Written by It’s coming. Judgement day. The End of Days. The end of the world.
It starts a week from Saturday. The billboards say so:
Somebody’s really serious about this. These billboards are all over North America. There are even 2 or 3 here in Kingston.
Harold Camping, founder of Family Radio.com and the EBible Fellowship, has done the math. Yes, math. Apparently, the bible’s full of equations and when you add them all up they come to May 21, 2011. An earthquake will signal the end times and the rapture will begin. The righteous will be lifted to heaven and those who are left behind will be subjected to 153 days of turmoil. The earth will be completely destroyed on October 21, 2011.
Mr. Camping has made this prediction once before. He and his followers gathered in an auditorium on September 4, 1994 and waited the Second Coming. You might have noticed that it didn’t happen.
He says that he messed up and misread of the hidden codes in the Bible. But he’s certain that he has the math right this time!
I guess we don’t have to worry about December 2012 after all. I wonder if I should bother to pay my bills?
*sigh*… I’m disappointed it’s coming so soon – I was waiting for December 21st 2012 because it’s my birthday and I was going to go out with a BANG!
Haven’t seen any of those billboards around this neck of the woods, Gord.
Wait, wait, wait. The world is coming officially to an end in October? Here I was prepping for May, starting up tons of bad habits, spending all my money…
Now I’m going to have to make that all last an additional 5 months?
Rats.
153 days? What sort of tribulation is that? I thought it was going to be seven years. (Cue Barbie: Math is hard.)