Rehearsing standard dispensational teachings, Late Great Planet Earth’s core message was straightforward. Before the rapture and the return of Christ, three prophetic events had to be fulfilled: the return of the Jewish people to their biblical land, their capture of Jerusalem, and the rebuilding of the sacrificial temple destroyed in year 70 by Roman legions. By mid-1967, two of the three steps had improbably reached fulfillment in Lindsey’s estimation. He predicted, based on a typological reading of a parable in Matthew 24, that “within forty years or so of 1948, all these things could take
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