The End of the Age [Paperback]

Pat Robertson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1996

As society disentigrates, a self-appointed leader takes over the U.S. government and promises a way out of the darkness. His only obstacle to unlimited world power is the Christian Resistance Movement. The ensuing battle signals the end of the stage. Pat Robertson's first novel, The End of the Age, is a chilling page-turner. It captures how today's headlines may be foreshadowing the imminent approach of the last days and the ultimate battle between good and evil.

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The most successful and famous televangelist gives fictional expression to apocalyptic prophecy. In A.D. 2000, a flaming asteroid strikes Earth between Hawaii and California. The consequent tsunami, earthquakes, and volcanism wipe out virtually all life around the northern Pacific rim. This is only the beginning of a plot that unfolds according to the last-days scenario in the biblical Book of Revelation. Successive U.S. presidents commit suicide and are murdered by agents of the Antichrist (aka Mark Beaulieu), who then becomes ruler of a new world order centered in Babylon. Things go from bad to worse, except for the "unaffected" (i.e., those who accept Jesus Christ as their savior), and even they suffer while often becoming guerrilla warriors during the years before . . . Armageddon, of course. Finally, "the reign of Jesus Christ and His saints" begins. With little art but great sincerity and forcefulness, Robertson dramatizes an Evangelical Christian eschatological vision that many fellow evangelicals (such as Tom Sine in Cease Fire ) discount. His book is fascinating, though--all the more so because of the many political and cultural bugbears of the religious right that he manages to drag into the yarn as instruments of Satan. Members of The 700 Club will be enthralled. Ray Olson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: W Pub Group (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849939666
• ISBN-13: 978-0849939662
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,278,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Really didn't like it., July 19, 2005

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enash (Portland OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The End of the Age (Paperback)

First off, I'm not a fan of the writing style. It covers so much information and time with little dialogue, or characters for that matter. But that's just the style. The way the story was presented was what I had a problem with.

It seemed like the author had a lot of interesting ideas on what he thought the end times would be like, and he didn't want to write an end-times non-fiction spiritual book, so he just presented it as fiction, but didn't quite know how to do that.

Characters are introduced simply to experience the asteroid plumetting into the earth. Then, they drop off. All of a sudden, near the end, they come back, and now they're like generals or something, or leading some kind of airstrike during the battle of Armaggedon. WHAT?!

This book is a grid, a blueprint for a certain way it COULD happen. It is not a story about people, or a story with a plot. It is just a list of events that read on until Jesus comes.

The only reason I gave it two stars was because it didn't follow the whole rapture-theory at all(that word isn't in the Bible, and even implications of one doesn't say WHEN during the tribulation it would be). In this story, the Christians are here for the whole thing, and everything isn't quite so set and orlderly and expected like the Left Behind series. It follows the premise that throughout the last century or so, we've already experienced the Seal Judgements, and that the asteroid hitting earth is the beginning of a great cataclysm that mankind is about to face.

IF you want a different take and aren't expecting much of anything else, read this, but not if you want a real story with passion or voice.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Look for quality literature elsewhere, April 2, 2000

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Student (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The End of the Age: A Novel (Hardcover)

I had to read this book for a class in the book of Revelation. I could bearly force myself to get through the book it was so bad. The characters were flat, the story line terribly predictable, the dialogue was boring, and it couldn't have been written at more than a third grade reading level. I noticed all this and I'm an engineering student not an english major!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent book, but intellectually uninteresting., February 13, 2005

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Jimmy (AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The End of the Age (Paperback)

I would have hoped that a book written by a man with the religious stature of Pat robertson would have yielded more spiritual insight. While I wasn't necessarily expecting something of the same quality of Brian Caldwell's masterpiece We All Fall Down or the likes of C.S. Lewis, I was somewhat disappointed in the simplicity Robertson brings to bear on religion. Essentially, this is a good book to read if you're looking to simply re-familiarize yourself with your faith. anything deeper and you will have to look elsewhere I'm afraid.