Harold Camping And May 21 Judgment Day

[billiefan2000]

HAROLD CAMPING AND MAY 21 JUDGMENT DAY : Apprising Ministries

HAROLD CAMPING AND MAY 21 JUDGMENT DAY
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.

Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-7)

Harold Camping Is Responsible For Huge Damage Injuring Innocent Gullible People

As an online apologetics and discernment work people are turning to more and more while spiritual blindness grows and superstitions replace proper Biblical theology Apprising Ministries continues covering a glut of compromise infiltrating the visible church.

Therefore, I don’t find it all that surprising any more when I see professing Christians who ought to know better becoming taken up with lunacy in the Lord’s Name such as A durable doomsday preacher predicts the world’s end — again.

This March 2011 report from USA Today brings out that:

If preacher Harold Camping is right, that’s the exact date Jesus will return and the righteous will fly up to heaven, leaving behind only their clothes.

That will be followed by five months of fire, brimstone and plagues, with millions of people dying each day and corpses piling in the streets.

Finally, on Oct. 21, the world ends exactly as the Book of Revelation says it will — with a bottomless pit, a lake of fire and, at last, a new heaven and new earth. (Online source)

Well, isn’t that special. This bears every imprint of the enemy of men’s souls; just enough truth for the spiritually gullible to grasp onto as a lifeline they hope will help them avoid having to follow the admonition of Jesus Christ to His genuine Christians — “As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you” (John 20:21).

From Scriptures such as this we advance the idea that the Christian is to be out in the world about God’s business while at the same time not being of this world. If you’re not familiar with the false prophet Harold Camping, here’s some background for you from Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace to You, which is the ministry of John MacArthur.

Camping is president of something called Family Radio and under Really Bad Theology in his Bookmarks Johnson tells us:


(Online source)

Since no one has noticed Christ Jesus has returned to earth, it’s a pretty safe thing to say this is a false prophecy; and since what a prophet actually sent by God says will always come about, no Christian should pay any attention whatsoever to this false prophet.

As you can see, Harold Camping is a monumental fail when it comes to the prophetic office even though in his goodbye letter below he even associates himself with the Apostle Paul:



Well, Camping may fail as a prophet but he sure can turn a profit. For you see, in Doomsday church: Still open for business yesterday CNN Money tells us that “the total worth of Family Radio (referred to as Family Stations on its official forms) [is] at $72 million.”

CNN explains:

Harold Camping and his devoted followers claim a massive earthquake will mark the second coming of Jesus, or so-called Judgment Day on Saturday, May 21, ushering in a five month period of catastrophes before the world comes to a complete end in October.

At the center of it all, Camping’s organization, Family Radio, is perfectly happy to take your money — and in fact, received $80 million in contributions between 2005 and 2009. Camping founded Family Radio, a nonprofit Christian radio network based in Oakland, Calif. with about 65 stations across the country, in 1958…

According to their most recent IRS filings, Family Radio is almost entirely funded by donations, and brought in $18 million in contributions in 2009 alone…

Camping first inaccurately predicted the world would end in 1994. Even so, he has gathered even more followers — some who have given up their homes, entire life savings and their jobs because they believe the world is ending. (Online source)

Herein lies the heart of this matter; as in our opening text, Camping is most certainly among those who creep into households and capture weak women. And not only women; this also includes those who do not know their Bibles.

That’s why these false prophets like Harold Camping can so easily prey upon them because they’re so easily led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

It’s not hard to find some humor in this Doomsday prophecy from Harold Camping; however, I also encourage you to also be praying for those who’ll be devastated to still find themselves standing upon terra firma on Sunday morning.

[jesuschangesall]

HAROLD CAMPING AND MAY 21 JUDGMENT DAY : Apprising Ministries

HAROLD CAMPING AND MAY 21 JUDGMENT DAY
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.

Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-7)

Harold Camping Is Responsible For Huge Damage Injuring Innocent Gullible People

As an online apologetics and discernment work people are turning to more and more while spiritual blindness grows and superstitions replace proper Biblical theology Apprising Ministries continues covering a glut of compromise infiltrating the visible church.

Therefore, I don’t find it all that surprising any more when I see professing Christians who ought to know better becoming taken up with lunacy in the Lord’s Name such as A durable doomsday preacher predicts the world’s end — again.

This March 2011 report from USA Today brings out that:

If preacher Harold Camping is right, that’s the exact date Jesus will return and the righteous will fly up to heaven, leaving behind only their clothes.

That will be followed by five months of fire, brimstone and plagues, with millions of people dying each day and corpses piling in the streets.

Finally, on Oct. 21, the world ends exactly as the Book of Revelation says it will — with a bottomless pit, a lake of fire and, at last, a new heaven and new earth. (Online source)

Well, isn’t that special. This bears every imprint of the enemy of men’s souls; just enough truth for the spiritually gullible to grasp onto as a lifeline they hope will help them avoid having to follow the admonition of Jesus Christ to His genuine Christians — “As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you” (John 20:21).

From Scriptures such as this we advance the idea that the Christian is to be out in the world about God’s business while at the same time not being of this world. If you’re not familiar with the false prophet Harold Camping, here’s some background for you from Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace to You, which is the ministry of John MacArthur.

Camping is president of something called Family Radio and under Really Bad Theology in his Bookmarks Johnson tells us:


(Online source)

Since no one has noticed Christ Jesus has returned to earth, it’s a pretty safe thing to say this is a false prophecy; and since what a prophet actually sent by God says will always come about, no Christian should pay any attention whatsoever to this false prophet.

As you can see, Harold Camping is a monumental fail when it comes to the prophetic office even though in his goodbye letter below he even associates himself with the Apostle Paul:



Well, Camping may fail as a prophet but he sure can turn a profit. For you see, in Doomsday church: Still open for business yesterday CNN Money tells us that “the total worth of Family Radio (referred to as Family Stations on its official forms) [is] at $72 million.”

CNN explains:

Harold Camping and his devoted followers claim a massive earthquake will mark the second coming of Jesus, or so-called Judgment Day on Saturday, May 21, ushering in a five month period of catastrophes before the world comes to a complete end in October.

At the center of it all, Camping’s organization, Family Radio, is perfectly happy to take your money — and in fact, received $80 million in contributions between 2005 and 2009. Camping founded Family Radio, a nonprofit Christian radio network based in Oakland, Calif. with about 65 stations across the country, in 1958…

According to their most recent IRS filings, Family Radio is almost entirely funded by donations, and brought in $18 million in contributions in 2009 alone…

Camping first inaccurately predicted the world would end in 1994. Even so, he has gathered even more followers — some who have given up their homes, entire life savings and their jobs because they believe the world is ending. (Online source)

Herein lies the heart of this matter; as in our opening text, Camping is most certainly among those who creep into households and capture weak women. And not only women; this also includes those who do not know their Bibles.

That’s why these false prophets like Harold Camping can so easily prey upon them because they’re so easily led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

It’s not hard to find some humor in this Doomsday prophecy from Harold Camping; however, I also encourage you to also be praying for those who’ll be devastated to still find themselves standing upon terra firma on Sunday morning.

[Hannah]

Praying for all those who have been caught up in this LIE. Praying for God's mercy and to keep his hand upon all who will be devasted. Praying for all who will be laughing as well. Lord enable all those who are without you that even though you haven't come today that they will not dismiss ALL warnings of your Return to Earth. Praying that this will not hinder the gospel. In Jesus Name Amen

[LivnForChrist]

Praying for all those who have been caught up in this LIE. Praying for God's mercy and to keep his hand upon all who will be devasted. Praying for all who will be laughing as well. Lord enable all those who are without you that even though you haven't come today that they will not dismiss ALL warnings of your Return to Earth. Praying that this will not hinder the gospel. In Jesus Name Amen

amen

[tjplaw]

Doesn't this poor diluted man need our prayers as well...

God can and will take advantage of this situation.

[Meg]

Its 12:10, 5/21/11, according to Camping, Official End Of The World Day. How do we celebrate?

See y'all Sunday...

[Robert]

[Meg]

OK found out how fast we can all blow off Camping -- sooner than y'all think! According to this flake, the Rapture will occur at or around 11 PM Pacific Time Friday night, so if we're all here in a few hours, which of course we will be, Camping's wrong (surprise)... Here's the source:

The Rapture Is Not Saturday -- It's Tonight

The Rapture Is Not Saturday -- It's Tonight - Tina Dupuy - Politics - The Atlantic

The end of the world will be at exactly 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, says Camping, who along with his organization, Family Radio, are behind those billboards across the country forecasting the Rapture this Saturday. The Rapture, the Last Days, Armageddon and the Final Days of Judgment are all interchangeable. It's when God will destroy the Earth to show his love for humanity.

Is that Eastern Standard or Pacific Standard Time?

Neither, says Camping, whom I interviewed recently for my online news show TYT Now. The Rapture is at 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, where ever it's 6 p.m. first, with the "fantastically big" world-ending event taking place on a time zone by time zone basis.

That means we can expect the Rapture to start when it hits 6 p.m. at the International Dateline at 180 Longitude -- roughly the between Pago Pago, American Samoa, and Nuku'alofa, Tonga. We'll know it's Judgment Day because there will be an earthquake of previously unprecedented magnitude, Camping predicts.

So, according to these calculations, the Rapture will actually begin like a rolling brown out across the globe at 11 p.m. PST on Friday, May 20th. "Everyone will be weeping and wailing because they'll know in a few hours it'll come to their city," said Camping.

[Meg]

Just in case anyone actually thought Camping was original or something, someone with more time than I have has been keeping track:

242 Dates for the End of the world!!! Date Setters!

[Glory to God]

6.27pm 21st May 2011, in Qld Australia.... still here
no earthquakes

[Hannah]

It's nearing 7pm here where I am in Australia and yep you guessed it still here.

So the forum members over in Western Australia should be checking in soon.

[daygo]

16.40 IN UK STILL HERE, WONDER WHAT EXCUSE OR REASON HE IS GOING TO MAKE UP ESP. WITH HIS FOLLOWERS, CAN ALMOST HEAR HIS THINKING FROM HERE.

[billiefan2000]

regarding camping and his 5-21 nonsense



I have a feeling a tidal wave of mockery of Christ, Christianity, and Christians once the "R-Day" is going to happen once date-setting has passed today


this kind of thing holds Christianity up to all kinds of malicious ridicule.




we need to PRAY. because it will likely bring more apostasy in the church

and even persecution to true bible believing christians cause of Camping and his date setting stunt

[myinnuendo999]

It is so sad that people like Camping have stigmatized the name of Christ and the rapture which is clearly spoken of in God's word.

Just Thursday I put on a shirt---but I hesitated-sadly all because of false predictions)))a shirt that says on the front "The King is Coming".. I thought wait a minute, I'm not ashamed of the truth. I put it on and I went by my workplace to find out my schedule for next week and wouldn't you know someone brought up after they read my shirt about May 21. I said noooo, that's not what God's word teaches and harold Camping is a false prophet and not biblical to make predictions. I told them that anyone who sets dates is fortunetelling which God is totally against. And besides, Only God the Father knows when he's going to send His Son to take the true church home.

So I expect it to only get worse as Peter--2 Peter 3:3-4 said it would. But we who know what God's word says can hold on tighter with confidence knowing that one day we will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air..

[billiefan2000]

JUDGMENT DAY OF HAROLD CAMPING DRAWS NEAR BUT HE’S SILENT
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 21, 2011 in Current Issues

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting the growing falling away of the mainstream evangelical community; and I’ve warned you that there is a tsunami of apostasy—pushed along by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments—headed toward the church visible.

Not a few of these judgments have come through evanjellyfish’s foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church, headed by the unholy trinity of apostates, Living Spiritual Teacher and EC guru Brian McLaren, universalist Emerging Church pastor Doug Pagitt, and his friend Tony Jones, the progressive “theologian in residence” at Solomon’s Porch.

Sadly, spiritual blindness continues to spread across the lukewarm landscape of the visible church leading to a real dearth of discernment within. Into this vacuum have come all kinds of deceptions and false prophets. One of those would be Harold Camping who, yet again, has prophesied that Judgment Day will begin in a little less than two hours EST as of this writing.

However, the evangelical apologetics ministry Watchman Fellowship is correct when it points out in Apocalypse Now! that:

Many groups such as the Branch-Davidians, Seventh-day Adventists, Elizabeth Claire Prophet with The Church Universal Triumphant, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and even the Mormon Church have, from time to time, prepared themselves to ride out the approaching apocalypse and the ensuing millennium…

There are other end-of-the-world predictors, such as Harold Camping. Prior to predicting the apocalypse and the end of the world, Camping was a somewhat respected radio Bible teacher, but he has been accused of becoming a false prophet by trying to predict a specific date for the end of the world. Camping said that he was almost certain that the period of the final tribulation and the end of the world would be September 1994. “Of course,” Camping added, “I never say absolutely. I’m human I might have missed something” (The New York Post, 20 August 1994)

One can certainly not predict the end of the world and be mistaken without being labeled a false prophet. Dr. John Walvoord, former president of Dallas Theological Seminary, says, “Anyone who sets a date is a screwball. Nobody has ever guessed the right date, you’d think they would learn” (Ibid.). (Online source)

You need to understand that true Biblical prophets’ prophecies are absolute because it is God Who is speaking through them, and there are no “do-overs,” what they prophesy either comes true, or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, the Bible is clear — when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him (Deuteronomy 18:22).

Harold Camping has brought disgrace to the Christian faith because 1) his foolish setting of dates is antibiblical and 2) he’s being passed off in the secular media as if he actually represents the historic orthodox Christian faith. He certainly doesn’t; in fact, by mocking God’s Word with his ridiculous speculations he is shown to be a fool. And as the hours dwindle before Harold Camping will be shown to have, again, spoken presumptuously he’s remaining silent.

I for one wish he’d taken this tact from the beginning. A couple of hours ago Reuters tells us in Broadcaster silent as Judgment Day hours tick by that:

With no sign his forecast of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday has come true, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent.

Family Radio, the Christian stations network headed by Harold Camping which had spread his message of an approaching doomsday, was on Saturday playing recorded church music and devotional messages unrelated to the apocalypse.

Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994. In his latest pronouncement, he had said doomsday would begin in Asia, but with midnight local time come and gone in Tokyo and Beijing and those cities already in the early hours of May 22, there was no sign of the apocalypse. (Online source)

It’s not hard to find some humor in this Doomsday prophecy from Harold Camping; however,

I also encourage you to also be praying for those who’ll be devastated to still find themselves standing upon terra firma on Sunday morning.


JUDGMENT DAY OF HAROLD CAMPING DRAWS NEAR BUT HE’S SILENT : Apprising Ministries

[Meg]

6:27 pm Eastern according to my fast clock, and we're going out for a bit. So much for the "apoco-lapse"... Peace to all.

[livin_in_the_Son]

I guess that means I have to get my boys' hair cut tomorrow then. I'm praying for him though, his neighbor said that he and his wife haven't been seen today. I hope that he sees the light soon and that it's not too late for him. It makes me realize how desperate people are for the truth that they can be duped by the lie.

[GlennO]

Broadcaster silent as "Judgment Day" hours tick by
By Gabrielle Saveri – 2 hrs 59 mins ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – With no sign of Judgment Day arriving as he had forecast, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent on Saturday.
Family Radio, the Christian stations network headed by Harold Camping which had spread his message of an approaching doomsday, was playing recorded church music, devotionals and life advice unrelated to the apocalypse.

Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.
In his latest pronouncement, he had said doomsday would begin in Asia, but with midnight local time come and gone in Tokyo and Beijing and those cities already in the early hours of May 22, there was no indication of an apocalypse.
The Oakland, California, headquarters of the network of 66 U.S. stations was shuttered with a sign in the door that read "This Office is Closed. Sorry we missed you!"

Family Radio officials, with the help of supporters, had posted over 2,000 billboards around the country warning of a May 21 Judgment Day. The headquarters, which appears to be normally closed on Saturday, was also shuttered on Friday. Camping, whose deep sonorous voice is frequently heard on his radio network expounding the Bible, could not be reached for comment on Saturday.
The shades were drawn and no one answered the door at his house in Alameda, California.

Sheila Doan, 65, who has lived next door to Camping since 1971, said he is a good neighbor and that she is concerned about Camping and his wife, because of the attention his pronouncement has received."I'm concerned for them, that somebody would possibly do something stupid, you just don't know in this world what's going to happen," she said.
Atheists in different parts of the country were planning celebrations and get-togethers to mark the failure of Camping's May 21 prediction to come true.

In Oakland, the same city where Camping's network is based, over 200 people gathered at an atheist convention at a Masonic lodge where speakers jokingly took note of the Judgment Day pronouncement.

"It's kind of crazy, but there's actually a dark side to it too," said Stuart Bechman, national affiliate director of a group called American Atheists. "There are a lot of silly and even unfounded beliefs that go on in the religious community that cause harm," he said.
Tom Evans, a spokesman for Camping, said earlier this week that at least several tens of thousands of people listen to Family Radio's message.

The network is heard in more than 30 languages through international affiliates, according to Family Radio.
In New York, at least one of Camping's followers continued to hold out hope Judgment Day would come.

Retired Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker Robert Fitzpatrick, 60, said he spent more than $140,000 of his savings on subway posters and bus shelter advertisements warning of the May 21 Judgment Day."God's people are commanded to sound the warning, to sound the trumpet so to speak so people know," Fitzpatrick said of his advertising blitz.He said Camping led him to believe Judgment Day would be May 21, but added that he disagreed with the broadcaster's prediction it would begin in Asia.

In Fitzpatrick's view, from his reading of the Bible, Judgment Day would begin around 6 p.m. Eastern Time. He said on Saturday he still had no doubt Judgment Day would come this day. "I wouldn't even entertain that question because there's too much proof from the Bible," he said.

(Additional reporting by Erik Tavcar: Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Jerry Norton)
LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110521/...pse_prediction

[GlennO]

Personally - the man is a virulent heretic. I can not bring myself to pray for him any more than I would pray for Satan. I suppose his ratings will be up on Monday.

[SonSeeker]

Is it my imagination, or has this particular non-event received more press than previous date-setters? Is it possible that this non-event could draw even a few non-believers into questioning their non-belief? Ok, I admit it, I'm a "glass half-full" kinda' guy.