They spent months of warning the world of the apocalypse, some giving land property or draining their savings accounts. And so they waited with vigilance, Saturday for the time being appointed to arrive.
When 6 p.m. came and went through the United States and the various places of the globe, and no extraordinary cataclysm occurred, some believers expressed confusion, while others feel reassured each of their faith. Yet, some other takes on the heels.
"I had some skepticism but I was trying to push away skepticism because I believe in God," said Keith Bauer - who jumped into his van in Maryland and led his family 3,000 miles in California for the Rapture.
He began his day in the Sun clear morning before Oakland family gated Radio International Headquarters, including the founder, Harold Camping, disseminates the apocalyptic prediction for years.
"I was hoping for it because I think that sky would be much better than this land," said Bauer, a truck driver who starts the journey West last week, thinking that if he "" worked last week, I would have paid all fa?onSi obtained step the Rapture happened. ""
May 21 doomsday message has been sent away through sites Web and emissions by Camping, an 89-year-old retired civil engineer who built a multi million Christian empire of media which publishes his apocalyptic prediction. According to Camping, destruction was likely began his walk around the world as it was 6 hours in different time zones, although some believers, said Saturday that the exact timing was never written in stone.
In the New York Times Square, Robert Fitzpatrick, Staten Island, said that he was surprised when the six hours time simply came and went. He spent his own money to place advertising on the end of the world.
"I cannot tell you what I feel right now," he said, surrounded by tourists. "Obviously, I have not understood it properly because we are still here.".
Many disciples, said that the delay was an additional criterion of God to persevere in their faith.
"It is always on May 21 and God of the pass to make it, said Coordinator of special projects of Radio of the family Michael Garcia, who spent Saturday morning, praying and drinking two last cups of coffee with his wife at home in Alameda.." When say you something and it doesn't happen, your pride is what is wrong. But who has need of pride? God says he resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. ?
The Internet was living with discussion, humorous or not, towards the end of the world and its apparent failure to occur on cue. Many tweets said prediction of Camping a dud or shared, deadpan, their relief at not having to do chores for weekend or take a shower.
Key trends on Twitter at noon included, no. 1, "endofworldconfessions", followed by "myraptureplaylist".
6 P.m. approaching in California, some 100 people gathered outside the headquarters of the family of international radio stations in Oakland, although it seems none of the believers in prophecy among them. Camping radio stations, television channels, emissions by satellite and Web site are controlled by a modest building tight between automobile and business of the drive shop a palm.
