Apocalypse Now: world is ending today Apocalypse Now: world is ending today. Have you heard the world is ending today – or at least the beginning of the end? If you are a true believer in the apocalypse, starting today more than 200 million people will be swept up to heaven in the Rapture while the rest of humanity will suffer five months of unspeakable misery before the ultimate end of the world in October. "I am utterly absolutely, absolutely convinced it's going to happen," said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old evangelist and president of Family Radio whose biblical calculations have ignited Rapture fever across America. Camping pinpointed May 21, at about 5:59 p.m. ET, as the exact time when those chosen by God will ascend to heaven while cataclysmic earthquakes begin to rock earth, and he spent big bucks on 5,000 billboards, posters, fliers and digital bus displays across the country. Inevitably, many have mocked Camping's prognostications, but the recent series...