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I think the very fact that we are discussing Lahaye right now demonstrates that he has done a pretty good job spreading the gospel. There are lots of non-christians who have read the books and I'm sure some percentage have investigated further.

I agree with what you are saying about not sitting around and waiting but it would seem to me to be an individual problem. A huge portion of the Bible is prophecy so I don't see how you can avoid the topic as it relates to the end times.

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A huge portion of the Bible is prophecy so I don't see how you can avoid the topic as it relates to the end times.

I'm not avoiding it. It's certainly worth discussing and beneficial to understand the direction we're headed in. But if someone says, "yeah, this is the time", flee from that person like the plague. They're attempting to take from God what they are not entitled to. Pretty dangerous spiritual practice, if you ask me.

Jesus commanded that we be aware of the "signs", not to write books and make a ga-jillion dollars creating a cottage industry based on negligent exegesis.

The ironic thing is that for all of LaHaye's insistence on literalism, the word "rapture" doesn't appear ANYWHERE in the Bible.