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- Saturday is last day on earth, claims evangelical Christian
- Harold Camping, 89, wrongly predicted 'the rapture' date once before in 1994
- God's chosen few ascend to heaven, sinners left behind to face earthquakes
- Atheists hold parties to celebrate 'inevitable embarrassment'
- Christian author calls Camping's prediction 'flat-out wrong'
But while fun-loving atheists plan to take two paracetamol as per usual on Sunday, some evangelists will be taking the 'no tomorrow' angle a little too literally.
According to some minority sections of the Christian faith - via one octogenarian's rather embarrassingly unreliable maths - 'The Rapture' will take place at around 6pm tomorrow; Saturday, May 21.
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The End: Some Christians have been claiming for months that the world will end on May 21 in a movement founded by California-based Harold Camping"
The source: Harold Camping, 89, from Oakland, California, is certain that Saturday is Judgment Day"
The 'trial' for non-believers could last six months, but by October 21 they will all be dead, says the prophecy.
The calculation has been dismissed as 'flat-out wrong' by one leading Christian author, who accused its originator, Harold Camping, of abusing the current climate of fear rendered by natural disasters to make money.
WHY NOW? THE WORKINGS OUT BEHIND THE END OF THE WORLD
Harold Camping's homemade mathematical formula for the apocalypse works, in part, like this.
He bases it on a verse in Chapter 2 of Peter verse 3:8, which says that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day to God.
Elsewhere it is said that there will be seven thousand years between Noah's flood and the end of the world.
Camping believes that the Noah’s Ark flood happened in the year 4990 BC.
So to Camping, the seven days translates to 7,000 years.
And 4990 plus 2011, minus one because there was no year '0', equals 7,000 years.
The date of May 21 has been derived from complex mathematical formula made up from numbers that appear repeatedly in the Bible.
He bases it on a verse in Chapter 2 of Peter verse 3:8, which says that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day to God.
Elsewhere it is said that there will be seven thousand years between Noah's flood and the end of the world.
Camping believes that the Noah’s Ark flood happened in the year 4990 BC.
So to Camping, the seven days translates to 7,000 years.
And 4990 plus 2011, minus one because there was no year '0', equals 7,000 years.
The date of May 21 has been derived from complex mathematical formula made up from numbers that appear repeatedly in the Bible.
'They're looking at all of these disasters and everything that's going on in the planet, and this is creating a climate of deep interest in Biblical prophecy.
'In my mind, Harold Camping has quite an account to render with God when judgment day comes.'
Just in case the prediction is right, some Americans are making the most of their time left with 'Rapture Parties' across the country.
On the other hand, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the American Humanist Association is organizing a two-day anti-Rapture extravaganza.
There will be a party on Saturday and a concert on Sunday - with the tongue in cheek proviso that Sunday's fun could be cancelled due to a natural catastrophe of some sort.
The concept of the Rapture is a relatively new in terms of the Christian faith - first appearing in Christian teaching in the 19th century - but the chosen date is the work of one modern minister.
Harold Camping, 89, came up with the date by adding up numbers in the Bible.
He did the same thing once before, stating unequivocally that the world would end in 1994, before apologising and blaming a mathematical error.
His followers have erected billboards across America that have been warning for weeks: 'Judgment Day is coming May 21st, 2011 – The Bible guarantees it!'
Most Christians barely pay the 'prophecy' a second thought but Camping, from Oakland, California, stands by his second Doomsday warning.
Abroad church: Filipino-American Joel Abalos, 48, spreads the word of Family Radio on the streets of Manila"
Save the date: Camping and his various radio stations have spent millions of dollars on advertising the apocalypse on billboards such as this one in Los Angeles"
'There’s going to be a huge earthquake that’s going to make the big earthquake in Japan seem like a Sunday School picnic.'
Camping, a civil engineer who once ran his own construction business, plans to spend the day with his wife in Alameda, in northern California, and watch doomsday unfold on television.
'I'll probably try to be very near a TV or a radio or something,' he said.
Workings: Camping is basing his prediction on decades of studying the Bible and his belief that the Noah's Ark flood happened in the year 4990 BC
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