Is May 21st the End of the World?

May 21st is getting closer and many people have left their day job and some have left their family to go with a group of people spreading the word that May 21st is the Rapture, Judgement Day, the day that Jesus Christ will come back to earth, that's according to Harold Camping, a Christian radio broadcaster and president of Family Radio based California. And to make it more accurate, a great earthquake will happen at exactly 6pm Pacific Time.

To make things scarier, God will completely destroy the world 5 months later, that's October 21, 2011. Camping claims that around 200 million people will be raptured and the rest will be doomed come October 21st of 2011.

While Camping has been popular about his May 21st prediction, he is also the same person who predicted that the world would end on September of 1994. And 17 years later, the world is still intact. In an interview, he was asked how certain he is that the end is going to be the 21st of May since his September 1994 prediction did not come true, he responded that his research at that was not yet complete and he has a feeling that the end will happen on 2011. "I thought that at the time that there was a possibility it might be 1994, and so I wrote a book, 1994?, but I put a big question mark after it." says Camping.

"When the clock says about 6 p.m., there's going to be this tremendous earthquake that's going to make the last earthquake in Japan seem like nothing in comparison." Camping added.

There has been many people who predicted that the world will end before and all of them end up saying there was a "miscalculation" or "misinterpretation" and will set another date for the Apocalypse. And we can certainly expect that to happen.

"It's going to happen. It's going to happen. I don't even think about those kinds of issues. The Bible is not - God is not playing games. I don't even wnat to think about that question at all. It is going to happen."

Of course we really need to hear his answer to what if May 22nd comes and nothing happened.

"I'm not even thinking about that at all. It. Is. Going. To. Happen."

Oh, I think he should start thinking just about now since many people will be waiting for his explanation on the 22nd of May why the world did not end.