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One day to go! Harold Camping is counting down to the rapture (May 21, 2011 is upon us)
Washington Times ^ | 05/20/2011 | Frank Raj

Posted on 05/20/2011 6:37:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

In truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them. - John Locke, English philosopher, physician

The American evangelicals whose frenzied scriptural arithmetic points to the Second Coming of Christ 2,000 years after his birth are engaged in an activity which has been threatening the stability of the Christian Church since the second century; they are trying to align God’s calendar with man’s. - Damian Thompson, author, ‘The End of Time’

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MIDDLE EAST, INDIA, May 19, 2011 —I bumped into Harold Camping when I came across his book ‘1994?’

Since he put a question mark at the end of the title I didn’t write him off completely because much of what he talks and writes about is certainly found in the Bible.

SNIP SNIP

In fact 1 Thess 5: 2 says, “for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”

But Camping figures it’s okay to work out the year and the month and in fact goes on and tells us both a month, a day and an hour - he says Jesus' return will probably happen with a massive earthquake around 6pm on May 21, 2011 in which ever part of the world you are!

America is full of 'experts' in every field you can think of and at the age of 89, Camping cannot be denied his expertise in the Bible, which he claims he has researched for most of his life.

He is basically telling people they cannot take the plain meaning of what is said in the Bible to understand the scriptures, but with his God given key he can, while everyone else has misinterpreted when the end times will happen.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: endoftheworld; endtimes; eotw; haroldcamping; nexttimeforsure; nutjob; prophecy; rapture
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1 posted on 05/20/2011 6:37:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

My daughter's wedding is Sunday and the rehearsal is Saturday. I hope we can squeeze it in..............

2 posted on 05/20/2011 6:41:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: SeekAndFind
What if I'm in an airplane flying over the earthquake?
3 posted on 05/20/2011 6:41:57 AM PDT by starlifter (Pullum sapit)
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To: Red Badger

Either way, you’ll be at a wedding feast...


4 posted on 05/20/2011 6:42:26 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: starlifter

And there’s a asteroid heading your way?..............


5 posted on 05/20/2011 6:42:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: MrB

Yeah, but I paid for one of them already!...................


6 posted on 05/20/2011 6:43:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: Red Badger
But it misses me...
7 posted on 05/20/2011 6:43:36 AM PDT by starlifter (Pullum sapit)
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To: starlifter

What if your airplane flies across the International dateline?............


8 posted on 05/20/2011 6:45:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: SeekAndFind

What time will this hit the midwest? If I’m going to die, I won’t cut the grass, but if not, how long should I wait until I know the end isn’t going to happen tomorrow? I don’t want to cut the grass in the dark, and I can’t do it on Sunday. It’s been raining a lot and I really need to get at it if the world doesn’t end.


9 posted on 05/20/2011 6:45:59 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: SeekAndFind

Can’t wait to hear Camping’s excuses on May 22nd for why the rapture didn’t happen.


10 posted on 05/20/2011 6:46:50 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: SeekAndFind

The world cannot end until the Cubs are one strike away from winning the World Series.


11 posted on 05/20/2011 6:47:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger

He paid more...


12 posted on 05/20/2011 6:47:36 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Red Badger
Good point. Then it will be over before it happens, but then I can come back after it happens.

Excellent!!!

13 posted on 05/20/2011 6:47:50 AM PDT by starlifter (Pullum sapit)
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To: Red Badger; starlifter

If I’m time traveling to, say, 1940...do I get left behind?


14 posted on 05/20/2011 6:48:02 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: SeekAndFind

Camping is proof that not all the bedbugs are in the bed linens.


15 posted on 05/20/2011 6:48:32 AM PDT by ZULU (Lindsey Graham is a nanometrical pustule of pusillanimous putrescence)
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To: SeekAndFind

What will happen to the folks in the Space Shuttle?


16 posted on 05/20/2011 6:48:46 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Longbow1969

I find it amusing that both Camping, in predicting the Day of the Lord, and Bell, denying the Day,

both are fulfilling end times prophecies of the increase of false prophets.


17 posted on 05/20/2011 6:49:08 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: starlifter

Better hope your pilot and the ground crew are bad people, otherwise, you’ll be landing that thing yourself...maybe.


18 posted on 05/20/2011 6:49:08 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Larry Lucido
Good question...will you have a round trip ticket?
19 posted on 05/20/2011 6:49:40 AM PDT by starlifter (Pullum sapit)
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To: stuartcr

“bad people”... amusing, the assumption behind the corollary to this is that all “good people” (whose standard?) will be gone.


20 posted on 05/20/2011 6:51:22 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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