Is October 21, 2011 the End of the World?

Here we go again (and again and again). The Camping camp (Harold, that is ~ pun intended?) is setting another date for the Apocalypse. Except this time it's the "real" date. Because, you see, last time they were wrong. (Huh?) Last time they said the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011 and it didn't. (To read my post: "Is May 21, 2011 the Day?, click here.) But this time they're right(?) This time it's for sure. This time ~ well.

I started reading their "proposal" as to why October 21st is the day for the end of the world and I didn't have to read too far. There "logic" is flawed (of course) ~ aside from the fact that Jesus said no one knows the day or the hour. (Matthew 24:36) Their thinking begins with the genealogies in the first book of the Bible (Genesis 5:1-32; 11:10-31) as the framework for determining dates and God's timetable. (A red flag should already be going up.)

The fact is if you understand Biblical genealogies (and I'm no scholar on it ~ you don't have to be) you'll know there are gaps. Oftentimes there are spaces. Some people are missing from the ancestral line.

And so if there are gaps / spaces and people are missing from the genealogies (think about it), you can not use them to base a calendar on. There are years, decades, centuries ~ how do you know? ~ that can not be accounted for. Whatever calendar you come up is nothing short of foolish (or worse ~ Satanic).

Such is Harold Camping's calendar. (Click here and page down three times for a look / see.) A few quick dates from it:

11,013 BC—Creation. God created the world and man (Adam and Eve).

1988 AD—This year ended the church age and began the great tribulation period of 23 years (13,000 years from creation).

2011 AD—On May 21st, Judgment Day will begin and the rapture (the taking up into heaven of God’s elect people) will occur at the end of the 23-year great tribulation. On October 21st, the world will be destroyed by fire (7000 years from the flood; 13,023 years from creation).

There's that October 21st date. Did you see it?

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