Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011 (Here We Go Again)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 1, 2010 | Justin Berton

[bogusname]

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.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Mr. Camping, read Matthew 25:13. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh.”

[Keflavik76]

It is interesting that 153 is the sum of the cube of the first three odd integers,

[airdalechief]

Just Damn!

My birthday is the 22nd.

[Nosterrex]

I am not surprised. You have the whole “Left Behind” crowd that believes this stuff. The one thing that that all have in common, all their prophecies concerning the Last Days have been wrong, but that will not stop them. All these wacky attempts at trying to identify Gog and Magog, the Beast, the mark of the Beast, the False Prophet, and whether you are post-trib, pre-trib, etc is all a bunch of religious clutter keeping people from the key that unlocks all Scripture.

[GOPJ]

It’s as likely as Al Gore’s ‘waterworld’...

[JoeProBono]

[Revelation 911]

although a rebuilt temple might get my attention

[mombonn]

Camping, 88,

Maybe he could find a way to incorporate 88 reasons Why The Rapture Will Be in 1988 into his current date-setting.

[ottbmare]

Oh, please. I was just kidding. Of course I have publicly taken Jesus as my Lord and Savior. It was just a joke.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

What’s the key that unlocks all Scripture?

[Cloverfarm]

“...end of the world ...”

I’m thinking it’s more of the end of the beginning. Or something.

Anyway, Harold seems to have missed some passages about no one knowing the day or the hour.

[SumProVita]

How does the author define SCHOLAR?????

[NoCmpromiz]

Give up, Harold. You haven't a clue.

He, unfortunately, thinks he has...

He's got a bunch of radio stations and the date is plastered on his, er, their website front page....

Family Radio

[chesley]

Just a LITTLE “Scholarly” competition :)

[mjp]

It is also one of a sequence of numbers that are the sum of 2 nonzero squares in exactly 7 ways.

[Nosterrex]

Christ