Just tweaking -- adding 42 days to May 21, 2011 would give us a date of around July 2, 2011 ... assuming that Jesus was resurrected on April 5 or so!

... and a cloud received Him out of their sight ...

Act 1:3 and 9 KJV: (v. 3) "To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: ... (v.9) And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight."

Of course, the 722,500 days after Jesus' Ascension (roughly 42 days after His Crucifixion) almost seems random anyway, although it's nice that it's a perfect square of 850 = 10 + 5 + 17 ..... that is, 850 x 850 = 722,500.

Bare in mind I am not "prophesying," only tidying up some of Harold Camping's spurious numerology and the meanings he put into the numbers 5, 10 and 17.

Just look at the tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes (near the North Pole?) and the turmoil in the Middle East ... and well, early July isn't so far-fetched and surely no one except the Father knows the exact time and date--as Jesus said.

Why did Camping start his arithmetic at the day of the Crucifixion anyway, and not when He ascended bodily and spiritually into the clouds forty days after His Resurrection?--as will those still alive at the time of the Rapture, although not ahead of those who have died before us/them. [See 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18]

All that aside, I really think that Harold Camping meant well and will be forgiven for his peculiar arithmetic and apparent numerology. Mediawingnuts certainly forgives him and also thanks him for giving me some nutty blog-postings and some thinking about what is real ... there will be a Rapture ... and a Tribulation ... and an ultimate Judgement of us all! Basically, all of the uncertainties highlighted by Mr. Camping's false predictions suggest that we should abide by the advice given in one of my recent previous postings.