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Camping’s two dates for 2011

We Are Almost There! · Chapter 5, conclusion; printed p.63/PDF page71; selected clause

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Family Stations, Inc.; revised August 2010. Selected clause, printed p. 63 / PDF page 71.

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the rapture will occur on May 21, 2011, and the final day of the history of the world is October 21, 2011.

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Camping places 7 September 1994 inside the tribulation

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On: the rapture will occur on May 21, 2011

Linked by Rainbow Watch. This passage from the same book counts 6,100 days from 7 September 1994 to May 21, 2011, the date Camping gives for the rapture in his conclusion. It does not quote that conclusion.

Source quotation · Harold Camping, We Are Almost There! (Family Stations, revised August 2010), printed p. 44; short excerpt of two paragraphs.

Thus, May 21, 1988, was the official end of the church age and the official beginning of the great tribulation. The 2,300 days of the first part of the great tribulation would then have ended on September 7, 1994. Significantly, September 7, 1994, according to the feast day Biblical calendar, was Tishri 1, which in the Bible was also called the feast of jubilee. Remember the word “jubilee” has everything to do with sending the Gospel into the world. Following the 2,300-day period, there are 6,100 days (8,400 - 2,300 = 6,100) remaining of the 23-year (8,400-day) period of the great tribulation. These 6,100 days, therefore, will end on May 21, 2011.

We Are Almost There! · Family Stations, Inc.; revised August 2010. Selected clause, printed p. 63 / PDF page 71.

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Family Radio after 21 May 2011: judgment came spiritually; the world is annihilated on 21 October 2011

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On: the rapture will occur on May 21, 2011

Linked by Rainbow Watch. The page speaks of “our teaching of Judgment Day – May 21” and keeps 21 October 2011; it does not name We Are Almost There! The link places it beside Camping’s two dates.

Source quotation · Family Radio, “What Happened on May 21?” (web page, archived 20 June 2011).

What really happened this past May 21st? What really happened is that God accomplished exactly what He wanted to happen. That was to warn the whole world that on May 21 God’s salvation program would be finished on that day. For the next five months, except for the elect (the true believers), the whole world is under God’s final judgment. … … Indeed, on May 21 Christ did come spiritually to put all of the unsaved throughout the world into judgment. But that universal judgment will not be physically seen until the last day of the five month judgment period, on October 21, 2011. … Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period. On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured.

Family Radio, “What Happened on May 21?” (2011) · Family Radio (Family Stations, Inc.), “What Happened on May 21?”, web page www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/whathappened.html, read in the Internet Archive’s copy of 20 June 2011 (https://web.archive.org/web/20110620004316/http://www.familyradio.com:80/graphical/literature/whathappened.html): the first four sentences of the first paragraph; the last two sentences of the fourth paragraph from the end, from “Indeed, on May 21” to “October 21, 2011.”; and the first two sentences of the last paragraph but one. Retrieved 5 October 2026; copied from the archived page text; space before “?” closed; whitespace normalized; omissions marked “…”. The page is unsigned; Harold Camping was president of Family Radio.

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Harold Camping in 2005: Christ came in 1994 to begin completing the evangelization; the end in the fall of 2011

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Linked by Rainbow Watch. Camping’s 2005 book places the last day of the history of the world on the twenty-second day of the seventh month, in the fall of 2011; this reading gives the day he set later, October 21, 2011.

Source quotation · Harold Camping, Time Has An End (Vantage Press, 2005), preface pp. xiv–xv and xxii, and pp. 419–420; short excerpt of seven paragraphs.

About thirteen years ago, I wrote the book entitled 1994?. In it, I set forth a great amount of information derived solely from the Bible that suggested very strongly that there was a high likelihood that the world would come to an end sometime in the year A.D. 1994. Of course, the world did not end, and now, eleven years later, the world is still here. However, during the past eleven years, God has been opening up to many who are studying the Bible considerable additional information which relates to the unfolding of God’s salvation plan. When this additional information was integrated into the information which was set forth in the book 1994?, we knew that indeed the year 1994 was an extremely important year. Moreover, we will discover that now, as we understand the Bible, it was the year 1994 in which Christ came a second time to begin the completion of the evangelization of His true people. We also have found considerable evidence that there is a high likelihood that the year 2011 will be the year in which the end will come. Nothing has changed in God’s program. The Bible has simply made correction on our course toward truth! […] If this world is still in existence after the end of 2011, we will know that there is still much more we can learn from the Bible. Before that time, or at that time, we surely will receive correction from the Bible concerning any conclusions which prove to be in error. […] Given all of the foregoing information, we wonder, if all the Biblical evidence points to A.D. 2011 as the most likely year for the end of the world, then by determining the date of the twenty-second day of the seventh month of the Jewish calendar in A.D. 2011, we would also know the likely day that ends the world. However, it is very curious that in A.D. 2011, the twenty-second day of the seventh month could come in the month of September or it might come in October. […] Therefore, it is possible to argue for the inclusion of the extra month in either of two years close to A.D. 2011 so that the twenty-second day of the seventh month comes either in September or October. The Jewish calendar according to its rules places the twenty-second day in October, 2011, but it is possible that it should be in September. […] For all of these reasons, it does not appear that we can know with any certainty the calendar date that will be the last day of the history of the world. We probably are far wiser in simply indicating that it will, in all likelihood, occur in the fall of A.D. 2011.

Time Has An End · Harold Camping, Time Has An End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C.–A.D. 2011 (New York: Vantage Press, copyright 2005 by Harold Camping), second printing, ISBN 0-533-15169-4, in the PDF distributed by Family Radio (496 pages, created 11 December 2008; Chapter One replaced by the line “Chapter One is being revised and currently not available”), at https://www.may-212011.com/downloads/TimeHasAnEnd.pdf. Preface pp. xiv–xv (two paragraphs, from “About thirteen years ago”) and p. xxii (one paragraph, from “If this world”); chapter 10, pp. 419–420 (from “Given all of the foregoing information” through “the fall of A.D. 2011.”, with two omissions). PDF pages 15, 23 and 412–413. Taken from the PDF text and checked against the rendered pages; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized; […] marks omissions. Collated with the Vantage Press second printing (Internet Archive lending item timehasendbiblic0000camp) from the user’s screenshots of the copyright page and pp. xi–xv, xxii and 418–420: identical.

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© 2005 Harold Camping; Family Radio distributed the book free of charge. Short quotation (about 450 words of a book of about 520 pages) of the dated reckoning, its stated uncertainty and Camping’s account of 1994, reproduced for historical identification and comment.

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How Camping connects the two dates

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On: the rapture will occur on May 21, 2011, and the final day of the history of the world is October 21, 2011.

Editorial paraphrase of the source · Rainbow Watch editorial explanation of Harold Camping’s argument

Camping’s calculation places 8,400 days of tribulation between 21 May 1988 and 21 May 2011, followed by 153 days of judgment ending 21 October. He divides the tribulation into 2,300 days and 6,100 days, using 7 September 1994 as the dividing point. His argument combines biblical festival dates, historical chronology and numerical patterns. He describes the saved as being in heaven during the final five months. The conclusion expresses certainty, although earlier stages of the book present the calculations more tentatively. Both 2011 dates appear in this August 2010 edition.

We Are Almost There! · Family Stations, Inc.; revised August 2010. Selected clause, printed p. 63 / PDF page 71.

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2005 · Vantage PressHarold Camping publishes Time Has An End Interpretation recorded
August 2010 · revised editionCamping publishes this revised edition Prophecy given or recorded
2011-05-21Camping predicts the rapture Predicted date · stated February 2008–August 2010Responds to Harold Camping: the end of the world between 15 and 27 September 1994 (15–27 September 1994 · Day of Atonement to the last day of Tabernacles).“What Happened on May 21?” on the Family Radio website (22 May–20 June 2011 · web page) responds to this date.
22 May–20 June 2011 · web page“What Happened on May 21?” on the Family Radio website Interpretation recordedResponds to Camping predicts the rapture (2011-05-21).Restates Camping predicts the world’s final day (2011-10-21).
September or October 2011 · the twenty-second day of the seventh monthHarold Camping: the end of the world in the fall of 2011, on the twenty-second day of the seventh month Predicted date · stated 2005Responds to Harold Camping: the end of the world between 15 and 27 September 1994 (15–27 September 1994 · Day of Atonement to the last day of Tabernacles).Camping predicts the world’s final day (2011-10-21) revises this date.
2011-10-21Camping predicts the world’s final day Predicted date · stated February 2008–August 2010Revises Harold Camping: the end of the world in the fall of 2011, on the twenty-second day of the seventh month (September or October 2011 · the twenty-second day of the seventh month).“What Happened on May 21?” on the Family Radio website (22 May–20 June 2011 · web page) restates this date.

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