10/21/2011

According to Harold Camping of Family Radio, everyone was supposed to die today in follow-up to a spiritual judgment of the earth on May 21. Camping, who suffered a stroke after his failed May 21 Judgment Day prophecy, gave a subdued farewell address earlier this month, telling his followers not to worry about their loved ones suffering in their final moments. According to Camping, the unsaved would die peacefully and quietly and that would be the end of them. Meanwhile, believers would supposedly join Christ in heaven today.

As of this writing, the Family Radio website is still up, with no commentary about the latest failed prophecy. The Family Radio site has a picture of sheep on its banner, with scriptures scrolling on a parchment-like "Feed my sheep" image.

But others outside of Family Radio are vocal about the failed prophecy, including prison minister and author Marty Angelo.

"I know prison convicts who are serving life sentences for much lesser crimes than what this Christian 'Bernie Madoff' Camping keeps committing," Angelo remarked today. "There is an inmate today in a California prison serving 20 years to life for his third felony for robbing a grocery store to feed his family. Camping has fleeced his followers out of millions of dollars over the years without one law enforcement official ever looking into what he was doing was against the law. When someone doesn't provide a service or the product does not do what it is supposed to a customer is allowed to receive their money back or it could be considered a fraudulent transaction. But I do not see Harold Camping giving one red-nickel back to his donors or even apologizing for misleading them. It is amazing this man is allowed to walk the streets. Defrocked Jim Baker went to prison for far less offenses."

The author of Vision of New Jerusalem: Now believes that the doomsday preachers who are constantly talking about the end times but not giving an exact date, like Camping did, are just as misleading. In his upcoming New Jerusalem book, Angelo questions the rapture. The jacket reads,

"While sitting in a federal prison in Lexington Kentucky in 1981, Author Marty Angelo was filled with an insatiable thirst to read the Bible. God revealed to him through the scriptures that the masses have misunderstood His teachings on the modern day Churches hottest topic — the rapture!

Generation after generation have believed that the end of this world as we know it would soon be coming to an end and Jesus Christ is coning back soon to rapture His church. Why are they always wrong? Why hasn't Jesus shown up? Could it be that we have misunderstood what the Bible is telling us?

How will it affect you, your children and their children if Jesus doesn't show up soon like so many preachers, teachers, movie makers and book authors claim He will?

According to Angelo, the doomsday preachers who warn that the End Times will occur soon are "just as wrong as Camping by misleading people into believing Jesus is returning in this generation when the Bible clearly teaches the only generation Jesus was returning in was the generation living when He walked the earth."

"Futurism is destroying Christianity. It chips away at Christ's words and makes Him out to either be a liar or just plain wrong," Angelo contends. "Jesus Christ does not need Harold Camping to announce His coming because He has been here for over two thousand years… living within each one of His followers."

Marty Angelo's book is available online at Amazon.com and in eBookmall.com and eBook at Google Books