This is an excellent book if you already accept the futurist agenda hook, line, and sinker. It makes current events come alive because it is written from the perspective of … well, current events.
Serious Bible students be warned. Lots more of the same old same old, just with a new cover.
Under the heading of “Where are we now?” they write, “What is now more clear than ever is that we have taken a quantum leap toward the fulfillment of the biblical prophecy of the last days. The stage is now being set for the final climatic act in the long history of the human drama. Things could not have been arranged more perfectly for the fulfillment of the prophecies of the end times” (p. 56)
“More clear than ever?” No wonder Chuck Smith, Hal Lindsey and Edgar Whisenant got it all wrong in the 1970s. Current events were not clear enough. Oh, sure. They had the Soviets Union to work with. What an ominous boogeyman?! But the Soviets are gone bye-bye. Then there was the Chinese with their phantom army of 200 million on horseback waiting to cross the Euphrates. Oops, turns out there are no enough horses in the entire world to field such an army.
The eschatological futurist boogeymen of the 1970s have been replaced with the eschatological boogeymen of this decade. No doubt they will change again in 10 or 20 years.
Perhaps LaHaye and Hinson have fixed all those mistakes.