Harold Camping originally prophesized May 21 as the beginning of the end for mankind, but now he is changing his story.
In a 90-minute broadcast on his radio station, Family Radio, the 89-year-old Christian radio personality said rather than having five months of suffering beginning on May 21, the world would simply come to an end altogether on October 21.
"We are not changing a date at all; we're just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this," Camping said in his broadcasting on Monday evening. "But on October 21, the world will be destroyed. It won't be five months of destruction. It will come at once."
Camping originally claimed that the “Rapture” would begin on May 21 with earthquakes hitting each of the world’s regions. The bad people of the world would then suffer five months of hell-on-earth following the massive earthquakes, with an eventual end and death to all on October 21. The good people of the world would be swept up to heaven to avoid any pain and suffering.
When May 21 came and went, Camping was originally confused but then blamed the uneventful day to a miscalculation on his own part while interpreting the Bible.
"The only thing we didn't understand was the spirituality of May 21. We're seeing this as a spiritual thing happening rather than a physical thing happening. The timing, the structure, the proofs, none of that has changed at all," Camping, who also predicted the end of the world back in 1994, said during his broadcast. "We're not going to be passing out tracts. We're not going to put up any more billboards. We're not going to be advertising in any way. The world has been warned. We did our little share and the media picked it up. But now the world has been told, it's under judgment."
