Well, Harold Camping may have got it wrong when he told us that it was all over on May 21. But I'm not sure that he has learnt much from the experience.
Driving home last night, I flicked my radio to the AM band, and along with the amazing plethora of stations from Gabarone to Zanzibar (and a few others like VoA which is relayed through Selebi-Phikwe), there was Family Radio again.
Not an exact quote but "if we study the Scriptures hard enough we will be able to determine exactly when the Lord will return" doesn't yet tell me that Mr Camping has learned to interpret "no one knows the day or the hour" the way I do.
He still believes that the Generation of the End began in 1948 and that the Church ended then. To get around the obvious problem with this, he says that a "generation" is nothing to do with human lifespans, but rather a period in the history of the chosen People. Nice footwork, but it therefore follows that, so long as Israel exists as a nation-state, we are in Camping's Last Days.
He's wrong about the Church, but you know, so far as the End coming while Israel is here, I think he may be right.
We do not know when. We cannot know when. It is not given for us to know when.
But soon and very soon....
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