Hal Lindsey, the creator of the bestselling e book The Late Nice Planet Earth and a outstanding end-times trainer, died Nov. 25. He was 95.
Lindsey hosted two prophecy-themed applications on TBN: The Worldwide Intelligence Briefing from 1994 to 2005 and The Hal Lindsey Report from 2006 to 2019. Every program examined present occasions by way of a dispensational, premillennial view of Scripture. Extra not too long ago, Lindsey hosted Hal Lindsey Presents on Daystar, His Channel, and on HalLindsey.com.
Lindsey turned a nationwide title in 1970 with the publication of The Late Nice Planet Earth, which sparked widespread curiosity in biblical prophecy and had a significant impression on evangelicalism. In it, Lindsey instructed that the geopolitical local weather of the twentieth century aligned with end-times eventualities described within the Bible. The e book was written with journalist Carole C. Carlson.
It was one of many top-selling books of the Nineteen Seventies and finally was made right into a 1977 film of the identical title, narrated by Orson Welles.
In The Late Nice Planet Earth, Lindsey instructed that Jesus would return inside a era of Israel’s institution in 1948, main many readers to interpret this as pointing to 1988.
The return of Christ, he wrote, ought to lead Christians to stay with urgency and goal.
“Removed from being pessimistic and dropping out of life, we needs to be rejoicing within the data that Christ could return any second for us,” he wrote. “This could spur us on to share the excellent news of salvation in Christ with as many as attainable. The Holy Spirit is working upon males in a dramatic approach, and He’ll lead you.”
Biblical prophecy, he wrote, can “grow to be a positive basis upon which your religion can develop.”
“We imagine there’s a hope for the long run, despite the way in which the world appears at the moment,” he wrote. “We imagine that an individual may be given a safe and but thrilling view of his future by making an trustworthy investigation of the examined truths of Bible prophecy.”
His life’s aim, he stated, was to level folks to Christ.
“A technique or one other, historical past continues in a sure acceleration towards the return of Christ. Are you prepared?”
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His weekly program “The Hal Lindsey Report” knowledgeable and impressed thousands and thousands with its Biblical insights into world occasions and prophecy.
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Lindsey wrote different books about prophecy, together with There is a New World Coming, The Rapture, Hope for the Terminal Era, Devil is Alive and Nicely on Planet Earth, The Ultimate Battle, Fight Religion, and Superb Grace.
Lindsey “got here to religion in Christ as a tugboat captain on the Mississippi River,” based on his official obituary. He graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary. Biblical prophecy, he stated, “gave me a certainty that this e book [the Bible] couldn’t have been written by mere males.”
He’s survived by his spouse and three daughters, in addition to grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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