Why is it Harold Camping cannot get his ‘Doomsday’ prediction correct? First, let’s lay the foundation for his initial prediction of a 5.21.11 Doomsday prediction, followed by a 10.21.11 Doomsday.

According to Camping, May 21st marked exactly 7,000 years since Noah’s flood. Since the number ’7′ is a significant number in the Bible, Camping concluded that the 7,000 year mark must signify the end of times for wicked mankind. When May 21 came and went, Camping explained the lack of a global destruction by stating May 21 was actually Judgment Day, and that those judged worthy would be taken to heaven, and those deemed unrepentant and wicked would be destroyed along with the physical earth, on October 21, 2011. Just as May 21 did, so too did October 21 come and pass with nothing out of the ordinary happening. So, what went wrong? Two things.

1) The date is impossible to calculate to begin with. Mark 13:32 says: "Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the Father" and 1 Thes 5: 2 says: "For YOU yourselves know quite well that God’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night." In other words, we know no more as to when "The End" is coming as we know when a thief is going to break in in the night.

2) Even if it was possible to calculate the date, Camping has the date for Noah’s Flood wrong anyway.

Camping’s basis for their End of Times prophecy was that May 21 marked exactly 7,000 years since Noah’s flood. WRONG.

The Bible provides chronological information that allows for a careful count back to the beginning of human history. At Genesis 5:1-29, we find the genealogical line from the creation of the first man, Adam, to the birth of Noah. The Deluge began “in the six hundredth year of Noah’s life.”—Genesis 7:11.

To determine the time of the Flood we need to start with a date that is accepted in secular history and corresponds to a particular event recorded in the Bible. From that point, we can determine the exact year of the flood.

One pivotal date is 539 B.C.E., the year when Persian King Cyrus overthrew Babylon. Secular sources for the time of his reign include Babylonian tablets and documents of Diodorus, Africanus, Eusebius, and Ptolemy. Because of a decree issued by Cyrus, a Jewish remnant left Babylon and arrived in their homeland in 537 B.C.E. That marked the end of Judah’s 70-year desolation, which according to the Biblical record had begun in 607 B.C.E. By taking into account the period of the judges and the reigns of Israel’s kings, we can determine that the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt occurred in 1513 B.C.E.

Bible-based chronology takes us back another 430 years to the making of the covenant with Abraham in 1943 B.C.E. Next, we must take into account the births and life spans of Terah, Nahor, Serug, Reu, Peleg, Eber, and Shelah, as well as Arpachshad, who was born “two years after the deluge.” (Genesis 11:10-32) Thus, we can place the beginning of the Flood in the year 2370 B.C.E. Which would mean that only some 4,381 years have elapsed (give or take a year), NOT the 7,000 years that Camping calculated. ***

*** Counting Backward From Cyrus’ Decree Allowing the Jews to Return From Exile to the Flood of Noah’s Day
537  Cyrus’ decree
539  The overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus the Persian
68 years

2370  Beginning of the Flood

 *   Cyrus’ proclamation for the release of the Jews from exile was made “in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia,” likely in the year 538 B.C.E. or early in 537 B.C.E.

As much as I admire Leni Riefenstahl’s talent as an actor and director, there is no question that she’s guilty of being a Nazi sympathizer. There are mounds of evidence to support that, including she herself!

For example, how do we explain the film clips of Riefenstahl dining with Goebbels, Himmler, and other men of the SS branches? Do you mean to tell me that she dined with these Socialist officials and had NO IDEA what they stood for? What they were doing? That she was completely naive and ignorant to the facts? And she may have claimed she never ate at Goebbels’s home, but that’s a lie. Goebbels even states this was so in his diaries. And she was on friendly terms with Hitler all through his rise and time in power, meeting with him numerous times, even as late as 1944.

And I think it’s interesting that although she left the front line in as a war correspondent supposedly over the repulsion of the Wehrmacht brutalities, that just the following year, she sent a telegram to Hitler congratulating him on overtaking France. She said: “Everyone thought the war was over, and in that spirit I sent the cable to Hitler.” Apparently she was able to accept and live with the brutalities Hitler’s regime exacted on others after all.

She even used concentration camp inmates in her films that were later sent to their deaths. And she KNEW about this. She, of course, would deny this, but later when on trial she changed her tune on that little lie, and vowed never to repeat it. 

She was a self-involved opportunist who knew full well that her films were propaganda. She failed to speak out, when others DID speak out.

When facts about the era and her role in it are brought out, she would go on the defensive. She’s even had outbursts where she would grab and physically shake the person interviewing her when facts were brought out that painted her in a negative light.

Are we to believe that “Triumph of the Will” and “Olympia” was inspired solely by her desire to be “artistic”? Wrong! How many do we suppose were inspired to join the Nazi cause after that greatest of film propaganda (Triumph) the world has ever known was released? I’m afraid to guess. And Olympia? Despite the naysayers, this was financed by Goebbels’s propaganda ministry.

Riefenstahl knew full well what she was doing and what she was promoting. But she “sold her soul to the Devil” as it were, by turning a blind eye to what the Nazi’s represented, so as to improve on her so-so movie career. She was only doing so-so before Hitler gave her her “break.” She saw an opportunity and took it.

The short of it is, Riefenstahl was, without question, a Nazi sympathizer.