Well, I am preparing for the end of the world peacefully in my bedroom. Today is “Doomsday” according to Harold Camping, a radio host and leader of an obscure Christian movement. He has predicted that the world will end today on May 21, 2011. The 89 year old Family Radio evangelist has garnered international attention in the media with his claims that May 21 marks the beginning of the end. He has drawn attention from “Judgment Day” billboards across the country.
Today, Camping claims, Jesus will return to earth and save his believers. The unrepentant sinners will be the victims of a massive earthquake, which will start in New Zealand and then spread across the world, until it finally reaches the United States around 6 P.M.
Unlucky survivors will meet their fate 6 months from day on October 21 when God destroys the earth with fire. Not only will nonbelievers be destroyed physically. Camping believes in annihilationism, which is the view that those who are not saved will simply cease to be conscious rather than sent to Hell. Here’s Camping supposed line of logic...
May 21 is exactly 7,000 years since the animals entered Noah’s Ark. He arrived at that date through some terribly complex formula that he devised and applied to the Bible. “The Bible is the source,” one supporter said, “Harold Camping fine-tunes the Bible, and he allows God to speak through him using the scriptures.”
This isn’t the first time Camping has predicted the end of the world. In the nineties, he wrote a book called 1994? in which he claimed the world could end that year. As you might notice, the title of the book has a question mark, meaning Camping can not be held responsible if events didn’t pan out the way he originally thought.
Camping opened Family Radio in 1958 in Alameda in a joint venture with other Christian groups in San Francisco, California. Before that, he earned a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Cal Berkeley. He and his family were members of the Christian Reformed Church until 1988.
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