Hal Lindsey’s “The Late Great Planet Earth”

The Late Great Planet Earth’s author, Hal Lindsey, who just died, was one of the most influential Christian writers of the last 60 years. His 1970 book popularized End Times Dispensationalism, tying contemporary events to cataclysmic biblical prophecies. Thanks to Lindsey, tens of millions of evangelical Christians, and others, anticipated a possible cosmic Apocalypse in their lifetimes, preceded by a “Rapture” in which the redeemed are carried to Heaven and spared the ordeal.