Harold Camping’s new prediction: The world will end on Friday, October 21

 

Radio evangelist Harold Camping has admitted he was five months out with his doomsday prediction and now thinks the world will end on Friday, October 21.

The 90-year-old American became a global laughing stock when he publicised his belief the Rapture would occur on May 21, but that has not prevented him coming up with a new date for the Apocalypse.

He has now claimed Judgement Day did happen as he predicted and that the earthquakes he had warned of actually referred to people being shaken by fear at the thought of the world ending.

Mr Camping added God had chosen who to save on May 21 and that his decisions will become clear when the judgement period ends next week.

And he had some bad news for those people who had not already saved their souls.

We can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011,' the preacher wrote on his Family Radio blog.

'On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21.'

Mr Camping, his radio station and his followers spent millions of dollars publicising his prediction the world would end in May, but are not planning to do the same again this week.

 

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