May 21, 2011: Judgment Day
Is May 21, 2011 the end of the world? Or shall we say, “The beginning of the end of the world”? Could it be that this ‘announcement’ is just one of the end-of-the-world prediction hoaxes this last century? Perhaps not!
I first saw a May 21, 2011 Judgment Day sign painted at the back of the bus plying the South Luzon Expressway many weeks ago. I first thought that it was a schedule of a prophetic conference, but with a catchy sign. My wife insisted that it’s someone’s last days’ prediction – May 21, 2011. But who made that prediction?
As I browsed the net, I can’t help but notice the predicted date – it is gonna be tomorrow.
Rapture Day
The May 21, 2011 Rapture day (Judgment Day) prediction is popularized by Mr. Harold Camping, President of Family Radio. He calculates that the crucifixion of Christ took place on Friday April 1, AD 33. Additionally, multiplying using the same math he uses returns an approximation of the stated results. If you use his date of April 1st, AD 33 to return 1978 years and multiply by 365.2425 you get 722,449.66. If you multiply by 265.2422 you get 722449.07. If you multiply by 265.24219 you return 722449.05. Then if you account for leap seconds each year is slightly longer than the previous. Since 1972 to 2011 the earth rotates 24 seconds slower. This is a difference of .000276 or a year over 39 years meaning the length of each year is not consistent over 1978 years. In 1972 the resulting number would have been 1939 * 365.24246, or 708205.12. To return a result of 722500 in 2011 the length of the year would need to be 0.02575 of a day longer, or 37.06667 minutes longer than it really is. (source: Wikipedia)
Got it? I didn’t really get it. I scratched my head a few times and my eyeballs were scrolling up and down with the calculation. Interestingly in 1992, Camping also predicted that the rapture would take place September 6, 1994. He didn’t exactly get it the first time.
The Rapture refers to the ‘being caught up in the air” as mentioned 1 Thess 4:15-17 when in the end times, Christians will be gathered together to meet Christ in the air. .
15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. (NIV)
Do I believe in the rapture? Yes, I do. Is it possible that it will happen in May 21, 2011? I believe it’s possible because no one knows the exact time and day of Christ’s second coming. It can happen in May 21, 2011 or even in December 21, 2012. It can also happen a day before tomorrow.
Are You Ready?
Throughout evangelical churches, Rapture is for the true believers only. Those who are not will be left behind. Atheists have also scheduled their rapture parties on May 21, 2011. There were even those who planned to loot the left behind belongings of those who are “Raptured”. Funny!
The Bible says that Christ will come again like a thief in the night, and surely the end will come. Are you ready? Here’s a song composed by Larry Norman and performed by DC Talk. It talks about the Rapture and those left behind. I wish we’d all been ready.
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Ceblogger is a CPA trapped in his cubicle while his mind wanders outside watching the world, and exploring possibilities his mind conceived.
May 22nd, 2011 at 11:10 am
So now what? December 21, 2012 as per the Mayan doomsday prediction? Could it be a massive solar flare that’s going to annihilate the world? I guess we should prepare now or simply look for Superman to save us.
May 31st, 2011 at 1:25 pm
After was mistaken from his prediction, Camping again predicts that it will happen on October 21. No one believes with this old man anymore; He only gets the attention of the media he doesn’t deserve.
May 31st, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Since the earliest times, a lot of people are so obsessed with judgement day, from the 1st millennium to y2k, and now 2012..lol
June 1st, 2011 at 11:39 am
Hmmm. Didn’t really get the computation as well. I wish it were as easy as the computation to confirm if a comment poster is a spam robot or not. Haha.
Well, as it is, turns out his computation was dead wrong.