Self-made Religious Prophet Harold Camping
...WRONG AGAIN!

By David J. Stewart

“When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.” —Deuteronomy 18:22

       Harold Camping is WRONG AGAIN! Jesus didn't return on May 21, 2011 as Harold Camping prophesied for so long. But what did happen is that Harold Camping made a lot of money off his religious escapades...

How Harold Camping marketed the Rapture
Self-made prophet with $117 million radio network spreads worldwide message that the Apocalypse will begin at 6 p.m. ET Saturday

By Bill Whitaker

(CBS News) LOS ANGELES - Some Americans have extreme plans this weekend. A religious leader named Harold Camping has convinced them the end of the world starts at 6 p.m. ET Saturday.

Most of the world's faithful do not believe the date is Judgment Day. But as CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports, it seems just about everyone's seen the signs about the end of the world.

"May 21st, 2011 is the day of judgment," a Family Radio ad says. It's a prophecy aggressively peddled by 89-year-old Harold Camping, a civil engineer and self-taught Biblical sage.

"You and I are living at the time of the end of the world," Camping says.

End of World prediction disputed

He claims to have discerned the date from numerological calculations revealed by his reading of the Bible. He spread his prophecy around the world through broadcasts on his Family Radio network in 84 languages, on RV caravans and on 1,200 billboards around the country.

So how much would Doomsday cost?

According to Camping, starting Saturday, "There's going to be a huge earthquake that's going to make the big earthquake in Japan seem like a Sunday school picnic."

"We want people to know that there are a few hours left to cry out to him for mercy," says Ken Ronning.

Trumpeting the apocalypse doesn't come cheap. Family Radio spent as much as $1 million on the billboard campaign. It can afford to. Camping's radio network was worth about $22 million in 2002 -- by 2008 it was valued at more than $117 million.

"It's a combination of a very new and rather peculiar way of reading the Bible coupled with brilliant 20th century American marketing," says Rev. Michael Seiler of St. Matthew's Episcopal Chruch.

It's become a cultural touchstone for late night comics. David Letterman recently joked, "The No. 1 way to make the apocalypse for fun? More fun? What's more fun than the apocalypse for God's sake?"

The end of the world has been predicted more than 100 times in the last 100 years. In fact, Harold Camping predicted the end once before - in 1994. This time he says he's certain.

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SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/20/eveningnews/main20064856.shtml

The Family Radio demonic cult has raked in untold tens-of-millions of dollars by falsely predicating the end of the world. Oh, I assure you that the world as we know it will eventually end, but not at the whim of some wayward televangelist or self-made prophet. Harold Camping falsely predicted Christ's return in 1994 too...

Harold Camping Doomsday Prediction record: 0-2

Most people are naive and gullible because they don't know God, because they don't search the Scriptures as Jesus taught in John 5:39. Except a man be born-again Jesus said he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (John 3:5). Most of the people in society today are as cattle headed for the slaughter house, woefully ignorant concerning the truth about nearly everything. The lying newsmedia and television networks go to great lengths, spending massive amounts of money, and hiring the best sell-outs money can buy to deceive the public, to keep them wandering in darkness, and blinding them from the truth about everything, especially Biblical Christianity.

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” —Matthew 7:15

We are living in a world of liars. People will say or do almost anything to benefit themselves, make more money, receive a promotion, secure popularity, and do what's best for them. It is wickedness and totally contrary to the way God wants believers to live (Philippians 2:4-5,21).

Over the past 50-years Camping has gathered a worldwide following of deceived souls. The cult has become very popular through the Family Radio (officially Family Stations, Inc.) broadcast over the years since 1958. Harold Camping predicted the end of the world back in 1994. Obviously he was wrong.

Camping has once again made a complete fool of himself and his followers, who predicted doomsday on May 21, 2011...

Harold Camping followers plan more billboards warning of May 21, 2011 Judgment Day

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The first guess by 89-year-old Harold Camping, who initially predicted the world would end in 1994, was incorrect. Let’s hope his prognostications are not improving.

More billboards are on the way however, warning New Jersey’s drivers that Judgment Day is fast approaching on May 21, 2011.

According to NJ.com, many believers in the 21st date say the Bible contains unquestionable clues. God tells Noah the world will end in seven days; the Bible also equates a day to 1,000 years. The date of the flood has been set at 4990 B.C., so adding 7,000 years plus one for the missing year "0" produces the year 2011. Translating a Biblical reference to a month and date, from the Hebrew calendar to the Gregorian, results in May 21.

"It’s no other date. It’s only that date," says Michael Garcia, special projects coordinator at Camping’s Family Radio enterprise.

NJ. com reports that Vineland resident Edwin Ramos has wrapped his RV in shrink wrap that predicts the world will end May 21, 2011, and has been driving his RV up and down the East Coast in an effort to spread the message.

He has also placed his message on six billboards around Cumberland County.

Ramos said an organization called We Can Know has put up more than 1,000 billboards across the country proclaiming the same message. He is on an email list at ebiblefellowship.com comprising 900 other members who plan for their meetings through the forum.

More billboards will be funded by about 30 New Jersey believers who want to save their neighbors, says Bob James, a Morristown electrical engineer who organized the effort. The three dozen billboards currently visible in New Jersey are courtesy of Family Radio, a Christian broadcasting network led by Camping operating out of Oakland.

According to the LA Daily News, Camping's followers say that day - a Saturday - will bring a universal earthquake and the start of the Rapture, when Jesus returns to Earth and about 200 million "saved" Christians rise to heaven.

And Oct. 21 will mark the final, fiery destruction of the planet and the universe.

But norwichbulletin.com points out that in I Corinthians 15:52, the Apostle Paul states that Judgment Day will come, “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.” Layman’s translation: It’s going to come quickly, not after five months notice from billboards in New Jersey.

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Camping's demonic cult have been putting up advertisements on billboards and public benches everywhere, claiming the return of Christ and Judgment Day is coming on May 21, 2011...