End Times: A Report on Future Survival [Paperback]

Chuck Smith (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 93 pages
• Publisher: Maranatha House Publishers; 1st edition (January 1, 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893370118
• ISBN-13: 978-0893370114
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,231,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

In 1965, Pastor Chuck Smith began his ministry at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Only twenty-five people attended. What began as a small chapel has now grown into a church that seats over 2000 and is filled almost nightly. From the beginning, Pastor Chuck welcomed all, young and old, without judgment, placing his emphasis on the teaching of the Word of God. His simple, yet sound, biblical approach draws 25,000 people weekly.

The Word for Today is the Radio and Publishing Ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith. Our desire is to see the body of Christ grow in their knowledge of God through the study of His Word. We are committed to bringing you the solid and consistent teaching of the whole Bible taught by Pastor Chuck Smith. Within the pages of this catalog are teaching cassettes, and many wonderful books which will equip the believer and deepen your understanding of God's Word.

Pastor Chuck Smith's radio and TV programs can be heard on stations nation-wide. The program can be heard in over 350 cities world-wide, and airs more than 300 times daily.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Debunking Stuff!!, March 28, 2005

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scylla (Yucca Valley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: End Times: A Report on Future Survival (Paperback)

Filled with all sorts of good stuff!
This type of book is great for scaring people (25 years ago) and is common among the doomsdayers. I think Chuck Smith decided to stop predicting the end of the world with the next book after this, around 1988, but this is informative anyways.
I like how he begins his premise about the end of the world by stating if he interpretes scriptures correctly this is when he believe the end of the world will occur. He then proceeds to predict that 1981 will be the end.

Most people will agree that the end of the world did not occur, in 1981 unless we missed it.

Three stars, not for accuracy, but for debunkingness.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Date Setter, March 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: End Times: A Report on Future Survival (Paperback)

One must be careful when reading Pastor Chuck Smith's (of Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa) material, especially "End Times." Chuck Smith has criticised others for setting dates for the return of Christ, yet has done the same himself on page 35 of "End Times" and in numerous other books.

For an example of the criticism, in the book "Dateline Earth: Countdown to Eternity," (1989) Chuck Smith criticised Edgar Wisenant for predicting Jesus would return in September, 1988. On page 26, Smith wrote: "He was certainly well-intentioned --- including about his revised prediction of September 1989, when September 1988 came and went --- but he was also dead wrong."

Yet on page 35 of "End Times" (1978) Chuck Smith wrote: "I believe that the generation of 1948 is the last generation. Since a generation of judgment is forty years and the Tribulation period lasts seven years, I believe the Lord could come back for His Church any time before the Tribulation starts, which would mean any time before 1981. (1948 + 40 - 7 = 1981).

For an additional example, in his book Future Survival (1978), page 17 Chuck Smith wrote: "We're the generation that saw the fig tree bud forth, as Israel became a nation again in 1948. As a rule, a generation in the Bible lasts 40 years. ... Forty years after 1948 would bring us to 1988." On page 20 Smith wrote: "From my understanding of biblical prophecies, I'm convinced that the Lord is coming for His Church before the end of 1981. I could be wrong, but its a deep conviction in my heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that belief."

This review is written of Chuck Smith's book "End Times" in an effort to warn others away from this and similar date-setting material by him.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Inaccurate both scientifically and biblically, September 4, 2010

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Kent - See all my reviews

This review is from: End Times: A Report on Future Survival (Paperback)

Not only is some of the pseudo science that Pastor Chuck Smith passes off as science absurd, for example he says that scientists were concerned that the planets of the solar system lining up all on the same side of the sun in 1982 could cause massive earthquakes on the earth when in fact any credible scientist from the period said that this planetary lining up didn't mean anything, which proved to be the truth as nothing out of the ordinary happened that year, but even some of his Bible analysis is faulty.

For example, Smith says that Ezekiel 39 shows that after the battle of Gog and Magog that Israel will have to wait seven months to bury the dead bodies struck down in the war due to what Smith says could very well be radiation from nuclear attacks when in fact Ezekiel clearly says that Israel will be burying the bodies for the full seven months and only at the end of the seven months will they hire men to bury the remaining corpses to fully cleanse the land as shown by these passages from Ezekiel below:

Ezekiel 39:11-16

11 "It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog. 12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. 13 Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified," says the Lord GOD. 14 "They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. 15 The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man's bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. 16 The name of the city will also be Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse the land."

But even though Smith came dangerously close to setting a date for the end of the world he didn't conclusively say that he thought that in fact it was absolutely going to happen at that time, so we can't really call him a false prophet because of this. Also, the Bible says to be beware of false prophets as we will know them by their fruits and the fruit of Smith's ministry has been leading countless people to the saving grace of faith in Christ which is what he should stick to doing. I think that is what he is best at and he should leave the end of the world commentary to someone else.