Doomsday Minister is Dead

Harold Camping was famous for telling us the day that Christ was going to return to earth to deliver judgment.  In fact, even in our little town of Buffalo, MN there was a billboard along Hwy 55 east of town that said "Jesus is coming on May 21, 2011".   Harold's ministry paid to put that up!!

Today we find out that Harold Camping is dead.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Harold Camping, the California preacher who used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast the end of the world and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific doomsdays did not come to pass, has died at age 92.

 

Family Radio Network marketing manager Nina Romero said Harold Camping, a retired civil engineer who built a worldwide following for the nonprofit, Oakland-based ministry he founded in 1958, died at his home on Sunday. She said he had been hospitalized after falling.

 

Camping's most widely spread prediction was that the Rapture would happen on May 21, 2011. His independent Christian media empire spent millions of dollars — some of it from donations made by followers who quit their jobs and sold all their possessions— to spread the word on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.

 

When the Judgment Day he foresaw did not materialize, the preacher revised his prophecy, saying he had been off by five months. The preacher, who suffered a stroke three weeks after the May prediction failed, said the light dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, the date had instead been a "spiritual" Judgment Day, which placed the entire world under Christ's judgment.

 

After his billboards warning of pending doom popped up across the country in 2010 and 2011, Christian leaders from across the spectrum widely dismissed his prophecies while atheists and revelers poked fun at his prediction. Some also criticized Camping's use of millions of dollars in followers' donations to advertise Judgment Day.

 

Here;  http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Doomsday-minister-Harold-Camping-dead-at-92-5071779.php

 

Jesus VERY CLEARLY said that NO MAN will know the day or the hour.  How much clearer can He be?

 

So how is it that so many people can get sucked into following date-setters?  How is it that some folks then become disillusioned when these dates come and go?  Many of those will then lose confidence and faith in the entire realm of prophecy regarding things that WILL HAPPEN in the future.

 

Others will go on to invent some other beliefs...like Jesus is already here on earth working to make things 'better'....or that ALL THINGS in the Bible have already happened and it really CAN'T tell us anything about the future....or that we are currently IN the thousand year reign of Christ...or 15 other variations of these that make no sense to me whatsoever.

 

Of course none of us should claim to KNOW FOR SURE how all the events of the Last Days are going to play out.  I believe we will all be amazed by something when we hear the trumpet blow and see the dead in Christ begin to rise into the clouds to meet Jesus.

 

However, Harold Camping was a false-teacher.  How can we say that?  Because what he said never came true...so his words were false...hence he was a false-teacher.  End of story.

 

How interesting that he had a massive stroke just weeks after he embarrassed himself and brought a certain amount of shame on serious prophecy watchers.

 

"What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!'"  -Jesus-

 

"No one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." -Jesus

 

"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come." -Jesus