“We have learned the very painful lesson that all of creation is in God’s hands and he will end time in his time, not ours!” reads the statement signed by Camping and his staff and posted on his ministry’s website.
“We humbly recognize that God may not tell his people the date when Christ will return, any more than he tells anyone the date they will die physically.”
The “March 2012″ letter, which included multiple mea culpas, was released with a note from the board of California-based Family Radio. The group intended to mail it to listeners first, but immediately posted it “to avoid confusion” after it was leaked online.
Camping said people have continued to wish for another prediction, but he is now convinced that critics were correct about the biblical admonition that “of that day and hour knoweth no man.”
“We must also openly acknowledge that we have no new evidence pointing to another date for the end of the world,” he wrote. “Though many dates are circulating, Family Radio has no interest in even considering another date.”
The letter makes no reference to Camping’s explanation last year that he had miscalculated by five months and the world would instead end on Oct. 21, 2011.
The dual predictions landed Camping in the No. 7 spot of the Religion Newswriters Association’s list of the top 10 religion stories of 2011.
http://theundergroundsite.com/2012/03/08/harold-camping-says-may-21-prediction-was-incorrect-and-sinful-18855
Fringe group warns of Judgment Day on May 21 based on bible, numerology
A cult that claims to be Christian says that the end of the world is going to begin on May 21, 2011.
Family Radio Worldwide, headed by Harold Camping, claims that the world is going to end on May 21 this year based on his reading of the bible, and some sprinkling of numerology, according to his website.
For example, Camping claims that the No. 3 represents God’s purpose, No. 5 represents atonement and redemption and Nos. 10, 100 and 1,000 signify completeness, according to the website.
Camping believes May 21, 2011, coincides with the 7,000-year anniversary of Noah and the great flood. He also believes the rapture (when Christians are bodily whisked into heaven) will take place on this day, based on the claim that Jesus died on April 1, 33 A.D., the website said.
Wrong before
Camping has been wrong before. He authored a book which said the world would be over in 1994. However, now Family Radio claims to have unearthed new information that they didn’t have when the last prediction was made, The Globe and Mail said.
Camping’s FRW has set up some 2,000 ads around the world announcing May 21, 2011, as the beginning of the end of the world. The message says true believers will be saved and the rest will experience “hell on earth” for five months through an enormous earthquake, The Globe and Mail said.
Billboards have been raised in some 40 countries including Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, India, Poland, Zimbabwe, Russia and Canada. Volunteers have also been riding caravans to hand out pamphlets, mainly in the U.S. and Canada, The Globe and Mail reported.
FRW, which claims to be non-denominational and non-profit, told The Globe and Mail that it exhausted “all available resources” for the media campaign.
Michael Garcia, special projects coordinator of FRW told The Globe and Mail, “Believers are commanded to blow the trumpet, to sound the warning when the sword is coming upon the land. When you know this information … and you don’t warn the people, then their blood will be upon your head.”
Garcia does not even entertain doubts that Camping could be wrong again for the second time. He told The Globe and Mail, “There are no question marks. God has given us all the proofs from the Bible. … It’s going to happen.”
Civil Engineering
Camping has a 1942 degree in civil engineering from UC Berkeley, while his biblical learning is the product of self study. The website says, he has spent “tens of thousands of hours” studying the bible.
Camping predicts a very powerful earthquake on May 21 which will “throw open all graves,” and the remains of believers will be transformed, while those of unbelievers will be “thrown out upon the ground to be shamed,” according to the website.
Survivors of the earthquake will exist in “horror and chaos,” and “Each day people will die until Oct. 21, 2011, when God will completely destroy this earth and its surviving inhabitants,” the website says.
Other groups
Other groups that were founded on end time predictions are the Seventh Day Adventist denomination whose founder, William Miller, thought the Second Coming would occur between 1843 and 1844. Jehovah’s Witnesses was founded by Charles Russell, who claimed that Jesus would come to earth invisibly in 1974, and then be physically visible in 1914.
Fringe group warns of Judgment Day on May 21 based on bible, numerology
A cult that claims to be Christian says that the end of the world is going to begin on May 21, 2011.
Family Radio Worldwide, headed by Harold Camping, claims that the world is going to end on May 21 this year based on his reading of the bible, and some sprinkling of numerology, according to his website.
For example, Camping claims that the No. 3 represents God’s purpose, No. 5 represents atonement and redemption and Nos. 10, 100 and 1,000 signify completeness, according to the website.
Camping believes May 21, 2011, coincides with the 7,000-year anniversary of Noah and the great flood. He also believes the rapture (when Christians are bodily whisked into heaven) will take place on this day, based on the claim that Jesus died on April 1, 33 A.D., the website said.
Wrong before
Camping has been wrong before. He authored a book which said the world would be over in 1994. However, now Family Radio claims to have unearthed new information that they didn’t have when the last prediction was made, The Globe and Mail said.
Camping’s FRW has set up some 2,000 ads around the world announcing May 21, 2011, as the beginning of the end of the world. The message says true believers will be saved and the rest will experience “hell on earth” for five months through an enormous earthquake, The Globe and Mail said.
Billboards have been raised in some 40 countries including Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, India, Poland, Zimbabwe, Russia and Canada. Volunteers have also been riding caravans to hand out pamphlets, mainly in the U.S. and Canada, The Globe and Mail reported.
FRW, which claims to be non-denominational and non-profit, told The Globe and Mail that it exhausted “all available resources” for the media campaign.
Michael Garcia, special projects coordinator of FRW told The Globe and Mail, “Believers are commanded to blow the trumpet, to sound the warning when the sword is coming upon the land. When you know this information … and you don’t warn the people, then their blood will be upon your head.”
Garcia does not even entertain doubts that Camping could be wrong again for the second time. He told The Globe and Mail, “There are no question marks. God has given us all the proofs from the Bible. … It’s going to happen.”
Civil Engineering
Camping has a 1942 degree in civil engineering from UC Berkeley, while his biblical learning is the product of self study. The website says, he has spent “tens of thousands of hours” studying the bible.
Camping predicts a very powerful earthquake on May 21 which will “throw open all graves,” and the remains of believers will be transformed, while those of unbelievers will be “thrown out upon the ground to be shamed,” according to the website.
Survivors of the earthquake will exist in “horror and chaos,” and “Each day people will die until Oct. 21, 2011, when God will completely destroy this earth and its surviving inhabitants,” the website says.
Other groups
Other groups that were founded on end time predictions are the Seventh Day Adventist denomination whose founder, William Miller, thought the Second Coming would occur between 1843 and 1844. Jehovah’s Witnesses was founded by Charles Russell, who claimed that Jesus would come to earth invisibly in 1974, and then be physically visible in 1914.
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