Another Date Setter Explains Away His Error

From my cousin, Chaplain Tom --
Another Date Setter Explains Away His Error
Harold Camping of Family Radio claimed that the “rapture” (1st Thess.4:16-17) would happen on May 21st, and that the world would end on October 21st. Unfortunately, his prediction received a lot of attention in the media; and Camping was wrong.

He should have apologized and sponsored a book-burning for his printed works. Instead, now he’s saying May 21st signaled Christ’s invisible spiritual return to put the world under judgment; and that the October 21st date is accurate.

This feels like prophetic déjà vu, because it’s a combination of what Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists did when their end time predictions failed.

C.T. Russell, an early JW leader said that by 1914 “the kingdom of God and his Christ will then be established in the earth” and that “all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved” (Studies in the Scriptures, Vol.2, p.98-99).

Of course, it didn’t happen. So now JW’s teach that in 1914 “the time of the Gentiles ended (Watchtower, 5/1/93, p.11) and "Jesus…became King of God's heavenly Kingdom," (Watchtower 11/1/93, p.23) by means of an invisible spiritual return.

After William Miller’s end of the world prediction of October 22, 1844 failed to happen, Ellen G. White (thought by SDA’s to have the gift of prophecy) claimed that God had shown her the date was right, but the event was actually the beginning of an “investigative judgment” in Heaven.

Harold Camping has borrowed from both the JW’s and SDA’s to explain away his error.

Jesus told his apostles, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority” (Acts 1:7).

Don't worry about people who claim to have unscrewed the inscrutible. Live for God every day, trusting in his grace in Christ, so you’ll be readywhenever the end may come.