Hal Lindsey

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Hal Lindsey
Born
Harold Lee Lindsey

(1929-11-23) November 23, 1929 (age 94)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)Writer, evangelist

Harold Lee Lindsey (born November 23, 1929) is an American evangelical writer and television host. He wrote a series of popular apocalyptic books – beginning with The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) – asserting that the Apocalypse or end time (including the rapture) was imminent because current events were fulfilling Bible prophecy. He is a Christian Zionist and dispensationalist.

Biography

Lindsey graduated from

California Graduate School of Theology.[2]

Lindsey hosted

Muslim."[4] TBN owner Paul Crouch, however, contended that "TBN has never been and is not now against Israel and the Jewish people."[5]
Crouch said that Lindsey's show was pre-empted for Christmas programming.

Lindsey resigned from TBN on January 1, 2006, and indicated that he would pursue another television ministry. His new program,

DayStar networks. During January 2007, Lindsey announced that he would be returning to the TBN network. The Hal Lindsey Report is broadcast by TBN with his own financing.[6]

Biblical interpretations

Lindsey's claims are based on a

Jesus Christ will return from heaven to earth someday and establish eternal peace and harmony among all people.[8]

Lindsey claims the Bible contains numerous prophecies that foretell of certain conditions and events that will occur in the world prior to Christ's return and that as these things occur, they are to serve as signs and reminders that we are in the era that the Bible calls the end times or last days.

State of Israel in May 1948 is the fulfillment of this major prophecy.[citation needed
]

In The Late Great Planet Earth, Lindsey wrote that the biblical prophets identified certain nations that would ally with other countries to form "four major spheres of political power" during the same era that Israel would be reestablished as a nation.[11] Lindsey wrote that these nations and their allies can be identified as: (1) Russia with its allies, (2) China with other nations of the Orient, (3) Egypt with other Middle East countries, and (4) an alliance of Western European nations.[12]

According to Lindsey, the alliance of Western European nations is a revived form of the ancient Roman Empire, predicted in the books of Daniel and Revelation symbolically as ten horns and ten kings.[13] In The Late Great Planet Earth, Lindsey quotes from a 1969 Time magazine article that the goal of the European Economic Community, which preceded the European Union, was to establish a ten-nation economic community.[14] Lindsey concludes, based on this and other sources, that this alliance will help cause the fulfillment of this prophecy and will ultimately be ruled by the Antichrist.[15]

Lindsey noted that the prophets did not refer to the United States of America directly or indirectly. He concluded that this is an indication that the U.S. will no longer be a great geo-political power by the time the

Tribulation of the end times arrives.[16]

In a later book, titled, The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon,

New York Times bestseller list for more than 20 weeks.[citation needed
]

Works

Books

  • The Late Great Planet Earth (1971) w/ C.C. Carlson
  • Homo Sapiens: Extinction or Evacuation (1971)
    • Reprint as World's Final Hour: Evacuation or Extinction (1976)
  • Satan Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth (1972) w/ Carole C. Carlson
  • The Late Great Planet Earth Song Book (1972), w/ Fred Bock
  • The Guilt Trip: How to Realize God's Forgiving Love (1972)
  • How to Prepare for Armageddon (1972, multiple authors)
  • The Liberation of Planet Earth (1974)
  • The Promise (1974)
  • Hal Lindsey's There's a New World Coming (1974, comic book)
  • When is Jesus Coming Again (1974, multiple authors)
  • There's a New World Coming: An In-Depth Analysis of the Book of Revelation (1975, 1984)
  • Hope for the Terminal Generation (1976)
  • The Events That Changed My Life (1977)
  • The 1980's: Countdown to Armageddon (1980)
  • The Rapture: Truth or Consequences (1983)
  • Prophetical Walk Through the Holy Land (1983)
  • Combat Faith (1986)
  • The Road to Holocaust (1990)
  • Israel and the Last Days (1991)
  • The Rise of Babylon and the Persian Gulf Crisis: A Special Report (1991) w/ Chuck Missler
  • Planet Earth 2000 A.D.: Will Mankind Survive? (1994)
  • The Final Battle (1995)
  • Amazing Grace (1995)
  • Steeling the Mind of America (1995, multiple authors)
  • Blood Moon (1996)
  • The Messiah (1996)
  • Apocalypse Code (1997)
  • Planet Earth: The Final Chapter (1999)
  • Vanished into Thin Air: The Hope of Every Believer (1999)
  • Combat Faith: Unshakable Faith for Every Day (1999)
  • The Greatest Gift: God's Amazing Grace (1999)
  • Facing Millennium Midnight (1999) w/ Cliff Ford
  • The Promise of Bible Prophecy (2000)
  • Why Do We Have Trials? (2001)
  • The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad (2002)
  • Faith for Earth's Final Hour (2003)

Foreword by Hal Lindsey

  • Birth of the Body: Acts 1-12 (1974) by Ray C. Stedman
  • The Coming Russian Invasion of Israel (1974) by Thomas McCall and Zola Levitt
  • The Beautiful Side of Evil (1982) by Johanna Michaelsen
  • Like Lambs to the Slaughter (1989) by Johanna Michaelsen
  • The Magog Invasion (1995) by Chuck Missler
  • Happy Days and Dark Nights (1996) by Jerry and Susanne McClain with Marsha Gallardo
  • The Shadow of the Apocalypse: When All Hell Breaks Loose (2004) by Paul Crouch
  • Personal Revival: Come Near, Come Now, Come Alive (2007) by Gary Galbraith
  • America's Coming Judgment: Where is Our Hope? (2017) by Thomas J. Hughes

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-553-11545-6
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  2. ^ "Antipas Foundation". Archived from the original on May 23, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
  3. ^ Blake, Mariah (May–June 2005). "Stations of the Cross". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved August 18, 2006.
  4. ^ "Urgent Personal Message from Hal TBN Suspends IIB". www.hallindseyoracle.com. Archived from the original on December 12, 2005.
  5. ^ "TBN – Trinity Broadcasting Network". Archived from the original on June 15, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2006.
  6. ^ TBN – Trinity Broadcasting Network Archived January 25, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ISBN 0-553-11545-6
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  8. ISBN 0-553-20272-3
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  9. ^ The Late Great Planet Earth, p. 17
  10. ^ The Late Great Planet Earth, Chapter 4, "Israel, O Israel".
  11. ^ The Late Great Planet Earth, p. 32
  12. ^ The Late Great Planet Earth, chapters 5–8
  13. ^ The Late Great Planet Earth, p. 82
  14. ^ The Late Great Planet Earth, p. 85; p. 180 in his Reference Notes for Chapter 8, Lindsey cites Time Magazine, July 4, 1969
  15. ^ The Late Great Planet Earth; p. 82
  16. ^ pp. 84, 173
  17. ISBN 0-553-01303-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link
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  18. ^ The 1980s Countdown To Armageddon; p.8
  19. ^ p. 132

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