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The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye / Countdown to the Earth's Last Days

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by Tim LaHaye


  The miniature chart on page 351 shows these two phases of Christ's coming separated by the seven-year tribulation period. If you have read most or all of the books in the Left Behind series, you will find it easy to locate where each book appears on this chart. I hope you find this exercise helpful in understanding

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  the entire plan of God for your future and that of the rest of the world.

  For further information on end-times prophecy, check my Web site, www.timlahaye.com, as well as our publisher's site, www.tyndale.com. And take a look at the entire Tim LaHaye Prophecy Library.

  --Dr. Tim LaHaye

  THE TRIBULATION IN CONTEXT

  Antichrist-- The Abomination * of Desolation

  MATTHEW 24 15 2 THESSALONIANS 2 4

  Glorious Rapture Appearing

  1 THESbALONIANS 4 16 17 MATTHFW 24 27 31

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  church age 7-ear tribulation millennium eternity

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  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  Jerry B. Jenkins (www.jerryjenkins.com) is the writer of the Left Behind series. He owns the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild (www.ChristianWritersGuild.com), an organization dedicated to mentoring aspiring authors, as well as Jenkins Entertainment, a filmmaking company (www.Jenkins-Entertainment.com). Former vice president of publishing for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, he also served many years as editor of Moody magazine and is now Moody's writer-at-large.

  His writing has appeared in publications as varied as Time magazine, Reader's Digest, Parade, Guideposts, in-flight magazines, and dozens of other periodicals. Jenkins's biographies include books with Billy Graham, Hank Aaron, Bill Gaither, Luis Palau, Walter Payton, Orel Hershiser, and Nolan Ryan, among many others. His books appear regularly on the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists.

  He holds two honorary doctorates, one from Bethel College (Indiana) and one from Trinity International University. Jerry and his wife, Dianna, live in Colorado and have three grown sons and three grandchildren.

  Dr. Tim LaHaye (www.timlahaye.com), who conceived the idea of fictionalizing an account of the Rapture and the Tribulation, is a noted author, minister, and nationally recognized speaker on Bible prophecy. He is the

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  founder of both Tim LaHaye Ministries and the Pre-Trib Research Center.

  He also recently cofounded the Tim LaHaye School of Prophecy at Liberty University. Dr. LaHaye speaks at many of the major Bible prophecy conferences in the U.S. and Canada, where his prophecy books are very popular.

  Dr. LaHaye earned a doctor of ministry degree from Western Theological Seminary and an honorary doctor of literature degree from Liberty University. For twenty-five years he pastored one of the nation's outstanding churches in San Diego, which grew to three locations. During that time he founded two accredited Christian high schools, a Christian school system of ten schools, and Christian Heritage College.

  There are almost 13 million copies of Dr, LaHaye's fifty nonfiction books that have been published in over thirty-seven foreign languages. He has written books on a wide variety of subjects, such as family life, temperaments, and Bible prophecy. His current fiction works, the Left Behind series, written with Jerry B. Jenkins, continue to appear on the best-seller lists of the Christian Booksellers Association, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the New York Times. LaHaye's second fiction series of prophetic novels consists of Babylon Rising and The Secret on Ararat, both of which hit the New York Times best-seller list and will soon be followed by Europa Challenge. This series of four action thrillers, unlike Left Behind, does not start with the Rapture but could take place today and goes up to the Rapture.

  He is the father of four grown children and grandfather of nine. Snow skiing, waterskiing, motorcycling, golfing, vacationing with family, and jogging are among his leisure activities.

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  IN ONE CATACLYSMIC MOMENT MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD DISAPPEAR

  Experience the suspense of the end times for yourself The best-selling Left Behind series is now available in hardcover, softcover, and abridged audio editions.

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  LEFT BEHIND®

  A novel of the earth's lost days...

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  TRIBULATION

  FORCE

  The continuing drama of those left behind...

  3 NICOLAE

  The rise of Antichrist..

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  SOUL

  HARVEST

  The world takes sides.

  5 APOLLYON

  The Destroyer is unleashed...

  6 ASSASSINS

  Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist

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  THE

  INDWELLING

  The Beast takes possession...

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  THE MARK

  The Beast rules the world...

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  DESECRATION

  Antichrist takes the throne...

  10 THE REMNANT

  On the brink of Armageddon...

  11 ARMAGEDDON

  The cosmic battle of the ages...

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  GLORIOUS APPEARING

  The end of days...

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  The PC Game is here!

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  Conduct physical & spiritual warfare against the forces of the AntiChrist

  Join Buck, Rayford, Chloe and more in riveting Storyline Play

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  The Rapture is the third book in the

  Countdown to the Rapture. The first

  fourteen books in the Left Behind series, with sales of more than 42,000,000, comprise the fastest-selling adult fiction

  series ever. Seven of the titles reached

  number one on the New York Times best-seller list as well as those of USA

  Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly.

  Desecration book nine, was the best-selling novel in the world in 2001.

  "The Left Behind series... is among the best-selling fiction books of our

  times--right up there with Tom Clancy and Stephen King."

  -Time

  "Christian thriller. Prophecy-based fiction.

  Juiced-up morality tale. Call it what you

  like, the Left Behind series... now has a label its creators could never have

  predicted: blockbuster success."

  -Entertainment Weekly

  Tim LaHaye, who conceived the Left

  Behind series, is a renowned prophecy

  scholar, minister, and educator. He has

  written over fifty nonfiction works that

  have been published in over thirty-seven

  languages. He and his wife, Beverly, live in Southern California.

  Jerry B. Jenkins, writer of the series, is the author of more than one hundred and fifty books. His books can be found regularly on the New York Times bestseller lists. He and his wife, Dianna, live in Colorado Springs.

 

 

 


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