it's already past 6.00 in New Zealand and the world hasn't ended,' said another.Ĭamping's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website are controlled from a humble building on the road to the Oakland International Airport, sandwiched between an auto shop and a fortune teller. 'If this whole end-of-the-world thingy is still going on. 'Harold Camping's 21st May Doomsday prediction fails No earthquake in New Zealand," read one posting on Twitter. Shortly after 6pm, online users in New Zealand were mocking the predictions. Unfortunately for Mr Garcia - but fortunately for New Zealanders - the world kept on turning. They believed the end of the world today would start as it becomes 6pm in the world's various time zones. 'That's why God raised up all the technology and the satellites so everyone can see it happen at the same time.'Ĭamping has built a multi-million-dollar non-profit ministry based on his apocalyptic prediction. 'We know the end will begin in New Zealand and will follow the sun and roll on from there,' said Garcia, a 39-year-old father of six. At first it was really upsetting, but it’s what she honestly believes.'Īnother dedicated follower is Michael Garcia.Īfter spending months travelling the country to put up Judgment Day billboards and hand out Bible tracts, he planned to spend Friday evening with his family at home in Alameda, near the Christian media empire's Oakland headquarters. Speaking to the New York Times, 16-year-old Grace Haddad said: 'My mom has told me directly that I’m not going to get into heaven. They even told their three children - Joseph, Faith and Grace - that they were going to die. Two years ago Robert Carson and Abby Haddad gave up their jobs to preach for the Family Radio church at the centre of the May 21 Judgment Day campaign. family in particular will be stunned that the Rapture failed to happen. Along with their architectural achievements, the Mayans left us with calendars that, some argue, predict the end of the world on December 21, 2012. The Maya civilisation of South America was for several centuries one of the most advanced in the world. Surprisingly there wasn't the same hyperbole on June 6, 2006.īut if the world does manage to get through today unscathed, believers won't have to wait too long before another popular Doomsday prediction date looms. In the days leading up to September 9, 2009, fans of Armageddon insisted that the world would end - 9/9/9 being the emergency services phone number in the UK and also the number of the Devil - albeit upside down. The year 2000 was also expected to usher in an apocalypse of sorts, with aeroplanes falling from the sky and computer systems crashing. The end did not come,' the website notes. The members chanted prayers to the beat of bongo drums until sunset. 'A small crowd of onlookers watched and waited for something to happen. 666 - soon',Īnd about 50 members of a group called the Assembly of Yahweh gathered at Coney Island, New York, in white robes, awaiting their 'rapture' from a world about to be destroyed on May 25, 1981. According to website Armageddononline, prophecy teacher Doug Clark announced in 1976 that President Jimmy Carter would be 'the president who will meet Mr. More recently, the fad for making Doomsday predictions has become popular amongst Christian groups in the U.S.
Others to get in on the act included Christopher Columbus (1656), mathematician John Napier (1688) and astrologer Sir Isaac Newton (1948). In 1500, Protestant reformer Martin Luther proclaimed that 'the kingdom of abominations shall be overthrown' within 300 years. The craze appears to have reached a peak in Europe in the Middle Ages. In fact, doomsday prophecies have been made ever since we started using calendars, with flood, famine, incoming asteroids and nuclear wars among the favoured causes of annihilation.īiblical scholars point out that in the Book of Matthew, Jesus himself implies that the world will end within the lifetime of his contemporaries, while a host of scholars made similar predictions in the first millennium. While it is an accepted fact that our planet will one day be consumed by the Sun, modern science has calculated that that will not happened for several billion years.īut that hasn't stopped mankind repeatedly predicting that the world is about to end. Harold Camping, 89, expounds on his views that today would be the end of the world
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