When Harold Camping, the doomsday preacher, predicted the world’s end on May 21, he became a subject of ridicule when that prophecy did not come to fruition.
However, this 90-year-old Californian might end up having the final laugh after disclosing that the aforementioned date was actually meant to signify Judgment Day, a spiritual event where the righteous would be selected, serving merely as a precursor to the Rapture, which is set to occur exactly five months later.
Consequently, Friday, October 21, will herald the onset of the Apocalypse.
Believers will be taken up to heaven, while hell will be unleashed upon the earth.
Moreover, skeptics should take heed, as the Rapture Index – a gauge evaluating current events for the prevalence and intensity of biblical end-time indicators – is nearing an all-time high.
From his bed, following a stroke that he suffered shortly after ‘Judgment Day’, Camping declared: ‘We can be certain that the entire world will face annihilation on 21 October 2011.’
He further asserted that since he had proclaimed the day of judgment to be already behind, there was nothing the non-righteous individuals could do to redeem their souls.
