Predictions of when doomsday and apocalypse will come to Earth are old hat for religious beliefs by now. May 21, 2011, will reportedly be the day of the Rapture. WFMY 2 News in Greensboro, N.C., states that billboards are heralding the grand day of judgment.
Suggesting that ‘The Bible guarantees it’
Harold Camping, a Family Radio network founder in Oakland, California, put on billboards to “Cry mightily unto God,” since May 21, 2011 is going to be Judgment Day. The over 150 Family Radio affiliates are going to broadcast the program from 8:30 to 10 p.m. on May 21.
Camping believes May 21, 2011, will be the Rapture, when true Christians are gathered together in the heavens to meet with Jesus Christ. Five months later on October 21, 2011, Camping believes God will destroy the Earth and the universe entirely. In Sept, 1994, these same events were forecasted by Camping.
Hard to figure out when Doomsday will appear
Camping is not unlike the many before him who predicted the end of the world. They have all used the Bible to figure it out. Doomsday is decided based on the fact that seven days is equal to seven millennia where mathematical calculations are needed. Camping used the Hebrew calendar to determine when 7,000 years from the day God told Noah judgment would be is. He decided it was May 21, 2011.
“The Bible has given us absolute proof that the year 2011 is the end of the world during the Day of Judgment, which will come on the last day of the Day of Judgment,” says Camping on FamilyRadio.com.
Four memorable end of the world prediction failures, Caucasian blend
For your end of the world pleasure, here are four of many notable apocalypse reservations that were broken:
The 1806 The Prophet Hen of Leeds
Allegedly, there was a hen that laid eggs saying “Christ is coming” in 1906 in the English town of Leeds. This was proven false when viewing the egg laying process.
Followers of April 23, 1843 called the Millerites
End of the world was expected in a one year span by New England farmer William Miller. He thought someplace between March 21, 1843 and 1844 would be when the ending of the world came. His followers, the Millerites, helped him figure out an exact date. This is how April 23, 1843 came about. Many followers sold their worldly possessions for naught. Some did go on to found the Seventh Day Adventists, however.
In 1910 the Halley’s Comet would hit
Astronomers in 1881 determined that Earth would pass through the cyanogens-laden tail of Halley’s comet in 1910. Stories about mass extinction via poison gas made the front page of the New York Times, but by 1910, scientists knew better.
Heaven’s Gate, 1997
There was a mass suicide with the Heaven’s Gate cult. There were 39 members that perished. The appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997 was interpreted as the coming of an alien spaceship. Paradise would only be accessible to those who left their bodies behind. This is how Heaven’s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite persuaded all the fatalities.
Information from
FamilyRadio.com
familyradio.com/index2.html
LiveScience
livescience.com/7926-10-failed-doomsday-predictions.html
WFMY News 2
bit.ly/ksDgPL
Wikipedia entry for Harold Camping
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping
Doomsday and apocalypse (Beware: Contains scripture)
youtube.com/watch?v=djH4NZo78Rw
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