Family Life

05.20.11 | Sarah Harnisch

   Family Radio head Harold Camping says at 6 p.m. tomorrow night there will be an earthquake that will shake the world. He predicts it will be stronger then the one in Japan, and will usher in the end times. He says the rapture will occur and millions will die.
   This is a link to video of a live Camping radio broadcast on Judgement Day.
  
   Camping and his team are so adament on the date, they have been touring the world in what's called "Project Caravan", to get scripture into 7-billion minds by Saturday. They have started a media blitz online on Microsoft, Facebook and Google-- and have sent out 5-billion pieces on online mail. People have been selling off their homes, all their possessions-- and joining his team.
    But here's an interesting tidbit. Camping himself has had dozens of offers to sell off his possessions, which he has ignored. He even had a 1-million-dollar offer to buy his 100 radio stations nationwide from the Christian group "A Bible Answer"-- which he has not responded to.
     Local Clergymen are weighing in on the claims of the California evangelist. Reverend Darius Pridgen is with True Bethel Baptist Church in Buffalo. He said this sort of prophetic preaching is dangerous. "I just believe the Bible that I preach, and it says that no man knows the day-- no man knows the hour." He was asked if the church will take a black eye from this. He said "this isn't a church thing-- this is one group that has taken numbers and put them together and in their research, feels that this is the end. The only person that's going to give them a black eye is their own organization-- when they're up Sunday morning."

   How exactly did Camping come up with the date May 21st 2011? He believes the flood occurred in 49-90 B.C., and that a biblical day is 1-thousand years. If that is true, then Saturday is exactly 7 thousand years after the flood-- or 7 biblical days. There has been a lot of discussion as to how Christians should handle his prediction. But as Pridgen said, there is one fact that we know that remains true: even Jesus does not know the time or the hour of his return. How can Harold Camping?
   Camping previously made a failed prediction of Christ's return in 1994.