end of the age

In recent times we have heard reports of Mr Harold Camping of Family Radio predicting that May 21 2011 was to be Judgement Day and Rapture Day for the Church.
HE HAS NOW REVISED HIS DATE TO OCT 21, 2011, (THIS WILL BE WRONG ALSO)
Of course as all true Christians knew, Camping was wrong and there was NO judgement or Rapture that day.
Camping broke the Gold Standard Rule for eschatology. Please see the words Of The Lord Jesus Christ below from

Matthew 24 (amplified version)

3While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age?

4Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].

36But of that [exact] day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

We see here that Jesus tells us very clearly that no one knows, not even the angels or himself about a certain day and hour.

Camping espoused a very complex and unfounded form of Biblical interpretation to support his position. I tried to work out from his teachings how he arrived at his date but had no idea what he was talking about. It was all based on his own private esoteric and convoluted intrepretations of obscure unrelated scripture passages.
This is very sad because a lot of the content on Family Radio was very sound and orthodox.
It is tragic to see a whole ministry team besmirched by such blatant error. Even sadder to say, is that not one of the ministry staff or radio announcers ever denounced Campings prediction.
In spite of false predictors like Camping, we must be aware that we do live in perilous times and Jesus did teach that we could know the season of His imminent return but never the hour or day.
We live in the most momentous time of human history, it is the climax of the ages. Yes there will be great sufferings and tribulation throughout the planet but for those who safely trust in Jesus, it will be a time of being Gods instruments to touch, heal and help others to know Christ. We also look forward to the Eternal Heavenly Kingdom we will soon live in forever.
Just because there are counterfeit $100 bills in circulation does not mean we should throw our bills in the trash, that would be madness. Of course, there is far more genuine currency in circulation than false.
This is true in prophetic things also. Just because there are counterfeit teachings like Campings, that does not mean we regard all teachers on end time events as charlatans and false prophets, there are genuine men and women of God that are sent by God to help us understand the times in which we live.
Above all they seek to lead the lost masses of humanity into safe harbor in Jesus Christ.

READ THE WORDS OF JESUS IN MATTHEW 24 (LIVING BIBLE)
23 “Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah,’ or ‘There he is,’ don’t believe it. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones. 25 See, I have warned you about this ahead of time.

26 “So if someone tells you, ‘Look, the Messiah is out in the desert,’ don’t bother to go and look. Or, ‘Look, he is hiding here,’ don’t believe it! 27 For as the lightning flashes in the east and shines to the west, so it will be when the Son of Man[e] comes. 28 Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.[f]

29 “Immediately after the anguish of those days,

the sun will be darkened,
the moon will give no light,
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.[g]

30 And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.[h] 31 And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world[i]—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.

32 “Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches bud and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near. 33 In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his return is very near, right at the door. 34 I tell you the truth, this generation[j] will not pass from the scene until all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.

36 “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself.[k] Only the Father knows.