Peace, Prosperity and the Coming Holocaust: The New Age Movement in Prophecy

by Dave Hunt

Planet Earth is on the brink of an incredible change...but for good or evil? Will there be total economic collapse followed by nuclear holocaust?” So begins the dust-jacket copy to Dave Hunt’s 1983 best-seller. Twenty-five years ago, this title stood unique on conservative bookshelves crowded with “doom and gloom” predictions for the future U.S. economy. Though the “Reaganomics” of President Ronald Reagan (1980-1988) withstood the test of time, the economic turnaround of the 1980s and the prosperity it generated for years to come has since been recast as a “decade of greed” by those in power who now seek to “spread the wealth around.” Now, over two decades later, the stock market crash, sub-prime mortgage crisis, and scandalous trillion-dollar “bank bailout” of 2008—combined with the election of a liberal President with radical, socialist-revolutionary definitions of “hope” and “change”—have caused many to agree that the “doom and gloom” prophesies of the 1970s and ’80s are now being fulfilled, and the worst may be yet to come. Once more, both rampant speculation and dire circumstance are causing a growing number of Christians and non-Christians to dust off God’s Word in search of answers to anxious

Genres: Christianity

282 pages, Paperback

First published February 23, 1983

About the author

Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Dave Hunt was an American Christian apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author. He was in full-time ministry from 1973 until his death. A prolific best-selling author, international lecturer, and Bible teacher, his writings have been translated into at least 50 languages. More than four million copies of Dave’s books have been sold. For nearly a decade, Dave also co-hosted a weekly radio program, Search the Scriptures Daily, broadcast on over 400 stations in the U.S. and worldwide.

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first read this book when it was published in 1983. I happened to see it in a bookstore, picked it up and was intrigued by the back cover blurb as well as the introductory pages. I had never heard of the author Dave Hunt, and little did I know that I would go on to read nearly all of his books in future years.

Now that 41 years have passed I decided to re-visit this book. It was released in the early 1980's when the Cold War was still raging, so some of the current events discussed are long since passed. However, to his credit, Hunt did not focus on trying to identify and name the Anti-Christ or set the dates of certain events, such as the Tribulation period. Instead he presents what he describes as a contrary scenario, as he mentions in this quote from Page 59:
"At times of great crisis and turning points in history, the majority opinion is often and perhaps nearly always wrong. That fact alone suggests a contrary scenario."

The bulk of the book is actually about important trends that have been occurruing for long ages and have increased in the past 150 years or so (and which have accelerated since the time of publication). Chiefly is the amount of spiritual deception accepted by many people around the world. This deception comes in many forms from Communism to Fascism, from the Occult and Cults, as well as the subversion of Christianity by the acceptance of Eastern Mysticism along with false teachings. All of these trends seek to supplant Biblical truth and the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and will find ultimate fruition in the end times when the Anti-Christ ascends to power, deceives the world, and demands the worship of all mankind as both an opponent of the true Christ as well as an attempt to supplant Him and be accepted as the 'New Messiah'.

Overall, still an excellent book after all these decades. Highly recommended for those seeking to explore the Biblical view of the world and where to find true and lasting hope.

[Isaac · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yes a 3. Not due to agreement nor disagreement with the material, rather the writer’s assumed authority in some pretty hefty claims. As a cult expert, Hunt has the evidence in his back pocket, yet serves his citations as piecemeal.

Overall, Hunt offers a contrary scenario for the initiation of end times events. His layout differs from the doom and gloom hip shooters taking potshots in the midst of the Cold Beef we were sharing with the Krem back during Stranger Things timestamps.

[Kay]

It present a contrary scenerio that what is usually held; that the end of the world will come during a time of economic crisis; Dave Hunt doesn't think so and he talks about Hiltler, the new age movement and various other things that are going on right now.

[Ben B · Rating 3 out of 5]

At the time I read this I thought Dave Hunt was the wisest man who ever lived, and everything he wrote was inevitably going to come true within 90 days to a year. Now, looking back, I think he was a little crazy. But he did set out a plausible scenario for the rapture leading to a new world order.