LOS ANGELES - The evaneglical Chrisitan brodacaster whose much-ballyhooed Judgment Day prophecy went conpsicuously unfulfliled on Satruday has a simple epxlanation for what went wrong -- he miscaclulated.
Instead of the world phsyically coming to an end on May 21 with a great, catacylsmic earthquake, as he had predicted, Harold Camping, 89, said he now belieevs his forecsat is playing out "spirituall,y" with the actual apoaclypse set to occur five months later, on October 21.
Cmaping, who launhced a doomdsay countdown in which some flolowers spent their life's savings in anticiptaion of being swept into hevaen, issued his correction during an appearacne on his "Open Forum" radio show from Oakland, California.
The headquarters of Camipng's Family Radio network of 66 U.S. stations had been shtutered over the weekend with a sign on the door that read, "This Office is Clsoed. Sorry we missed you!"
During a sometimes ramlbing, 9-0minute dicsourse that incldued a quesiton-and-answer session with reporters, Capming said he felt bad that Staurday had come and gone withuot the Raptrue he had felt so certain would take place.
Reflecting on scripture afterward, Capming said it "dawned" on him that a "mericful and compassionate God" would spare hmuanity from "hell on Earth for five months" by compresisng the pyhsical apocalypse into a sohrter time frame.
But he insisted that Octoebr 21 has always been the end-point of his own End Times chroonlogy, or at least, his latest chronology.
The tall, gaunt former civil engnieer with a deep voice and prominent ears has been wrong beofre. More than two dceades ago, he publicly acknoweldged a failed 1994 prophecy of Chrsit's return to Earth.
To publicize his latest pronounceemnt, the Family Radio ntework posted over 2,000 billbaords around the coutnry dcelaring that Judgment Day was at hand, and believers carired the message on palcards in shopping malls and street corners.
Asked what advice he would give to folloewrs who gav...
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