The End of the World According to Harold Camping: Part 1
Westminster Seminary, California ^ | 3 / 25 / 2011 | W. Robert Godfrey
Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:50:08 PM by Gamecock
If you were to drive the freeways of southern California, you would see from time to time billboards proclaiming the Judgment Day on May 21, 2011 and declaring that the Bible guarantees it.
Presumably these billboards may be seen in many other parts of the country as well. Who is responsible for these signs and what do they really mean theologically?
The signs have been placed by Harold Camping and his followers to warn people that the end is at hand. To understand these signs we must know something of the history as well as the theology of Harold Camping.
I am in a somewhat distinctive position to write on this subject since I first met Camping in the late 1950s. I learned a great deal from him then, and so I find what follows a very sad story.
I pray for him that the Lord will deliver him from the serious errors into which he has fallen.
Christian Reformed
While a high school student in Alameda, California, I began to attend the Alameda Christian Reformed Church.
It was there that I was converted through the influence of a number of people in the congregation, including Harold Camping. At that time he was an elder in the congregation and taught the Bible lessons for the high school youth group. He was a conservative, traditional adherent of the Christian Reformed Church and would remain so for many years.