The first of five programmes in which Iwan Russell-Jones examines the theology behind the belief that we are living at the end of time. Millions of fundamentalist Christians, many of them in America, believe that the biblical Book of Revelation refers to events in our own time.
1: The Late. Great Planet Earth
American premillennialist Hal Lindsey is interviewed on Trinity Broadcasting Network, a radio station based in Irving, Texas. In his book The Late, Great Planet Earth, which has sold some 32 million copies, he compares the signs of the times with biblical prophecy and concludes that the end is nigh.
Producer Michael Roberts