Apocalypse Predictor Harold Camping Meets His Own End

We all remember Harold Camping, the controversial radio evangelist who kept predicting the end of the world which never happened.  For him, however, it finally did happen as his world came to an end at the tender age of 92, after suffering injuries in a November 30 fall.

The founder of Family Radio first predicted in 1994 the return of Jesus Christ would trigger the end times prophesized in the Bible and made international headlines after his ministry spent about $100 million to advertise his prediction that Judgment Day would come May 21, 2011, followed by the end of the world five months later.

As we all know, of course, the world did not end, and Camping later declared his erroneous prediction to be “wrong and sinful” and gave up on predicting the date of the apocalypse.  But thousands of his radio show listeners quit their jobs, sold all their possessions and emptied their bank accounts to prepare for the Rapture.

A Family Radio spokesman said the ad campaign was paid for primarily through property sales and not donations, but some of Camping’s followers helped pay for some of the estimated 1,200 billboards advertising doomsday.

The ministry sold some of its radio stations and laid off staffers to help finance the campaign, seeing its assets drop from $135 million in 2007 to $29.2 million in 2011.

Camping founded Family Radio in 1958 and hosted a daily call-in show, and the ministry’s website claimed he worked as a “full time volunteer, receiving no salary or other financial compensation.”

The evangelist is survived by his wife of 71 years, according to a statement issued by his ministry.

Watch this video of Camping as he discusses his prediction posted online by EzekielThirtyThree3:

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