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|  | Author: Grant R. Jeffrey
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1400074428
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
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Publication Date: October 6, 2009
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 Good Basic Theme, but a Little Paranoid in the Execution October 20, 2009
Connie Y. Mishali
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Shadow Government by Grant Jeffrey discusses the technological age of the 21st Century, the "flattening" of the world with the spread of globalization, changes to modern governments and politics and how this all merges with up end-times prophecy and the ability of the Antichrist to rule the world. While I do agree that Big Brother is a real threat to our personal freedoms and that modern institutions do have a number of factors in place to align with Biblical prophecy, I thought Shadow Government was a little paranoid and far fetched in some areas. The points raised by Grant Jeffrey are certainly ones we should think about, but I didn't find the book entirely credible to take all its claims at face value.
Yet Hope Lies in Jesus Christ October 26, 2009
Ronnica Rothe (Raleigh, NC USA)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Throughout Shadow Government Grant Jeffrey outlines all the current technology and plans for spying on the people of this world. He details everything from RFID chips (I worked at Walmart when they adopted the technology and I remember it being strangely controversial) to security cameras and shows how the government and private companies/individuals can use them to track each one of us.
To be honest, this kind of thing doesn't scare me at all. Perhaps my obsession with 1984 should have made me more paranoid of such a state existing, but I remain an optimist. I understand that I could be tracked I just don't think anyone really gives a care. Besides, I'm not ashamed of my activities and try to live in such a way that I don't really have anything to hide.
Jeffrey goes on to detail how these things point to the end of the earth and make way for such things as the Mark of the Beast (things prophesied in Revelation) in our lifetimes. I don't buy it. It's not that I think it can't or won't happen in our lifetime, I just don't think that we know that it will. Like a professor of mine said, no one correctly predicted how the Messiah would come the first time, so it's likely that no one will get it this time, either.
Where Jeffrey ends, is in exactly the right place. His last few pages he spends detailing the things that we do know from Scripture. I just wish he had spent more time there.
I wouldn't recommend this book unless you're really into conspiracy theories and the like. As a Christian, I want to dwell on (and carry out) the things that I know for sure in Scripture.
Not great October 30, 2009
Janeen Frost
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
I couldn't get past Chapter 1 of this book. I wasn't very interested in hearing about how the government is stalking us. I don't feel it matters to dwell on things we can't change.
 same old conspiracy hype October 27, 2009
Joan N. (Whidbey Island, WA USA)
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
Jeffrey says at the end of his book that he has written it to introduce nonbelievers to faith in Christ and to encourage Christians in their faith (p. 200). His goal, "...is to provide believers with books they can give to their friends and neighbors who do not yet have a personal faith in Christ."
My advice is that if you want to give this book to someone, do not give it to a person who is up to date on current events or anyone with knowledge of physics or science in general.
A reader with interest in current events will notice quickly that many of Jeffrey's sources are from a decade or more in the past. Much of what Jeffrey would have the reader believe is breaking news is really old stuff. When you read this book, keep one bookmark at his footnotes. It will disappoint you.
When Jeffrey talks about futuristic weapons, he is way out of his element. He mentions, "a beam weapon known as a collective accelerator. It uses powerful magnets to accelerate the orbits [sic] of electrons around the nuclei of atoms to the speed of light." (See p. 93.) If you believe this, try to tell that to the people at CERN who have built the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. The multi-billion euro project is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator and it is expecting speeds of only 99.9999991% of the speed of light (and they are having trouble doing that right now).
Jeffrey would have the reader believe in the invention of a Star Trek type photon torpedo device, an energy beam weapon. But check the footnote and you find it refers to a patent from 1989! (Think that "weapon" was anything real?) And then there is the "Voice of God" weapon. Jeffrey's source? A blog! And that blogger ends the entry with, "Does it exist? I don't know." And who could resist the possibility of weather weapons? (His sources there are articles from 1987-1991.)
Jeffrey would have us believe that, "...globalist strategies and the phenomenal growth and expansion of surveillance capabilities are setting the stage for the rise of the Antichrist... The Antichrist will arise in our generation." "Governments can spy on anyone without due cause or due process." "Increasingly, [the shadow government] officials have taken control of Western societies in the name of national security."
Jeffrey tries to convince the reader there are the secret organizations dedicated to one global government. He goes through the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. While their meetings and membership are supposed to be secret, Jeffrey knows all about them and their agendas. (Haven't we had enough conspiracy books about these groups over the last several decades?)
Jeffrey says his book is "far from sensationalism." I disagree. He writes a new book about every year so he has to come up with "new" material or recycle something old. If you've read Grant Jeffrey before, you already know what's in this book. If you've never read Jeffrey before, skip this book. He'll have another one in about a year and maybe that one will have some truly new information in it worth reading.
This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
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