Commentary
The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon
Hal Lindsey
Hal Lindsey’s 1980 survey of the coming decade, published by Bantam in 1981. It dates the prophetic countdown from Israel’s rebirth on 14 May 1948 and holds that the generation that saw it will see the rapture and Christ’s return.
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Edition and location
Hal Lindsey, The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon (New York: Bantam Books, Bantam edition, March 1981; copyright 1980 by The Aorist Corporation, Inc.), ISBN 0-553-01303-3, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 80-70283. Pp. 12, 162–163 and 170. Internet Archive lending item 1980scountdownto00lind; transcribed from page images supplied by the user from their own loan on 6 October 2026, in which the reader’s search hits for “1948” and “generation” are highlighted. Italics (“this”) and small capitals rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; […] marks omissions.
Pp. 12, 162–163 and 170