Perhaps the most influential evangelical book on military rearmament was Hal Lindsey’s The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon, a sequel to his best-selling The Late Great Planet Earth that was timed to the 1980 election. For Lindsey, rearmament was not simply a pragmatic decision; it was a religious requirement. The Bible was telling the United States to build a powerful military force, to “become strong again.” The book spent twenty-one weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list.21
