May 21 End of the World?

Billboards are popping up claiming that May 21 is Judgment Day. At first I thought, this must be the pentecostals doing one of their publicity stunts to draw massive crowds to one of their periodical grand seminars at one of their megachurches for obscene profits. But when I read the words on the billboard "The Bible Guarantees It" is when I realized these people are really full of crap.

According to WFMY News,

"It's part of a world-wide publicity blitz by a broadcast ministry called Family Radio, based in Oakland, Calif. The short version: Founder Harold Camping believes through a complex set of numerological calculations, one can date the creation of the world, Noah's flood and other events described in the Bible, then extrapolate when the Bible "guarantees" the world will end."

Apparently Camping predicted the end of the world back in 1994 using the same numerical method - obviously in error. An error that Camping attributes to "miscalculations". I would attribute it more to willful ignorance of the bible and disregarding Matthew Ch. 24. But this time, he claims 2011 will see the annihilation of the world with "absolute proof" using the same voodoo economics of 1994.

The only absolute from the bible that we know of are not a complex, far-stretching, wild numerical fuzzy math calculation, but rather the actual text of the bible itself. After all, the bible is a book of written text accounting God's covenants with man and the Teachings of Christ, not the "Necronomicon of mathematical hoopla."

Here are the words of the Bible itself, telling us that we absolutely do not know the day or time of the end:

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."

Matthew 24:35-36