Harold Camping: "October 21, 2011, new Judgment Day" |
According to Camping, a fireball will said to consume the earth and rapture which will carry 200 million Christians up to heaven will occur today.
The 89 year-old retired engineer spent millions on more than 5,000 billboards and print ads worldwide to spread his May 21 Rapture prediction. A good portion of it said to have come from donations from his followers.
Through a book published in 1992, Camping previously predicted the Judgment Day to be happening in 1994. Justifying his first wrong prediction, he reportedly said "important subsequent biblical information was not yet known and there may be something he overlooked."