Today Harold Camping will be revealed to be a false teacher with his predictions.  But, instead of focusing on him we need to focus on our God-given tasks.  I hope this short video by David Platt will encourage everyone to live to that end.

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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