Harold Camping has certainly caused a stir.  What began as billboard campaign by a small and very peculiar religious group predicting Judgment Day on May 21st has now caught the attention of the nation with both national and local news stations carrying stories about the predicted Rapture as well as the often skeptical and sometimes funny reaction on the Internet.  Still others are nervous: who knows, maybe Camping is a modern day Noah?

To be clear: I do not believe May 21st is the Judgment Day foretold in Scripture.  There are several problems with Camping’s Scriptural “evidence” from his system including his method of interpretation (hermeneutics), his broad, theological framework, and down to the individual verses he misinterprets.  The Scriptures warn us that we cannot know the day or hour (Matthew 24:36; Acts 1:7).

I suspect May 21st will begin and end as any day before it, and Harold Camping and his followers will be disappointed yet again.

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Nowadays some are claiming that the world will end on May 21, 2011 (just Google the date and you can find information on this claim).  As it turns out, the same guy who is claiming that the world will end this day is also the same guy who claimed that it would end in 1994.  Regardless of the evidence he thinks he knows, we can be assured that he is wrong.  The disciples asked Jesus a similar question in Acts 1:6, “So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?’”  Jesus answered with, “⁷ He said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.’”  Everyone should let these words of Jesus sink in.  The Father has fixed the end times and Jesus explains that it is NOT for us to know when the end will come.  Sure, Jesus could come back on that day.  But, He could just as easily come back tomorrow (the 12th).  Either way, we need to be ready.  Nevertheless, either way, we still don’t know and are not supposed to know, as explained by Jesus.