Apocalypse Soon: Christian Movement Says 5/21/11

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RALEIGH, N.C. - If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family.

Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran believes she has less than six months left and she's spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.

Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21 this year.

According to literature from Harold Camping and his Oakland-based Family Radio - which calls on the faithful to flee their churches - the beginning of The End is calculated as being 7,000 years from the date of the Great Flood, and both the start of the flood and May 21, 2011 fall on the 17th day of the 2nd month of the Biblical calendar.

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With the Bible's Revelation 9:5 stating that the "torment" will last five months, Judgment Day is thus marked as October 21, 2011.

To get the word out, believers are using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners.

Exley says she hopes more people will check the Bible verses themselves.

She says: "If you still want to say we're crazy, go ahead. But it doesn't hurt to look into it."

In a self-published 1992 book Camping predicted End Time would come in 1994.

After followers gathered on the appointed day and did not experience the predicted Rapture, Camping acknowledged that he'd made a mathematical error.


For more info:
Yahoo News group: "Discerning Time & Judgment: May 21 2011"
Family Radio Worldwide
eBible Fellowship

[rickya1976]

The bible clearly states that no man knows the day or the hour. So, that being said, what is this "christian" minister really all about? Just so happens that his radio program is worth about 180 Million. Just how much of that was donations from his false prophecies from 1994 and this year? The bible is clear of false prophets leading the masses astray. My question, how can any Christian (by definition, follower of Christ) listen to this trash from a man when Christ himself warned in Matthew 24:23-36:


23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25Behold, I have told you before.

26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Wake up people. You don't need some looney on the radio or anything else. Read your bible and listen to what it says. Plain and simple.

[Endarfin]

update.... its the 23rd .....
i bet the fools are now still defending it and saying, well it will happen we still have until october.... and november will pass...

btw, on the side.. 21-12-12... think of this. the mayans didn't even predict their OWN demise.

[retiredgustav]

Reminds me of my Grandmother who kept telling my Mother,"I'm dying,I'm dying". My Mother would look at hea and say, you know Mom, one of these days you are going to be right. My Grandmother died at 105 after outliving half of her children.
One of these days these so-called prophets is going to get it right.

[rwsmith29456]

People call this a 'Christian movement'. But the people that are pushing it on me say in their literature that Christ is worthless for salvation. Go figure. Sounds more like Jehovah's Witness's but they listen to that Family Radio stuff.

[lvbabe29]

i am a christian i have been in church since i was born...in fact my great grandfather pretty built our church i have been involved for 20 years now and people you need to read your BIBLES not what harold says...MARK 13:32 says "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels in which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father" (my bible is red letter edition and this verse is written in red letters meaning it was spoken by GOD himself) this man needs to stop scaring young children who dont understand and making the world go crazy....THE BIBLE DOESNT LIE!! and when the world does in and the Lord comes to call HIS people home..i hope harold has repented and been saved or his in for a world of trouble....i hope this helps....GOD BLESS =)

[peacelovekaylie93]

This is bogus!! I am Christian and that's definitely not what it says in the Bible.. In fact, it says that we do not know the day, but we still shouldn't wait to prepare for it but start preparing for it since the beginning (our birth..). God lives outside of time so why would he set a date for the end of the world? The world will end when he says it will, and that is unknown to us. I don't know what Bible you guys are reading.

[WolverineMan94]

You people that believe this trash should make like jihadists and rid our world of you zealism. All people like this have done is create panic. (Not meaning all christians) Camping is an idiot that just wants to stay in the media limelight. People can say what they will but there is no way to use mathmatical equations on a book meant for moral guidance to estimate when the world will end. I bet that he wanted his christian sect to say that world would end before the mayans said (notice that both dates happen on the 21st). I a an agnostic who has no issues with christians (or other religions) as long as that conversion crap is kept to a minimum. See you guys on 5/22 and on 12/22/12.

[Asolisthinks]

This is pretty discusting.. What is this crazy guy going to do with his followers? Is he going to give them Poisend Juice? Like that other comment said " No one" know when the end of the world is coming. Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm planning to celebrate it till the 22nd. So yea, see all ya on the 22nd..

[KittyKitty123]

Religion to me was created to control the masses and nothing more. I am not a believer and never will be. But I will not down anyone that does believe, to each their own as long as they do not push it on me. Nor do I think religion should play a role in politics or government. Firm believer in separation of church and state.

[retiredgustav]

Amen!

[KittyKitty123]

Religion to me was created to control the masses and nothing more. I am not a believer and never will be. But I will not down anyone that does believe, to each their own as long as they do not push it on me. Nor do I think religion should play a role in politics or government. Firm believer in separation of church and state.