Five months after a media frenzy over a US preacher’s “end of the world” prophecy, his faithful were awaiting Judgment Day again last Friday based on his “recalculated” prediction.
Harold Camping, the evangelist of Family Radio based in Oakland, California, caused a global stir earlier this year when he predicted doomsday would occur on May 21 — a day which came and went.
Undeterred, Camping has claimed a new analysis based on the Bible’s Book of Genesis showed the real event would in fact be on Oct. 21.
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“We are living in a most unusual time. On May 21, of 2011, mankind entered into the Day of Judgment. This ‘day’ will last for 5 months [153 days] until Oct. 21, 2011,” he said in a message to followers.
“The Bible declares that it was God’s plan to save 200 million people out of all those that would ever live upon the earth.”
Camping bases his prediction on a message from God to Noah in the year 4990 BC, claiming that the destruction in “seven days” really translates to 7,000 years.
“God shut the door to the sheepfold after finding the last lost sheep,” he says in his latest message.
“Another way of saying the same thing is that God shut the door [Christ] to heaven on May 21 the beginning of Judgment Day! Once the door shut it cannot ever open again for a sinner to become saved and enter in.”
The latest prediction was greeted in a more low-key manner than in May, when people around the world went into hiding or scrambled to repent, while others staged parties and snapped up T-shirts and souvenirs.
Camping and his followers were not picking up the phone, and are steering clear of new media appearances.
(AFP)
在媒體大肆報導美國傳教士「世界末日」預言的五個月後，該傳教士的信徒根據他重新計算的新預測，再度於上週五等待審判日的到來。
加州奧克蘭基督教福音派家庭廣播電台節目主持人哈洛德‧康平，在今年稍早預測世界末日會發生在五月二十一日，不過這天一如往常般來了又走。
康平並未就此罷休，而是根據聖經創世紀所做的一個新分析，堅稱真正的天地終結日，事實上應為十月二十一日。
他在一封給信徒的信息表示：「我們正活在一個極其異常的時代。人類在二○一一年五月二十一日進入審判日。該「日」將持續五個月（一百五十三天），直到二○一一年十月二十一日為止。」
他說：「聖經宣稱這是上帝從永遠活在地球上的人們中，拯救兩億人的計畫。」
康平根據西元前四千九百九十年上帝給諾亞的信息，做出該預測，並宣稱面臨末日還有「七天」，實際上應被解讀為還有七千年。
他在最近的一封信寫道：「上帝尋獲最後一頭走失的羊後，就關閉了羊欄。」
他表示：「換句話說，上帝在五月二十一日審判日的第一天，即關閉了通往天堂的大門（耶穌）！一旦此門被關閉，它將永遠無法再被開啟，以拯救罪人並讓他們進入。」
最近這次預測受歡迎程度，相較於五月那次，顯得更為低調。五月的預測，讓來自世界各地的某些人們，躲起或是倉促行動懺悔自身過去，而其他人則舉辦派對，並搶購圓領衫與紀念品。
康平與其信徒不接聽電話，並且避開在新聞媒體上露面。
（法新社／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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