Who said end of the world may 21st

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Those deep pockets were raided to allow Family Radio to launch a high-profile advertising campaign, proclaiming the approaching Day of Judgement. More than 2, billboards across the US are adorned with its slogans, which include "Blow the trumpet, warn the people! A fleet of logoed camper vans is touring every state in the nation. It's really getting pretty awesome, when you think about it," Mr Camping told The Independent on Sunday. We're talking about the end of the world, a matter of being eternally dead, or being eternally alive, and it's all coming to a head right now.

Mr Camping, who makes programmes in 48 languages, boasts tens of thousands of followers across the globe, with radio stations in South Africa, Russia and Turkey.

After 70 years of studying the Bible, he claims to have developed a system that uses mathematics to interpret prophesies hidden in it. He says the world will end on 21 May, because that will be , days from 1 April AD33, which he believes was the day of the Crucifixion. The figure of , is important because you get it by multiplying three holy numbers five, 10 and 17 together twice.

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! Thus leaving a lot of righteous-minded Christians wondering where they went wrong. Now, I don't like to cast aspersions on anyone's beliefs.