End-of-timers generally have been fixated on the doomsday date of Dec. 21, 2012 - when the "Long Count" calendar of the ancient Maya ends and, presumably, the world with it.
There won't even be a 2012, according to Camping. His website displays the number with a red slash through it.
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In a phone interview last week from his Oakland, Calif., office, Camping warned that those who do not accept his complex calculations, including even devout Christians, will face "sudden destruction" when Jesus returns.
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In the late 1980s, he began warning the end would come in September 1994. When Gabriel's trumpet failed to sound, he revised his dates for several years before dropping the subject.
Now the former civil engineer, who is not ordained, maintains that God has revealed to him the true meaning of many dates and symbolic numbers in the Bible.
Essentially, he argues that May 21, 2011, is "exactly 7,000 years after 4990 B.C., when the [great] flood began," and that these 7,000 years mirror the seven days God gave Noah to warn the world to get ready for destruction.
At the end of the new warning period "there will be a huge earthquake the likes of which has never been had in history," he said in the interview, "and the graves will be opened all over the world."
Jesus will gather up the saved in their glorified bodies - there will only be about 200 million - and the unsaved will be left to rot into manure. "The Bible uses some ugly language" to describe the end, he said.
Five months later, on Oct. 21, "the entire universe will be annihilated."
That Christ will return in glory to judge "the living and the dead" lies at the core of Christian belief, and most conservative Christians share Camping's conviction that the Bible paints an authentic picture of how the world-as-we-know-it will end.
But most also point out that Jesus told his disciples that even he did not know the "day nor the hour" that that will occur.
Quite a few are making a prediction of their own: The sage of Oakland will wake up embarrassed on May 22.
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Camping does not intend to be disappointed. He has no plans for May 21 other than to "watch and wait," he said.
He scoffed when asked how he might feel if he wakes up on May 22.
"I would be disobeying God if I say there's a possibility of that," he said. "I mean it with all my heart. There's no possibility - none, none, none - that it will not happen."
- Source: David O'Reilly, May 21 is said to be the end of the worldoffsite, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 17, 2011
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Fucking lunatic .....