May 21, 2011 Is Judgement Day According To Billboards

Winston-Salem, NC - You may have seen in the Triad, North Carolina, and across the United States. Billboards indicating that the end of the world May 21, 2011.

It is part of a blitz of publicity around the world through a ministry called Family Radio broadcast, based in Oakland, Calif. The short version: Founder Harold Camping is estimated through a complex set of calculations numerology, we can date the world's creation, Noah's flood and other events described in the Bible, and then to extrapolate when the Bible "guarantees" the end of the world.

Camping claims that God warned Noah that the overall assessment would take place in seven days. From this he concludes that it refers not only to the Genesis flood, but another day of the arrest of seven "days" (millennia) later. And to top it all, he concludes that this decree can be dated exactly 7000 years from May 21 (based on the Hebrew calendar).

"The Bible has given us the absolute proof that 2011 is the end of the world during the Day of Judgement, which will come the final day of Judgement Day," said its website.

It should be noted that there is a long history of people predicting the end of the world without success - himself Camping in 1994, which he attributed to a miscalculation.

A medieval sect confidently expect the end of the world in 1260.

Then there was the "great disappointment" when people in the Adventist movement scheduled start of the Second Coming on specific dates in 1840 and have not been maintained.

Some apocalyptic sects have arisen in recent years, citing the Bible or other religious sources. Camping May 21, 2011 to share space on the calendar with other apocalyptic predictions of an Apocalypse, 2012, based on calculations involving the Mayan calendar.

Family Radio spokesman Michael Garcia acknowledged in an interview that the reaction to blitz its media group has been largely negative. "The majority are a little upset," he said. But he argued that people should respond with repentance of how people of ancient Nineveh was in a biblical story where the prophet Jonah predicted disaster in 40 days.