Posted 11:11 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Last Generation

The other day, I and other mockers noted the column in WorldNetDaily that warned readers of the food plant with roots in Hell that is feminizing American males: the soybean.

Today in WorldNetDaily, pop eschatologist Hal Lindsey on the last days:

The growing nuclear cooperation between Persia [Iran] and Gog [Russia] is of special importance. It provides one more bit of evidence that supports the conclusion that this is the last generation in human history before the return of Jesus Christ for His Church and the onset of the Tribulation judgment period. . . If you don't know Jesus, now is the time to get down on your knees and introduce yourself. While there is yet time to do so.

If you're a Rapture believer and you're counting the days until God uses His holy vacuum cleaner to suck you up into Heaven, here's the bad news: this isn't the first time Lindsey told us that we were living in the last days. In his 1970 book The Late, Great Planet Earth (which was the bestselling book of the 1970's), Lindsey predicted that the End would occur within one generation of the establishment of the state of Israel (1948). This and most of the things Lindsey predicted in the book didn't pan out.

Lindsey's apocalyptic writings are not a fun read--unlike Jack Chick's books such as "The Last Generation" (one of my favorite Chick tracts that contains immortal dialogue (e.g.,"If I turn in a sicko, will I get a reward?" and "@!!!***! Take this heretic away. Dispose of it, or use it for food."). To be fair to Lindsey, I prefer comix and I haven't yet read the sequential art version of Lindsey's book There's a New World Coming (published by Al Hartley's Spire Christian Comics in the 1970's).