Commentary
The Late Great Planet Earth
Hal Lindsey with C. C. Carlson
Hal Lindsey’s 1970 book, written with C. C. Carlson and published by Zondervan. It reads Old Testament prophecy and Jesus’ discourse in Matthew 24 as describing the politics of its own time, with the rebirth of Israel in 1948 as the chief sign.
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Edition and location
Hal Lindsey with C. C. Carlson, The Late Great Planet Earth (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, © 1970), eighty-first printing, November 1980, ISBN 0-310-27771-X; chapter “Israel, O Israel,” pp. 53–54, from “But the most important sign in Matthew” (p. 53, section “Perfect Parable”) through “believe that this is so.” (p. 54). Internet Archive item TheLateGreatPlanetEarthByHalLindsey, leaves 52–53, transcribed from the page images; copyright page leaf 4. Italics (“this generation”) rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; spaced dash as printed; whitespace normalized.
Chapter “Israel, O Israel,” pp. 53–54