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Harold Camping - ap
Once again, the predicted date for the end of the world is just a few days away.
In just seven days, the world as we know it is predicted to end and be totally destroyed by fire. Well, that is the claim of American Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping, the same man that had previously predicted that the world would have ended on May 21.
Camping, who admitted that he miscalculated the date for Armageddon, is of the view that a spiritual rapture actually took place in May but contends that the world will surely end on October 21.
However, unlike May 21, all the anxiety and fuss is almost absent as Jamaicans seem unconvinced with this second prediction
Local clergymen too are still undaunted and unconvinced that such a prediction will materialise the second time around and are of the view that the world as we know it will still be here come October 22.
The Reverend Jim Parkes of the Christ Church in Vineyard Town told THE WEEKEND STAR: "I think it's absolute nonsense ... .I don't give it any credibility or anything like that."
Additionally, he is of the view that "I think these comments are certainly a distraction and they undermine the value of the true practices of the Christian faith".
Meanwhile, Administrative Bishop Barrington Brown of the New Testament Church o God reasoned to THE WEEKEND STAR that the credence the prediction might have received initially has dwindled.
"When it happened the first time around, people were more anxious about it ... but since that date failed to come true, no one has mentioned it to me since," Brown explained.
He went on to say that "just as how the prediction went before, I think it will turn out the same way ... I don't see that as a valid prediction".
Nonetheless, according to a recent interview with International Business Times (IB Times), Camping, who recently recovered from a stroke in June, believes that the second time around his prediction will be manifested.
According to the post, Camping said "... we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgement of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period".
He continued, "on that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21."
Camping was also quoted as saying he was "flabbergasted" that his predicted Judgement Day on May 21, which followed two failed doomsday predictions, had been false and without multiple days of fires, earthquakes and plagues.
He said that October 21 would mark the official end of the world on Earth and this time around, the rapture would be quick with "no pain" for those who do not believe.
