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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.
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 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
He first predicted that the Second Advent of Christ would occur before March 21, 1844. [1] When that date passed he revised his prediction to April 18, 1844. [2] After that date also passed, another Millerite, Samuel S. Snow, derived the date of October 22, 1844. [3] The failure of those predictions has been named the Millerite Great ...
Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ. End-time events are normally predicted to occur within the lifetime of the person making the prediction and are usually made using the Bible—in particular the New Testament —as either the primary or exclusive ...
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.
During the 1970s, belief in the rapture became popular in wider circles, in part because of the books of Hal Lindsey, including The Late Great Planet Earth, which has reportedly sold between 15 million and 35 million copies, and the movie A Thief in the Night, which based its title on the scriptural reference 1 Thessalonians 5:2. Lindsey ...
The prophecy of weeks is interpreted as referring to years, with a week meaning 7 years. [18] In this view, there is a gap, or "parenthesis" between the sixty-ninth and seventieth weeks. [ 19 ] This is followed by a period of tribulation and the appearance of the Antichrist .