If I'm not mistaken, Camping believes that this is the time of God's judgment upon the church, the time of the abomination of desolation, the time when Babylon is fallen, the time of the great apostacy. We are to come out from among them (the physical church). When we see the abomination of desolation (in the church) we who are in Judaea (apostasized church) are to flee to the mountains (refuge in God alone).

The problem is, that he teaches to flee from the physical church, but he doesn't say to try and find another church elsewhere to assemble in. All churches are bad. The Holy Spirit (says he) has been taken away from the churches. Although there may still be some believers who still haven't come out yet, the power of the Holy Spirit has been removed. The Holy Spirit has stopped saving people through the preaching of the word in the churches.

Think about what that must mean. Pastors and preachers of the word, who are saved by the blood of the lamb and indwelt by the Holy Spirit, somehow lose their teaching authority when they enter the church doors. Apparently the Holy Spirit stays outside the building and, when the word is preached, there is no power in the preaching and nobody gets saved. Since the Holy Spirit is not in the church, believers can't be edified by the preaching of the word.

The scriptures tell us "Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." His response is that, if they can, they meet in fellowships with "likeminded" believers, or if that's not feasible, they participate on computer forums, or listen to his radio broadcast (I assume).

Hogwash (IMHO),
Bob

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B.Howes
Framingham, MA