If this is a ‘correct deduction, then within forty years or so of 1948, all these things could take place. Lindsey, citing Matthew 24:34, reasoned that the “this generation” Jesus spoke of was “the generation that would see the signs-chief among them the rebirth of Israel.” He then stated, “A generation in the Bible is something like forty years. In 1970, popular evangelical writer Hal Lindsey stated that the 1948 rebirth of the nation of Israel was “the most important sign” of the nearness of Christ’s coming for His saints.
The end result: 89 Reasons Why the Rapture Is in 1989. 4).Įdgar Whisenant’s 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Is in 1988 didn’t stop the author from resetting his prophetic clock when the supposed date of Christ’s return came and went. Noel Mason was right when he wrote, “The history of Jewish and Christian ‘date-setters’ with all its bitter disappointment and disillusionment has not curbed the desire of many Christians to calculate the end” (Good News Unlimited magazine, September 1984, p. Yet, failed predictions have not deterred the date-setters. Many have made the mistake of setting dates for the Second Coming of Christ, and the results have never been positive.
Needed: A Rational Approach to Bible Prophecy
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