October 18 - Harold Camping Oct. 21 Rapture: God Stopped Saving People in May, Family Radio Says

Family Radio says if you weren't among those who were saved by May 21, the date of Harold Camping's Rapture prediction, then it's too late.

When its general manager Camping made a doomsday prediction back in May that was a "physical" failure, Family Radio informed the world that God actually used the much-publicized event "to warn the whole world that on May 21 [His] salvation program would be finished on that day."

According to Camping and Family Radio, the whole world has been "under God's judgment" since May 21. Everyone, except for the elect, or "true believers," has been hanging under God's wrath, which will unfold on Oct. 21.

God was only trying to shake up the world when He "hid" His actual plans from Camping, Family Radio purports in a document published on its website titled "What Happened on May 21?"

On May 21, "each and every true believer had become eternally safe with God in Heaven" and "no one who had not become saved by that date can ever become saved."

If Camping and Family Radio and their supporters hand not "warned" the world of God's impending doom, more people would not have been saved by May 21.

Those who came to belief in Jesus Christ after May 21, however, are out of God's good graces, according to Camping. The period of salvation is over, so any new believers with genuine faith in Jesus Christ are essentially damned, based on Family Radio's explanation.

While it purports that "only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21, Family Radio insists that "anyone can continue to beseech God for mercy because salvation and the election program are entirely in God’s hands." Family Radio closes its explanation of Camping's failed May 21 prediction by noting, "You, too, without your knowledge may have become saved before that date."