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Valerie, I am glad we are talking. I'm sorry I snapped. I respect your disagreement with me, I just wanted you to STATE clearly what in the books you disagree with.

Now that we are friends, let me ask you about one point. You wrote:

Revelation IS prophecy, written in symbolic, prophetic language of scholars, not meant for the simplistic literal translation found in Left Behind.

The Book of Revelation is unique in all the Bible. It's the ONE & ONLY book that promises:

Rev 1: God blesses the one who reads this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to it and obey what it says. For the time is near when these things will happen.

So right there I have to disagree with your contention that Revelation is written for "SCHOLARS". Jesus promised a special BLESSING for ALL who read this book and LISTEN to it's prophesies. Everyday people like me and you.

Rev 1: God blesses the one who reads this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to it and obey what it says. For the time is near when these things will happen.

There is nothing in that verse that applies to the Left Behind series. By all means read St John's Revelation, but there's no need to cross-reference it with any other books except the Old Testament where prophetic symbolism is first used and intrepreted by prophets.

IMHO, your disagreement with each other is more over the "pre-millinealist" vs. "post-millinealist" intrepretation of scripture and not the plot-line of the Left Behind series itself. Revelation IS scripture; and like Genesis, it isn't really critical whether a person believes it literally or figuratively--as long as one believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that He will return for His own. Comments?