Judgment Day 2011: 'You Will Quietly Die' on Oct. 21, Harold Camping Warns

"So the lord did return to earth that day. Taking the holy spirit here again to evangelize the world ... The great earthquake and everything, it will all happen on October 21, 2011," said Camping.

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In an audio mesage posted on his Web site after he returned form the hospital, Camping repeated the claim.

"That looks like it will be at this point it looks like it will be the final end of everything. They’ll quietly die…the true believers will quietly receive the new heaven and the new earth. I really am beginning to think as I restudied these matters that there’s going to be no big display of any kind. The end is going to come very very quietly probably within the next month. It will happen that is by October 21 ...", said the tape.

According to Camping's laughable theory of "Rapture", which he now says will take place on Oct. 21, he means that Jesus Christ will arrive in a Second Coming to carry the believers up to to heaven. According to Paul's epistle to Thessalonians, these are people who are "dead in Christ."

The verse from the epistle reads like this: "... and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

One dictionary meaning of "rapture" is "the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence."

Camping bases his ludicrous theory on the story of the Biblical flood of Noah's times. He made some unexplainable calculations to conclude that the flood took place in 4990 B.C.

It is said in the Bible that Noah had been given 7 days to prepare for the flood. Camping says the '7-day warning notice' has been in place and he has actually decoded it precisely. Camping says though, that instead of a 7-day warning, it's really been a 7,000-year-warning. He says that according to 2 Peter 3:8, "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."

"Seven thousand years after 4990 B.C. (the year of the Flood) is the year 2011 A.D. (our calendar)," says Camping on his website. "4990 + 2011 – 1 = 7,000," he says, and calculates, "One year must be subtracted in going from an Old Testament B.C. calendar date to a New Testament A.D. calendar date because the calendar does not have a year zero."

And here's how he arrived exactly at the date: 'Amazingly, May 21, 2011 is the 17th day of the 2nd month of the Biblical calendar of our day. Remember, the flood waters also began on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the year 4990 B.C."