A Yes and a No — What Herb Thinks

You may have noticed that I wasn’t quick to respond to Jack Kinsella’s third Omega Letter. By way of reminder, here are the recent chain of events. On December 7, Kinsella wrote a commentary that looked like a What Herb Thinks. It was all about the EU’s High Representative Javier Solana, the 10-nation Western European Union and its Assembly Recommendation 666.

The next day, Kinsella did it again. His Omega Letter covered basically the same information we do here at FulfilledProphecy. Naturally, we all got excited. For the first time, one of the big boys in Bible prophecy was reporting the unreported news along with us. We weren’t alone anymore.

And, if Kinsella was on this information, I reasoned Hal Lindsey was, too. Not only that, it appeared to me that Lindsey, although not directly, was agreeing that my book, Recommendation 666, could actually end up being the conclusion to his best-selling book, The Late Great Planet Earth.

I thought perhaps my break had finally come. I sent an e-mail to Kinsella offering co-authorship to either him or Lindsey. I also wrote a commentary asking those who have read my book to e-mail an endorsement to either Kinsella or Lindsey. The message got through. Not only did Kinsella respond publicly in a third Omega Letter, he was kind enough to respond to me personally also.

Unfortunately, Kinsella respectfully refused my offer. And many of my readers were disappointed. Some even felt it was wrong Kinsella used the information we’ve been trying to get out for years now and didn’t give us any credit. Instead, he named other sources. And, to be honest, I felt a little hurt, too.

However, after thinking about it for awhile, I realized there is another way of looking at what has transpired. By making that decision to report this information in their Omega Letter, Kinsella and Hal Lindsey’s Oracle have given FulfilledProphecy and my book enormous credibility.

And, if you recall, in a recent What Herb Thinks, I stated it was time for us evangelicals to set aside our minor differences and start working together. This could be their response. I may be reading this wrong. But, I suspect their answer to my request for help could be a yes and a no. What Kinsella and Lindsey may be saying is, we agree with the possible importance to what you’ve been reporting, but we won’t directly support your ministry.

So, we’d better stay tuned!

And, from now on, I’d stay tuned to Kinsella and Lindsey, too.

— Herb Peters
12/10/04