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    Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
    Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
    Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days

    Written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

    Narrated by Frank Muller

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    Only one series will take you to the end of the world as you explore eternal truth: the best-selling Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Now the entire series is available in an audio.

    When the trumpet sounds, where will you be? Passengers in an airborne Boeing 747 find out in this riveting novel by renowned Christian speaker Tim LaHaye and master storyteller Jerry Jenkins. Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun. This fictional account of life after the Rapture delivers an urgent call to today's readers to prepare their own hearts and minister to others.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateOct 19, 2000
    ISBN9781414324869
    Author

    Tim LaHaye

    Before his passing in 2016, Tim LaHaye was a New York Times bestselling author of more than 70 nonfiction books, many on biblical prophecy and end-times. He is the coauthor of the record-shattering Left Behind series and is still considered one of America's foremost authorities on biblical end-times prophecy.

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    • 5/5
      Read this series over 10 years ago, absolutely loved it!!! I can still remember all the main characters and the plot lines for each book, that tells you how much these books have stuck with me over the years and I've never read anything in the same genre type that was even close to being as good.

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    • 5/5
      Great fictional account of how those "left behind" will be affected. The prophetical greatness of Tim LaHaye along with the great writing style of Jerry Jenkins brings the first novel of this popular series. Based on 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12, I believe those who have heard the gospel message and rejected it will not have another chance after the rapture of the church; I hope I am wrong, because many will perish (including people like Rayford and Chloe Steele, Buck Williams, and Bruce Barnes) if this portion of scripture really does relay that message. I know God is merciful and full of grace and of course, if any seek salvation at any time before physical death- the opportunity is there. Without the Holy Spirit drawing someone to God there will be no seeking on man's part- I believe this is what these verses are saying; it isn't that God wouldn't save those who seek Him, but those who have rejected will not seek Him. This is the main caution I have with this series (and as I say, I hope my interpretation is wrong and Tim LaHaye's is correct)- because many will perish if my interpretation is correct. Recommend (with stated caution). ***February 16, 2012***

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    • 4/5
      Fictional account of the people left behind on Earth after the rapture. Fast-moving, almost believable, with interesting characters albeit a little flat. Theology and preaching cleverly interwoven with the plot. Quite thought-provoking.
    • 5/5
      First of an as-yet uncompleted series of novels playing out the Bible's Book of Revelations. This first is gripping. I picked it off a library shelf long before I had heard of the series and was riveted. The back cover blurb was short and to the point:In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear.Vehicles, suddenly unmanned, careen out of control. People are terror sticken as loved ones vanish before their eyes.In the midst of global chaos, airline captain Rayford Steele must search for his family, for answers, for truth. As devastating as the disappearances have been, the darkest days may lie ahead.
    • 1/5
      Bad and inadequate Bible interpretation along with a touch of soft porn and more than a touch of paranoia.
    • 5/5
      The start of this wonderful series. Creative idea - very gripping. Loved it!
    • 5/5
      Awesome narration and incredibly entertaining and inspiring. Looking forward to the rest!!!
    • 1/5
      I just can't get passed the way this book was written. It seemed like the writing of a grade schooler to me... The story-line is interesting, but the writing brings it down!
    • 5/5
      This is great series, fascinating to say the least. The writing is a bit weak at times. They also take the book of revelation to the extreme but it does really make you think especially if you are a christian.
    • 1/5
      This book is crap. I tried to read the series so I could know for myself whether it had any merit. I could not stand to waste any more time reading past the first book. There is nothing good to say about it. It is so sad that this series became so popular.
    • 5/5
      This is a series that will put the fear of the Lord in your haert you will emers your self in to storylines to the point were you become part of tribulation force. Its fictional n not exactly bible doctrinal becuse the bible dont say theirs a second chance only the christian converted jews get a second chance. Becuse ones the Holy Spirit is taken away so are the true worshipers of christ then the jews believe that christ was God in ghe flesh. But regardless awoseme book.
    • 1/5
      Clunky, leaden writing. I found the first 50 pages to be outrageously funny, especially the bits between Captain Steele and the stewardess, Hattie. After 150 pages it became tedious rather than amusing, and so I gave up on it.
    • 3/5
      Man, this thing took FOREVER! I don't know how many books there are in the series, but I know that I won't be reading them all (and judging from how much space they take up on the shelf at the library, there is a TON). The whole premise of this series is what would happen if the rapture occurred and you were one of the millions (probably billions) left behind. Rayford Steele is piloting an aircraft when a stewardess he'd been lusting after rushes into the cockpit tells him that they're suddenly missing over 100 people. At first he thinks it's a joke but he soon realizes that all their clothes have been left behind as well. One of the passengers on the plane is an award winning, international journalist named Buck. He sets about recording everything because he knows this is the biggest story of his career, hell of his lifetime! Buck, the stewardess, the pilot, and his daughter start finding their paths crossing as they try to figure out what on earth has happened to all their loved ones and how they are going to survive what comes next. Not as bad as I thought it would be, but not great either.
    • 5/5
      This book really made me think about the end of the world and I started to guess what kind of people were going to be left behind. It was interesting and the characters were real to me.
    • 4/5
      I read about 2/3 of this on a flight between Charlotte and Bradley. My personal setting made this far more enjoyable (though it was very enjoyable, anyway). It's a tad on the preachy-side, but not nearly as much so as you would expect given the content. It's a bit predictable, but then again, it isn't exactly high-literature. This is just good, fun light reading.
    • 2/5
      I was going to say this book wasn't gripping, and is truly one of the least interesting of the entire series, but clearly it hooked me enough to read fifteen more books in the series. Straight-forward, rarely artistic, purely for the sake of narrative, which is purely for the sake of interpreting Biblical scripture - supposedly. Interesting juxtopisation of Christian beliefs and wartime strategy, violence and inhumanity. Surprisingly gory in places. Individual characters found almost no significant voices themselves in this, the first book, but the seeds are planted to see the core family - The Steeles, Ray and Chloe, and Buck Williams - eventually have real struggles and conflicts. It's basically almost entirely setup, a promise of more interesting material to come, which was true enough.
    • 2/5
      So I finally read it. I avoided it for more than a decade, but I finally did it. I should have kept avoiding it.I really don't have any interesting in criticizing the theology here. I don't agree with it, but eschatology is a tricky field, and I'm probably way off on a lot of my ideas too. If you agree with this line of thinking, I really don't have a problem with that. If you agree more with me, then great. As long as you believe in Jesus and that He is going to return, then we can have a friendly debate about the rest of End Time prophesy and keep worshiping.But the writing here is so bad that I must speak. There are only two characters in this book who are remotely different than any of the others. The first is Nicolae Carpathea, who is the most boring man ever. His "great speech" to the UN consisted of him droning on about the entire history of the organization and then him reciting the name of every country represented. Wha-?The other is Hattie, and she only stands out because she is the most inconsistent character ever created. She's just all over the place!The other characters are as dull as their names.A fifth of the population disappears (a number that is WAY high), and a few days later no one seems to remember. Huh? That seems to me to be an important thing going on there. I would expect a little more coverage of that and less of the guy who recites the names of countries for a living.I think the theology here is wrong, but supportable, but the writing is offensively bad. I gave it two stars instead of one because at least it was a quick read and only tortured me a few hours.
    • 3/5
      this is a wonderful book and i hope this never happens because i will be left behind :-(
    • 5/5
      Although these books have been on the market for a while, I only recently decided to read them. After reading this one, I was hooked. I feel connected to each character, I felt their fear and pain for all of their losses. This was a very easy read, and although not my usual type of thriller, I am rating this among the top in my library.
    • 2/5
      2.5 stars. Rayford Steele is an airline pilot, flying a commercial flight; Buck Williams is a journalist and a passenger on the same plane. Mid-flight - all of a sudden - people disappear into thin air, leaving their clothes behind. They discover that millions of people have disappeared in the same manner at the same time, all around the world. Rayford turns to God and his wife's church for comfort and answers; Buck the journalist is just trying to find out what happened.

      I like the idea behind the story, and parts were exciting, but the book just got too preachy for me. There was some political stuff in the book that I just didn't find all that interesting either, so those two things combined really brought down my rating and enjoyment of the book. It ends on a cliffhanger, which may have left me wanting to read the next book, except I just can't handle the preachiness of it all, so I won't be continuing.
    • 4/5
      Imagine that suddenly millions of seemingly random people vanish into thin air. Cars are left without drivers, airplanes without pilots, parents without children. Those left behind are people that must not only deal with the wreckage, but they must also try to come to terms with the actual disappearances of friends and loved ones. What happened? Was it aliens, a new form of nuclear technology, the end of the world, or a prophecy of The Bible that is being fulfilled? In this first book of the Left Behind series, LaHaye and Jenkins draw readers into a captivating story of the human condition.
    • 5/5
      What a blessing if a book on the end times wi to a little background, but biblical references and scripture often! So good!
    • 2/5
      The music was a really stupid idea. Boring and pointless.
    • 5/5
      I loveed this book. It was amazing to read about people becoming christian during the horrible times they were going through. They come to truly love Christ and their transformation is absolutely wonderful.
    • 1/5
      I only read this book because it was chosen for my book club. I tried to approach it with an open mind but my reluctancy was confirmed. The book was unexciting, unfulfilling, and born from "Christian" paranoia. Do not take on this book unless you are willing to read the entire series. The author took 25 chapters to accomplish what could have been done in 5. The ending was no ending at all, it only sets up the next book in this very long series. In short I can't believe I wasted my time and brain cells on this book and would be more than a little embarassed to admit to reading it.
    • 1/5
      didn't even want to finish the book, got about halfway through...story drags on, as a way to display religious ideals, i believe in god, but am not enthralled by religion, and am just tired of the messages in the book, so i will not be finishing it, nor the series, this may be a better series for people who steadfastly believe in revelations and the end of times....
    • 4/5
      I've decided this series is the VC Andrews of Christian fiction - trashy, trashy, trashy. I'm not sure why I picked it up - maybe all that 2012 crap I've been devouring. I just know I'm now going to have to read to the terrible end of this series. The book was is preachy and hilarious. My favorite part was that the chosen peeps were taken to heaven without any clothes - in fact, even their contact lenses were left behind. (Am I juvenile to find that funny?) I was also impressed that fetuses were taken - but not the pregnant women. Can't wait to read what happens next!
    • 1/5
      Hahaha. You know the expression "so bad it's good"? Well, that's not true of this book. Oh no.For those unaware, it's the first book in a series written by dispensationalist US Christian conservatives: didactic works intended to promote their theology as well as being novels.Left Behind was unintentionally funny. Many of the plot devices were madly implausible - a super-duper fertiliser formula making Israel richer than oil nations and thereby bringing relative peace (until the Russkies try to kill them)? Agrarian based economies don't work like that, and even if they did, money is so unlikely to solve all Israel's problems! Carpathia's fantastically moving speech consisting of reciting the names of every country?!Overall, it was poorly written, the characterisation rather basic, and the inner lives rudimentary. On the plus side, it was readable, if clunky. On the minus, its didacticism was overt and it had a hammer for those points and knew how to use it. It took crude potshots at all sorts of targets, from the Jews to family planning.I found it impossible to take the novel seriously and snickered long and loud. For me, the best part was the naming of "Tribulation Force" which was doubly a gift since it was very close to the end, thankfully. Oh me, oh my. Hahaha.Needless to say, I shan't be rushing out to read any more of the several gazillion sequels, prequels and spin-offs from this stable.
    • 5/5
      Story told very well although it seemed to skip in a few places.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the best Christian fiction book series that I have ever read. I would highly recommend this book and all the other in the series