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Harold Camping's Strange "Biblical Numerology":
Critiques and a Catholic
"End Times" View
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“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only....”; “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.”
(Jesus Christ, Matthew 24:36; Mark
13:32-33; KJV)
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in
Australia..” (Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz)
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Time Until Judgment Day [May 21, 2011, 6 pm E.S.T.]...OR Harold Camping is
Wrong (Again)....
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 “When
September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end
has come.”
(1994? [1992], page 533)
 “We must conclude that the return of Christ
will not be 2011 A.D. but some years before this. How much earlier than 2011 A.D. Jesus will come depends entirely on how much God shortens the final tribulation
period.”
(1994? [1992], page 495)
“My prophecy is that we have not heard the last of Mr. Camping on this subject. He has the book all set up to claim that he only made a simple error in assuming that the tribulation would
be shorted from 23 years. He has intimidated that the end might take place in 2011.
My advice to those of us who spent good money on 1994? is to pass when 2011?
hits the bookstores.”
(Tremper Longman III, Review of 1994? [Dec
1993])
“We indeed can be certain that the rapture will occur on
May 21, 2011, and the final day of the history of the world is
October 21, 2011.”
(We Are Almost There [2008], page 63)
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Who is Harold Camping and What Does He Teach?
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TIMING OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN HISTORY (from eBibleFellowship.com, a
Camping-ite site)
- 11,013 BC -- Creation. God created the world and man (Adam and Eve).
- 4990 BC -- The flood of Noah’s day. All perished in a worldwide flood. Only Noah, his wife, and his 3 sons and their wives survived in the ark (6023 years from creation).
- 7 BC -- The year Jesus Christ was born (11,006 years from creation).
- 33 AD -- The year Jesus Christ was crucified and the church age began (11,045 years from creation; 5023 calendar years from the flood).
- 1988 AD -- This year ended the church age and began the great tribulation period of 23 years (13,000 years from creation).
- 1994 AD -- On September 7th, the first 2300-day period of the great tribulation came to an end and the latter rain began, commencing God’s plan to save a great multitude of people outside of the churches (13,006 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).
 All Christian Churches are Apostate / Satan is Ruling in all the
Churches
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Supposed Biblical Support:
All Christians Should "Depart Out" and Leave their local
Churches and Congregations
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Supposed Biblical Support:
The "Church Age" Ended in May 1988
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Supposed Biblical Support
The "Great Tribulation" Began in May 1988
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Supposed Biblical Support
Judgment Day / End of the World is 1994
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Supposed Biblical Support:
Not the End of the World but 1994 is the "Latter Rain" --
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Second-Half of the Tribulation
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Supposed Biblical Support
Judgment Day / End of the World is 2011
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Supposed Biblical Support
A Bizarre "Biblical Numerology" and "Factoring"
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Supposed Biblical Support
Other Strange Unorthodox Teachings
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Supposed Biblical Support
Biblical Critiques and Criticism of Harold Camping
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The Apostasy of the Universal Church is Impossible
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The "Church Age" did not end in May 1988
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The "Great Tribulation" did not begin in May 1988
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The World Did Not End in 1994
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The World Did Not End in 2011
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There is no "Biblical Numerology"
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Camping's Strange Teachings Demolished
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A Catholic View on "End Times" (Eschatology)
List of Failed "End of the World"
Predictions (1000 AD forward)
Evangelical / Reformed Books on Eschatology (End Times), Biblical
Numerology, and Critiques of Harold Camping
see also Can
We Know the Time of the End? by Scott Pero
- 1994? (1992) / Are You Ready?
(1993) / The
End of the Church Age...and After (2002) / Time
Has An End (2005) / We
Are Almost There! (2008) all by Harold Camping
- The
Days of Vengeance: An Exposition on the Book of Revelation by
David Chilton (Dominion Press, 1987), preterist and liturgical
interpretation
- Four Views on the Book of Revelation
edited by C. Marvin Pate / Stanley N. Gundry, et al (Zondervan, 1998)
- Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond
edited by Stanley N. Gundry, et al (Zondervan, 1999)
- Are We Living in the End Times? by
Tim LaHaye / Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale House, 1999)
- End Times Fiction: A Biblical Consideration Of The Left Behind Theology
by Gary DeMar (Thomas Nelson, 2001)
- A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times
by Kim Riddlebarger (Baker Books, 2003)
- Biblical Numerology by J. J.
Davis (Baker Books, 1968)
- Numbers in the Bible: God's Design in
Biblical Numerology by Robert D. Johnston (Kregel Publications,
1990)
- Should We Leave Our Churches?: A Biblical Response to Harold Camping
by J. Ligon Duncan and Mark R. Talbot (P & R Publishing, 2004)
- Dangerous Airwaves: Harold Camping Refuted and Christ's Church Defended
by James R. White (Calvary Press, 2007)
Catholic Books on Eschatology (End Times) and Harold Camping
- Shockwave 2000! The Harold Camping
1994 Debacle
by Robert Sungenis et al (New Leaf Press, 1994)
- The Rapture Trap: A Catholic Response to "End Times" Fever
by Paul Thigpen (Ascension Press, 2001)
- Will Catholics Be Left Behind: A
Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers
by Carl E. Olson (Ignatius Press, 2003)
- Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind
by David B. Currie (Sophia Institute Press, 2003)
- A Biblical Defense of Catholicism
by Dave Armstrong (Sophia Institute Press, 2003)
- Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by
Ludwig Ott (TAN Books, 1974)
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
(1994, 1997), especially paragraphs 668ff
- What Does The Bible Say About the End Times?: A Catholic View
by William Kurz, S.J. (Servant Publications, 2004)
- Apocalypse: A Catholic Perspective on the Book of Revelation
by Stephen C. Doyle (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 2005)
- The End of the Present World and the
Mysteries of the Future Life
by Father Charles Arminjon trans by Susan Conroy and Peter McEnerny
(Sophia Institute Press, 2008, orig 1881)
Further Reviews and Criticism of Harold Camping
- Harold Camping with rebuttals, Science
in Christian Perspective (1970) "The
Biblical Calendar of History" (pdf)
- Gary DeMar, "Harold
Camping: 1994 and 2011" (pdf)
- Perucci Ferraiuolo, "Could
'1994' be the End of Family Radio?" (pdf)
- Stephen C. Meyers, Christian Research Journal
Review of '1994?' (pdf)
- Stephen C. Meyers, Review
of 'Time Has An End' (pdf)
- James R. White, Christian Research
Journal "Dangerous
Airwaves" (pdf)
- Dan R. Smedra, "The
Emasculated Gospel of Harold Camping & Family Radio" (pdf)
- J. Ligon Duncan, Mark Talbot, Alliance
of Confessing Evangelicals "Camping's
Folly" (pdf)
- Tremper Longman III, Westminster
Theological Seminary, OPC "1994:
The Year of Christ's Return" (pdf)
- Robert Godfrey, Westminster Seminary
(CA), End of
the World According to Harold Camping (pdf)
- Martyn McGeown, Covenant Protestant Reformed
(Ireland), Harold
Camping Refuted: The Necessity of Membership in the Church (pdf)
Audio Programs
by PhilVaz (May 21, 2011 -- Harold Camping's "Judgment Day")
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