As I knew I would be. Not because I’m not a Christian or I’m not looking for Christ’s return. But because I know that Harold Camping is a charlatan. He’s done this before, this “setting a date for the end of the world” shtick. And he’s been wrong before, just as he is now. It’s just that he hasn’t been so widely publicized as he was this time. The internet picked this up and went with it, giving him a voice and a following he didn’t have before – even though he’s a broadcaster, that’s nothing to the saturation power of the internet! I feel bad for those who followed him to the extent of paying thousands of dollars for billboards, etc. and basically have nothing now, while Camping himself is probably a very rich man at the expense of those same gullible people.
What makes me the angriest about Camping’s idiocy is that he’s making Christ out to be a liar. Jesus was very specific when he told his disciples about his coming, and what premillenialist Christians call “the Rapture”.
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, they were marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.
“Then there shall be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left. Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.
“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not allowed his house to be broken into. For this reason you be ready too; for the Son of Man is coming at the hour when you do not think He will.”
Matthew 24:36-44 NASB
If Camping truly knew the day and hour of the rapture and the end of the world, he would have made Jesus Christ a liar. Yes, a flat out liar. And if Jesus lied, then he couldn’t be the perfect Son of God (for lying is sin), and there would be no salvation through his death, burial, and resurrection.
What narcissistic hubris on the part of Camping! To put his own convoluted numbers game ahead of Jesus’ words, and to promote heresy by obliquely denying Christ’s sinless deity!
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