The Late Great Planet Earth - Hal Lindsey

The Late Great Planet Earth is Hal Lindsey’s hugely influential 1970s end-times bestseller — a dramatic, fast-moving mix of biblical prophecy, Cold War anxiety and pop-culture doomsday forecasting. Lindsey links passages from the Book of Revelation, Ezekiel and Daniel to modern politics, arguing that world events of the era (the rise of Israel, nuclear tensions, shifting global alliances) are signs that humanity is approaching the final apocalyptic showdown.

He presents the idea that prophecy is unfolding in real time, framing the Soviet Union, the Middle East and global conflict as pieces of a countdown toward Armageddon and the Second Coming. The tone is urgent, cinematic and certain: the Bible as a coded map of geopolitical fate.

Whether read today as theology, cultural artifact, or 1970s paranoia in book form, it’s still one of the most famous modern attempts to reinterpret prophecy through contemporary world events — a snapshot of a moment when history felt like it was accelerating toward something catastrophic and divine.