Harold Camping’s Math
Harold Camping, a radio preacher who has predicted the end of the world, contends that 2 Peter provides keys to understanding end times.
Part of 2 Peter 3:8 says, “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”
With this understanding, Camping says that when God told Noah in the book of Genesis that he had seven days to escape destruction before a worldwide flood, God was also telling the world that there would be exactly 7,000 years until Judgment Day.
Seven thousand years after the flood, which Camping dates to the year 4990 BC, is the year 2011. (Year 4990 BC + 2011 AD - 1 year for the year zero = 7,000 years) May 21 was chosen because it is the 17th day of the second month in the Hebrew calendar, which mirrors the Biblical account in Genesis 7:10-11, which says a flood came in the “six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month.”
Camping has said that the dates of the crucifixion and the statehood of Israel confirm his calculations.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the bible also say that God (btw it's his title not his name and the jews had their reasons for not writing the name. Nothing to do with christians) said he would never again harm the earth in that capacity? Are they making a hypocrite of him?
