The discussion covers the prophesied revival of a Roman-style European superpower, the significance of Israel's rebirth as a nation in 1948, and the characteristics the Bible attributes to the coming Antichrist, whom Lindsey believes must already be alive. Art presses him on timelines, cloning ethics, near-death experiences, the Y2K threat, and whether extraterrestrial life conflicts with scripture. Lindsey responds that nothing in the Bible precludes the existence of alien life.
Callers challenge Lindsey on topics ranging from abortion and deals with the devil to whether Christianity holds exclusive claim to truth. Throughout, Lindsey maintains that the convergence of wars, earthquakes, plagues, and extreme weather mirrors the biblical pattern of birth pangs increasing in frequency and intensity as a prophesied climax approaches.
Key Moments
The birth pang signs converging: Lindsey lays out the prophetic checklist - religious deception, wars and rumors of wars, ethnic against ethnic, great earthquakes, famine, plagues, global weather pattern changes - and argues they are all intensifying together like contractions before a birth.
Jerusalem as the trigger for the final war: Asked what happens when Arafat declares Palestinian statehood with Jerusalem as capital on May 15, Lindsey says all hell will break loose, citing a 4,000-year blood feud and Zechariah's 500 BC prediction that Jerusalem would trigger the greatest war in history.
The Antichrist is alive today: Pressed on Falwell's claim, Lindsey says yes, given how rapidly the prophetic scenario has unfolded, the Antichrist must already be alive and at least 40 years old, though the man himself does not yet know who he is.
Satanic worship inside the Vatican: Bell raises Father Malachi Martin's claim that satanic worship is going on inside the Vatican; Lindsey, who knows Martin personally from the lecture circuit, says if anyone would know it would be him and that Martin would not say so to be sensational.
How The Omen should have been done: Lindsey reveals his book Satan Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth seeded The Omen, but he refused to lend his name because the prophets describe the Antichrist not as an evil child but as a charismatic adult who suffers a mortal wound and is raised back to life.