Harold Camping Suffers Mild Stroke: Family Radio Preacher Who Predicted End Of World Hospitalized
The man who warned his followers that Judgement Day would come last May was hospitalized after he suffered a mild stroke.
Staff at Howard Camping’s Family Radio said the 89-year-old preacher is recovering in an Alameda hospital after the stroke on Thursday.
The 89-year-old radio evangelist and president of the Oakland nonprofit Family Radio was taken by ambulance from his house Thursday night, a neighbor said, but his well-known, gravelly voice that led many believers to donate millions of dollars to his cause may never be the same.
“He had a stroke, it was on his right side,” said the neighbor, who declined to give her name but said she and her husband helped and comforted Camping’s wife, Shirley, as the drama unfolded Thursday night.
Her husband spoke again with Shirley Camping on Friday. “His speech appears to be a little bit slurred but otherwise he’s OK,” the neighbor said. “(Shirley) said he was doing good “… and the only thing that’s affected is his speech.”
There was no answer at the door of the Camping home Saturday afternoon and all of the curtains and blinds were drawn. A GMC pickup with a Family Radio bumper sticker and a white Buick sat in the driveway.
Family Radio has asked that prayers be said for Camping and his wife, and that they not be bothered. Camping’s supporters have been loyal, with one supporter writing in “”We will be praying for Mr. Camping and his family,” one supporter wrote in reply to Menut’s posting. “The Lord has been so merciful to allow Mr. Camping to faithfully teach the scriptures for over 52 years. I’m sure Mr. Camping is thinking right now that he wants God to receive all the glory the for the ministry of Family Radio.”
Camping, whose Family Radio network reaches more than 60 U.S. stations as well as international affiliates, said he predicted the end of the world with the help of Bible verse. He claimed believers would be sent up to heaven as various time zones hit 6 p.m. on May 21, as the planet was engulfed by giant earthquakes and other disasters, until its final destruction Oct. 21.
After May 21 came and went without any sign of the Rapture, Camping reworked his biblical math and came to the conclusion that May 21 was only an “invisible judgment day” and that the actual end of the world will occur five months after he had been predicting.
“It is not something where it’s a tiny, tiny, tiny chance it may happen. It is going to happen,” Camping told the Huffington Post before the predicted Judgement Day.
After the world did not come to a screeching halt, Camping insisted that his calculations were not incorrect, and that the end would come on October 21, 2011.
Camping made his first incorrect end of days prediction in 1994.
via Harold Camping Stroke: Family Radio Preacher Who Predicted End Of World Hospitalized and http://www.goddiscussion.com/66673/family-radios-doomsayer-harold-camping-suffers-stroke-is-struggling-with-speech/
Related Articles
- Harold Camping Family Radio Tour
- Harold Camping now says Rapture actually coming in October
- Harold Camping estimates 200 Million People Will be Raptured Worldwide
- Harold Camping Speaks For The First Time After The May 21st ‘Rapture’
- False May 21, 2011 Doomsday prophet Harold Camping “deserts” devastated followers, church offers solace
