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Recent Premillennialism: Late Great Predictions
The events of recent decades have fired the imagination of a host of premillennialist, especially Hal Lindsey.
Robert G. Clouse | posted 1/01/1999 12:00AM
After World War II, premillennialism reached an eschatological frenzy. Atomic weapons with incomprehensible destructive power and delivery systems left no place safe from the threat of thermonuclear annihilation. Israel was established as a Jewish state and successfully defended its territory during the ensuing decades.
Furthermore, the United States and the Soviet Union entered a Cold War; in evangelical circles, this was portrayed not as a geopolitical conflict but as an ideological struggle —capitalism versus communism, democracy versus dictatorship, freedom versus slavery. And such themes pervaded the prophetic and apocalyptic literature that rolled off the evangelical presses in the 1960s through the 1980s.
Scores of sensationalist prophetic teachers issued these volumes, but none was better known than Hal Lindsey.
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Born in Houston, Texas, in 1929, Harold L. Lindsey dropped out of the University of Houston to serve in the Korean War, then worked as a Mississippi ...
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