Back to the drawing board

I was a bit worried that this guy might be right. But he did the math brilliantly...how could he have possibly been wrong?

I think this was his mistake. Misdirection dude, it's the Devil's favorite trick. 616 also makes perfect sense, since it's Padovonian and also the sum of the squares of the factorials.

It's hard to say much in favor of the procedure, anyway. "The day of the Lord cometh like a thief in the night," not like a puzzle on a cereal box.

Look to your own house, Mr. Camping.

[Update: "In my view it just doesn't square with Biblical revelation, which clearly suggests that according to the 25th chapter of Matthew's Gospel we neither know the day nor the hour that the end times will begin," said Gregory Chisholm, pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Oakland.

"So if one were really trying to help people prepare for the end times, one would counsel people to minister to the sick and feed the hungry and visit those who are in prison, because that's exactly what the Lord says to do," Chisholm said. ]