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Harold Lee Lindsey (November 23, 1929 – November 25, 2024) was 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 ...
The Late Great Planet Earth is a treatment of dispensational premillennialism.As such, it compared end-time prophecies in the Bible with then-current events in an attempt to predict future scenarios resulting in the rapture of believers before the Great Tribulation and Second Coming of Jesus to establish his thousand-year (i.e. millennial) kingdom on Earth.
Carole C. Carlson (February 10, 1925 - December 21, 1999) [1] was an American author known for her contributions to religious literature. She was known as a ghostwriter for Hal Lindsey, who was described by some as the father of modern Bible prophecy.
Hal Lindsey: Published a book, The Late Great Planet Earth, suggesting Christ would return in the 1980s, probably no later than 1988. Edgar C. Whisenant: Published a book, 88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be in 1988, predicting the Second Coming and World War III, starting on Rosh Hashanah that year. [33] 1989 Edgar C. Whisenant
Dispensational ideas were experiencing political and commercial success, but Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye, who had become the public standard-bearers of dispensationalism, were different from their academic predecessors John Walvoord, Dwight Pentecost, and Charles Ryrie. [5]
The company was founded in 2000 by former tool company executive John Brown with help from an oil-industry attorney named Philip Mandelker. [5] In 2002 Brown gifted 50,000 shares of Zion to televangelist Hal Lindsey. Lindsey's cousin, Ralph Devore owned 725,000 shares and was a founding member of Zion Oil & Gas's board of directors.
This viewpoint was first made popular by John Nelson Darby in the 19th century and was recently popularized by Hal Lindsey in The Late Great Planet Earth. It is theorized that each week represents seven years, with the timetable beginning from Artaxerxes' order to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem (the Second Temple).
Scofield's notes on the Book of Revelation are a major source for the various timetables, judgments, and plagues elaborated on by popular religious writers such as Hal Lindsey, Edgar C. Whisenant, and Tim LaHaye; [7] and in part because of the success of the Scofield Reference Bible, twentieth-century American fundamentalists placed greater ...