This was just one of several requirements for the return of Christ, at least as imagined by author Hal Lindsey in his 1970 book The Late Great Planet Earth. In this book, which sold more in the United States than any other nonfiction title in the 1970s, Lindsey argues that three things will occur before Jesus comes back: The Jews will occupy Palestine, they will take back the sacred sites of Jerusalem, and they will rebuild Solomon’s temple
