Jeremiah has a good number of bestselling - and pretrib selling - books under his belt that almost never seem to go out of print. And that includes his 1990 book "Escape the Coming Night" which he co-authored with C. C. Carlson which is still available on Amazon etc.
Twenty years ago, in 1997, I discovered that the same Jeremiah book had heavily plagiarized many pages in Hal Lindsey's 1973 book "There's A New World Coming"! (Evidently none of Jeremiah's many readers during the first seven years of his book had had any inkling of his literary piracy.)
You may be wondering what first led me to my discovery of the wholesale stealing. It may have been the description of the 144,000 as "Jewish Billy Grahams" - an unforgettable phrase I knew Lindsey had used.
While comparing the two books in question, I found exactly 47 pages in Jeremiah's book that had massive plagiarism of Lindsey's book. Here is just a tiny portion of Jeremiah's role as pirate - for which he has never, to my knowledge, apologized:
[NOTE: Quotes from Hal Lindsey's 1973 book "There's A New World Coming" (NW) will be followed by the plagiarism of them in David
Jeremiah's 1990 book "Escape the Coming Night" (E).]
(1) NW, p. 66: The symbolic church of "Philadelphia" was from "1750-1925" - the "great missionary era" of "Wesley, Whitefield...Spurgeon, and Moody...."
E, p. 54: "The symbolic "Church of Philadelphia" was "from 1750 until around 1925" - "the period of great missionary outreach" of "John Wesley, George Whitfield, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, D. L. Moody...."
(2) NW, p. 123: The 144,000 will be "Jewish Billy Grahams."
E, p. 121: The 144,000 will be "Jewish Billy Grahams."
(3) NW, p. 144: "Over a century ago, before America groaned under the present crime wave, Joseph Seiss, the author of The Apocalypse, predicted on the basis of Revelation 9:21 that capital punishment would have been largely abolished by the time of the Tribulation!"
E, p. 132: "Over a century ago, before we groaned under the present crime wave, J. A. Seiss, author of The Apocalypse, predicted, on the basis of Revelation 9:21, that capital punishment would be largely abolished by the time of the Tribulation."
(4) NW, p. 173: "God...one of Your children down on earth, Hal Lindsey, just blew it in his Christian life....Lucifer...I let My Son...take the penalty for Hal's sins....You haven't got a case against Hal."
E, p. 155: "God, did you notice David Jeremiah down there in California? He really blew it today in his so-called Christian life....[Satan], I paid the penalty for his sins upon the cross, so drop this case...."
(5) NW, p. 251: "...the heavenly preparation for Jesus' return...revolves around five thunderous, resounding shouts of 'Praise the Lord!'... which is sung in unison by angels, Old Testament saints, Tribulation saints, and Church saints."
E, p. 200:"Five shouts of 'Praise the Lord' resound throughout heaven as there is a great preparation for Jesus' return. The angels, the Old Testament saints, the church saints, and the Tribulation saints will raise their voices in a choir which will reverberate louder than thunder."
After my discovery I alerted Thomas Nelson, the publisher of the Jeremiah/Carlson book, and said I would be glad to send photocopies of all the plagiarism for their inspection.
What happened after I sent them a huge stack of evidence is absolutely stunning! The head of the legal department wrote me and stated that
"We at Thomas Nelson are very concerned about this matter. Accordingly, we are destroying all our current inventory of this title and will not reprint the book."
But what he said was a huge lie. They never destroyed a single copy of the offending book and have continued to publish it and send royalties to Jeremiah and Carlson since 1990!
I wrote a separate article about this unbelievable Thomas Nelson scandal and titled it "Thieves' Marketing." And I am grateful that my good friend Treena Gisborn aired it on her excellent "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing" blog several months ago on May 8th.
I wonder how soon a certain pirate will have to walk the plank!
Welcome to the age of shameless preachers who no longer feel the need to even blush!
ReplyDeleteI thought that Christianity had something to do with integrity Irv?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
"..Christianity had something to do with integrity.." This is CERTAINLY the perceived notion; I have absolutely no doubt of it! But is it altogether true? Is this not why you prefixed the word "thought"?
ReplyDeleteWe all KNOW that the wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest (Matthew 13), but let us not forget that the wheat and the tares are BOTH believers; One true, the other false!
Therefore we shouldn't be too surprised at the writings of David Jeremiah & Co, or should we? Why should Thomas Nelson care, as long as they are raking in the $$$$? You would think Lindsey would would be the one that would take action, but maybe he's in on the royalties!
I sit very uncomfortably with the thought of 144,000 ecumenical "Jewish Billy Graham's" Not that I would restrict the "free course" of God's word, you understand! (2 Thessalonians 3.1)? Hence we SHOULD let false preachers/teachers do what they will! "For he who is not against us is for us" Luke 9.50?
If it wasn't for false teachers, I wouldn't have heard the gospel of Christ!
By all means we should expose error when we see it, and warn others, it is only right to do so, Ephesians 5.11.
God bless.
Thanks for your words of wisdom, Colin. Interesting days that we live in. I am reminded of the portion of the Word which declares that there is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed, or words to the same effect.
ReplyDeleteThie 144,00 in Rev 7, are they the same 144, 000 in Rev 14?
ReplyDeleteI have heard different ideas on this.
Revelation 7 describes the 144000 from the tribes of Israel to be sealed on their foreheads prior to the wrath of God is poured out.
ReplyDeleteRevelation 14 is also prior to the wrath .. and they are referred to as "the redeemed from mankind". Some think that this means that they are not the same 144000 referred to in Revelation 7.. but not necessarily.
The number is specific in both cases. In Revelation 14 the 144000 are with the Lord on Mount Zion.. the Lord has not yet returned to the earth, and so this must refer to heavenly Zion.
I tend to think that they are the same in both cases due to the specific details.
There are different ideas as you say Anonymous. I would not like to express a definite view, as these other ideas are worth considering.
Colin? Anyone?
God bless.
Something I haven't given great thought to.
ReplyDeleteBecause the "1440,000" in Revelation 7 is the identical number as in ch 14, does it mean they are the same "144,000"? In Ch 7 it is said they are "of the tribes of Israel", in ch 14 they are "purchased/redeemed from the earth" v 3. There seems to be a distinction.
I quote B.W.Newton on Rev 14.
"v.1 These are not the same as those sealed in ch.7. THEY (italics in original) were exclusively from Israel, to form the nucleus of the Millennial Church on earth; THESE (italics) are the risen saints of all nations to minister to that Millennial Church; hence their number 144,000, symbolic of completeness of God's instrumental agency."
It is easy to confound numbers and names without making any clear distinctions, another case in point is the "Gog and Magog" war, many think the war in Ezekiel 38 is the same in Revelation 20 (they are about a 1000 years apart). Although I think it far easier to be dogmatic in the case of Gog & Magog.
God bless.
I have never read any of his books but, if what you're accusing is true Charles Stanley is stealing from other author's material. You accused him from stealing from Lindsey who knows how many more authors he stole from!
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