By the time of the war of the great day of God the Almighty, homes have been uprooted, n Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus C The horrors of the Tribulation are over, and Jesus Christ has set up his perfect kingdom on earth. Believers all around the world enjoy a newly perfected relationship with their Lord, and the earth itself is transformed.
Yet evil still lurks in the h Jenkins Series List Left Behind. Length: 13 Books. October April Series List in Order. Book Descriptions for series: Left Behind. Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist. Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleased. Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist. Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne. The Remnant: On the Brink of Armagaddon. Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages.
They become newly minted Christians and transform into the Tribulation Force, an underground organization fighting to survive the coming days of misery and pain even as they attempt to convert as many people as they can find.
Over time, they each learn that they have a divine destiny. While the Left Behind series has a large cast, Rayford Steel is generally regarded as the primary protagonist.
When he is first introduced, Ray is a pilot. He is also a negligent husband and father with a roving eye. When the rapture happens, Ray goes home to find that his wife Irene has disappeared. He is reminded of all the times he scoffed at her religious beliefs and it leaves him wracked with guilt. Over the course of the Left Behind series, Rayford comes to terms with his past failures.
He converts to Christianity, makes peace with the rest of his family, and finds a new purpose in life. Rayford can trace the changes in his life to his encounter with Bruce Barnes. Barnes was an assistant pastor at a church before the rapture. Despite his position, Barnes never truly believed in the things he taught. But he eventually recovers and forms the Tribulation Force. Barnes is the one who leads Rayford to conversion. Together, they form the core of the Tribulation Force.
They make it their mission to prepare people for the trials that will follow once the anti-Christ comes to power. The Left Behind series is very divisive, even among Christian readers.
Fans have complemented the books for being fast paced and action heavy. However, everyone generally agrees that the novels are not well-written, to begin with. Despite fairing poorly, the movie spawned two more sequels. None of them performed particularly well.
Born in in Detroit, Michigan, Tim was ninety-years-old when he died in By then, he had written over eighty books. Jerry B. Jenkins is an American author that was born in in Michigan. Jenkins primarily writes adventure and mystery fiction for children.
He has a preference for stories with a Christian theme. Tim and Jenkins met in the s. The concept came to him while he was on a plane. He saw a pilot with a wedding ring flirting with a flight attendant. The series has been criticized for the poor depiction of the pantheist and universalist belief that the Enigma Babylon World Religion indicates, which has overtones of Hinduism and Buddhism.
The show explained that Bible prophecy is nothing new, and that the vague descriptions in the book of Revelation can apply to almost any location at any time. The Left Behind series was featured, and Jerry B. Jenkins was interviewed. Jenkins stated, "In my mind, in a way, we are sales people for the Gospel.
So there is nothing wrong with money if you use it right. The Slacktivist blog is notable for analyzing the first book at a rate of a few pages every week. From the perspective of a non-dispensationalist evangelical Christian, it generally criticizes the books for poor writing, bad biblical scholarship and for presenting an unflattering view of God. The series has also been accused of plagiarizing. One website states that: "These similarities with earlier novel are noteworthy, I think, for a couple of reasons.
In an interview in the March 28, issue of the Assembly of God magazine Pentecostal evangel , he insists that " Left Behind is the first fictional portrayal of events that are true to the literal interpretation of Bible prophecy. It was written for anyone who loves gripping fiction featuring believable characters, a dynamic plot that also weaves prophetic events in a fascinating story.
Origins of the Rapture has been claimed to have been invented by an Anglo-Irish religious figure named John Nelson Darby He was ordained in the Church of Ireland and worked there to convert Catholics.
He joined a dissident group called the Plymouth Brethren and became a prominent leader. Around he began teaching that Jesus' coming at the end of times would be preceded by a "rapture of saints. Eventually he would distance himself from the Brethren group and travel Europe, United States, and Canada from spreading his views on the rapture.
Given Darby's hatred of Catholics, his influence on Protestants add an ironic touch. Some premillennialists, while accepting many of the basic beliefs behind the series, describe problems with specific prophetical teachings in the Left Behind books. For instance, in The Mark , Chang Wong receives both the mark of the beast and the sealing of the Lord and he is later able to go to heaven, despite having the mark.
In Desecration , the character's dual-marking was justified in the storyline. He was saved because he did not accept the mark of the beast; he was forced to receive it because he was involuntarily put to sleep and then given it. This has led some readers to wonder how a Christian can have the mark of the beast and still be saved, which many readers voiced on the Left Behind messageboard, and which was answered on the FAQ page at LeftBehind.
Along with some other rapture fiction novels, the Left Behind series demonstrates a different understanding of the gospel and the Christian life than that taught within the historic orthodoxy of evangelical Protestantism. Most Christians deny the key eschatological beliefs underpinning the plotline and the books have not sold particularly well outside of the United States. Dispensationalism remains a minority view among theologians. For instance, amillenial and postmillenial Christians do not believe in the same timeline of the Second Coming as premillennialists, while preterist Christians do not interpret the Book of Revelation to predict future events at all.
Brian McLaren, a self-appointed spokesperson of the Emergent Church, compares the Left Behind series to The Da Vinci Code , and states, "What the Left Behind novels do, the way they twist scripture toward a certain theological and political end, I think [Dan] Brown is twisting scripture, just to other political ends.
But at the end of the day, the difference is I don't think Brown really cares that much about theology. Some practicing Christians, evangelical and otherwise, along with nonchristians have shown concern that the social perspectives promoted in the Left Behind series unduly sensationalize the death and destruction of masses of people. Harvey Cox, a professor of divinity at Harvard, says part of the appeal of the books lies in the "lip-licking anticipation of all the blood," and theologian Barbara Rossing, author of The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation , said the books glorify violence.
Large chunks of several U. More than one critic has pointed to a passage in Glorious Appearing in which Jesus, who is portrayed as a lamb in the Book of Revelation, slaughters millions of people:. As Rayford watched, the soldiers stood briefly as skeletons in now-baggy uniforms, then dropped in heaps of bones as the blinded horses continued to fume and rant and rave.
Seconds later the same plague afflicted the horses, their flesh and eyes and tongues melting away, leaving grotesque skeletons standing, before they too rattled to the pavement. One Christian accused the authors of re-sacralizing violence, adding that "we human beings are the ones who put our faith in superior firepower. But in the Left Behind novels the darkness of that human, satanic violence is once again attributed to God.
The series makes no secret of its Protestant-style view of Christianity. As a result some believe the books are Anti-Catholic, noting that many Catholics were not "raptured. While the fictional Pope, John XXIV , was raptured, he is described as having embraced some of the views of the "Father of Protestantism" Martin Luther, implying that he was raptured for this reason.
Jimmy Akin, writing for Catholic Answers, details the series as anti-Catholic. However in Chapter 18 of Book 10, The Remnant , most of a Catholic church including the priest and the catechism teacher are raptured, similar to Tribulation Force's situation with their Protestant church: "He and some of his friends from childhood raced to their little Catholic church, where hardly anyone was left.
Note: The books are listed initially in story-line chronological order but then numbered in order of publication. There are also graphic novels, audiobook CDs and cassettes, and a Left Behind series for teens.
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