Harold Camping after Failed October 21 Doomsday: Will He Give Up?

Harold Camping is wrong again about his Doomsday prediction, but by this time around he has already been famously defined as a false prophet by his fellow Christians.

With his third prediction of the world's end on Oct. 21 proven to be wrong, Camping might have experienced Doomsday of his own - the 90-year-old preacher slipped away from the media's reach along with his Family Radio  workers. 

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but we at Family Radio have been directed to not talk to the media or the press," Camping's daughter Susan Espinoza told The Associated Press on Friday.

Even before the supposed Doomsday, Camping did not comment on this "true and final day" of judgment.

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"We're not having a conversation," Camping told Reuters. "There's nothing to report here."

In his book published in 1992, Camping had said the world would end between September 15 and 17, 1994. When nothing happened, he said the calculation was a mistake, and recalculated the number which then pointed to May 21, 2011.  The last prediction in May, as you may recall, stirred a worldwide buzz and, following its failure, criticism. When he was proven wrong again, Camping hid himself from the public eye, and another "miscalculation" made him say that the supposed rapture was to happen five months later. 

Ironically, Camping's conduct categorizes him as a false prophet in the Bible, the very book he used to calculate the Doomsdays.

The more confident Camping is about his prediction, the more embarrassment he brings upon himself by this self contradiction.

"The Bible says that if someone makes a prophecy that doesn't come true he is to be considered a false prophet and stoned to death," Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of Dallas First Baptist Church, told The Christian Post. "Harold Camping has made at least three false prophecies about the day of the Rapture. And so, if he's not going to be stoned to death, he at least needs to be muzzled." 

When May 21 prediction was proven wrong again, Camping was reportedly hospitalized for a stroke before coming up with the new date, Oct. 21. 

Family Radio has been broadcasting a message to supporters on Saturday, a day after Camping's third prediction, encouraging them to keep making donations.