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Summary: Turns the book series into a valuable Bible study
Review: "Left Behind: The Bible Studies" is a series of companion Bible study workbooks designed to be used with the appropriate book of the "Left Behind" series. This particular one is designed to be used with "The Rapture". It contains sections on topics like how to get the most from your study, how to lead a group study, how to study Bible prophecy, and an overview of end times including appropriate Bible verses. These all come before the main section of the book where the reader is presented various questions designed to help them understand the various facets of the lesson. Each lesson is laid out pretty much the same way. The first questions make the reader examine their current understanding of the end time. After that there is a quoted section from the "Left Behind" book appropriate to the lesson, then appropriate Bible verses and finally, even more questions to help the reader understand the lesson on a deeper level. These Bible studies take a definite millennialism point of view with a pre-millennial rapture. If you liked the "Left Behind" book this takes it to the next level by supplying the Biblical basis and is a highly recommended read.
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Summary: Turns the book series into a valuable Bible study
Review: "Left Behind: The Bible Studies" is a series of companion Bible study workbooks designed to be used with the appropriate book of the "Left Behind" series. This particular one is designed to be used with "The Rapture". It contains sections on topics like how to get the most from your study, how to lead a group study, how to study Bible prophecy, and an overview of end times including appropriate Bible verses. These all come before the main section of the book where the reader is presented various questions designed to help them understand the various facets of the lesson. Each lesson is laid out pretty much the same way. The first questions make the reader examine their current understanding of the end time. After that there is a quoted section from the "Left Behind" book appropriate to the lesson, then appropriate Bible verses and finally, even more questions to help the reader understand the lesson on a deeper level. These Bible studies take a definite millennialism point of view with a pre-millennial rapture. If you liked the "Left Behind" book this takes it to the next level by supplying the Biblical basis and is a highly recommended read.
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Summary: A Good Defense Against Opponents of Pre-Trib Rapture
Review: This is a good primer on the Pretribulationist position. But since I am of this view point...it is like singing to the choir for me.
The gem hidden for Pretribulationist in this book is the section "No Fear of Misguided Attacks" and covers...
* The Pre-wrath Myth (Dealing with VanKampen and Rosenthal)
* McPherson's Vendetta (Dealing with his hatred of the Pre-trib doctrine)
* The Most Absurd Charge of All (Dealing with Robert L. Price attacks calling belief in the Pre-Trib Rapture "cultish")
* A Case Against Slander (Dealing with attacks against Dr. Ironside's)
*Target Number One (Attacks against J.N. Darby)
*Why Do They Do That (Deals with possible reasons opponent attack the Pre-Trib Rapture)
The opponents say frequently that the pretribulation rapture did not start until 1830 from J.N. Darby, of whom was influenced by Irving and the vision of Margaret Mc Donald.
I would start with the chapter Target Number One. The truth is that Darby in his own words said he started his dispensational view (that lead to forming pretribulation rapture doctrine) in 1827 when he was recovering from a broken leg while riding his horse.
From that time he left the Church of England and joined with the Plymouth Brethern. But Darby made enemies because of his forceful personality. In 1844 he and B.W. Newton had bitter strife over the issue concerning the status of the church during the Great Tribulation. Eventually Newton was excommunicated for heresy for his faulty view of the person of Christ.
In 1855, Newton and his brother in law S. P. Tregelles attacked pretributionism as from "Judizers" and in 1865 changed it to a spirit utterance in Mr. Irving's Church.
It is from this poisoned well that McPherson drew to attack pretribulationism. In turn other opponents like Vankampen and Rosenthal quote from McPherson slanted research without question as being true.
These chapters will answer these charges and show them as biased and lacking credibility. From these chapters you can do your own research and come to your own conclusions.
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Summary: This book makes good fire fuel
Review: What a waste.... $16 (aus) dollars on this ?!?!? I should've bought a different book. Ok let me explain. I read this book with optimisim, i enjoyed the Left Behind series quite alot. Then intrigued with the rapture question i bought a few rapture books including this one. The other 2 were great, then i started reading this one expecting Tim Lahaye to give me a convincing argument on pre-tribulationism (after hearing many pre-tribulationists i still havent heard a convincing argument come out of any of them) What i get was arrogonant writing, assumptions everywhere, and i dont think he used any verse in context. Cutting the scripture everytime he could. Oh thats when he actually used scripture for his arguments. One highlight was when he was "critiquing" the pre-wrath theory book. Saying the author was so arrogonant in the way he explained his view. I laughed pretty loud... what does Tim Lahaye think he was doing himself the whole book. I think it would be intresting to put Tim Lahaye in a debate against ANY post-tribulationists (yes even me) and see if people will respect his books after that. DONT BUY, i think the koran would be a more intresting read than this one.
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