Hal Lindsay's books in the '70's gained immediate favor among religious fundamentalists and soon became favorites of a wide audience including those of many religious persuasions and even those without religion. Finally Jesus Christ would step foot on the earth and restore peace and bring a new age. The root message seems to be that human beings are not capable of living in peace and our doom is inevitable. People have also turned to other prophets - the seers who are somehow able to look into the Cosmos and foretell great events in mankind's future. From Nostradamus to Edgar Cayce, to the more recent proliferation of people gazing into crystal balls, the Return to top of page P2 message seems to be the same.
Prophets see major natural and man-made cataclysmic destruction in our future.
The more recent prophets seem to corroborate the ancient prophets. Well, I'm not a fundamentalist. But I've been a fundamentalist. And I'm not a follower of modern prophets. But I have been a devotee of the more modern prophets - particularly Cayce, whose accuracy has been uncanny and who didn't leave his work in the mess that Nostradamus did, although Nostradamus seems equally accurate.