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Summary: A great stater in end times prophecy
Review: I found this book to be an excilent start for me into the end times and Biblical prophecy. I believe that Hal has recieved a lot of flac for inacurate perdictions. He is not a prophet! He is only making educated guesses about the end times. I found his ideas to be very insightful. Because of his book, my christian life has been strenghthend and have myself researched Biblical prophecy and end times scriptures since I read the book. This was formerly a topic that I knew nothing about, and now have become pretty knowlegable. I strongly recomend this book to any Christian who is interested in knowing more about the end times. The only down side to his book that I found is that in time it had become dated and some of the current events that he speaks about are alomost forgotten. I think some of his more recent books on the same subjects would be a good compliment to this one. God Bless You! "With God all things are possible" - Matt. 19:26
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Summary: One Star - But Only Because Negative Numbers aren't a Choice
Review: I read this book when I was a kid (I'm 45 now). It scared the bejeebers out of me which I now realize was the whole point. (Fear is a POWERFUL way to manipulate people - ESPECIALLY CHILDREN!) Because there was no one around I could turn to who would explain to me about sensationalism and greed, I swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. I put off planning college and a career for a number of years because I couldn't see the point - after all, who wastes their time rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? When I think of the years I wasted because of this book, I get really, really angry! This book was NOT an isolated incident - the religious perspective it grows out of systematically reinforces the same ideas. I now have children of my own, and I have quite bluntly told them my story to protect them from such mercenary exploitation. What else can I say but that I hope this man is enjoying his money!
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Summary: He's a millionaire ten times over because it sells
Review: Easily-led Evangelical Christians have been lapping up Hal Lindsey, Jerry Jenkins, Tim LaHaye, Texxe Marrs, Constance Cumbey, Jack Van Impe and their ilk for years. How many times has Lindsey been forced to "revise" his predictions? What has this "minister" done with the money from the book? (Ask him about his classic corvette collection) You might try reading 'WHEN TIME SHALL BE NO MORE' by Paul Boyer and another excellent book called "THE LAST DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN" for a truly historic, scholarly look at "the end".
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Summary: Mindless and pathetic...
Review: I am 37 years old now, and first read this book back in the 70s when it was first published. It scared the hell out of me then, because I was too young and ignorant to know any better. Having been raised a Roman Catholic, much of it had a familiar and frightening ring to it. Suffice it to say that Lindsey's take on the book of Prophecy might as well be a fantasy concocted as a science-fiction novel. The book of Revelation is essentially unintelligible to begin with - lending itself to wildly fantastical interpretation. Lindsey contributes his spin in this rather laughable book fortelling Armageddon. The basic outline has already made for a rather silly comedy/horror film.(Ghostbusters). I think this says it all.
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Summary: Please spare us!
Review: Twenty five some years latter, and people actually still take Hal Lindsy serious? Incredible.... Do yourself a favor... Take the money you were going to use to buy this book, and use it to feed starving third world children. Then read your Bible, without the Schofield notes, and let It speak for Itself. Yes I did read this book, and it was a waste of my time...
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Summary: Would the average intelligent adult really believe this?
Review: I doubt it! And I really wanted to give it NO stars, but this form won't allow that! How about it, Amazon... perhaps a ZERO rating? I first read this book in the 70's when it was first published. I thought it was mindless drivel then, and my opinion has not changed. Lindsey uses pseudo-science and emotional speculation to attempt to convince the reader that Jesus will return. Of course, in the original version, he speculated that the great return would be in 1988, and as we all know, that just didn't happen. He fails to understand that the bible is historic fiction, not divine thought, and that christians are actually in the minority when it comes to the world's religions. He also fails to acknowledge the crimes committed in the name of god and under the guise of christian thought, not to mention the control issues and power struggles that are so prevalent in the christian world today. Don't waste your time.... regardless of your religious persuasion.... this book isn't worthy of the trees consumed to make it.
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Summary: Do yourself a favor and dig deeper.
Review: Since the book wasn't written for entertainment value, I can't give it any stars for that. All I had to do to remember why the Late Great Planet Earth amounts to shallow speculation was watch the movie The Omega Code, for which Hal Lindsey was the "prophetic advisor." When you see his views actually acted out, you realize what a pathetically trite and disjointed ending he has concocted for the world. It made me think, "If this is how Hal really thinks the world is going to end, he ought to be embarrassed." Of course, The Late Great Planet Earth is where the Lindsey empire began. Someday I'll sit down and reread it for entertainment value.
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Summary: Horrible Scholarship but entertaining
Review: This is a difficult book to rate. In terms of its scholarship and line of reasoning it gets 0-1 stars. In terms of its entertainment value it gets 3-4 stars. The first time I read this book was about 17 years ago. Lindsey follows in the dispensationalist tradition of C.I. Scofield, a tradition of exegesis that fundamentally misreads and distorts the Biblical text. Lindsey's subjective isegesis and his arbitrary linking of texts together demonstrates the intellectual bankruptcy of apocalypticism and dispensationalist theology. On the other hand, when considered as Science Fiction, this work can be quite amusing. I recommend reading it only if you have nothing better to do and want to get a good laugh.
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Summary: Wrong on the timeline, right on the politics
Review: While this book may have predicted events which did not come to pass in the time frame proposed by the author, a re-reading of this book in light of recent political and social developments in China and the Soviet Union, gives a chilling perspective to watching current events play out on the world stage. Communists whose plan Lindsey allegedly exposed in this book, will most likely be scrambling to discredit the predictions therein, insult the religious fundamentalists who might use the book for perspective, and cover up the true nature of developments on the world political and social stage, and this comes from a bisexual man who has no use for such fundamentalists who condemn gays and bisexuals, but who can see and hear a big truck coming down the road when he's about to get run over.
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Summary: Fundamentalist nonsense for the ignorant and the stupid
Review: This book was literalist tripe when it was first published in the 1970s, and it hasn't improved any with age. Mr. Lindsey made a series of predictions, none of which have come true, but this hasn't prevented him from continuing to write one book after another. What's amazing is that no matter how wrong he is, no matter how shoddy his scholarship, and no matter how ludicrous his predictions, his books keep getting published and the dumb sheep out there just keep on buying this stuff. The end of the world is always just around the corner for these guys, but the fact that it never gets here never seems to affect such fanatics or their faithful readers. Lindsey forces vague, symbollic and apocalyptic writings into the Procrustean bed of his own fundamentalism, deliberately ignoring any sense of the history of the times that books like Revelations were written in. His out-of-context analyses are laughable, and it is this entertainment value that provides the one-star that this book has earned. The anti-intellectual, historically ignorant, and theologically untenable positions that Lindsey takes in his prophetic rantings makes one wonder about the state of religion in America and the sanity of the faithful in this pre-Millennial era. All I can say when I read stuff like this is "No wonder I'm not a Christian." If you own this book, give it away -- to the dumbest person that you are acquainted with. Only the ignorant could find such a pile of misinformation illuminating.
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