The Left Behind Series?????????? 
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MoreThese books are of course "fictional" . However, I feel they are a must have for all christians and seekers of truth. I feel like they are giving a lot of great insight on things of the endtime. They are based on the book of revelation and were written by the authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. I guess the series is about 15 books I think so far but those two authors are always adding additional books sometimes so check with your local bookstores for more information. I would love to have some dialoguing on these books so ya'll go out and get them . The first book is entitled of course, "Left Behind" Start there and you will not wanna put it down. It feels like you are in the book and in some ways we really are. You'll see what I mean. It might be helpful to read the book of Revelation from the Bible as well. Since this is the source and inspiration for this series of books. Enjoy End timers!!! These are a must read!
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- Sombody's making a lot of money off ... #76749
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The bleating of the sheepies about "end times" has been going on for almost 5,000 years. It is the antichrist of fear that has replaced the teachings of Jesus. John the Baptist said that "the kingdom of god is at hand" meaning that it had arrived. After he lost his head Jesus came forward with the same message but added a little more: "the time is fulfilled, the kingdom of god is at hand" - and many bibles say "has arrived." Why don't people believe Jesus? Do you think he was a liar?
Many are looking for the return of a body but Jesus promised he would never leave, and he hasn't (lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age). The Christ has been returning for many years - that's why some in the world are going nuts - they can't stand the Christ.
Jesus said "beware of the Pharisees" and they have taken over the Christian church and instilled fear into the hearts of their members, just like they did in Jesus' time.
The kingdom of god was here 2,000 years ago. It never left. It is here now. All you have to do is what Jesus said - look for it and you will find it.
The Left Behind series authors are the money changers in the temple.
ca. 2800 BC According to Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979), an Assyrian clay tablet dating to approximately 2800 BC was unearthed bearing the words "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common." This is one of the earliest examples of the perception of moral decay in society being interpreted as a sign of the imminent end. 634 BC Apocalyptic thinking gripped many ancient cultures, including the Romans. Early in Rome's history, many Romans feared that the city would be destroyed in the 120th year of its founding. There was a myth that 12 eagles had revealed to Romulus a mystical number representing the lifetime of Rome, and some early Romans hypothesized that each eagle represented 10 years. The Roman calendar was counted from the founding of Rome, 1 AUC (ab urbe condita) being 753 BC. Thus 120 AUC is 634 BC. (Thompson p.19) 389 BC Some Romans figured that the mystical number revealed to Romulus represented the number of days in a year (the Great Year concept), so they expected Rome to be destroyed around 365 AUC (389 BC). (Thompson p.19) 1st Century Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." (Matthew 16:28) This implies that the Second Coming would return within the lifetime of his contemporaries, and indeed the Apostles expected Jesus to return before the passing of their generation. ca. 70 The Essenes, a sect of Jewish ascetics with apocalyptic beliefs, may have seen the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66-70 as the final end-time battle. (Source: PBS Frontline special Apocalypse!) 2nd Century The Montanists believed that Christ would come again within their lifetimes and establish a new Jerusalem at Pepuza, in the land of Phrygia. Montanism was perhaps the first bona fide Christian doomsday cult. It was founded ca. 156 AD by the tongues-speaking prophet Montanus and two followers, Priscilla and Maximilla. Despite the failure of Jesus to return, the cult lasted for several centuries. Tertullian, who once said "I believe it just because it is unbelievable" (a true skeptic if ever there was one!), was perhaps the most renowned Montanist. (Gould p.43-44) 247 Rome celebrated its thousandth anniversary this year. At the same time, the Roman government dramatically increased its persecution of Christians, so much so that many Christians believed that the End had arrived. (Source: PBS Frontline special Apocalypse!) 365 Hilary of Poitiers predicted the world would end in 365. (Source: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance) 380 The Donatists, a North African Christian sect headed by Tyconius, looked forward to the world ending in 380. (Source: American Atheists) Late 4th Century St. Martin of Tours (ca. 316-397) wrote, "There is no doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. Firmly established already in his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, achieve supreme power." (Abanes p.119) 500 - Roman theologian Sextus Julius Africanus (ca. 160-240) claimed that the End would occur 6000 years after the Creation. He assumed that there were 5531 years between the Creation and the Resurrection, and thus expected the Second Coming to take place no later than 500 AD. (Kyle p.37, McIver #21)
- Hippolytus (died ca. 236), believing that Christ would return 6000 years after the Creation, anticipated the Parousia in 500 AD. (Abanes p.283)
- The theologian Irenaeus, influenced by Hippolytus's writings, also saw 500 as the year of the Second Coming. (Abanes p.283, McIver #15)
Apr 6, 793 Elipandus, bishop of Toledo, described a brief bout of end-time panic that happened on Easter Eve, 793. According to Elipandus, the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana prophesied the end of the world that day in the presence a crowd of people. The people, thinking that the world would end that night, became frightened, panicked, and fasted through the night until dawn. Seeing that the world had not ended and feeling hungry, Hordonius, one of the fasters, quipped, "Let's eat and drink, so that if we die at least we'll be fed." (Abanes p. 168-169, Weber p.50) 800 - Sextus Julius Africanus revised the date of Doomsday to 800 AD. (Kyle p.37)
- Beatus of Liébana wrote in his Commentary on the Apocalypse, which he finished in 786, that there were only 14 years left until the end of the world. Thus, the world would end by 800 at the latest. (Abanes p.168)
806 Bishop Gregory of Tours calculated the End occurring between 799 and 806. (Weber p.48) 848 The prophetess Thiota declared that the world would end this year. (Abanes p.337) Mar 25, 970 Lotharingian computists foresaw the End on Friday, March 25, 970, when the Annunciation and Good Friday fell on the same day. They believed that it was on this day that Adam was created, Isaac was sacrificed, the Red Sea was parted, Jesus was conceived, and Jesus was crucified. Therefore, it naturally followed that the End must occur on this day! (Source: Center for Millennial Studies) 992 Bernard of Thuringia calculated that the end would come in 992. (Randi p.236) 995 The Feast of the Annunciation and Good Friday also coincided in 992, prompting some mystics to conclude that the world would end within 3 years of that date. (Weber p.50-51) 1000 There are many stories of apocalyptic paranoia around the year 1000. For example, legend has it that a "panic terror" gripped Europe in the years and months before this date. However, scholars disagree on which stories are genuine, whether millennial expectations at this time were any greater than usual, or whether ordinary people were even aware of what year it was. An excellent article on Y1K apocalyptic expectations can be found at the Center for Millennial Studies. (Gould, Schwartz, Randi) 1033 After Jesus failed to return in 1000, some mystics pushed the date of the End to the thousandth anniversary of the Crucifixion. The writings of the Burgundian monk Radulfus Glaber described a rash of millennial paranoia during the period from 1000-1033. (Kyle p.39, Abanes p.337, McIver #50) 1184 Various Christian prophets foresaw the Antichrist coming in 1184. (Abanes p.338) Sep 23, 1186 John of Toledo, after calculating that a planetary alignment would occur in Libra on September 23, 1186 (Julian calendar), circulated a letter (known as the "Letter of Toledo") warning that the world was to going to be destroyed on this date, and that only a few people would survive. (Randi p.236) http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm
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- Re: Sombody's making a lot of money ... bbnomas
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This is a reply to # 1,089,493Yes and the Bible said that in the last days there would be scoffers about the subjct of His return. Teh Bible says Jesus wil return the same way he left - with the clouds. What stayed was the Holy Spirit and while it is one with the Father and Son - it is not mean Jesus will not physically return! Jesus SAID he woudl. Get out your Bible. Many have thought it was the end overteh years and that is true but the Bible says that teh end is like Brith pangs and with current events and prophecy and thechnology where it is we are indeed in teh last days and Jesus TAUGHT we could KNOW the season of HIS return. I agree Lahaya and boys may or may not have latruitic intentions and not everything they say is accurate BUT we are in the last days and there is nothing that has to be fufilled anymre for Christ to return for HIS bride the cHurch! I cant wait!
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"Get out your Bible. Many have thought it was the end overteh years and that is true but the Bible says that teh end is like Brith pangs and with current events and prophecy and thechnology where it is we are indeed in teh last days and Jesus TAUGHT we could KNOW the season of HIS return."
I've read my bible - I read what Jesus taught. He taught over and over and over again - the same message that John the Baptist taught before him. The kingdom of god is here! It is now! It is not in some future utopian time. All you have to do is what Jesus said - look for it and you will find it. I suggest that you also read what Jesus taught - skip the part written by a Roman Pharisee, a Christian killing Jew who taught the opposite of what Jesus taught - he was an antichrist! He was who John was talking about when he said that there are many antichrists among us now.
The kingdom of god was here 2,000 years ago. It never left. It is here today. Jesus taught it. Told us where to look for it, and said that people who John the Baptist had taught about the kingdom of god had experienced it (past tense) and the people he (Jesus) was teaching would also experience it - before they died.
The entire world is far better off than at any time in recorded history. The planet is richer. Millions no longer starve from famine. The longevity is much higher than two or three generations ago. The U. S. is the richest and safest nation in history - and you say these are the "birth pangs?" Which planet do you live on?
I love this quote:
Utopian fantasies have long transfixed the human race. Yet today a much rarer fantasy has become popular in the United States. Millions of Americans, the richest people in history, have a death wish. They are the new “Armageddonites,” fundamentalist evangelicals who have moved from forecasting Armageddon to actually trying to bring it about.
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Quote: (My comments in parentheses.) Today, many Christians are confused. They are tossed too and fro with every new book that hits the market or every new fad end-time scheme introduced by some celebrity preacher. The popularity of the Revelation today is due to man’s insatiable curiosity regarding the future, the interest in the unknown tomorrow, which characterizes the restless human soul. To claim that in the pages of the Revelation we can see the signs of the present times and thus predict the tomorrows; to pull back the veil and claim to lay bare the future is to attract an audience, for that is the nature of man — fascination with the future! And that is the thrust of the scores of books always appearing, almost all of them claiming to be able to unravel and accurately predict the great world events about to unfold. Man reveres the past, but he is intoxicated by the heady wine of prophecy. The very claim, then, of these many books — that they can reveal to us things which are soon to come — helps to explain the popularity of those books on the Revelation. (Jesus said to "take no thought" for tomorrow!)
The most popular of the apocalyptic entrepreneurs undoubtedly is Hal Lindsey, the author of the sensationalist book The Late Great Planet Earth and other more recent titles. His combination of literalist biblical interpretation and outright scare tactics have resulted in gaining him an extremely wide readership. But — his predictions have continually needed readjustment in the light of deadlines which have come and gone without fulfillment! Also, according to the February/March 1980 "special report to the members of the 700 Club," entitled "Pat Robertson’s Perspective," the beast of Revelation was to have been the Soviet Union, which he believed was about to attack Israel "to gain unrestricted access to Middle East oil plus a land bridge to the mineral wealth of Africa." (Oh my gosh, it seems like WE are the ones that have attacked the Middle East for oil!!!!) The economy of Western Europe would be doomed by this and the world would then see the rise of a "counterfeit Messiah," a satanic figure "more malevolent than Adolph Hitler," who in 1980 was "approximately twenty-seven years old" and was being groomed for his sinister task. His nightmarish seven-year reign is the time of the "Great Tribulation," which supposedly will come to an end with the second coming of Christ, who will destroy the Antichrist at the battle of Armageddon. I do not hesitate to tell you that all such speculation, which purports to unravel the immediate future of world events out of the prophecies of the book of Revelation, are doomed to failure. None of them will come to pass! Church history is full of these schemes. Every generation, from the early church to the present, has been impacted by prophecies of that sort. I could write page after page, and go on and on, about all the end-time predictions that have been taught out of the book of Revelation that weren’t worth the paper they were written on, and often times were proven wrong almost before the ink was dry on the paper!
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