Prophecy Writers Spreading Misinformation
“The single best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s was not The Joy of Sex or even The Joy of Cooking; it was Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth.”[1] It was declared by the New York Times to be the “no. 1 non-fiction bestseller of the decade.”[2] Estimates put sales at more than 15 million copies before the close of the decade. Since then, it has sold nearly 30 million copies worldwide and remains in print today as evidence of Bible prophecy’s staying power even in light of its shop-worn predictions. “As Lindsey says himself, ‘The future is big business.’”[3]
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Herbert’s Big Blunder. 1975 in Prophecy
1975 in Prophecy written by Herbert Armstrong in 1956 was the defining object of the religion of Herbert Armstrong: It contained prophecies of what was certain to happen in the next 20 years, based on British Israelism.
This was absolute nonsense, of course. The prophecies of Herbert Armstrong fell spectacularly flat, proving that he was a false prophet. He made numerous other prophecies at other times, all of which failed, but this was the most strident and at the central core of Armstrong’s philosophy, eschatology and religion.
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