Camping follows William Miller's pathetic example: "Jesus came spiritually"

Having pronounced himself "flabbergasted" yesterday at the failure of Jesus to return in either 1994 or on May 21, 2011, Harold Camping couldn't leave well enough alone.

Following in the footsteps of William Miller and other false prophets of the past, he claims that Jesus did return on Saturday- but "spiritually." The new date for the "rapture" is his old date for the Final Judgment: September 21.

Guess what? Isn't gonna happen then, either.

This is pretty much the same dodge that Miller, Camping's precedessor in prophetic futility, used after his repeated predictions of Christ's return all failed. As was the case with Camping, well-meaning but gullible folks quit their jobs and bankrupted themselves because they put their faith in a false prophet. Miller insisted that he had been correct, except the event happened invisibly, in heaven, or in some other way inaccessible to people without his personal Secret Bible Decoder Ring.

Scriptrue gives a different answer to the Campings and the Millers:

And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. (Deuteronomy 18:21-22 ESV)