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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.
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 ...
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
The online index highlights the 45 signs of the rapture listed in the bible, such as "earth quakes" or "plagues," and scores them according to activity in the world. The numbers are then added ...
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.
Midtribulation and posttribulation rapture are minority views. [26] [27] Pretribulational rapture doctrine is what separates dispensationalism from other forms of premillennialism and other millennial views. [17]: 409 Dispensational eschatology was popularized in Hal Lindsey's book, The Late Great Planet Earth (1970).
Christian writer Hal Lindsey's 1970 non-fiction book The Late Great Planet Earth was an influence on the film and its Rapture depictions; Thief has been described as complementing Lindsey's book. [1] [9]