Until The End Of The World

The end is nigh — and it's our fault, of course

For the last three weeks or so, I have been getting a bunch of emails from folks telling me that the world will end on Saturday, May 21 “because over the past 4 decades serious Bible students have been given understanding of the Biblical Calendar of History as recorded in the geneologies of Genesis 5 and 11.” (That quote comes from the latest email, signed by “Len.” But they have all said basically — if not exactly — the same thing.)

Len goes on to warn: “Given the Bible’s Calendar, May 21, 2011 is the 7000th anniversary (to the very day) of Noah’s flood and the Door of Salvation in the ark, a picture of Christ Jesus, was shut. (Genesis 7:11 and 2 peter 3:3-10). There are other proofs within the Holy Bible that assures us Christ’s return will come to pass on May 21 when God will catch up His people and with a catastrophic earthquake commence the final 153 days of the earth and on October 21 the universe will be annihilated.”

Len — and apparently others — is praying that I will “carefully review and investigate this fast approaching event,” but since they seem pretty steadfast in their belief that this is what will happen, I am not sure what they want me to do about it. Am I supposed to help them to warn others to get right with Jesus om the next three days? Or do they just want me to know — for sure — that I am about to burn for eternity?

For weeks, I have been just deleting these Chicken Little (“The sky is falling!”) emails as soon as I realize what they are. But today, after getting yet another one, I decided I wanted to figure out where all this “end-of-the-world” hype is coming from. I mean, we all know the world will actually end in December 2012; the Mayans said so.

A quick Internet search answered my question: It’s all coming from Oakland, Calif. preacher Harold Camping who, according to on the website for the U.K. newspaper The Independent, came to his conclusions using mathematics to decode prophesies hidden in the Bible. Preacher Camping says that May 21 this year will be 722,500 days from April 1, 33 A.D., which is the day Christ was crucified. He came up with the sum 722,500 by multiplying three holy numbers — 5, 10 and 17 — together. Twice.

The sudden realization of that holy equation, Camping says, “blew my mind.”

Camping also says that a slew of recent natural disasters — like earthquakes in New Zealand, Haiti and Japan — are unmistakeable signs of the end times, along with changing social values: “All the stealing, and the lying, and the wickedness and the sexual perversion that is going on in society is telling us something. So too is the gay Pride movement. It was sent by God as a sign of the end.

End of the World May 21st Music Playlist: R.E.M, Britney Spears ...

I am very sad for those who have been following this lie that the rapture will occur on May 21st. Even if they attempt to explain away “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father” (Mark 13:32), they cannot explain away that most every Christian, theologian, scholar, and prophet from the first Century until the Nineteenth Century all believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation and not escape through some secret rapture that would leave the world paralyzed. I pray that they will take a moment and read my book, “Final Warning” because the hour of is His judgment has come. http://www.revelation-truth.org

Until the end of the world, screenplay

Until the End of the World

Until the end of the world, Shezad Dawood

Preacher, until the end of the world

Preacher: . Until the end of the world