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I have just started reading the first Left Behind book. It's sometimes hard to read though because I think of all of those I know who will be 'left behind'. How do some of you all cope with this? I have so many friends and family who believe that just becuase they believe in God or go to church that they will go to heaven.

Lots of prayer and pleading!

Grace and Peace!

reading Left Behind for first time

Have fun wasting your life.

Amen!!

Thats not very nice  ???

Hiya Alliecat and welcome sweetie to Christian's Unite! ;D


Can someone please help fill me in what left behind book is!


Blessings,  \o/

KristiAnn

Here is the home page for the Left Behind series.
http://www.leftbehind.com/channelbooks.asp

Here is a short bite of the books.
LEFT BEHIND
In one cataclysmic moment, millions of people disappear, throwing the world into instant chaos. Pilot Rayford Steele, journalist Buck Williams, minister Bruce Barnes, and student Chloe Steele all search for the answers, only to discover they are entering the seven-year period called the Tribulation.

TRIBULATION FORCE
Rayford, Buck, Bruce, and Chloe band together to form the Tribulation Force. Their task: to warn the world of the deception being carried out by enemies of God. How can they expose the deceivers for who they are?

NICOLAE
As the identity of the Antichrist becomes vividly clear, the Tribulation Force presses on in its mission to win as many people to Christ as possible. Through divine providence, Rayford becomes the ears of the Tribulation Force at the highest levels of Nicolae's regime. A tense all-night rescue operation from Israel through the Sinai Desert follows!

SOUL HARVEST
Soul Harvest—In the aftermath of a mega-earthquake, the Tribulation Force, scattered all over the world, prepares for even greater destruction and persecution. Scripture predicts a great soul harvest as well as harsher judgments from God.

APOLLYON
The Tribulation Force and its spiritual mentor, Tsion Ben-Judah, are boldly defying the Antichrist. As tension mounts, the fifth trumpet judgment releases a plague of scorpion-like locusts. The torture they inflict is so horrifying that people try to kill themselves but cannot die.

ASSASSINS
Four significant murders are prophesied in Scripture—those of the two witnesses, the head of the Antichrist's one-world faith, and the Antichrist himself, who suffers a lethal head wound. World history and prophecy collide in Jerusalem, bringing about shocking results.

This covers up to 38 weeks of the Tribulation.
There are 12 books in the series.

Thankie DreamWeaver!!!  ;D

We all should be like you and watch Harry Potters movies over and over :)

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Thats not very nice  

Then it's a good thing I don't claim to be a very nice person.

We all should be like you and watch Harry Potters movies over and over

You'll get more out of those movies than you'll get out of reading that Left Behind crap.

Touche'   :)

At 16 Young man, you ought to be nice, or the girls will Not like you!  Oh, I forgot teenagers know everything DOH....  :-\


Play nice and Be Nice, Jesus would have!!!


Blessings,  \o/

Alliecat - I've read all twelve and enjoyed the series.  

The biggest beef I have is that they could have done "normal printing" for a novel and gotten all twelve books into 4, 400 page editions.  (If you haven't noticed, the entire series is double spaced with wide margins.)  They really stretched it out - why?  Money, maybe?

Sapph:  Be nice, boy.  It doesn't matter if you ever said you would be nice or not.  You can be a jerk to me - I expect it.  To newer folks you should at least get to know them a little bit before you spring your "jerkness".   ;D

Careful Sapph - take a deep breath before you reply...
Deeeeep Breath,
Deeeeep Breath,
Deeeeep Breath,
Deeeeep Breath,
Deeeeep Breath,
Deeeeep Breath,

Have you passed out yet????  ;D

At 16 Young man, you ought to be nice, or the girls will Not like you!

As long as at least one does, I think I'll be fine...

To newer folks you should at least get to know them a little bit before you spring your "jerkness".

Well, if newer people stop coming to this site or get offended because of something they read online by some 16-year-old who, as it has been shown here time and again, has no valid opinions and quite simply is not allowed to have any until he gets into college (because, apparently, you're automatically respected by everyone at that age), then they're the ones with the problems, not me.

Excuse me, but with out new people this site would only have a few people Sapphire W34P0N. Is that what you want? When you grow up and show respect to others, it is expected to  return that respect. Don't be insulting others, that is as far way from Jesus as you can get.

The moral; Respect others as you want to be respected. ;D

QUOTE SAP: You'll get more out of those movies than you'll get out of reading that Left Behind crap.

Then maybe I will know as mush as you do. ;D


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You know, Ben has a valid point here.  :) In the two (or so...) years he's been here, his thoughts have been constantly dismissed based on his age. "He's too young to know what he's talking about." Followed by, "He's old enough to know better."
Just an observation.  :)

Fiction, based on opinions of what the Bible says.

The books? or the people's beliefs? Or is that "All of the above"?

Sounds like some religions ;D

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The moral; Respect others as you want to be respected.

It's a good bet that people who like the Left Behind series don't deserve much of my respect. And people who don't like the Harry Potter books but praise the LB books definitely don't deserve my respect, especially if they haven't read a certain one of those series (I'm looking in your direction, Brother Love)...

So here's my point. I'm sorry if alliecat leaves because of my obviously inane comments, but it's really not my fault if he/she does. Reading "mean" or "rude" comments on a random website should not warrant leaving that website, easpecially since this person doesn't know me personally.

Let me put this in perspective for you; Some kid in another part of the world who posts something a little mean on a random message board is definitely a good reason for a newer member to leave said message board. Right.

Anywho. This thread has gotten a little off-topic.

Ah but see, I have read Harry Potter series. I have also read The Left Behind series. I like both of them but, both are fictional books. Yes there is truth in the The Left Behind series. So of what is written I disagree with, some I agree with. Both series are entertaining.
Both series deserve praise, both series are well written.

Ah but see, I have read Harry Potter series.

Ah, but see, that portion of my post wasn't directed at you.

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What was the topic? Oh yeah... the Left Behind series.  ;D

I read the first few and enjoyed them. I lost interest after the third or fourth one. It's been awhile.....

The only real problem that I have with the books is that so many people use them in place of Scripture!  :-X

I have not read them, but I hear they are good.  I could see where it might be easy for some to mix parts of such a book with scripture and start believing it is scripture.   Hadn't really considered that until you brought it up.

Grace and Peace!

Grace and Peace!

They're just too literal. It's like the authors never considered that Revelation is likely a book of metaphors.

Ben, I think that's why I liked the series originally. I hadn't thought of Revelation in a literal way. It started me thinking of the what ifs..... What if it is literal? What if it happens just like it says? So it was a neat concept and a new one. Like I said, though, I lost interest in the series. I do think that what happens will surprise us all and yet we'll be able to say 'Oh! That's what was meant.... it seems so clear now that we KNOW!'  :)

2nd Timothy, I was a bit dismayed when I heard a group of women at a table in a restaraunt discussing the books as if they were Scripture. That led me to listening more to others and realizing that quite a few folks were basing their salvation on two men's opinions of what could be.  :-X We were enjoying them here for entertainment and a chance to delve deeper into Scripture and discuss. I enjoyed that aspect of it immensely!  :)

Eh, I still didn't like them.

ROFLOL ;D

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