Even though I'm a Pre-Trib Rapture guy myself, I couldn't finish LaHaye's series. It was just too painful.
Where did all the good Christian authors go?
Some of us just haven't been published yet. ;-)
Ugh, but those books were lousy. I managed to read the first volume and a half, even though I disagreed with the theology, but painful is the best way to put it.
It's embarrassing to go into a Christian book store.
He's a Calvinist pastor. Give him a break.
Besides, it's readable enough. And their speculations are as valid as a lot of others.
AT LEAST, GOD SEEMS TO HAVE USED the series to get key ideas before the hurting world such that when such events transpire--however similar or different they are from LaHaye's treatment of them--people will be inclined to go
DUH, YEAH, MAYBE THAT GUY LAHAYE WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL, I THINK I'D BETTER GET MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD SQUARED AWAY ASAP.
I consider that quite a good result. More power to them.
BTW, God evidently has a more positive view of the series than even I do. So, who am I to throw rocks at it. God has used it profoundly. Praise The Lord.
And, I'm not the least bit bothered that it doesn't fit some starchy, rigid, fossilized, tiny, tidy little boxes of some religious spirit addicted folks who seem to be quite overly bound up in their denominational/creedal/doctrines of men little boxes.
Agreed, I started reading the first book and it was awful.
It sounds like the books have gotten away from pre-trib theology if 'christians' are cracking codes to survive.
Stoned, crucified, burned at the state, run out of town on a rail, that sort of thing...