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Facing the Future

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After reading the fourth book (Facing the Future) of the "Kids Left Behind" series, I would be scared to be here on earth and experience the tribulation and the events that go along with it.

I would say that this will keep you on your toes and you will not want to stop reading. It also leaves you hanging on a cliff, and you will want to read the next book of the series. --TF

I read this book thinking it would be similar to Jane Yollen and Bruce Coville's stunning Armaggedeon Summer. Instead, it seemed preachy. The teen characters were unrealistic and bland. The story line was uninvolving, and it may promote harmful accusations of the Antichrist. It had a few good parts, but it was mostly a waste of time.

This book portrays god in a poor light, makes poor comments about religions other than Christianity, and has poorly conceived characters. A disgrace to all Christian books.

I have always enjoyed the adult series of Left Behind books. The kids books are just as good. The kids interact with the characters from the adult series, experience the same events, etc. However, since the main characters are teens, these books can appeal to younger readers. So far, the stories haven't had the ups and downs that the adult series has had. The adult series has books that are a lot more boring than others. The kids series seems to be good in every book. These are not for really young kids, but would be appropriate for young teens. I enjoy them and I am an adult.

This fourth installment in the Left Behind-The Kids series is, in my opinion, the best in the series so far. In this fourth book, the four teens who are living in a post-Rapture world learn details of the coming holocaust of horrible judgments that will strike the planet, as prophecied in Scripture. They also discover who the Antichrist is at the very end of the book. Also at the end, the four teens realize their purpose in living as Christians in a post-Rapture world. They realize they must get the Truth of the Bible's salvation message to the world to as many people as possible before the end comes,when they learn that the world would come to its end in seven years.

Facing the Future picks up where book 3 left off. Judd and Vicki go to Chicago to witnes the arrest of a mass murderer, by whom they had almost been killed. After the arrest, Judd shares his Faith to a group of police officers. All the officers except one laugh it off. The young Homicide cop Archibald Edwards is interested. Later on in the book, good news and bad news come about. The kids witness to the wife of a police officer about the Gospel message and she become a Christian. Archibald Edwards, the cop who is somewhat interested in the Gospel message, is suddenly killed by the murderer LeRoy Banks when he attempts but fails a jailbreak attempt. This book seems to be trying to make a point, which is this: if you've heard the Gospel message, do not wait; do not put off coming to Christ because you may not have tomorrow to live. Do not risk your life and, more importantly, your afterlife by thinking you have all the time in the world, because you do not!

When the kids learn from Biblical prophesy that within the next seven years, the end of the world would come about through war, famine, pestilences, plagues, earthquakes, and cosmic disturbances, they realize their purpose for living as Christians in a world plunged into mass chaos. They also discover who the Antichrist is when a man who has encountered the Antichrist shares his nightmarish story . . .

I finished this fairly short book in a fairly short time, but I still wished I had spent my time doing something else. The plot was ok, the setting was ok, the characters were ok (but not well developed), and the premise was neat but lacking. I suppose a one-word summary for this book would be lacking. There was not by any means anything bad about this book. Some people might like it. But to me it was an OK book. There is nothing wrong with an ok book. However, there are so many great books to read that an ok book just dosen't cut it.

The book I read is in the Left Behind series.It's by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.I read number four in the series. The protaganists are Judd,Vicki,Ryan,and Lionel. The book is Facing The Future. One night at 12:00 people disapeared from where they were all over the world there was mayhem.The best part was when the four kids became friends and then became the young tribulation force.

This is an AWESOME BOOK! Me and all my friends like them and I have all of them. It shows how intense the end times will be and about 4 kids who try to win people to Christ and struggle against the Anti Christ, Nicolae Carpathis. It's cool how they are so close knit with the adult series. I can't wait tell Nicolae High, The Underground, Busted, and Death Strike come out!

A heart stoping, jaw dropping, book. I really could not put it down!!It was just as good as its brother and sister books. It was about four kids, all of which lost there moms and dads to the rapture and have to survive on a hope,a wing, and a prayer.

Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, and others in the Pre-Trib circle, such as Ed Hindson, Tommy Ice, Chuck Missler, etc., continue to put forth the same deceptions that Hal Lindsey popularized decades ago. The notion of a pre-tribulation rapture is foreign to scripture, it is foreign to the teachings of the early Church, and it is grooming the Church for destruction through ignorance and lack of preparation for what is really coming. These men are novices and not prophecy "experts" or "scholars" by any stretch of the imagination; they are those who tickle the ears of gullible Christians. Why continue to be deceived? Tim Cohen, in his excellent book, "The AntiChrist and a Cup of Tea," provides biblically sound and testable evidence to show that the coming AntiChrist is known NOW. Not only that, the same author (Tim Cohen) has now put out the strongest presentation on the whole issue of the rapture EVER offered to the saints of God in Christ: "The REAL Rapture". If you really want to know the truth about the timing of the coming rapture, then you need to hear Tim Cohen's "The REAL Rapture" (based on a volume in his forthcoming "Messiah, History, and the Tribulation Period" series (see Prophecy House's site for details on these items, which are also available via Amazon).