Rapture party set for May 21, 2011

DATELINE ZERO – Plan your Rapture party for May 21, 2011. That’s a Saturday night — so just take the whole weekend off.

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.

“That date has not one stitch of biblical authority,” Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. “It’s like a fairy tale.”

The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.
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Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he’d found: The world will end May 21, 2011.

–SF Gate, “Biblical scholar’s date for rapture: May 21, 2011″

Hmmm… Jesus was asked when the end of the world would come, to which He answered: “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son …” (Matt 24:36). Jesus further said that only the Father in Heaven knew such things.

So Jesus didn’t know, yet this preacher claims to have figured it all out. Maybe if the Son of God would have “developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies,” He would have had a better answer preparedfor those end times questions, eh?