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Aug 1, 2021: Baltimore Post-Examiner: Ron Rhodes: Christian Author Offers Views on Bible Prophecy, End Times
BPE: You mentioned how Pat and Shirley Boone’s interest in Bible prophecy piqued your interest as well. Was there any connection there with the excitement generated by Hal Lindsey’s book The Late Great Planet Earth? Rhodes: Yeah, absolutely. That was around the time when that book became really huge. I didn’t know at the time that I would later meet Hal and talk with him about Bible prophecy, when I was working as a co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show, “The Bible Answer Man.” The Late Great Planet Earth popularized Bible prophecy. I don’t know if you remember, but following the publication of that book, there were literally dozens of other prophecy books that got published by riding the coattails of Hal’s book. Long before the Left Behind books crowded the New York Times best-seller list, Hal Lindsey and C. C. Carlson’s The Late Great Planet Earth introduced millions of readers worldwide to end-times prophecy. An accessible, engaging introduction to the coming apocalypse, The Late Great Planet Earth was the best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s: Ten million copies were in circulation by the end of the decade. It sold more than 28 million copies by 1990, an estimated 35 million by 1999, and was translated into more than 50 languages. A 1977 movie version narrated by Orson Welles ran in theaters nationwide and was later broadcast on HBO. Lindsey was “the most widely read interpreter of prophecy in history,” said one critic. Another claimed that only the Bible itself had outsold The Late Great Planet Earth. -National Endowment for the Humanities; 2017 Winter 2017: National Endowment for the Humanities: The Late Great Planet Earth Made the Apocalypse a Popular Concern This book [The Late Great Planet Earth] contains incontrovertible proof that Christianity is the one true way. Everybody should read this. Nov 13, 2015: Youtube: Hal Lindsey Report (11.13.15)
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Hal Lindsey turns 85 years old today, something that Lindsey himself has spent decades telling us should never come to pass. Aug 30, 2014: Before Its News: The Destroyer is Here: Apollyon Rising The Hal Lindsey Report (Video) Prophecy Must See! This week on ‘The Hal Lindsey Report’Some weeks it is more difficult than others to prepare “The Hal Lindsey Report.” This has been one of those weeks. |
Harold Lee "Hal" Lindsey (born November 23, 1929) is an American evangelist and Christian writer. He is a Christian Zionist and dispensationalist author. Born in Houston, Texas, Lindsey dropped out of the University of Houston to serve in the Korean War, then worked as a Mississippi River tugboat captain. His personal web site describes that when "his first marriage broke up, he contemplated suicide, but instead found a Gideon New Testament and was converted. Lindsey became an avid reader of Scripture, particularly prophetic sections, which convinced him that the Bible was truly the Word of God." His initial book, The Late Great Planet Earth, became one of the best-selling works of non-fiction in the 1970’s. It was published in 54 languages and has sold approximately 35 million copies. This book [The Late Great Planet Earth] contains incontrovertible proof that Christianity is the one true way. Everybody should read this. Every 3 years Hal Lindsay [sic] writes a new book denoting how the world will end in 5 years. Each subsequent book explains how he WASN’T wrong in the previous book and the world will really end in 5 years. . . . He has followed this pattern for 3 decades and is now acknowledged as “the fore-most authority on Biblical prophecy in the world today.” . . . I’m an electrician. If I had been doing my job POORLY and WRONG for 30 years I doubt I would be “the foremost authority”. In fact, I dare say I would have ceased to make a living in my chosen profession in the first 10 years. Scholars and intellectuals, meanwhile, condemned The Late Great Planet Earth for being theologically wrong, historically inaccurate, and aesthetically bad. “Pity those who look to Lindsey’s books to lead them through the Bible,” wrote one theologian in a book-length debunking. “Lindsey’s views represent yet another link in a long chain of mistaken interpretations of God’s Word.” |
Feb 10, 2013: Spindle Works: Hal Lindsey How do we study the Bible? - Rev. W. Pouwelse
We appreciate that Hal Lindsey tries to take the whole Bible literally. We also appreciate that he places the infallible Word of God over against all kinds of speculations of astrologers and other fortune-tellers. He speaks about "hope for the future, in spite of the way the world looks today." He believes "that a person can be given a secure and yet exciting view of his destiny by making an honest investigation of the tested truth of Bible prophecy." (p. 8)
However, in his explanation and interpretation of what the Word of God says, he appears to be very preoccupied, so much so that he imposes his vision and political point of view upon the Bible, as we will show in what follows.
We appreciate that Hal Lindsey tries to take the whole Bible literally. We also appreciate that he places the infallible Word of God over against all kinds of speculations of astrologers and other fortune-tellers. He speaks about "hope for the future, in spite of the way the world looks today." He believes "that a person can be given a secure and yet exciting view of his destiny by making an honest investigation of the tested truth of Bible prophecy." (p. 8)
However, in his explanation and interpretation of what the Word of God says, he appears to be very preoccupied, so much so that he imposes his vision and political point of view upon the Bible, as we will show in what follows.
In a world in which people feel insecure and are looking for trustworthy "soothsayers," millions of people listen to such theories. The sales figures of these kinds of books are a clear proof of what people like to hear. Hal Lindsey's book is the "#1 Best-seller of the decade." But we should not let ourselves be deceived by such speculations. Not even if some of these predictions should come true. That would not be a matter of "passing the test," as Hal Lindsey tries to make us believe. We have to see whether it is in accordance with the whole Word of God. It is also possible that "the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deut. 13:3).
-- W. Pouwelse; Spindle Works 2.10.13
-- W. Pouwelse; Spindle Works 2.10.13
Lindsey resigned from TBN on January 1, 2006, and indicated that he would pursue another television ministry. Starting February 5 as production schedules allow, Lindsey's new program, The Hal Lindsey Report, focused on Bible prophecy and current events, will be carried on the Sky Angel nationwide.
