TheologyThoughts

From a response I made on one of the lists:

As I recall (and it's been about 30 years since I
read Late, Great Planet Earth and Satan is Alive and Well on Planet
Earth), Lindsey does not so much predict the 1988 return of Christ as he
strongly implies it, using the establishment of the modern state of Israel,
1948, as his his start date, and then calculating that the end must come in
40 years (which would make it 1988). The book you mention was written by
Edgar Whisenant:

http://www.isitso.org/guide/whise.html

Such is the deal by these false predictors: calculate a date, and when that
date passes, recalculate. If that fails, fade away, or claim that the Lord
really returned, just somehow invisibly or spiritually. Recently, Harold
Camping did a bit of both, when his 1994 date failed, claiming the end of
the church age and the beginning of the tribulation, with a return of the
Lord in 2011. Maybe the Mayan Calendar is right, and the end will be in
2012?

For Christians, 2011, 2012, 3114, it shouldn't matter. Jesus told us that
preoccupation with dates was just wrong (Acts 1:7), and that we should live
always in expectation of his sudden return. For the Christian, the end is
not the end, but the beginning of an eternity filled with unimaginable
riches.