This time the doomsday predictions made by American radio host Christian Harold Camping states that the Rapture (in particular the tradition of premillennial theology, taking into heaven of people choose God) will take place on May 21, 201, and that the end of the world will take place five months later on October 21 2011. Camping, president of Christian Family Radio network, claiming the Bible as a source and said May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the Day of Judgement "beyond a shadow of doubt". Camping suggest that it will happen at 6 pm local time, with the appointment of sweeping the world time zones with time zones, while some of his supporters said that about 200 million people (about 3% of world population) will be appointed.
Most Christian groups do not accept Camping's predictions, some explicitly reject them. An interview with a group of church leaders noted that all of them have flights as usual for Sunday. May 22. Camping previously had predicted that the Rapture will occur in September 1994 and it did not happen.
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle he explains "... I am an engineer, I am very interested in the numbers. I wonder," Why did God put these numbers in, or the number? "It's not a matter of distrust, it is the question, 'There must be a reason for that."
In the book Camping's 1994?, Self-published in 1992, he predicted that the Last Days will come in September 1994 (various reported as September 4 or September 6. When the Rapture failed or the apocalypse did not happen on the appointed day, Camping says he have made a mathematical error.
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