Jesus Christ Is NOT Returning on May 21, 2011

Probably.

I mean, nobody really knows.  So it could possibly be May 21.  But it is just as likely to be five seconds after you finish reading this sentence.

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(Waiting…5…4…3…2…1)

Christ Himself said that no one knows when He will return, except for God the Father (Mark 13:32).  It’s a mystery by God’s design.  It’s not for us to know (Acts 1: 6-7).  That’s why we are to remain vigilant and watchful (Matt. 24:42, 25:13).

The Bible clearly indicates that Christ’s return and Judgment Day are impossible to predict.  Mr. Harold Camping doesn’t see it that way.  Camping believes that God has given him special insight into the Scriptures which allow him to pinpoint Christ’s return.

Harold Camping

Here is his logic, with quotes from his website.  He asserts that over the past 35 years “God began to open the true believers’ understanding of the timeline of history.” Therefore, he can accurately identify the dates of major Biblical events, such as “Creation (11,013 B.C.), the flood of Noah’s day (4990 B.C.), the exodus of Israel from Egypt (1447 B.C.) and the death of Solomon (93l B.C.)”

On a side note, Camping claims that the Holy Spirit was removed from the Earth on May 21, 1988, marking the beginning of the tribulation.  Therefore, anyone who still follows the church is not a true believer.  And during this period of time “very few, if any, were saved.”

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In Gen. 7:4, God told Noah that the flood was coming and it would destroy every living thing.  The flood began seven days later (Gen. 7:10-11). 

Now for the first step down the slippery slope of heretical false doctrine.  Using 1 Pet. 3:8 out of context, Camping deduces the following mathematical formula:

1 God day = 1000 man years,

therefore 7 days until flood = 7000 years until Judgment Day

He claims that the passage in Gen. 7 was essentially God “telling the world there would be exactly 7,000 years escape the wrath of God that would come when He destroys the world on Judgment Day.” 

This assertion is not only unbiblical, it is down right absurd.  This false doctrine ignores the clear Biblical teaching, and builds a house of cards on the foundation of poor hermeneutics and unfounded assumptions. 

Don’t get me wrong, Judgment Day is imminent.  It will be a glorious and triumphant day for believers, and a day of grim reality for the unrepentant.

Therefore I urge everyone to repent and trust wholly in the grace given to us through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Because Jesus is coming back, just not on Harold Camping’s time table.