Predictor May 21, The Day Of Judgement To Monitor News Reports (Reuters)

California evangelical broadcaster predicts Judgement Day is on Saturday, said he expected to be near a TV or radio to listen to the new emerging world.

Harold Camping, 89, is the head of Christian Radio Station Network Inc. family, heard on stations in the U.S. 66 and members from Taiwan to Russia.

Previously, he made a prediction failure that Jesus Christ would return to earth in 1994. But this time, although a number of skeptics, even among the mainline churches, broadcasters qualified engineer says he is confident in his May 21 statement.

Just as his last prediction, said camping it is based on his reading of the Bible and a calendar of events dating back to ancient as the biblical flood of Noah survived.

Organization and its partners have published about 2,200 billboards across the U.S. warning a day off May 21, said spokesman Tom Evans.

Dozens of followers in the United States passed the caravans of recreational vehicles to spread the word.

As for camping, his plans are uncertain, but the presenter of the Alameda, in northern California, intends to be with his wife that day.

"I'd probably try to be very close to a television or radio or anything," said Camp. "Because I'm interested in what happens on the other side of the world as it begins."

Camping said that the earthquake has shaken the country, and that true believers will sweep the sky, while others remain behind the destruction of the world in the coming months.

"We know without a doubt it will happen," he said.

T-shirts and mugs

If May 21 is the opportunity for prayer and their camp followers, the cause of humor and making money for others.

At online retailer is hip Zazzle.com entrepreneurs selling everything from t-shirts to coffee mugs and mouse pads bearing the date May 21 and slogans such as "I survived the Apocalypse" and "J ' I survived the Rapture. "

Camping anticipation of a specific date for the Book of Revelation puts it out of the mainstream Christian, "said university professors who study the faith of the end.

But his assertion that the souls of believers to leave their bodies and enter heaven in the Rapture is a central tenet of many Christian churches in America.

"Christian believers after the rapture doctrine may be surprised to learn that it is quite an invention, an innovation in Christian doctrine since the 19th century," said Stephen O'Leary, a professor of communication at University of Southern California and an expert on millenarian beliefs.

The idea can be traced back to John Nelson Darby, an evangelical Christian, active in England and Ireland, "he said.

Barbara Rossing, professor of Testament at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago New, wrote a book titled "The Rapture exposed."

"This is a prophecy of the end of the huge industry of video games in time, board games, books and evangelists on television and radio ... that make a great success and is very attractive to people," Rossing he said.

Evans, spokesman for the camp, said at least several tens of thousands of people listen to the message of Family Radio.

One of these guards is Allison, 29, of Raleigh, North Carolina, which last worked as a payroll clerk for a company in Ohio and now leads the final moments Wecanknow.com site.

"My boss does not agree with that, but have been very understanding and supportive," she said. He believes that next week I'll be back at work as usual. "\