The Late Great Planet Earth

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The Late, Great Planet Earth is a treatment of literalist, premillennial, dispensational eschatology. It compared end-time prophecies in the Bible with then-current events in an attempt to broadly predict future scenarios leading to the rapture of believers before the tribulation and Second Coming of Christ. Focusing on key passages in the books of Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation, Lindsey originally suggested the possibility these climactic events might play out in the 1980s, which he interpreted as one generation from the foundation of modern Israel in 1948, a pivotal event in most evangelical schools of eschatological thought. Descriptions of alleged "fulfilled" prophecy were offered as proof of the infallibility of God's Word, and evidence that "unfulfilled" prophecies would soon find their denouement in God's plan for the planet. He cited an increase in the frequency of famines, wars and earthquakes, as key events leading up to the end of the world. He also foretold a Russian invasion of Israel. The Late, Great Planet Earth postulated an Antichrist ruling over a ten-nation European confederacy. Lindsey believed the six-member European Economic Community could be a forerunner, which he considered to be a revival of the Roman Empire. He found little in the Bible representing the United States of America, but he suggested Ezekiel 13:13 could be speaking of the it in part. Although Lindsey did not claim to know the dates of future events with any certainty, he suggested Matthew 24:32-34 indicated that Jesus' return might be within "one generation" of the rebirth of the state of Israel, and the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, and he asserted that "in the Bible" one generation is forty years. Some readers took this as an indication the Tribulation or the Rapture would occur no later than 1988. In his work; The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon, Lindsey predicted "the decade of the 1980s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it".

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