It's going to be better than we ever dreamed. 'The best is yet to come, and I can't wait to get into this marvelous experience. 'It's going to happen to some generation. In a separate interview, in 2007, LaHaye said he hoped the rapture would come during his lifetime. Title, Left Behind: A Novel Left behind series, Tim LaHaye Authors, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. But if you look at the whole population, it's a blessed time,' he said. 'If you only look at the people who defy God, it's a negative time. Based in Christian beliefs about the End of Days (what Ray Stanz would call Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff) the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye. Nicholas Kristof suggested that in scenes showing the death of all non-Christians, the series celebrates ethnic cleansing 'as the height of piety.'īut LaHaye, in an interview with BeliefNet, described his vision of the rapture as 'a time of incredible mercy and grace.' Other critics have objected to what evangelical writer Tyler Wigg Stevenson called the 'macabre giddiness' of the books, which seem at times to revel in the doomsday suffering of the unsaved. TIM LaHAYE OF LEFT BEHIND SERIES IS A FREEMASON Many Christians will find it difficult to believe & accept that the famed Left Behind author Tim LaHaye is a satanic Freemason. The theological underpinnings of the books have been criticized by both evangelical and nonevangelical Christians. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Left Behind Subtitle A Novel of the Earth's Last Days Author Tim F.

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