Hal Lindsey’s weekly column — prophecy and current events, published alongside the broadcast.
Laments about the folly of “today’s young people” are almost as old as civilization itself. Adam and Eve must have felt the world was ending when their firstborn son murdered their second son. In 63 BC, the Roman statesman, Cicero, fretted, “O the times! O the customs!” In 1925, the Hull Daily
The United States has a born-on date — July 4, 1776. Even by themselves “July 4” and “1776” have a powerful impact on American minds. Together, that day and year designation carries an appeal for most of us even more powerful than the day and year of our own births. Many nations have existed across
How strange it must be for a pastor to stand at a funeral and preach the reality of heaven — even though he mostly dismisses the book from which he preaches. What a terrible burden it must be for a man or woman to make himself or herself God’s judge — choosing which of God’s words should be kept
They stood face-to-face with the most powerful man on earth — a man known for murderous impulses, and a man whose word was law. This may have been the most intimidating person in world history.
In the 1940s, an unlikely group of espionage agents helped America win the Second World War.
Living in this world means you will be bruised. Sometimes the bruise is physical. Sometimes it is emotional. Sometimes it reaches all the way into the soul. Times of hurt perfectly align with last-days Bible prophecy, and, generally, it will get worse. The pattern is circular. Trauma triggers bad
In 1998, I sat in a movie theater watching a film set during World War II. Thirty minutes in, the movie turned from scenes of war to a barren yet majestic countryside beneath a superb Iowa sky — a day so perfect it seemed to connect the ground of earth to the glories of heaven. Then, rolling along
Officially, at least, most nations still say they support a “two-state solution” as the answer to conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians. But you don’t hear much about it these days. In practical terms — at least for the moment — most have abandoned it. The key is that the Palestinians
One of the most frightening verses in all the Bible is found in Romans 1:28.
Empires rise and fall. Civilizations form and die. Great cities turn to ruin and then dust. And people die.