05/16/11
The Philadelphia Daily News reported this morning that 89-year-old Harold Camping, whose evangelistic radio broadcasts from Oakland, California are heard around the world, has predicted the end of the world for Saturday, May 21—guaranteed. Camping says he gets his certainty from 50 years of studying the Bible, and “the Biblical evidence is too overwhelming and specific to be wrong.” The prediction has been pasted on billboards around the world and wrapped around buses and minivans across the country. Camping says on his website that on Saturday, “a great earthquake will occur …(it) will be so powerful it will throw open all graves. The remains of the all the believers who have ever lived will be instantly transformed into glorified spiritual bodies to be forever with God. …The inhabitants who survive this terrible earthquake will exist in a world of horror and chaos beyond description. Each day people will die until October 21, 2011, when God will completely destroy this earth and its surviving inhabitants.” Responding to Camping’s predictions, R. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said in a Christian Post column, “The Christian church has seen this kind of false teaching before. …Christ specifically admonished his disciples not to claim such knowledge, and the Bible does not contain hidden codes that we are to find and decipher. (But) Christians are indeed to be looking for Christ to return and seeking to be found faithful when Christ comes.”
