Product Description

It's a fact: 27 percent of the Bible is devoted to prophecy. But most of us don't focus 27 percent of our personal Bible study on prophecy. Why? We're confused. Or intimidated. Or both. This book takes away a lot of the mystery--and all of the intimidation. From the creators of the Left Behind series--Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins--comes a truly astonishing book. User-friendly for the layperson. Remarkably complete for the scholar.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37720 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Jerry B. Jenkins, former Vice President for Publishing and currently Writer-at-Large for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, is the author of more than 150 books, including the best-selling Left Behind series. Sixteen of his books have reached the New York Times best-seller list (seven in the number one spot) and have also appeared on the USA Today, Publisher's Weekly and Wall Street Journal best-seller lists.

Tim LaHaye is an internationally known author, teacher, and expert on Bible prophecy. He is married to Beverly, who is the founder of the largest women's organization in America, Concerned Women for America. The LaHayes live in southern California.

Customer Reviews

Steven A. Janda
The passages of scripture that the majority church relies on to support the rapture teaching are I Corinthians 15 and I Thessalonians 4. These passages refer to the coming of Christ in glory after the tribulation. Jesus said the resurrection occurs on the last day in John, not three years prior.

However, the Apostle Paul alludes to an escape in I Thessalonians 5, but says at the beginning of the chapter that the church had no need that he write on the coming of the day of the Lord because everyone knows it comes unexpectedly like a thief in the night. Paul then uses many of the terms that are used by Christ in his many parables of his unexpected coming such as sleep, drunkeness, night, and escape. Because he is referring to those which are drunk are drunk in the night he identifies the same parable Jesus used to teach us that we must continure to do his work to be ready for his coming. His epistles to the Thessalonians combined follow the same order of the gospel accounts of the coming of Christ which alerts the church to the antichrist and then the tribulation, but then backs up in time as do all three gospels and depicts a negligence setting right before Jesus returns as a thief in the night just prior to the revealing of the antichrist.

In that night Jesus says, two shall be in bed, the field, grinding at a mill, and one would be taken and another left.(Luke 17) That is the rapture of the wise virgins and the wise stewards which Jesus gave more parables concerning than any other truth, approximately 30 parables and illustrations all pointing to the same truth. Indeed, Jesus gave notice to us in the church of our own negligence and the resulting judgment against us during the tribulation unless we are accounted worthy to escape the tribulation. It is the foremost truth of the parables of Christ. Where this foremost truth is rejected there will be judgment, specifically, against the church. This is the gospel of the kingdom that Christ preached that he said would be preached throught the whole world and then shall the end come. Ready or Not, Here I Come

Bible Prophecy Explains Current Events
Writing in a popular style that avoids the vocabulary of seminary theologians, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins target the masses with their analysis of current events as seen by their pretribulational, premillennial, and dispensational interpretation of Bible prophecy. The book is formatted on a timeline of sequential prophetic events and makes use of numerous charts and graphs.

LaHaye and Jenkins cover almost every conceivable topic and detail of predicted end-times, but make only an oblique reference to God's covenants with Abraham and his progeny: a description of the regathering of Israel, backed up by Ezekiel's "dry bones" prophecy. They make no mention of events surrounding Israel's birth as a nation. This omission of the early details of God's plan of the ages is admitted by the book's authors: "The book you hold in your hand is primarily about God's wonderful plan for man's future events in relation to this earth prior to that age of peace."

Even so, this book provides a very readable study of Bible prophecy, a study focused maninly on end-time events yet to be fulfilled.

Edwin Scroggins is author of Bible Prophecy in a Nutshell: A Mini-Survey of God's Great Plan of the Ages

Irrelevant
I feel like this book could really be summed up with one word: maybe. Definitively, that's all I really got out of the book. Although the book is presented in a less insane light than some religious works, it still stands to reason that people have been proclaiming or guessing about the end times for about 2000 years. Devout Christians seem to be ignoring their Bible when it says that the exact year of Christ's return cannot be known. Why even bother speculating?