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AN INCISIVE CRITIQUE BY A FORMER JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, September 29, 2010
David Reed is a former Jehovah's Witness, and was for a decade a contributing editor of Walter Martin's Christian Research Journal, and is also the author of Jehovah's Witnesses Answered Verse by Verse and Mormons Answered Verse by Verse.
He writes in the Preface to this 2008 book, "Scripture tells us that God's forbearance does not go on forever. Does the Bible teach that unbelievers will be 'left behind' for a seven-year-long second chance when Christ comes to take his faithful followers to heaven? That is the question this book will examine verse by verse."
Here are some representative quotations from the book:
"Luther and Calvin lived in the 1500s and Margaret MacDonald in the 1800s. Was she living 'in the age when the Church was to be taken out' more so than they? Nearly two hundred years have passed since she spoke." (Pg. 15)
"At Christ's second return, according to their fictional account, believers are all clearly marked in their foreheads with a holographic cross that only other believers can see, and unbelievers are marked visibly with a tattoo showing loyalty to the devil incarnate. Everything is black and white; everyone is clearly marked as a follower of Christ or an enemy. That doesn't fit the scenario Jesus described (in Mt 7:21-23), either." (Pg. 51)
"So Jesus indicated (in Lk 17:37) those left behind would be 'dead'---with the vultures consuming their dead bodies. How does anyone get from this that they would be 'left behind' with seven years of life ahead of them? Only by ignoring the context." (Pg. 79)
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Why not READ THIS while you're waiting for "The Rapture", January 6, 2009
by Mrs. Lenaburg [a.k.a. Patrice Stanton]
Disclosure: Because the "pre-trib rapture" struck me as Biblically disingenuous years ago I'd already come to the author's main conclusion back in the mid-1990's, after not nearly as extensive Biblical investigation: the pre-trib Rapture is pure feel-good fiction, just like the dozen+ adult "Left Behind" novels this exhaustive, scholarly critique exposes.
If you are a fan of the LaHaye & Jenkins' books I pray that you will read this extensively footnoted 130+ page analysis (oh, how I wish there was a 10 or 20-page synopsis from the same author!). For confirmation you might just want to have your LaHaye & Jenkins' books - as well as a Bible - alongside, as you will quickly find that the "Left Behind" authors not only twist but selectively quote Scripture in their non-fiction works as well as their fiction time and again, even going so far as to use one verse in different places to "prove" both sides of a single point!
Think about how multifaceted the danger of "Left Behind's" ultimate 'second-chance' premise is. If millions 'disappeared' from planes, trains, & automobiles, on cue, who - in their right mind - would even NEED to be preached to, who'd need a left-behind 'Pastor Bruce?' Consider the further sacrilege of that scenario, as millions of copies of "Left Behind" novels (not to mention the movies from them) would serve as better evangelistic tools - being themselves left-behind "proof" of Christianity - than 'boring old' Bibles...
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Excellent debunkment of Left Behind series, October 16, 2010
This might be one of the best books written on the subject of Christian escathology.I highly recommend it.
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