Heretic Harold Camping Dies

Act 20:29  "I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31  "Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.
 




                      

As The "Christian" Post reported on December 15, 2013, another false teacher died.

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Harold Camping, the Christian minister known for his failed judgment day prophecies, has passed away at the age of 92, according to an emailed statement from his Family Radio Network to supporters of the ministry.

The statement from Family Radio Network reads:

Harold Camping - Home with the Lord!

"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints."
Psalm 116:15

Yesterday, Sunday, December 15th, at around 5:30 p.m., Harold Camping passed on to glory and is now rejoicing with his beloved Savior!

On Saturday, November 30th, Mr. Camping sustained a fall in his home, and he was not able to recover from his injuries. He passed away peacefully in his home, with his family at his side. We know that each of us remain in God's hand, and God is the One who knows our appointed time to leave our earthly body behind.

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His death was not precious in the sight of God, nor did Camping go home to be with the Lord. Rather he now  in Hell, he awaits judgement before the thrice Holy God whom he often taught against.

This is the typical anti-biblical nonsense Camping continued to teach:

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Not One Stone upon Another: No Faithful Churches Left 

Therefore, we can now understand what God is saying in Luke 21, verses 5 and 6: And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. He is saying that there shall not remain one church that is still  recognized by God as a part of the temple of God. Now we can see what God is saying. He is saying that there shall not remain one church that is still recognized by God as a part of the temple of God.

The fact that the command to depart from the church is to be obeyed by every believer is underscored by the language of Luke 21:5-6 where God declares that in the temple there would not be one stone left upon another stone that would not be thrown down. We have already learned that according to I Corinthians 3,the temple is the corporate church that God had been building for more than 1950 years. This is the temple that Luke 21:5-6 says will not have one stone left upon another that would not be thrown down. Therefore, the  believers must leave the church.

~Harold Camping,  The End of the Church Age and After, p, 212-213

The Alliance  of Confessing Evangelicals' Council's statement written by Ligon Duncan and Mark Talbot gave numerous examples of his false teaching and refuted them.

"Articles in mainline religious journals report that some churches are losing members who have fallen under the spell of Camping’s propaganda (see: World magazine (4/20/02) and, Christianity Today, (5/21/02). It is a dangerous mix when biblically illiterate people come into contact with a misguided religious instructor." ~The Christian Courier

Now can you guess where his readers might end up? If they are commanded to leave the local church, where are they to go? Well of course, to his church! Except instead of calling a church, he changed the term to "fellowship". The huckster was also given money by his followers. Besides this, he kept saying Jesus was going to return. So he was a liar, a deceiver, and a hater of what Jesus Himself loved and purchased with His own blood, and that which even the gates of hell would not prevail against it: His church.

Mat 16:16  Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mat 16:17  And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
Mat 16:18  "I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
Eph 5:26  so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Eph 5:27  that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

It is within this local church of believers, by the way, were church discipline is practiced (see Matt. 18) for the purity of the Gospel and of the believers in that particular body. That can't happen if they aren't in a local church. I find that quite convenient.