Harold Camping reportedly resigns

Harold Camping reportedly resigns - Radio preacher Harold Camping reportedly resigns and gives up on predicting the end of the world. After two failed rapture prophecies this year alone, Camping resigned from the head of his Family Radio organization, and the Christian Post reports he won’t be divining any more doomsday predictions from the Bible.

This message came out of the Family Radio organization last week:

“Thy command is still to occupy until he comes. We are still to go teach and tell. We are to share his word by reading it, teaching it, and singing it. We still have a unique tool and that tool is radio on which we can bring comfort and encouragement. Every day we, who are Christians, live in attention. We are to live so that we are ready for the return of Christ, and even pray for it. But we also rejoice in every new day, that we’ve been given another day to occupy and serve our Lord.”

Camping predicted the rapture would happen May 21, and suffered a stroke after his predictions fell flat. He revised the prediction later, saying it was a spiritual judgement that occurred in May. The actual rapture, he explained, would happen in October. When Oct. 21 came and went without believers being lifted to the heavens, Camping reportedly stepped down from his leadership post at Family Radio.

Documentary maker Brandon Tauszik talked with Camping earlier this month and told the Christian Post he seemed less certain about his predictions:

Camping seemed still very disappointed that his calculations about the May 21 doomsday were wrong, according to Tauszik. The radio evangelist asserted that he was very careful in making the calculations, and then said in a complaining tone that no matter how careful one is in his calculations, God can still withhold information from him.

More recently, Family Radio pulled all references to the rapture predictions from its website.