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|  | Authors: Tim LaHaye, Thomas Ice
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Category: Book
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Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 9.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0736901388
Dewey Decimal Number: 236.9
EAN: 9780736901383
ASIN: 0736901388
Publication Date: August 2001
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Excellent colour charts and layout January 2, 2003
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book exceeded my expectations. I first had the Study Guide but this book is so much more detailed and attractive to read.
I am still discovering new things and learning a lot. For me the charts present an easy way to view and digest the information.
However, if the product details had explained that the book included a pullout version of the chart`Understanding God`s plan for the Ages`, I would NOT have purchased this as an additional item at the time I bought the book itself.
A picture is worth a thousand words... August 4, 2004
Jerry L Teets (Salt Lake City, UT)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This well illustrated book makes visual concepts of the Bible like Dispensationalism and Prophecy. It answers questions like "Why Sould a Christian Study Prophecy" and "How We Got Our Bible".
Though there are areas and conclusions I disagree with (email me for information)...over all it is a imporatant addition to any study library.
 My REVIEW December 12, 2009
Jason Weissman (usa)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pros= Book came fast, was in pretty good shape as I bought it used.Also great price.
Cons= The book had a horrible stench attached to it , to the point i even tried spraying cologne on it and it still hasn't left. Almost turns me off to the point i don't want to pick the book up to read...
Steven A. Janda, Author September 2, 2008
Steven A. Janda (Seattle, Washington)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Thank God that Tim LaHaye is pointing the believers in this direction.
The passages of scripture many in the church rely on to support the rapture teaching are found in I Corinthians 15 and I Thessalonians 4. These passages refer to the coming of Christ in glory after the tribulation. Both are public events for all the world to witness. Jesus said the resurrection occurs on the last day in John, not three years prior before the tribulation. Jesus said he comes in glory after the tribulation and the dead in Christ shall rise. There are only two resurrections: one after the tribulation and another after the millennium. Therefore, the resurrection is not the rapture because it would serve no purpose after the tribulation since the harm is past. The promise in scripture is to repent to escape the wrath to come, which occurs during the tribulation. Jesus taught us to pray accordingly. Hence, the escape or rapture is before the tribulation during a negligence time. This is why all the parables have a negligence setting. There is no negligence setting during the tribulation, only panic and fear. Thus, nearly all the parables apply before the tribulation as in the days of Noah and Lot.
The Apostle Paul alludes to an escape in I Thessalonians 5, but says at the beginning of the chapter that the church has no need that he write on the coming of the day of the Lord because everyone knows it comes unexpectedly like a thief in the night. So Paul believed that the fact that Christ was coming at an unexpected time was such common knowledge he said very little about it because it was virtually a non-issue it was so fundamental to the teaching of Christ. This is why the teaching that Christ only appears publicly after the tribulation cannot be true because at that time it will be expected. It will not be as a thief in the night. Jesus said in the tribulation you will desire to see one of the days of the son of man and will not see it until he comes with lightening for all the world to see.
However, Paul uses many of the terms that are used by Christ in his many parables of his unexpected coming such as sleep, watch, sober, darkness, drunkenness, night, and escape. His use of such terms indicates he was acutely aware of the teaching of Christ. Hence, he references the parables of Christ implicitly. His epistles to the Thessalonians combined follow the same order of the synoptic gospel accounts of the coming of Christ which alerts the church to the antichrist and then the tribulation, but then backs up in time as do all three synoptic gospels and depicts a negligence setting right before Jesus returns as a thief in the night just prior to the revealing of the antichrist.
In that night Jesus says, two shall be in bed, the field, grinding at a mill, and one would be taken and another left. (Luke 17) You cannot be left behind spiritually or taken spiritually. These are not even parables. These are prophetic statements of Christ, which Jesus says many will come from all directions and sit down in the kingdom of God with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This can only be a physical removing of the ready Christians from the face of the earth. There flight is not in the winter or on the Sabbath. This is the rapture of the wise virgins and the wise stewards which Jesus gave more parables concerning than any other truth, approximately 30 parables and illustrations all pointing to the same truth. This is the most compelling truth in the Bible to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Indeed, Jesus gave notice to us in the church of our own negligence and the resulting judgment against us during the tribulation unless we are accounted worthy to escape the tribulation. It is the foremost truth of the parables of Christ. Where this foremost truth is rejected, it is foreseeable there will be judgment, specifically, against the church. This is the gospel of the kingdom that Christ preached that he said would be preached throughout the whole world and then shall the end come.
Ready or Not, Here I Come
Lots of historical information. May 13, 2003
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is probably a good book to read if you are a new believer or a person interested in Christian history. I personally didn't read anything new in the contents - this book just reiterates what others have already said. There is lots and lots of information but it was a little bit cumbersome reading for me and I found myself skimming through the oodles of information. I found the two column pages distracting.
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