58am@ Joshua
I see that you don’t have any religious beliefs at all. I have had an out of body experience, where I could “see” my body through the “eyes” of my soul. Since this actually happened to me, I don’t see how you could ever explain to me that “one is born, one lives, and one dies” and there isn’t anything after that. My personal experience proved to me that there is “something” after the body dies.
Since I was revived, I never made it to the “Bible Heaven”, but I can not deny that there something that we commonly call a soul. Actually, I “died” twice in my life. Both times there was a voice that said: not now.
You don’t have to believe me, because I know the truth, and it doesn’t matter whether you believe me or not.
Report Post »penismightier
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:40amMy mother had an out of body experience. She really believed it was real. But she must have imagined it according to the Dr.s because the hospital had special markings on top of tall equipment housings in the room she was in that nobody would have missed and she didn’t see them. The mind is an amazing thing I guess and can manufacture all kinds of false visions.
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:41am@ Joshua Tyler,
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jumbles
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:16amDIANE TX….You have died twice? So as your body was being starved of oxygen and your brain started to shut down and entered an uncontrolable erratic state you believe you looked down on your body through an out of body experience.Through your conditioning as a Christian and when you returned to the land of the living,you put two and two together and came up with five.
Report Post »earthrise
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:49pmDIANETX,
i was on a pizza delivery when i had mine…….. :D
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:09amOne thing for sure, Harold will be leaving this World at some time in the future. I don’t know if it will be on the 21st of any particular month, but it would be cool if it was.
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:04amWhat a moron. Come October his new excuse will be, “oops I got the year wrong, it’s next year.”
At 89 years old it’s got to be difficult to swallow the pill of his whole life being a lie. Sad really.
Report Post »louise
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:03amHarold, dear, the rapture will occur when the Father says it will occur..not you. According to scripture you are a false prophet.
Report Post »wolverine
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:46amI don’t think God ever said anything about the rapture it was some englishman
Report Post »penismightier
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:35amWolverine you are correct about that.
Report Post »shakenblake424
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 10:25amHow does the specific date change anything? Getting hit by a car tomorrow will have the same out come for you. Just be ready.
Report Post »demdummies
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 11:33amAmen!
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 2:10pmEvidence suggests the Rature did occur. SURPRISE to all of you who thought yourselves good and saved people!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:01amPalm to forehead.
Report Post »outsidethebox
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 9:01amThis is how you do a “palm to forehead” or facepalm as some would call it,
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NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 10:05amBox
That was cool. Very artistic. Like an Etch-A-Sketch only way better.
Report Post »outsidethebox
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 3:02pm@NOTAMUSHROOM Why thank you. This is a depiction of Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation if you didn’t know. It’s actually pretty common among some of the other message boards across the net.
Report Post »Amos37
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:01amHaven’t they put this guy in jail, yet?
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:01amOh please! Stop giving this man any attention! What a nut!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:20amI really was praying and praying and praying, oh Lord, what happened?”
The Lord replies…”You dont read the Bible I sent you, and i dont know who the heck you are prsying to”.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:30amIs this the guy who does damage control for the WH in his spare time?
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:30amOct. 21? I think I’ll go with Dec.21, 2012 for now.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:32amThis can now officially be called a “non-prophet” organization.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:37amIf your Pastor ever proclaims a date leave that church immediately. If your Pastor ever proclaims thatGod gave him specific knowledge that no one else has and only true believers will follow this Pastor then leave that liar immediately.
Report Post »flevan
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 5:43amGood one Biohazard!
Report Post »I think it’s time to put Grandpa in a home.
Meyvn
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:21amblah blah blah
Report Post »insight
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:45amThis guy is a crooked as Pat Robertson. They both just prey on the weak instead of praying for the weak.
@biohazard23
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faithwalker
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:50amLuke 21:8 (New King James Version)
Report Post »8 And He said: “Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time has drawn near.’ Therefore[a] do not go after them.
Sadly many will still follow after such as this because they will have their ears tickled…Live right by letting Christ be the focus of your life and the date shouldn’t matter…Stand With Israel…
LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:55amI think he forgot to calculate all of the Leap years ..“I”
Report Post »faithwalker
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:21amOh and here’s another one,…
Report Post »1 Timothy 4:1
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
Stay the course, keep the faith, run the race, your reward will be great in heaven…
LittleLordFauntleroy
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:24amActually the Asteroid will hit in November and then it won’t even matter that Obama has a fake ssn.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:28amWell if at first you don’t Succeed…..
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:28am“We need to be a little more spiritual about this” Camp said, Okay then Mr. numbers, let‘s start with reading GOD’s word and believing HIM when He said “No man knows the day or the hour, only the FATHER. Would someone put this goon in a nursing home and change his Depends, I’m tired of smelling his foul crap.
Report Post »penismightier
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:30amCamping gives religion a bad name. Besides that, the King James bible with the faulty translation that resulted in the rapture business is what he uses for his predictions. Nuff said.
Report Post »jumbles
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:04amPOVERTY SUCKS-Sarah Palin claimed she got specific knowledge from god that no one else has and she is definitely a liar.You could be right.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:15amYea, this guy should stfu.
Report Post »tradexpertbuysell
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:23amPiss off you reprobate!
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:23amC’mon people give this guy a break. Out of all the millions that he‘s scammed from people it isn’t enough. He has to sucker out at least a few million dollars more or he’ll feel like a failure. We wouldn’t want that now would we. (sarcasm included)
Report Post »outsidethebox
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:52amHe’s just too afraid to admit that Matthew 24:36 is right NO ONE knows the day or the hour that it’s going to happen. People really should learn to take the word of God as truth and take it literally. Sure there is some symbolism in the Bible, but it is crystal clear on some issues. This is one of them. Don’t listen to anyone that tells you an exact date.
Report Post »Ari Ben TZion
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 9:00amOk, the Rev. Rip Van Senile needs to be placed in a home for the elderly before he hurts himself.
Report Post »alr79
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 9:43amI agree. We have alot more serious issues to rave about.
Report Post »Evileye
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 9:50amWants another $18 million from the Brain dead
Report Post »bjc535
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 10:10amThis guy is just trying to discredit end of the world theory/Revelations. that way when the signs are so obvious, and can hardly be denied. They will point to this guy and say…anyone who believes this stuff is just as nuts as Camping!!!
Report Post »NES
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 10:30amI‘m wondering what Bible he’s using, even putting aside that only God the Father knows the time. For example, the Jews have to rebuild the temple and a spring will flow from it to cleanse the Dead Sea, turning it into a body of fresh water, before the Second Coming. I‘m pretty sure that hasn’t happened yet, in addition to many other biblical signs.
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 11:08amEven a broken clock is right twice a day … lol
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NeoFan
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 11:22amJust remember this church is not a cult.
Report Post »outsidethebox
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 2:50pm@THELASTCONE Lol, that was a good one XD
Report Post »outsidethebox
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 2:52pmOpps, typo I meant that last comment to be @THELASCONE, not THELASTCONE.
Report Post »perdew
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 3:49pmAcording to the Mian calandar he is about a year and 1/2 off the date is 12-21-12
Report Post »perdew
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 3:52pmThe people in Iceland and Joplin likely thought it had come to pass.
Report Post »mill
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 4:27pmPoor old man..
Report Post ». Terribly sad legacy to leave the followers
….oh well, they’re nuts too ….
NickyLouse
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 6:24pmRev 1:7 says that every eye will see Him coming in a cloud or with the clouds.
Camping is only trying to excuse his sin of false prophecy. He’d better repent. Camping now says in the interview that Jesus did come. One more telling tale of the end being near as Jesus Himself said in Mt24
So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Report Post »Quack Addict
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:22pm“Non-Prophet” organization….ha ha ha ha!
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:25pmFalse Prophet
Report Post »smallstuff7
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 7:56pmFalse prophets do not repent. They are a menace.
Report Post »smallstuff7
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:08pmIt may be that Harold Camping is fearful of dying and wants to be raptured to avoid the pain of death. That is never a justifiable excuse to deny God’s clearly stated Word. Camping‘s own departure from earth may be much worse now than it would have been had he accepted God’s Word as it is written. We shall see.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 10:31pmGood time to short gold and sell the survival seed sack……LOL.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 1:34amDoes this man even bother to PICK UP A BIBLE? My goodness the simplest things he is ignoring. Such as the last week of years in Daniel. The 1260 days mentioned in Revelation. And the 5 months of being stung by beasts of Abaddon the destroyer. Any of these would tell you that his math is screwy, and I am only scratching the surface.
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