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Summary: OLD HAL LINDSEY READER
Review: I have yet to read this book but i have read similar books THE LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH and SATAN IS ALIVE AND WELL ON PLANET EARTH. Lindsey puts very little of his own words in this book. instead he simply studies the book of revelations and the rest of the Bible and lets the common non scholar understand the prophecies of the Bible. He does not claim to be a prophet, only a humble lover of the Word of Christ. his works are not so much a book but a guide to understanding the word of Jesus Christ the one and only savior of mankind in this insane world
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Summary: Remarkable
Review: I thought it was an awesome book. While no one can know for sure what will happen or when, I believe Hal did an excellent job of describing what is very likely to happen. I never heard him predict when the end wil come, but he simply tried to describe what we can expect. Considering everything that is happening in the world even as I write this, I really don't see how anyone could accuse Mr. Lindsay of being far off the mark. It is a great book, and it would be unwise, in my humble opinion, to disregard his views.After all, if God didn't want us to know He wouldn't have given John the vision in the first place.
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Summary: 100% Hal Lindsay is a great TEACHER!
Review: I'd give this book 100 stars, four thumbs up and many smiley faces, but since I can only give it 5,...
My thoughts, unlike other's that have left reviews, are 100% on this writer. He is a very great teacher and anyone interested in the End Times and the decoding of Bible Prophecy should read this book.
The Bible is NOT about "secret messages" as I read one other reviewer stating. It's about things written in one century's terms vs. our's now. (those are indeed codes that do need de-coding.) We now understand what was written in the Bible and what the meanings behind each symbol represents. (Bible Symbolism... that is why when you read John saw something "like this" or "like that". That is called symbols. This does indeed require interpretation. Decoding.)
Another book I'd personally recommend reading if you have already read Apocalypse Code is The Antichrist and A Cup of Tea by Tim Cohen. These symbols in the books of Daniel and Revelation have many more meanings that what some of you give Hal or God, for that matter, credit for.
Postmillennialists? Get you copy now!!!! This book might just change your views.
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Summary: You know not the hour at which he will predict the end AGAIN
Review: It seems to me that if Mr. Lindsey's predictions came true, he would have turned in his word processor and become a professional flying harp player, along with all of his followers, long ago. As one who was forced to read his "Late Great Planet Earth" in my public school English class, I beleive Mr. Lindsey is continuing to do what he did then. Tell everyone that the end is near and try and get them convert out of fear, not understanding. His evangelical method is to bring people to Christ through scaring them of the horrors that await them in just a few short days, months, years, if they are not "saved". This book is just the same song, 25th verse. I believe that the passage in the bible to that reads "You know not the hour at which I come" applies to Mr. Lindsey as well as the rest of us. He has a good gimmick and until the end really does come, he appears to be able to keep predicting the end and selling books predicting the end again when the previous prediction doesn't come true. An interesting thing to know would be whether or not the profits from his books are invested in long term growth funds.
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Summary: Unfortunate that we keep reading a guy who was wrong
Review: It will be very unpopular to suggest the following, but please consider that Mr. Lindsey has been wrong too many times to still be credible. This book suggests the code for understanding prophecy -- what if it's not codes, but more sounder hermaneutics? If readers like the Revelation and prohecy interpretation, this may be interesting in your collection: "Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope" by Keith Mathison
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Summary: Unfortunate that we keep reading a guy who was wrong
Review: It will be very unpopular to suggest the following, but please consider that Mr. Lindsey has been wrong too many times to still be credible. This book suggests the code for understanding prophecy -- what if it's not codes, but more sounder hermaneutics? If readers like the Revelation and prohecy interpretation, this may be interesting in your collection: "Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope" by Keith Mathison
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Summary: Approached with a skeptical mindset
Review: Let me explain that statement. Each and every book on bibical prophesy, I approach with an atheist's mindset. I have very high criteria for a book on prophesy before I'd consider recommending it to anyone. Each book I read on this topic has to prove to me several things...it has to be logical and forthright, the author has to back up his claims, and above all, it cannot be too preachy or heavy-handed as so to raise my hackles and put me on the defense. Hal Lindsey almost always fulfills that criteria in his writings, and "Apocalypse Code" is no exception. Not only does he explain why he thinks the way he does, and back up his interpretations with scriptural references, but he also gives examples and explainations of WHY he believes in the truth and validity of the Bible. Mr. Lindsey goes a step further in his interpretations. He interprets out of the GREEK LANGUAGE THE BIBLE WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN, in order to grasp the FULL context of what John was writing. Why Greek? Why not Hebrew? Because Greek was the language universally spoken in that general area at the time--a historic fact he illustrates through a brief discussion of the reign of Alexendander the Great--prophesised some 200 years earlier by Daniel, I think it was. Mr. Lindsey does not only do a remarkable, logical, calm and rational job of explaining the book of Revelation and other passages that refering to the times that are to come, but also does a wonderful job of covering the reasons WHY he believes this to be true. It's well thought-out, and well done. It's a great deal of information to absorb, but his overall tone throughout what I've read thus far (I'm half-way through) is sane, calm, and rational.
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Summary: Approached with a skeptical mindset
Review: Let me explain that statement. Each and every book on bibical prophesy, I approach with an atheist's mindset. I have very high criteria for a book on prophesy before I'd consider recommending it to anyone. Each book I read on this topic has to prove to me several things...it has to be logical and forthright, the author has to back up his claims, and above all, it cannot be too preachy or heavy-handed as so to raise my hackles and put me on the defense. Hal Lindsey almost always fulfills that criteria in his writings, and "Apocalypse Code" is no exception. Not only does he explain why he thinks the way he does, and back up his interpretations with scriptural references, but he also gives examples and explainations of WHY he believes in the truth and validity of the Bible. Mr. Lindsey goes a step further in his interpretations. He interprets out of the GREEK LANGUAGE THE BIBLE WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN, in order to grasp the FULL context of what John was writing. Why Greek? Why not Hebrew? Because Greek was the language universally spoken in that general area at the time--a historic fact he illustrates through a brief discussion of the reign of Alexendander the Great--prophesised some 200 years earlier by Daniel, I think it was. Mr. Lindsey does not only do a remarkable, logical, calm and rational job of explaining the book of Revelation and other passages that refering to the times that are to come, but also does a wonderful job of covering the reasons WHY he believes this to be true. It's well thought-out, and well done. It's a great deal of information to absorb, but his overall tone throughout what I've read thus far (I'm half-way through) is sane, calm, and rational.
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Summary: Re-hash of old material based upon a faulty premise.
Review: Most if not all of the material in this book is to be found in earlier books by this same author and many others of the same genre. The only thing new is the author's claimed discovery that the book of Revelation was encoded and he has discovered the key to unlock the code. What the author proposes is that the book of Revelation is "encoded" because John could not have understood the things which he saw because they were to occur some 2000 years into the future or so. He supports this by giving to the term Apocalypse the meaning "the disclosure of secrets belonging to the last days". Apocalypse Code p.33 His claim of confirmation of this "code" is based upon Daniel 12:4, 8-10 in which Daniel is instructed to "shut up [encode] the words and seal the scroll". Apocalypse Code p.38 This reviewer however finds a fallacy in his reasoning based upon Revelation 22:10 in which John is instructed "Do NOT seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near." Or according to Mr. Lindsey's interpretation, "Do NOT ENCODE the words of the prophecy of this book". This same text also seems to discredit the author's assumption that these event would take place in the distant future. On a final note, many of Mr. Lindsey's claims regarding the "signs" of the end applying to the present time have adequately been shown to be without foundation in the book "The "Sign" of the Last Days: When?" by Carl Olaf Jonsson and Wolfgang Herbst.
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Summary: Stupid
Review: only god knows our fate and that's the way it should be!i only rated it 1 star because i can't put none
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