It will have to be a 7-year plan, though (specifically 2,520 days - 7 - 360 day years - now the “fun” will really get rolling after the first 1,260 days - though it will be very rough right up unto that point)
I survived the population bomb and bent forced to eat soylent green. I survived nuclear winter and global warming. I survived Y2K and 2012. I have even survived the predictions of The Late Great Planet Earth.
TEOTWAWKI sells. In the 1986 paper below, the author rebutted the Hal Lindsey predictions published in 1970. He attributed to prophecy failures to "the error of reading back into biblical prophecies the political situation in 1970. This arbitrary method of interpreting prophecy leads to disappointment, besides undermining confidence in the prophetic messages."
Having been disappointed with not seeing the predicted end of the world since the 50s, I have noted that the predictions are updated regularly in keeping with the times, as the predictions reach their termination date. Each rerun is like Lucy snatching the football away again.
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4-24-1986Was the Crystal Ball Cracked: Time is Shattering Hal Lindsey's Predictions
Samuele Bacchiocchi
Andrews UniversityHal Lindsey's 1980s countdown to Armageddon isn't being fulfilled by the rise of a Roman antichrist. We found this out last week in the first part. This week we'll find out if his ideas on rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple fared any better.
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In 1970 Lindsey wrote that with the "talk of rebuilding the great Temple, the most important prophetic sign of Jesus Christ's soon coming is before us."' Now we need to ask, During the past 15 years, what happened to this "most important prophetic sign"?
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Practical Objections. Rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple on its ancient site meets several obstacles. Most seriously, the Muslim Dome of the Rock and the nearby Aksa Mosque are located on the probable ancient Temple site. Judaism would permit only the ancient site for a new temple. So someone would have to remove the Dome of the Rock. Such an action would precipitate an Arab holy war against Israel, besides violating Israel's commitment to respect the sacred sites of all religions.
The prevailing belief among Orthodox Jews that only the Messiah can rebuild the temple constitutes another practical objection. Because they believe that the Messiah has not yet come, Jews do not feel at liberty to rebuild the temple.' Moreover, before they could consider rebuilding it, they would need to accept the notion of reviving animal sacrifices, which most Jews find repulsive.
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Egypt: King of the South. Another key piece of Lindsey's prophetic jigsaw puzzle looks for invasion of Israel by an Arab-African confederacy headed by Egypt, the prophetic king of the south (Dan. 11:40). According to Lindsey's calculations, this invasion will occur during the latter half of the seven-year countdown, immediately after the inauguration of the temple and its profanation by the Roman Antichrist. But it will prove a fatal mistake because the Russians, the king of the north (verse 40), "will double-cross the Arabs, Egyptians and Africans, and for a short while conquer the Middle East."
Basis of Lindsey's Prediction. The leadership role that Egypt enjoyed under Nasser, in whom Lindsey saw the king of the south, inspired this prediction. By interpreting the Libyans ("Phut") and Ethiopians ("Cush") in Daniel 11:43 to be "the black Africans and African Arabs, respectively," he predicted that " 'black African' and 'Arab-African' countries will be involved with Egypt," first in invading Israel and later in suffering defeat at the hands of the Russians.'
The fact that Nasser already suffered poor health in 1970 did not deter Lindsey from predicting that Egypt would become the leader of a "Third World force."'
Since more than 15 years have passed since Lindsey made this prediction, we may ask, Has Egypt become leader of a "Third World force" of Arab and African nations? Has Egypt attempted to organize a Pan-Arab African army to invade Israel? The answer is evident. Lindsey made the error of reading back into biblical prophecies the political situation in 1970. This arbitrary method of interpreting prophecy leads to disappointment, besides undermining confidence in the prophetic messages.
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LOL 🤣
I often see very long posts of why we couldn’t possibly be near anything.
And that’s exactly how so many will be cheering when the ‘Peace and Security’ deal happens. And will simply not understand why it’s a very bad idea 💡.
Best of luck with all that, though.