According to evangelical Christian talk radio host, Harold Camping the Rapture is right around the corner… for real this time. Harold Camping famousy predicted that May 21st, 2011 would be the beginning of the end for humanity on Earth. Despite all evidence that showed that nothing supernatural actually happened on that fated day, Camping insisted that the first stage of the Rapture did indeed occur as scheduled.
Harold Camping admitted that he was wrong in his prediction that on May 21st there was to be massive climatic upheaval followed by five months for Hell on Earth for the unsaved. This clearly didn’t happen. However, he maintains that God did indeed judge and doom non-believers on this day. His view is that Jesus is no longer taking applications to Heaven. The pearly gates are closed. If you weren’t saved by May 21st, you can’t be saved now. So no more billboards and no more travelling vans with an apocalyptic date painted on them.
The time table of the Rapture is however still on course and the end of the world will happen as scheduled according to Camping on October 2lst, 2011. On this date nothing will happen but Camping and those who believe as he does claim the world will just stop and all the saved will be Raptured to Heaven and the rest of us will be damned to be torture for all eternity in Hell. Camping claims that God is a good God so he decided to spare us the five months of Hell on Earth. Is he not merciful?
Many religious believes still insist that the Rapture is real and that Camping just has it all wrong. They rely on a small number of verses in their ancient story book which says that no one can predict the time or the day of the End of Days and that the end will come like a theif in the night. Camping has been bombarded with such verses for at least two decades and one would have to be a complete idiot to think that Camping must have missed this in his intense Biblical calculations. Camping actually has quite a lot to say about these verses including the multiple other verses that contradict those verses. He claims that the verses that have been quoted at him were taken out of context and then shows other verses that support his view that, “We can know.”
But you don't need to be a Bible scholar to figure this out. We all know or at least we all should know that nothing supernatural will happen on October 21st, 2011. There will be no Rapture on October 21st or any other day because the idea of a Rapture is fictional. In fact, most of the Bible is fictional. My prediction is that there will never be a Rapture and I dare anyone to prove me wrong.
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