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Some believers expressed bewilderment or said it was a test from God of their faith, after the day passed without event. Meanwhile, the evangelist at the centre of the claim, Harold Camping, has not been seen since before the deadline. He had predicted that Jesus Christ would return to earth on Saturday. True believers would then be swept up, or "raptured", to heaven, he had pronounced. The year-old has used broadcasts on a Christian network and billboards to publicise his ideas as part of a campaign that went global.

He said biblical texts indicated that a giant earthquake on Saturday - which he said would begin at at various time zones around the world - would mark the start of the world's destruction, and that by 21 October all non-believers will be dead. After passed and nothing had happened, he said: "I do not understand why I do not understand why nothing has happened.

Gabe Lyons, author of "The Next Christians," points to a more troublesome aspect of doomsayers: distraction. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. No earthquakes. No beaming up of Christians. No zombie apocalypse. No surprises haha. Camping, a retired civil engineer, has built a multimillion-dollar, non-profit ministry based on his apocalyptic predictions.

He previously predicted that the world would end in And while Armageddon is pop science or big-screen entertainment to many, Camping has followers from the Bay Area to China. Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book.

One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd found: The world will end May 21, On Sept. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven. But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations, as well as overseeing a media company that has grown significantly in size and reach.

His office is flanked by satellite dishes in the parking lot that transmit his talk show, "Open Forum.