- Paperback: 470 pages
- Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers (April 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0842329129
- ISBN-13: 978-0842329125
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14.2 x 3.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (126 customer reviews)
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In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear. Vehicles, suddenly unmanned, careen out of control. People are terror-stricken as loved ones vanish before their eyes. In the midst of global chaos, airline captain Rayford Steele must search for his family, for answers, for truth. As devastating as the disappearances have been, the darkest days may lie ahead ...
This is the first novel in the bestselling Left Behind series, the gripping fictional fulfillment of the Bible's prophecies. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The best of this series from Lahaye & Jenkins. Whoever you believe in, Christ, Mohammad, or UFOs, this is a well thought out, researched, and imaginative book. Not every Christian will agree with every premise in this book, but that's not unusual. The characters, plot development, and mystery unfolds as you turn the pages faster and faster. By comparison, Brad Steiger's new book 'Alien Rapture' is the alter-alternative to the Christian Rapture with a great sinister government woven in. The following books in this series are not near as good. Being a student of theology, I have read both 'LB' and 'AR' books numerious times. I loan them out as a pair. Yes, indeed, buy it. Unusual and excellent reading.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was a terrible read. I have enjoyed Tim LaHaye's non fiction works, so I feel I gave these books a fair go, but the characters seemed quite one dimensional to me, the plot pondering and long and the whole thing based on some very bad theology.
I do not entirely understand the fixation many American Christians have with the secret rapture. It seems that the doctrine was invented in the 19th century among a group known as the Irvingites, who disintegrated following the failure of their prophecies to come to pass, but one of whose leaders had influence in another group that then proceeded to produce the Darby study bible that became very widely used in the US. Because of the ubiquity of this Bible, the notes in it became widely assimilated as a dsitinctive American orthodoxy, and one of these doctrines was that of the secret rapture, that this book uses as its theme.
That being the case, no one should read the book with any idea that its events would actually unfold as described. Read it as a work of fiction.
But with this in mind, I read the book as a work of fiction and still I hated it. Perhaps I am too close to the errant orthodoxy that informs the storyline, because it then held no surprises for me - and the quality of writing did not save it.
My best recommendation is to non American readers - read this to get into the mind set of one popular strand of American Christianity.
I do not entirely understand the fixation many American Christians have with the secret rapture. It seems that the doctrine was invented in the 19th century among a group known as the Irvingites, who disintegrated following the failure of their prophecies to come to pass, but one of whose leaders had influence in another group that then proceeded to produce the Darby study bible that became very widely used in the US. Because of the ubiquity of this Bible, the notes in it became widely assimilated as a dsitinctive American orthodoxy, and one of these doctrines was that of the secret rapture, that this book uses as its theme.
That being the case, no one should read the book with any idea that its events would actually unfold as described. Read it as a work of fiction.
But with this in mind, I read the book as a work of fiction and still I hated it. Perhaps I am too close to the errant orthodoxy that informs the storyline, because it then held no surprises for me - and the quality of writing did not save it.
My best recommendation is to non American readers - read this to get into the mind set of one popular strand of American Christianity.
31 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked up this book when it first came out in the UK in 2000. The premise was exciting and promised a lot. However after skipping merrily through the pages I realised it was basically a lot of vacuous nonsense. The standard of literature was poor and sometimes the prose simply made me cringe.
The fact this has sold millions in the US is no surprise. This is just another crude bit of exploitation of evangelical America by a few individuals who can write rubbish and make alot of money out of it. Was I tempted to buy anymore of their books (I would have been parted with the best part of a 100 pounds if I'd bought the rest of series)? Surpringly, no.
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