Harold Lee "Hal" Lindsey is an American evangelist and Christian writer. He is a Christian Zionist and dispensationalist author. He currently resides in Texas.
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Who is Hal Lindsey?
Hal Lindsey is one of the most fascinating figures in the whole history of
contemporary prophecy belief. A person of very obscure origins. Very
little education.
Late 1960s. He's a campus preacher out in southern
California. 1970, publishes a book,
The Late Great Planet Earth,
which is really a popularization of John Darby's system. Theologically, there's nothing new there. What he
does is link it to current events: the Cold War, nuclear war, the
Chinese Communist threat, the restoration of Israel. All of these events, he
links to specific biblical passages in the classic fashion of prophecy
popularizers. And he and his ghost writer write the book in a very almost
slang-like, very accessible language. It's not a heavy theological book at
all. It's a popular book. And this book just took off and became the all-time
non-fiction bestseller of the entire decade of the 1970s, and it represented
the point at which publishers began to realize there's tremendous potential in
prophecy books. And so many other writers begin to write books in the same
popular way, that have an enormously broad appeal. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/explanation/doomindustry.html)
