20 Facts About Hal Lindsey

Harold Lee Lindsey was an American evangelical writer and television host.

Hal Lindsey enrolled at the University of Houston and served in the United States Coast Guard during the Korean War.

Hal Lindsey graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1962 with a Master of Theology degree, majoring in the New Testament and early Greek literature.

Hal Lindsey then helped a mission in Southern California which continued until 1976.

Hal Lindsey was a frequent speaker and Sunday School teacher at Melodyland Christian Center in Anaheim, California.

Hal Lindsey hosted International Intelligence Briefing on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and served on the executive board of Christian Voice.

Hal Lindsey resigned from TBN on January 1,2006, and indicated that he would pursue another television ministry.

Hal Lindsey was married four times and had three children from his second marriage.

Hal Lindsey lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died at home on November 25,2024, two days after his 95th birthday.

Hal Lindsey's claims were based on a dispensationalist interpretation of the Old and New Testament.

Hal Lindsey claimed from the Bible that Jesus Christ will return from heaven to earth someday and establish eternal peace and harmony among all people.

Hal Lindsey claimed the Bible contains numerous prophecies that foretell of certain conditions and events that will occur in the world prior to Christ's return and that as these things occur, they are to serve as signs and reminders that we are in the era that the Bible calls the end times or last days.

Hal Lindsey believed a prophetic event that officially begins the end times is the regathering of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland to form an independent nation after a prolonged worldwide dispersion.

Hal Lindsey claimed that the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948 is the fulfillment of this major prophecy.

Hal Lindsey wrote that these nations and their allies can be identified as: Russia with its allies, China with other nations of the Orient, Egypt with other Middle East countries, and an alliance of Western European nations.

Hal Lindsey concludes, based on this and other sources, that this alliance will help cause the fulfillment of this prophecy and will ultimately be ruled by the Antichrist.

Hal Lindsey noted that the prophets did not refer to the United States directly or indirectly.

Hal Lindsey concluded that this is an indication that the US will no longer be a great geo-political power by the time the Tribulation of the end times arrives.

Hal Lindsey listed a few scenarios that seemed plausible to him at the time: A takeover by communists, destruction by a surprise Soviet nuclear attack, or becoming a dependent of the 10-nation European community.

Hal Lindsey appears to have briefed staff at the Pentagon, as well as military intelligence committees and staff at the State Department and the American Air War College, and there is evidence that some in the military elite were attracted to his analyses.