After the Great Disappointment on October 22, 1844, the early Adventists who had predicted that Christ would return to the earth concluded their math had been right, they just hadn’t understood the event properly. They had predicted the cleansing of the “Sanctuary” would take place on their appointed day with the earth being consumed in a fireball, they changed that to a heavenly sanctuary, conveniently the one the Levitical sanctuary was modeled after, that was being cleansed by the “blood of the lamb”.

Adventists to this day believe that the “Anti-typical Day of Atonement” and the judgement of the world began in 1844 and that we are still in the final probationary period before the close of judgement, the end of probation, and end of the world.

Camping’s pulling the same shit.

OAKLAND, Calif. – California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.

Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.

But Camping said that he’s now realized the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted. He had earlier said Oct. 21 was when the globe would be consumed by a fireball.

Saturday was “an invisible judgment day” in which a spiritual judgment took place, he said. But the timing and the structure is the same as it has always been, he said.

“We’ve always said May 21 was the day, but we didn’t understand altogether the spiritual meaning,” he said. “May 21 is the day that Christ came and put the world under judgment.”

(Via BlagHag)