Harold Camping, the popular evangelical radio host predicted that the world would end on May 21, 2011. As you can see, nothing happened. What are the lessons we can draw from this disgraced "prophet"? First of all, no man on earth, no matter how "Christian" he is, can, accurately, prophesied the exact day of the end of the world or the coming of Jesus. Jesus himself said, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Mat. 24:36). In other words, Jesus told his disciples that the time of his second coming and the end of the world is hidden from men, it is God the only one who knows about the Judgment Day.
Second, it is a complete nonsense and a mockery to the Christian faith to pretend to know the date of the second coming of Christ and of the end of the world. Camping has made of himself a no-credible person in both spheres, Christian and non-Christian. Because of him, many mockers and anti-God will have a picnick-day attacking the Christian faith and laughing at Christians.
And lastly, the fact that Harold Camping's "prophecies" did not come true, it does not mean that the prophecies about the second coming of Jesus and the end of the world will not happen. Jesus will come to earth again, he said it; the end of this human system will end, the Hebrew prophets say that. When? How? we do not know, in the meantime we need to live according to the will of God.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
MAY 21, 2011 came and passed, and Harold Camping proved to be a nut.
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