End of the World

Harold Camping’s Family Radio Stations Inc. had a broadcast Saturday asking people to make donations to the network and encouraging financial support from listeners.

An unidentified radio announcer said, “I trust that you too will pray for us often that we can minister in many ways. Pray that God will provide wisdom to those of leadership and that we continue to minister to you, and to teach God’s word daily. Please pray for us and pray about continuing to support this totally listener sponsored Christian radio network.”

Last week The Christian Post spoke to Laurie Styron, an analyst for the American Institute of Philanthropy, a non-profit charity watchdog about whether or not Family Radio is a trusted charity since Camping’s $80 million broadcasting empire is funded solely on donations. more >>

Harold Camping’s predicted rapture for Oct. 21, 2011 has once again failed to materialize, and since Friday’s failure the Family Radio founder has become the butt of many online jokes.

Some bloggers are noting the fact that Camping himself has in fact disappeared as his prophesy said he would; pointing to the fact that he has not come out in public since Friday. Others have highlighted the fact that Family Radio’s response to its founder’s very public failed prediction is to call for its listeners to donate more money.

A day following his failed prediction, Family Radio began broadcasting an appeal on its airwaves asking its listeners not to lose faith; a very timely message of comfort. It then also goes on, however, to ask its listeners to donate more money to the station; many bloggers note that this message is perhaps ill advised timing. more >>

Family Radio Stations, Inc., the radio network founded and managed by Bible teacher Harold Camping, has been broadcasting a message Saturday, one day after the world failed to end as the 90-year-old evangelist had predicted, encouraging remaining supporters to keep making donations to the network.

Camping, who had also made the same predictions for 1994 and May 21, 2011, told supporters and the public after May doomsday failed to happen that he had simply missed what God had been revealing in Scripture, and that Oct. 21, 2011, would be the true and final day of God's judgment on the world.

However, that prophecy also failed to materialize. more >>

Although Family Radio founder Harold Camping has not made a statement about his failed prophecy of an Oct. 21 doomsday, much to the disappointment of the media and the public, the station did comment on the non-event Saturday, encouraging listeners not to lose hope and to keep supporting the radio network through donations.

Camping has previously predicted that the end of the world would happen on May 21, causing many of his followers to spend all their savings on an advertising campaign reportedly costing several million dollars. When the end did not come in May, Camping announced the date to be that of a "spiritual" judgment and that God's judgment would conclude on Oct. 21.

Yet, Oct. 21 has passed and the world did not end, causing many to mock Camping and Family Radio. The Bible interpreter has refused to speak to the press. more >>

Harold Camping has been proven unsuccessful at the prediction of the apocalypse on two occasions this year, and his California radio station, Family Radio, has been awkwardly silent.

Camping, who has now notoriously been dubbed the Doomsday preacher, has garnered a negative reputation for making false statements that the world would meet its end on May 21 and October 21 of 2011. He has also gained negative publicity after remaining silent about his false reports albeit the successful operation of his Family Radio website. As of today, Camping has made no commentary about his latest unsuccessful prophecy. However, his website features a silhouetted image of sheep on its banner, with a passage from Luke 12:32 beneath it, which reads “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

In addition to his new Doomsday preacher alias, Camping has recently been called another unsavory name by prison minister and author Marty Angelo, who is outraged that he has not yet spoken out about his second offense. more >>

As Oct. 22 dawned on the world, another Rapture date prophesied by California-based Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping turned out to be a dud, which did not surprise much of the public already familiar with the Bible teacher's false prophecies.

After his doomsday prediction of May 21 and a massive advertising campaign arranged by Camping and his Family Radio International, the broadcaster, who claimed he had discovered the key to a numerical dating code contained in the Bible, has become a target of mockery and general antipathy.

Most evangelical Christian leaders have renounced Camping and his false preachings. The Rev. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, even said in a Thursday interview with The Christian Post that the radio founder and host should be "muzzled" for his false prophecies. more >>