Hal Lindsay predicted in 1970 in his best-selling book, The Late Great Planet Earth that Jesus Christ would certainly return within 40 years ("a generation") after the re-establishment of the state of Israel (1948). He claimed that a Pan-Arab and African alliance[1] headed by Egypt would invade Israel and that the Soviet Union (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; C.C.C.P.[2] which no longer exists!) would join with them against Israel at that time. Even TIME Magazine was awed and they featured his prediction in one of their issues. His book went on to sell millions of copies, but no such thing ever happened, and now it cannot happen because of the late demise of the "Soviet Union" and the breakup of their republic into many separate states.
In his later book, The 1980's: Countdown to Armageddon (1981), Mr. Lindsay predicted this:
""...unmistakeably, this generation is the one that will see the end of the present world and the return of Christ."
Mr. Lindsay , in writing "this generation" in 1981, was still basing his "time return scenario" on the year 1988, exactly 40 years after the re-establishment of the state of Israel which happened as we all know in 1948. (Simple math: 1948 + 40 = 1988) As we also know, 1988 and the whole of the 80's have come and gone and no such thing happened.
Mr. Lindsay regularly re-announces his latest "Armageddon time-scenario" on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (T.B.N.) where he is provided with his own show broadcast world-wide as a "prophecy expert" concerning "the end times/latter days" and the "time" of the Darby style Rapture and Christs' return. He bases the bulk of his ministry on such "predictions".
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