A concise critique of the view that the institutional church, guilty of apostasy, should disband, ceasing its clerical ministries and its administration of the sacraments.

“In our day Harold Camping has arisen amidst the flock, speaking perverse things, drawing away the sheep after himself. It is the sad but necessary duty of the shepherds of the flock to protect Christ’s sheep from those who would lead them astray. ” James White

“Camping’s teaching on the end of the church age is a poisonous heresy. This book is the perfect antidote... ideal to read and to share with others who have been influenced by Mr. Camping.” Philip Graham Ryken

Editors: J. Ligon Duncan III (M.Div., M.A., Ph.D.) is the senior minister of the historic First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi. Mark R. Talbot(Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College.