Who said may 21 2011 is judgement day

Family Radio president Howard Camping determined the date of the flood by cobbling together information from the Bible. Starting with the exodus of the Jews out of Egypt, commonly thought to have occurred in B. Other biblical scholars say the flood happened around B. People had seven days to prepare for the great flood — an apocalyptic event in that time. This number serves as a benchmark. He added 7, years to the great flood date of B.

After all, no other biblical event used a multiplier of 1, So why this one? End-of-the-world predictions — or suggestions of other calamities — have been made for centuries. Here's a look at some of them:. The Mayan calendar is widely misinterpreted as ending on that date. Many have predicted that cataclysmic events will take place. They did.

Charles Criswell King, an American psychic, said the world would end that day. His other predictions ranged from Denver being struck by a ray from space to saying in March that something would happen to U.

President John F. Kennedy in November that would mean he wouldn't run for re-election in It was one of several similar predictions. Followers of American Baptist preacher William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement, considered it the Great Disappointment when the second coming of Jesus, which he had predicted, did not occur on that date. This isn't the first time Camping has predicted the end of the world. He also targeted as a probable time, but on the website, Family Radio says, "important subsequent Biblical information was not yet known.

And even if they were, scholars can find mistakes in the mathematics and historical assumptions put forward in the Judgment Day predictions, he said.

Ascough hasn't seen such visible activities like billboards from Family Radio in Canada before. He credits technology with allowing the group to reach more broadly into Canada and worldwide. Family Radio is hardly the first group to predict the end. The only problem with Camping's Biblical prediction is that it isn't very Biblical. The one certain thing that the Bible says about the end time is that you won't know when it's coming. It will arrive like a thief in the night, surprising everyone.

Obviously Camping and his followers think they're privy to insider information that Jesus Himself assuredly would never be given. Historically, these kinds of end-of-the-world predictions seem to spike in times of financial hardship and global crisis.

No argument that we are certainly meeting that criterion. However, more than intent on fulfilling predictions, those adhering to these theories seem to be attempting to avoid suffering or death. To be swept up in the Rapture means that you're released from this vale of tears. Swept up to heaven in the blink of an eye. So much for Jesus saying that we need to take up our crosses. This is to say nothing of the fact that only , are supposedly going to be saved. That's one healthy block in Brooklyn!