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

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 questions: