Bob James, who considers the billboards as a message of hope, said. "Seven billion people are facing their death! What else could I do?" James helped organize the 30 believers to pay for the billboards in New Jersey.

Camping says the gathering up of saved souls will start on May 21st, followed by 5 months of tribulation and chaos that will act as a spiritual business-closing-down sale. It will finish with the final act on October 21st.

Camping prefers the doctrine of annihilationism and that unsaved souls will simply cease to exist. He teaches that the doctrine of eternal torment and Hell is not a reality.

All churches are corrupt and have become apostate, says Camping. They do not use the Bible alone as the sole authority. They must be dumped.

When 44 year-old Anthony Hermandez, the father of seven, was asked if he was scared he replied "If I find myself here May 22, then I'll be unsaved, because all the believers will be taken". This is in spite of Camping teaching that salvation is a pure act of God's grace.

Hermandez has neither booked a summer vacation with relatives, nor stocked up on provisions. He has no plans for life after May 21st.

There are warnings of end times from paid billboards, to hand written signs everywhere, talking about earthquakes, tsunamis and war.

Others prophesy ‘lights out in 2012, while still others see the 2010's as the end of the earth.

NASA also states that a bombardment of solar flares in 2013 could end it all. The salvo of flares are likely to overlap with the sun's magnetic energy cycle clashing with the sun's 11-year peak in super-powered sunspot activity.

An ordained pastor at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, Barbara Rossing, and author of The Rapture Exposed said, "People love to speculate about the end of the world. It's human nature to want to know when Jesus is returning, Christ specifically admonishes us, 'Don't try to figure it out."' but Jesus Christ said that no man knows the day or the hour of the Lord's return except the Father.

About the Author:
Dr Wendy Stenberg-Tendys and her husband are CEO's and founders of YouMe Support Foundation, providing high school education grants for children who are without hope. You can help in this really great project by taking a few minutes to check out the Sponsor a Student program at (http://youmesupport.org). It will change the life of some really needy kids in the South Pacific.