Harold Camping's Third End-of-the-World Prediction Fails Again
What Went Wrong
American doomsday preacher Harold Camping is wrong again in predicting that the world will end on Oct. 21. The 89-year-old is now embarrassed and conceded that only God has the final say on whatever is in the Bible.
In an audio file posted on his Family Radio website on Monday, Camping, according to Ksee24.com, said, "There's one thing that we must remember. God is in charge of this whole business, and we are not. What God wants to tell us is his business, when he wants to tell us is his business."
Camping also apologised for saying that those who did not believe in his predictions will not be saved.
The first time Camping predicted that the world will end was in 1994. His second apocalypse prediction was on May 21 at 6 p.m. When it did not happen again, he claimed that his calculation was wrong and the real date is on Oct. 21.
In those predictions, Camping said earthquakes will destroy the world and kill humanity. The Rapture or the transport of souls to heaven, will also occur.
Followers of his religious broadcasting network Family Radio camped outside the station on May 21, with some even quitting their jobs and spending their entire savings thinking they will die. But non-believers made fun of him with a group of atheists even throwing a party in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Camping's wrong prophesy.