There's a New World Coming

by Hal Lindsey

Vintage Book.

Genres: Christian, Religion, Christianity, Nonfiction, Paranormal, Faith

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Harold Lee Lindsey was an American evangelical writer and television host. He wrote a series of popular apocalyptic books – beginning with The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) – asserting that the Apocalypse or end time (including the rapture) was imminent because current events were fulfilling Bible prophecy. He was a Christian Zionist and dispensationalist.

Reviews

[S.S. Julian · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good lord, what a fever dream. I found this in a pile of old underground comics and assumed it would be satire. It's... not. Really gives you the sense of the scale of cognitive dissonance separating evangelical Christianity from the rest of the world.

Beyond being insane, there is no story, just a boring dialectic between three characterless white kids as the credulously observe the end-times floating in an unspecified empty space. The funniest parts were where it interpreted vague biblical passages as absurdly specific real-world analogies.

Generic description of a fiery conflagration (translated several times to modern English) == wow, the apostle Paul predicted the H Bomb perfectly!

More than anything this document underlines to me how difficult it is to change anyone's mind once they've been indoctrinated into a world view, and I mean that applying to myself as much as the misguided souls who wrote and consumed this comic.

[b e a c h g o t h · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hal Lindsay is incredibly well-versed in scripture and eschatology, I love his works!! The only reason this got three stars instead of five? He’s pre-trib rapture and I’m pre-wrath. He would explain what will happen in the end of days and say “but we don’t need to worry - thank god we’ll be raptured” and it irritated the F out of me because why would he study and explain something he doesn’t even think we’ll be here to experience 😂😂 it made no sense 😂😂 still an incredible read though!

[M. D. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh.

[Shellie Price · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're a dispensationalist, this is a good book for you. If you believe in a seven-year tribulation, this is a good book for you. If you believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, this is a good book for you. It explains the book of Revelation along these lines. If you're interested to learn what people believe (who are pre-seven-year-tribulation-rapture believers), this is a good book for you.

I read this book between 8-10 years ago... I was a firm believer in all of the above. Now? I'm not so confident in these interpretations of Scripture. I've learned about all pre-trib theories, mid-trib theories, pre-wrath, etc... down to the feast of trumpets theories as well as the marriage ceremony theories. (If you don't know what those are, don't worry about it.)

I'm giving this 3 stars because the author truly believes what he's writing, and has put a lot of effort and research into this book. I'm not giving it more stars because I don't 100% believe it to be true.

[Jan Jaap · Rating 3 out of 5]

Moeilijk te volgen redeneerwijze.

Traditioneel en zeer conservatief. Heeft niets met eigentijdse theologie.

In de hoofdstukken 2 & 3 een panorama over [vroege] kerkgeschiedenis.

Voor wie een veel dynamischer en kritischer intro in vroege kerkgeschiedenis wil : lees G. Quispel's commentaar op Het Thomas Evangelie, uitgegeven in de Pimander serie (#10) van de Ritman library ( https://www.worldcat.org/title/evange... ).

Het ISBN van de tweede druk is 90-245-0259-4 & 978-90-245-0259-2 bron :
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63869925
https://www.worldcat.org/title/op-weg... .

Informatie over de auteur geeft
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Lin... .

[Desmond Killian · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are two factions of professors in my art department: the ones that think my exhibition is this week and the ones that think my exhibition is next week. Neither side has bothered to try to confirm with me. This is due in large part to a new top-down initiative led by the Noort administration to combat the rising cost of electronic mail. Since the beginning of 2025 faculty and staff have pledged to reduce emails between members by 90% and to stop emailing students altogether. I, for one, couldn't be prouder to be unincluded.

(The book sucks btw I just had this rant rattling around in my head and I needed to write it down somewhere.)

[Karina Heng · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good.

[Michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh, same old crap he's always preached.

[Quona Fron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very plausible. Follows scripture.

[Danny Proffitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

You may agrer or disagree. I never find him boring.

[Carol Nunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great review and explanation of the book of Revelation and the many symbols .
Easy read.
Highly recommend.

[Hannah S · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant explanation of the events in Revelation.

For a while the prophecies and events in Revelation and throughout the Bible continually confused me. I found Hal Lindsey's step by step explanation very insightful and helpful in understanding biblical representations and allegories.

I love how the constant theme of Revelation is shown in the book; Judgement, mixed with mercy. Even though God is punishing the world for it's unbelief, God still gives every opportunity for mercy and grace. Our God is amazing!

Thank you and blessings to Hal Lindsey, for writing this book.

[Texasted · Rating 5 out of 5]

A couple of verses of Revelations is read at a time, in order, until the entire book of Revelations is completed. I read this book, like many of Mr. Lindsey's books, many years ago and then again recently. It is amazing just how many of the things I could not see long ago are blatantly clear now. Excellent book!

[Kim Ellis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't speak for how theologically sound his book is, but an elder's wife of a sister church told me if was not. I enjoyed reading it, though. If nothing else it gave me an absolute love for the Book of Revelation that I didn't have before. While always fascinating, I'd never read it before this book.

[Jake Maguire · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hal is a very smart man and he obviously took an extremely long time digesting the book of revelation, I just don't feel like I can take that whole road with him. Sorry, there's too many problems with decoding "the last days" for me.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another Hal Lindsey book that I read during college.
Not really as in depth as the title and cover would suggest.
A decent overview of the Dispensationalist view of Revelation with references to present day parralels to the images inthe Book of revelation.

[Dave Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book that I've read by Mr. Lindsay (and I've read several). He takes us verse by verse through the book of Revelation. Very provocative!

[F · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good treatment.