Days after the widely publicised prophecy that the world would have come to an end on May 21 failed, the evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping, who put forward the theory, has reaffirmed October 21 as the new date for 'Judgement Day'.

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Camping revealed that judgement occurred in the spiritual form on May 21 but he had misunderstood it to be a physical coming.

Moreover, Camping explained that the Lord had indeed arrived last Saturday and he now has the world under judgement, which will culminate in October.

Similarly, in an ABC News interview after his doomsday prediction failed, Camping explained that it had dawned on him that God would spare humanity "hell on earth for five months" and the apocalypse would happen on October 21.

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Camping also reiterated in the interview that he had misread the signs in predicting that the faithful would be lifted up to Heaven on Saturday, leaving sinners to suffer through five months of disasters until the Earth was consumed in a fireball on the end of days.

God did "bring judgement on the world" on Saturday, he said, but there will not be any terrible build-up to the end. When it comes, it will happen quickly, he said.

"We have to be looking at all of this a little bit more spiritual, but it won't be spiritual on October 21," he said. "Because the Bible clearly teaches that the world is going to be destroyed altogether." His radio station will no longer preach about the end of the world, he said, because God's judgement has already come.In a recent interview with THE STAR leading up to 'judgement day', members of the local church community had dismissed the prophecy put forward by Camping.