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Harold Egbert Camping (July 19, 1921 – December 15, 2013) was an American Christian radio broadcaster and evangelist. [ 1 ] Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a California -based radio station group that, at its peak, broadcast to more than 150 markets in the United States. In October 2011, he retired from active ...
Christ is believed by Camping to have hung on the cross on April 1, 33 AD. The time between April 1, 33 AD, and April 1, 2011, is 1,978 years. If 1,978 is multiplied by 365.2422 days (the number of days in a solar, as distinct from lunar, year), the result is 722,449. The time between April 1 and May 21 is 51 days.
After his prophecy failed to come true he changed the date to 27 May 2012. [179] 21 Oct 2011 Harold Camping When his original prediction failed to come about, Camping revised his prediction and said that on May 21, a "Spiritual Judgment" took place, and that both the physical Rapture and the end of the world would occur on 21 October 2011. [178]
Should the prophesy of Harold Camping, a self-taught biblical scholar who has determined that May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day, be correct, the world will end exactly 7,000 years after Noah's flood.
A number of specific dates have been predicted for the Second Coming. This list shows the dates and details of predictions from notable groups or individuals of when Jesus was, or is, expected to return. This list also contains dates specifically predicting Jesus' Millennium, although there are several theorieson when the Millennium is believed ...
One of Family Radio's oldest broadcasts was a telephone-talk program called Open Forum in which Harold Camping, the network's co-founder, president and general manager, responded to callers' questions and comments, as they relate to the Bible, and used the platform to promote his various end-time predictions.
Camping suggested that it would occur at 6 pm local time, with the Rapture sweeping the globe time zone by time zone, [111] [112] while some of his supporters claimed that around 200 million people (approximately 3% of the world's population) would be raptured. [113] Camping had previously claimed that the Rapture would occur in September 1994.
2011 May 21: Harold Camping's revised prediction put 21 May 2011 as the date of the rapture. [114] [115] After this date passed without apparent incident, Camping made a radio broadcast stating that a non-visible "spiritual judgement" had indeed taken place, and that the physical rapture would occur on 21 October 2011. On that date, according ...