When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.

Lindsey states that the Bible contains numerous prophecies that foretell of certain conditions and events that will occur in the world prior to Christ's return. D. In The Late Great Planet Earth Lindsey quotes from a 1969 Time Magazine that the goal of the European Economic Community which preceded the European Union was to establish a ten-nation economic community.

He is a Christian Zionist and dispensationalist author. Harold Lee "Hal" Lindsey (born November 23 1929) is an American evangelist and Christian writer.