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...Bill Lindsey...
Raised as an Army brat, the son of a major, Bill Lindsey was 25 and wore a beard and ponytail when he first came to Citrus Park twelve years ago. The civil rights movement had convinced him that, "you know, you're supposed to be doing something." So he had joined VISTA, the domestic Peace Corps, which assigned him to Fort Lauderdale, just to "observe." A passing policeman questioned him about why he was living in a tough black neighborhood and added a warning that he would "be dead in three days...
...extent that it serves as a comprehensive sort of Iayman's guide to federal violations of academic freedom, it will be useful," said Yale University General Coursed Lindsey C. Kiang, who had not yet seen the report...
...literalists are known as dispensationalists. They have devised elaborate systems of dividing history into divinely ordained eras. Reagan is among the millions influenced by this subculture, which is actively promoted by Bible colleges, seminaries, TV and radio preachers, and popular products of the Second Coming industry like Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth, which has an astonishing 15 million copies in print...
...point to the fulfillment of what they see as a major biblical prediction. Two generations before Zionism emerged, dispensationalists insisted that one prologue to the End Times would be the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Thus when Israel was founded in 1948, says Hal Lindsey, "the prophetic countdown began!" Israel's capture of Old Jerusalem in 1967 was equally portentous, since it seemed to fulfill Jesus' words in Luke 4:24 and made theoretically possible the rebuilding of the Temple on its original site, a long-established requirement of many dispensationalists. According to some...