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In a 1997 retrospective reviewing the legacy of local Christian radio pioneer George Otis, the Los Angeles Times described him as “a bit like Indiana Jones, but instead of a bullwhip, [he] carries a Bible.”1 Otis, who had built a globe-circling shortwave radio organization, High Adventure Ministries, was likely delighted by the description.2 In the wake of the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars, Otis joined a movement of Christian Zionist evangelicals who believed that these conflicts foretold the coming of the Apocalypse and Christ’s return to earth. Especially after the Israeli victory in the 1967 Six-Day war, many evangelicals felt certain that the realization of Biblical prophecy was underway.
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