Special Report: The Rest of the Hal Lindsey Story (TBN exposed by Jack Kinsella)

Omega Letter ^ | January 11, 2006 | Jack Kinsella

[Alex Murphy]

This is a rare opportunity for us to get the message that Jesus is coming soon out where it is most desperately needed – to the mainstream. Demand more interviews with Hal Lindsey on Fox News.

Who knows? Maybe 2006 is the year the truth might find its way into the mainstream. While there is still time.

Hurry, while the prophetic clock is still ticking! Matthew 24:34 reads "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till ALL these things be fulfilled." Which generation? Why, our generation!

Back when Hal Lindsay wrote The Late Great Planet Earth, Israel's foundation (1948) was still recent history. Consider that a "biblical generation" at that time was believed to be around forty years in length. Thus, with the reestablishment of the Nation of Israel, the expectation was that the Tribulation and Christ's Return would occur within a biblical generation, IE within Lindsey's readers' lifetimes (1988 occurring forty years - one generation - after the reestablishment of Israel). Now two more decades have passed, the EU has grown beyond 10 members, the Soviet Bear has fallen, and last time I looked, I don't have a UPC bar-code tattooed on my forehead (or a techno-ID chip implanted in hand) and every car I see on the highway still has a driver. Either someone forgot to set the alarm on that prophetic clock, or we just kept hitting the snooze button.

It's been almost sixty years now, since the foundation of Israel. Assuming the Rapture hits tomorrow, you still need to tack on an additional seven years to account for the Tribulation period before a Pretrib Second Coming. Thus, either the biblical length of a "generation" is greater than 58 years and growing (assuming Pretrib rapture, 65+ years if Posttrib), or Hal Lindsey and Co. have badly misjudged which prophetic time period we're living in, and thus badly misunderstood Matthew 24:34.

[ccmay]

Hal Lindsey is a false prophet, and therefore a minion of Satan.

-ccm

[A CA Guy]

Why at age 76 would Hal have a mortgage on his house?

As successful as he is you would think that would have been paid off 30 years ago.

[danamco]

I don't doubt that TBN and the Crouches have done a lot of good and brought people to Christ, but there's something about that network that I just don't trust. I can't quite put my finger on it...maybe it's the super-elaborate sets or the seeming self-promotion. Or the pink hair.



I had that strange feeling about jimmy swaggert when I first saw him in 1983 at his peak and long before his scandal was exposed. There was just something fishy about him that I could not explain to my wife!??!

[danamco]

Now two more decades have passed, the EU has grown beyond 10 members,


There were never the number of 10 members. They jumped from 9 up to 12 when UK, Denmark and Ireland(?) jumped in at the same date!!!

[WKUHilltopper]

The vast majority of TBN programming, including that hideous pink haired woman, is heretic central in my opinion.

[topcat54]

But TBN does not cover many other expenses associated with the program. Hal pays for the research, writing, the news footage B-roll, and all the other production costs.

That can't be a very big expense.