Undeterred by the failure of his first end-of-the-world prophecy for May 21, and by the criticism of many senior Christian leaders, preacher Harold Camping has continued to insist the end of the world will now happen on October 21.
Camping explained the failure of his previous prediction by saying that God’s judgement did indeed occur on May 21, but only in a spiritual sense and not in any physical way. Camping has already said that it is for this reason his organisation, Family Radio, will no longer participate in evangelism since he sees it as too late for those who are ‘lost’. Camping said they will now focus their ministry on the ‘saved’ to assist in preparing them for the end of the world.
Earlier this week, the doomsday preacher stepped up his prophecies into the realm of the macabre when he said during a question-and-answer forum on his radio show that the corpses of the "unsaved" will be thrown out of their graves and on the ground like "manure" on October 21.
"Those who are unsaved are going to experience the curse of God. They will be shamed in the eyes of God," said the president of Family Radio.
"One of the things that you'll notice at this time of year. We're talking about May 30 (Memorial Day in America) and we consider all the graves and all those who have died in connection with the armed services of the United States and there is great respect, great respect for them," he said.
"On the last day, all the unsaved are going to come under the curse of God. They are going to be thrown out of the grave if there are still a corpse there or bones. If they are in the grave, they will be shamed in the eyes of God. If they die on that day, they're not going to be buried. They're going to be shamed in the eyes of God," Camping insisted.
The preacher explained the person would not actually experience this since they are dead and no longer have any consciousness.
"But they will be shamed," he emphasised.