Newspaper Exegesis - Date-setting not new!

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But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven (Matthew 24:36)

Before Harold Camping, there Were Hal Lindsey and Chuck Smith

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Before Harold Camping, there were Chuck Smith and Hal Lindsey. Lindsey is the author of widely and wildly popular The Late Great Planet Earth (1970). Smith has been the pastor of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, since 1965. He is a popular and well-respected Bible teacher. What many people don’t know or remember is that he set some very specific dates of his own in the 1970s. I wonder what he and Hal Lindsey, who predicted that Jesus would return before 1988, would say about Harold Camping since both men where poster children for end-time date setting. In fact, the 1970s and early 1980s were rife with evangelical soothsayers. And yet, Smith is still pastoring, and Lindsey is still considered to be an expert on Bible prophecy.

Comment: A good quote from Spurgeon: "it will be needful for the seers to invent a new theory". Source of image .. Douglas Wilson