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Summary: Too many assumptions stated as fact
Review: "after John is called up into heaven and the world goes through the tribulation period, the church is not mentioned even once until (Rev.) chapter 19, when she is seen coming with Christ to rule and reign with Him." (Tim Lahaye in "Understanding the Last Days", pg. 94) This is a great example of how this book is filled with all sorts of assumptions. Tim LaHaye says we return with Christ to battle at Armageddon in Revelation 19:14. Revelation 19:14 says "armies" (it doesn't say us or the church) wearing linen that's "white and clean" (NAS) are seen coming with Christ to battle (19:19). The assumption is made that these armies are the church because Revelation 19:8 says that the saints are given linen, "bright and clean" (NAS). He's overlooked the fact that Revelation 15:6 states that angels wear linen that is "clean and bright" (NAS). 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 tells us that angels return with Christ to deal out retribution. These "armies" seen in Revelation 19:14 appear to be angels, not the church. Not one verse says the church will return with Christ like Tim Lahaye states as a fact. This is just one example showing why we need to read the bible more. This is also one of the many examples of how the pre-trib teachers manipulate scripture to make it appear that we will avoid persecution. They say that because we are seen returning with Christ to battle at Armageddon (which no passage supports) in Revelation 19:14 we MUST be raptured pre-tribulationaly and then wait in heaven for seven years for the battle. If interested, try a book by Robert Van Kampen, H.L. Nigro or Marvin Rosenthal. Read their books and check out every verse with your bible and I think you will like it.
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Summary: Too many assumptions stated as fact
Review: "after John is called up into heaven and the world goes through the tribulation period, the church is not mentioned even once until (Rev.) chapter 19, when she is seen coming with Christ to rule and reign with Him." (Tim Lahaye in "Understanding the Last Days", pg. 94) This is a great example of how this book is filled with all sorts of assumptions. Tim LaHaye says we return with Christ to battle at Armageddon in Revelation 19:14. Revelation 19:14 says "armies" (it doesn't say us or the church) wearing linen that's "white and clean" (NAS) are seen coming with Christ to battle (19:19). The assumption is made that these armies are the church because Revelation 19:8 says that the saints are given linen, "bright and clean" (NAS). He's overlooked the fact that Revelation 15:6 states that angels wear linen that is "clean and bright" (NAS). 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 tells us that angels return with Christ to deal out retribution. These "armies" seen in Revelation 19:14 appear to be angels, not the church. Not one verse says the church will return with Christ like Tim Lahaye states as a fact. This is just one example showing why we need to read the bible more. This is also one of the many examples of how the pre-trib teachers manipulate scripture to make it appear that we will avoid persecution. They say that because we are seen returning with Christ to battle at Armageddon (which no passage supports) in Revelation 19:14 we MUST be raptured pre-tribulationaly and then wait in heaven for seven years for the battle. If interested, try a book by Robert Van Kampen, H.L. Nigro or Marvin Rosenthal. Read their books and check out every verse with your bible and I think you will like it.
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Summary: Very helpful.
Review: A great book about the end times. I have the spanish version it is very interesting
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Summary: Dire warnings for everyone!
Review: For the glory of God, this book should be required reading in public schools, and anyone who says a bad thing about it should be publicly flogged! We pray, O Lord, to be taken up with your Son at the rapture, and for unbelievers to be vomitted into the jaws of Hell where they belong.
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Summary: EXCELLENT Bible Study of Revelation
Review: Here are some examples of what I mean: First, Lahaye makes a dispensational partyline accusation against postmillenialism that it was founded by a liberal and unitarian Daniel Whitby to accuse them of holding to the goodness of man. He knows that NOT to be true since a few pages later, he included in the list of who holds to all the views, that Calvin and a number of conservative confessional Reformed churches hold to postmillenialism. Guess what? Calvin lived CENTURIES way before Whitby and he DENIED the goodness of man. Not only that, but he as well as those of Reformed view (aka Calvinism) say that man is by nature dead in sins, depraved and so, and it takes the sovereignty of God to elect sinners to salvation from before creation and to at the time of His choosing, to bring them to salvation and justification by faith alone, but not a faith that is devoid of good works. Lahaye in this work as well as his Rapture Under Attack Book makes the fatuous claim that Augustine causes the bible to be spiritualize away so that he and others can hold to amillenialism (or postmillenialism), and the Reformation was a reaction against that. In truth, those of the Reformation were those like Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer, and so on, NONE of who held to premillenialism, and in fact all those listed held either to amillenialism or postmillenialism, or combination of both. (This not to mention he does NOT interact with points made by these opponents of his from Scriptures, that seem to make premillenialism literally untenable, such as John 5:21-29, 6:37-40, 44; Acts 24:15; Romans 2:6; 1 Corinthians 15, 2 Peter 3:8-13, 1 Peter 2:5-9, Revelation 1:6, 5:9-10, 20:6, Daniel 2:35-44, etc., as in Christ's sermon on the kingdom being at hand and growing from smallest seed into largest plant BEFORE He returns.) Lahaye's stone throwing at those views that disagree with him also misses his mark. He constantly harps on that those who deny pretribulation are like liberals who deny the literalness of the Bible. But he denies that 2 Peter 3:8-13 is to be read as literal, instead saying that the day of the Lord coming like thief in the night for the new heaven and earth must refer to two phases of the coming, one before the tribulation and one after, something the text does NOT say. He inserts tribulation into 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, John 14:1-3, and Titus 2:13, even though NONE of those texts even give us a hint of that. He argues from silence that since the Church is not mention in Matthew 24, Daniel 9, and Revelation 5-19 that it must have been raptured. And worse, he completely spiritualize away Revelation 1-3 into church stages of history when a plain reading of them would show that John does NOT even give us a hint that was what he is referring to. And his reading of the Bible depends upon the flawed view that Israel must always be read as national Israel and distinct from the Church. See Romans 9:6-24 and Ephesians 2:11-20, as well as Galatians 3:28-29, 4:28, Romans 4:1-16, Hebrews 12:22-24, Acts 15, etc., to see how wrong he is in that understanding and his view of prophecies of the OT being yet only for national Israel only.
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Summary: So user-friendly..
Review: Tim LaHAYE really sat down and wrote this with the beginner in mind! I am so glad I can give this to some1 knowing that the book is inexpensive, easy to understand and good-looking. Tim please do a book like this on, 'Daniels' prophesy
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Summary: So user-friendly..
Review: Tim LaHAYE really sat down and wrote this with the beginner in mind! I am so glad I can give this to some1 knowing that the book is inexpensive, easy to understand and good-looking. Tim please do a book like this on, 'Daniels' prophesy
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Summary: Unlocking Bible Prophecy
Review: Understanding the Last Days does just what the title says it will do. The study guides in the book are not too difficult yet certainly has given me a better understanding of biblical prophecy as it relates to the end times. The summaries are easy to understand. Although the questions take some thought they are written for the average person. Although I don't always follow through on independent Bible Study, I really look forward to this study each day.
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