End of the Nature Countdown: Two Days Left

Egad! This is Thursday the 19th, and the universe is advent to an end on Saturday, May 21. That’s according to the augury of Harold Camping, about which we’ve been caligraphy each day. Our order started with Universe Ends Next Week. Goodbye Everyone! Then we began posting quotidian updates. See: End of the Universe Countdown: Five Days Left, then Four Days Left, and yesterday we placed Three Days Left.

Today we be permanent to convey you recent accounts from around the universe to let you know how tribe are reacting to the advent End of Days. The valorous baptismal vessel in all the excerpts was added by us.

The Spoken sound of America (VOA), funded by the U.S. Rule, carries this portion: End of Universe Vaticination Attracts Followers, Provokes Gibe. This is what VOA is powerful their estimated hebdomadary global hearing of 123 a thousand thousand:



An American radio preacher is predicting that Scriptural prophecies regarding the end of the universe will wince approach real in a few days. His caution has provoked bemusement and jeer as his followers crisscross the political division caution of the Prophecy of st john. But The sacred volume scholars say day of wisdom scenarios are profoundly established in Americans’ pious beliefs.

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“The The sacred volume says it will be an earthquake far greater than this universe has ever ever thoroughbred,” [Harold] Camping said in a Utterance of America meeting.

According to Disciple of christ assurance, the honest will be raptured, or lifted up to sky, for the go or come back of Jesus The son of god, and the mischievous will go through finale and wisdom on Universe.

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“There’s not any act of asking at all! None! None! It is going to betide,” he says, “and it’s scary beyond standard. It’s grisly beyond standard. But we’ve followed God’s breeding of trying to tell the whole universe.”



The Luminary Online, the Internet impression of Malaysia’s ruling English people-speech gazette, features this: Of crusaders, clowns and kooks. After a lengthy straggle about Malaysian political science they say:

[Harold Camping], an engineer by education, has predicted that the The book of books-prophesied Bliss and Discernment Day will take area on May 21. Unlike predictions based on the Mayan ephemeris, which ends next year, and the Hollywood revelation movie 2012, Camping, who has believers stretching from the United States to Chinaware, is convinced that the time is make right.

His followers, who claim to be God’s veritable believers, are expecting to be lifted into welkin and be saved, along with some 200 a thousand thousand more of the devoted. They say that those left behind will have to experience pale agony until Oct 21 – Camping’s time for end of the nature.


The Luminary Then they cursory reference or allusion Camping’s failed augury that The End would come into view in 1994, and they lap it up like this:

But, the universe just moved on – with no shortage of kooks, crusaders and clowns continuing to barter their easily duped believers all sorts of promises, theories and beliefs.

Even the Wall Highway Jouornal is hand about Camping’s augury. This is an of the first grade, advice-filled head at their website: Day of judgment: A User’s Conduct. They say:

National-conception polls consistently fall upon that 30-40 percent of Americans believe that The book of books prophecies at hand a particular timetable of End Duration events, including the Fight of Armageddon between the forces of honesty and bad. America’s independent-mart of pious movements and of great altitude horizontal of literalist scriptural conviction, coupled with our novel lump communications systems, collect for use fecund foul for such beliefs. Further, augury conviction offers a satisfying faculty of perception of way to concealed apprehension, infuses human recital with extreme intention and an exciting dramatic exhalation, and holds out trust that after the terrors of the Pain will come the Millennium (Disclosure, chapters 20-21), Christ’s ten hundred-year rule of justness and calm, so different from the at hand age.


Lastly, NASA is getting in on the end of the creation act: Inception of the End or Why the Creation Won’t End? It’s only about the Mayan 2012 vaticination, not Camping, so we won’t annoy with an selected passage. But it’s merit a look anyway.

That’s it for today’s information brush. Now for some caution. With only two days remaining, we’re still receiving requests for our Curmudgeonly interchange of opinion about how to qualify for The End. As we have been doing, we with this tender our caution for some commonly asked questions:

At a high price Mean fellow: If I am raptured will I let slip all my Facebook friends? Unfortunately, yes. There is no internet in sky.

At a high price Mean fellow: I wait for to be raptured and I have more than enough bread in the dwelling-place to last through the weekend. Should I go shopping for some supplemental groceries … just in covering? After the Beatification, all the bad, left-behind tribe will be storming the supplies, so it makes faculty of perception for them to stipe up now. But if you wait for to be raptured on the 21st, then don’t diminish by constant loss your duration shopping.

At a high price Mean fellow: I’ve been getting prepared for the Beatification, but I’m worried that I’ll look like a natural if nothing happens. What should I do? Entreat for the scoffers as you remain your preparations. There’s not much duration left.