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Title: Biblical Scholar's Date for Rapture May 21, 2011
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URL Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic ... 1/BA8V1AV589.DTL&feed=rss.news
Published: Jan 19, 2011
Author: Justin Berton
Post Date: 2011-01-19 17:39:54 by angK
Keywords: None
Views: 810
Comments: 22

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.

"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."

The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.

The Mayans and the recent Hollywood movie "2012" have put the apocalypse in the popular mind this year, but Camping has been at this business for a long time. And while Armageddon is pop science or big-screen entertainment to many, Camping has followers from the Bay Area to China.

Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd found: The world will end May 21, 2011.

This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about Judgment Day.

On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping's believers gathered inside Alameda's Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven.

But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations, as well as overseeing a media company that has grown significantly in size and reach.

"We are now translated into 48 languages and have been transmitting into China on an AM station without getting jammed once," Camping said. "How can that happen without God's mercy?"

His office is flanked by satellite dishes in the parking lot that transmit his talk show, "Open Forum." In the Bay Area, he's heard on 610 AM, KEAR. Camping says his company owns about 55 stations in the United States alone, and that his message arrives on every continent.

'I'm looking forward to it' Employees at the Oakland office run printing presses that publish Camping's pamphlets and books, and some wear T-shirts that read, "May 21, 2011." They're happy to talk about the day they believe their souls will be retrieved by Christ.

"I'm looking forward to it," said Ted Solomon, 60, who started listening to Camping in 1997. He's worked at Family Radio since 2004, making sure international translators properly dictate Camping's sermons.

"This world may have had an attraction to me at one time," Solomon said. "But now it's definitely lost its appeal."

Camping is a frail-looking man, and his voice is low and deep, but it can rise to dramatic peaks with a preacher's flair.

As a young man, he owned an East Bay construction business but longed to work as a servant of God. So he hit the books.

"Because I was an engineer, I was very interested in the numbers," he said. "I'd wonder, 'Why did God put this number in, or that number in?' It was not a question of unbelief, it was a question of, 'There must be a reason for it.' "

Code-breaking phenomenon Camping is not the only man to see truths in the Bible hidden in the numbers. In the late 1990s, a code-breaking phenomenon took off, led by "The Bible Code," written by former Washington Post journalist Michael Drosnin.

Drosnin developed a technique that revealed prophecies within the Bible's text. A handful of biblical scholars have supported Drosnin's theory, lending it an air of legitimacy, and just as many scholars have decried it as farce.

One of Drosnin's more well-known findings is that a meteor will strike Earth in 2012, the same year some people believe the Mayan calendar marks the end of times, and the same year the "2012" action movie surmised the Earth's crust will destabilize and kill most humans.

Meaning in numbers

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Damn, This means I have to get a new outfit for the fucking occasion.

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#11. To: angK (#0)

This is the fourth or fifth (or sixth) time in about 20 years that Harold Camping - who is no "scholar" - predicted a Doomsday date. Each time, the next day he comes with a lame excuse. The distinct possibility that God is not going to give Camping a heads up seems not to have occurred to him.

Each time Camping has left disappointed and embittered followers, some of whom were thoroughly browned off on anything involving the Bible and some of whom had to deal with whopping debts they had run up in anticipation of being taken before the due date. Maybe this time Camping will suffer the Biblical punishment prescribed for false prophets.

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#12. To: Shoonra (#11)

This is the fourth or fifth (or sixth) time in about 20 years that Harold Camping - who is no "scholar" - predicted a Doomsday date. Each time, the next day he comes with a lame excuse. The distinct possibility that God is not going to give Camping a heads up seems not to have occurred to him.

A scintillating evalution!

The distinct possibility that there is not going to be a Rupture, seems not to have occurred to you.

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#13. To: angK, shoonra (#12)

The distinct possibility that there is not going to be a Rupture, seems not to have occurred to you.

Shoonra is Jewish so I'm betting that this has occurred to him.

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