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Judgment Day is coming May 21, 2011 !!!!!!!!!!!
« on: January 02, 2010, 05:11:03 AM »
Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.

"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."

The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.

The Mayans and the recent Hollywood movie "2012" have put the apocalypse in the popular mind this year, but Camping has been at this business for a long time. And while Armageddon is pop science or big-screen entertainment to many, Camping has followers from the Bay Area to China.

Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd found: The world will end May 21, 2011.

This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about Judgment Day.

On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping's believers gathered inside Alameda's Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven.

But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations, as well as overseeing a media company that has grown significantly in size and reach.

"We are now translated into 48 languages and have been transmitting into China on an AM station without getting jammed once," Camping said. "How can that happen without God's mercy?"

His office is flanked by satellite dishes in the parking lot that transmit his talk show, "Open Forum." In the Bay Area, he's heard on 610 AM, KEAR. Camping says his company owns about 55 stations in the United States alone, and that his message arrives on every continent.

I'm looking forward to it'
Employees at the Oakland office run printing presses that publish Camping's pamphlets and books, and some wear T-shirts that read, "May 21, 2011." They're happy to talk about the day they believe their souls will be retrieved by Christ.

"I'm looking forward to it," said Ted Solomon, 60, who started listening to Camping in 1997. He's worked at Family Radio since 2004, making sure international translators properly dictate Camping's sermons.

"This world may have had an attraction to me at one time," Solomon said. "But now it's definitely lost its appeal."

Camping is a frail-looking man, and his voice is low and deep, but it can rise to dramatic peaks with a preacher's flair.

As a young man, he owned an East Bay construction business but longed to work as a servant of God. So he hit the books.

"Because I was an engineer, I was very interested in the numbers," he said. "I'd wonder, 'Why did God put this number in, or that number in?' It was not a question of unbelief, it was a question of, 'There must be a reason for it.' "

Code-breaking phenomenon
Camping is not the only man to see truths in the Bible hidden in the numbers. In the late 1990s, a code-breaking phenomenon took off, led by "The Bible Code," written by former Washington Post journalist Michael Drosnin.

Drosnin developed a technique that revealed prophecies within the Bible's text. A handful of biblical scholars have supported Drosnin's theory, lending it an air of legitimacy, and just as many scholars have decried it as farce.

One of Drosnin's more well-known findings is that a meteor will strike Earth in 2012, the same year some people believe the Mayan calendar marks the end of times, and the same year the "2012" action movie surmised the Earth's crust will destabilize and kill most humans.

Meaning in numbers
By Camping's understanding, the Bible was dictated by God and every word and number carries a spiritual significance. He noticed that particular numbers appeared in the Bible at the same time particular themes are discussed.

The number 5, Camping concluded, equals "atonement." Ten is "completeness." Seventeen means "heaven." Camping patiently explained how he reached his conclusion for May 21, 2011.

"Christ hung on the cross April 1, 33 A.D.," he began. "Now go to April 1 of 2011 A.D., and that's 1,978 years."

Camping then multiplied 1,978 by 365.2422 days - the number of days in each solar year, not to be confused with a calendar year.

Next, Camping noted that April 1 to May 21 encompasses 51 days. Add 51 to the sum of previous multiplication total, and it equals 722,500.

Camping realized that (5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17) = 722,500.

Or put into words: (Atonement x Completeness x Heaven), squared.

"Five times 10 times 17 is telling you a story," Camping said. "It's the story from the time Christ made payment for your sins until you're completely saved.

"I tell ya, I just about fell off my chair when I realized that," Camping said.

James Kreuger, author of "Secrets of the Apocalypse - Revealed," has been studying the end of times for 40 years and is familiar with Camping's work. While Kreuger agrees that the rapture is indeed coming, he disputes Camping's method.

"For all his learning, Camping makes a classic beginner's mistake when he sets a date for Christ's return," Kreuger wrote in an e-mail. "Jesus himself said in Matthew 24:36, 'Of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my father only.' "

'It is going to happen'
Camping's believers will have none of it.

Rick LaCasse, who attended the September 1994 service in Alameda, said that 15 years later, his faith in Camping has only strengthened.

"Evidently, he was wrong," LaCasse allowed, "but this time it is going to happen. There was some doubt last time, but we didn't have any proofs. This time we do."

Would his opinion of Camping change if May 21, 2011, ended without incident?

"I can't even think like that," LaCasse said. "Everything is too positive right now. There's too little time to think like that."

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Re: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2010, 09:24:33 AM »
Isn't the Rapture, pretty much, for lack of better term, "made up"? And the Mayan Calendar doesn't state that the world will end in 2012, but merely a new epoch will end and a new one will begin.

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Re: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2010, 02:22:02 PM »
Is Camping the guy that said that the archangel Michael is Jesus?  :-\
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Re: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2010, 02:36:24 PM »
Isn't the Rapture, pretty much, for lack of better term, "made up"? And the Mayan Calendar doesn't state that the world will end in 2012, but merely a new epoch will end and a new one will begin.
The concept of the Rapture is biblical but the word Rapture is not used in the bible.
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Re: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2010, 04:40:51 AM »
This is absolutely retarted, and in fact it infuriates me.  If anyone actually believes, why are they still working? saving money? Giving a shit about their day to day lifes?  If you "knew" the world would end in only a couple of years, why would you not just relax, spend time with your friends and family, have fun?  Why work or do anything?  I challenge anyone who truly believes this prophecy, to sell all of their possesions and give the money to the poor on May 20th, 2011.  Let's see who really believes this hog wash.

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Re: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2010, 05:00:33 AM »
Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.

"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."


Oh, the irony.

Bay, are you a Christian?
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Re: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2010, 10:33:11 AM »
This is absolutely retarted, and in fact it infuriates me.  If anyone actually believes, why are they still working? saving money? Giving a shit about their day to day lifes?  If you "knew" the world would end in only a couple of years, why would you not just relax, spend time with your friends and family, have fun?  Why work or do anything?  I challenge anyone who truly believes this prophecy, to sell all of their possesions and give the money to the poor on May 20th, 2011.  Let's see who really believes this hog wash.

Who here at getbig.com really believes that it will actually happen May 20th, 2011?  I don't think anybody here does.  Even those who believe in the Rapture believe that nobody knows the day or the hour.

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Re: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2010, 11:21:19 AM »
wonder if the freeway mess will be cleared up and easier to travel ?
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Re: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2010, 06:40:06 AM »
Who here at getbig.com really believes that it will actually happen May 20th, 2011?  I don't think anybody here does.  Even those who believe in the Rapture believe that nobody knows the day or the hour.

If Camping says it will, I def. don't believe it.
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Judgment Day is coming May 21, 2011 !!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2011, 08:03:51 PM »
 http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/may21/JudgmentDay.mp3 :o

Let's hope maybe they have made some calculatory mistakes for gods sake!   :(


I still think it's worth to advancing in workouts and simply hope they figured something wrong.



This is certainly bodybuilding related.

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Told you...  :o

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html?hpt=C1


hopefully they have got their calculations bible studies screwed up

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The date may or may not be accurate.  The theory, however, is bona fide and the guarantee of the horrors that are soon coming to pass is iron clad.  The great biblical minds of the Watchtower are scouring the Old Testament for dates and Revelation for details.  It wouldn't hurt to have a pal like Branch in the final days.  A monster of a man with guns and trucks.     

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There will be much weeping and the nashing of teeth...

Repent!!!

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Eh, Mayan calendar much more accurate

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Wrong date.
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Wrong date.

Pretty sure we are not to know the exact hour of the Lord's return?

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Pretty sure we are not to know the exact hour of the Lord's return?
Yup, cus if you believe in the rapture/bible, you also should believe in the part where it says not even Jesus knows the date.
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I cant believe people still subscribe to these archaic beliefs....these people that quit there job & left there homes will feel stupid as fuck come may 21st...and even dumber on oct 22nd...
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Pretty sure we are not to know the exact hour of the Lord's return?
For 2 thousand yrs, the same thing has been said...I know that God's time table is diff than ours, you know the right calendars, times have to be set, non-leap yr, correct time zones. World Destruction is a pretty big thing, and you can't nonchalantly do your planning. I mean, you eff that up, who is going to believe you anymore?

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If the world is destroyed it will be by man or mother nature...not some imaginary man in the sky....
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Yup, cus if you believe in the rapture/bible, you also should believe in the part where it says not even Jesus knows the date.

I was reading Mathew earlier, and I have to take a stance that we can not know the exact date and time. That is just the way it is, there is no computation that we can use to figure it out.

Anyone who believes otherwise does not believe in the word of God as preached to Jesus's disciples.

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This is absolute nonsense. I'm a Christian and I totally disagree with that fool talking about End Of The World.

Ask yourself this: If God is love, why is He destroying the world?

Whoever said in that radio is absolute rubbish and IF there's a day of destruction of the planet, my money is on that guy failed to make it to Heaven because obviously he's not preaching the Gospel and not knowing God's heart.

He's an idiot and totally preaching against the gospel.
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Agree with the above 2 posters.
I beliebe mankind cannot know the date IMHO.

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This is absolute nonsense. I'm a Christian and I totally disagree with that fool talking about End Of The World.

Ask yourself this: If God is love, why is He destroying the world?

Whoever said in that radio is absolute rubbish and IF there's a day of destruction of the planet, my money is on that guy failed to make it to Heaven because obviously he's not preaching the Gospel and not knowing God's heart.

He's an idiot and totally preaching against the gospel.

men have but using God's word for the own twisted reasons forever.
In the bible, he destroy it once with water, already tho.
People say that this is why we don't live a long ass time now, the atmosphere and oxygen saturation levels changed. Plus some of your brain dies a birth becuase the oxygen levels  :o.  I ever heard, that some people want to built a pre-flood life dome, to raise.. I'm not making this up, a super baby.  With sounds like a nazi experiment.  :-\ But if this was possible, i think some one would have done it by now? cough, cough *Germans* Cough
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