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Mr. Harold Camping, who is a civil engineer and self-taught biblical scholar has predicted that the world will end tomorrow, May 21, 2011. He has arrived at this date for Judgment Day because of intricate calculations he did that assume the world will end exactly 7,000 years after the great flood in which only Noah’s ark survived. He asserts that believers will be transported directly to heaven and everyone else will be left behind to experience five months of earthquakes, famine and other torment before the planet’s total destruction. Mr. Camping predicted the same scenario would happen in 1994, but he says that this time is different and his calculations are more accurate.
I sat at the hospital last night with a man whose world is coming to an end. His kidneys are failing and there is no hope for his survival. I wanted to tell him that it would be OK – that he is facing eternal life, that his wife and two children will be fine and that this is just a transition, a journey. My faith tells me that all of these things are true, but I don’t know for a fact that everything will be OK. I haven’t been through it to come back and share what happens, so I really don’t have any certain knowledge of what occurs when we die.
None of us knows what tomorrow will bring. Mr. Camping’s guess is as good as mine. But I know some things that are true. Love is eternal. Nothing in all of life or death can separate us from God’s Love and I am betting that nothing can separate us from our love for each other. Does that make death easy to face? Not really, but it helps.
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No, Nancy, Mr. Camping's guess is NOT as good as yours.
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