Harold Camping went to his final reward this last Sunday evening.
Camping first predicted Jesus’ return in 1994, but his most recent forecasts warned that “judgment day” would occur in May 2011 and said the world would end in October 2011.
When his prophecy went belly up, he said that his May 21 prediction had been off.
After the date again failed to deliver Jesus, he did what is so typical of the cog’s. He declared that a “spiritual Judgment Day” has arrived in which placed the entire world under the judgment of Jesus.
Shades of William Miller and the great disappointment!
Deut 18 : 20 But any prophet who falsely claims to speak in my name or who speaks in the name of another god must die.
Deut 13:1-3 If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, ‘Let us follow other gods’ (Herbert Armstrong) (gods you have not known) ‘and let us worship them,’ you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him (or the other god who is HWA) with all your heart and with all your soul.
Remember, HWA and his minions had over 209 false prophecies. The question is, which g(G)od is it that the cog’s worship?
In COGWriter’s Camping obituary, Bob condemned his false prophecies, and criticized his group’s apology for the bad dates. Some time ago, Dave Pack wrote a lengthy piece on Ron Weinland’s fallacious predictions. But both Bob and brother Dave let HWA get away with it…
Harold’s group apologized, Ron made promises about what he would do if he was wrong (which he didn’t keep) but Herb simply carried as if nothing happened (after WW II) or denied he ever predicted anything (1972).
Camping’s followers, like Herbies or Ronnies, never made their followers whole. They should be held responsible but the duped followers let the fucks get away with it. There are court cases where groups have successfully sued their cult and won. Undue influence is the play used.
They talk people out of their houses, life savings, and the weekly tithing bullshit. What follows (failed prophecies) should enrage the victims, but as Stockholm syndrome suffers they come to the defense of the false prophet, protecting him, making excuses for him, reveling in his failures.
“On August 23rd, 1973 two machine-gun carrying criminals entered a bank in Stockholm, Sweden. Blasting their guns, one prison escapee named Jan-Erik Olsson announced to the terrified bank employees “The party has just begun!” The two bank robbers held four hostages, three women and one man, for the next 131 hours. The hostages were strapped with dynamite and held in a bank vault until finally rescued on August 28th.
After their rescue, the hostages exhibited a shocking attitude considering they were threatened, abused, and feared for their lives for over five days. In their media interviews, it was clear that they supported their captors and actually feared law enforcement personnel who came to their rescue. The hostages had begun to feel the captors were actually protecting them from the police. One woman later became engaged to one of the criminals and another developed a legal defense fund to aid in their criminal defense fees. Clearly, the hostages had “bonded” emotionally with their captors.”
Well, he had a higher profile than anyone in Armstrongism. Everybody knows his name, while the ACOGs continue to be invisible. But, the fact is, he got it wrong and everybody also knows that he was a Pinocchio Prophet. That’s the way he’ll go down in the history books.
Anyone who was induced to tithe to him by this prophecy thing deserves to have them refunded!
BB
After the great reunification disappointment, Dave should be cautious next time he feels like calling someone a false prophet.
Thinking on failure to predict something, I remember listening to an LCG “Tomorrow’s World” about “What will happen in 2001”. Yes, the usual hype, and no mention of 9/11.
To quote Dave, after the event, “God caused 9/11!”. He made a similar statement about Hurricane Katrina. Foretelling an event after it happened is not the way it works.
On the other hand, I remember an HWA coworker letter quoted in Ambassador Report, “Satan is planning something BIG”. Are the COG leaders better informed on what Satan is up to than what God is going to do?