Tim LaHaye, The Last Disciple, and Right Behind

[wildboar]

Someone at my work put an article on the bulletin board from Christianity Today about LaHaye's response to the release of The Last Disciple (a fictional novel set in the first century written from a preterist perspective). In it we find the pot calling the kettle black and the big ego on the crack pot. Underlined is my favorite quote from the article.


LaHaye's Tribulation
Left Behind coauthor challenges Tyndale over Last Disciple.
By Jim Jones | posted 01/20/2005 09:00 a.m.


Tim LaHaye, coauthor (with Jerry Jenkins) of the Left Behind series, is publicly airing his displeasure with his publisher. Tyndale House is selling The Last Disciple, a novel with a distinctly different take on the Book of Revelation than that of the Left Behind series. LaHaye says he feels betrayed and told The Dallas Morning News, \"They are going to take the money we made for them and promote this nonsense.\"

The Last Disciple was coauthored by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer, and teaches that most prophecies in Revelation have already been fulfilled. The Left Behind series, however, is grounded in a premillennial, dispensationalist view of the end times, which includes a pre-Tribulation Rapture. \"I guess you would say I am disappointed, perplexed, and confused,\" LaHaye told Christianity Today.

Ron Beers, Tyndale's senior vice president and publisher, said his company wants to promote healthy dialogue on eschatology. Beers said, \"We haven't come up with a consensus on end-times issues.\"

LaHaye is continuing the Left Behind series with Tyndale, having agreed with Jenkins to produce three more books. LaHaye also signed a lucrative deal with Bantam Dell, a division of Random House, to write a four-book biblical adventure series, with Babylon Rising being the first installment. LaHaye said press reports that the deal was worth $45 million were exaggerated. \"It is less than 60 percent of that amount,\" LaHaye told CT.

The controversy has been covered in Time and on Good Morning, America. The fuss has helped sales of The Last Disciple reach 60,000 in hardcover over the first two months, Beers said.

Hanegraaff, radio's \"Bible Answer Man,\" said LaHaye's reaction was a surprise. \"The goal of our book is to tell a good story and to recognize that Revelation is a great and glorious book that gave Christians hope in the midst of persecution.\"

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February 2005, Vol. 49, No. 2, Page 27


Also, I just finished reading the first fiction book I've read in several years. It was Right Behind by Mr. Sock and Nathan D. Wilson. It's a parody of Left Behind and its hilarious despite its promotion of postmillennialism. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1885767870/qid=1110463912/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-0300316-9650269

[Robert R. Higby]

Well, like Simon Magus, so many of these individuals have sold out the truth of the kingdom of God for money. I do not believe that most of them even think about the issue of what the real truth on these matters actually consists of; they are positioning themselves for a prominent place in the so-called 'Christian media.' The secular media loves to interview these guys--to make a mockery of Christianity by emphasizing their ludicrous beliefs as typical of 'fundamentalists.'

[Dee Dee Warren]

Mr. Sock is a very talented author.

[InChristAlways]

Well, like Simon Magus, so many of these individuals have sold out the truth of the kingdom of God for money. I do not believe that most of them even think about the issue of what the real truth on these matters actually consists of; they are positioning themselves for a prominent place in the so-called 'Christian media.' The secular media loves to interview these guys--to make a mockery of Christianity by emphasizing their ludicrous beliefs as typical of 'fundamentalists.'Hi. I read the Last Disciple and was mainly disappointed in it. I much prefer the Bible itself for serious reading and studying though I did enjoy Josephus's writings, as he is the only witness to the greatest all time event in post OT events, the destruction of Jerusalem [along with of course the birth, death and resurrection of our Dear Lord Christ Jesus]. Give me an accurate translation of the Bible anytime.
The left behind series and the so called "rapture" sites/books have indeed made a mockery of the Word of God and Testimony of Jesus and I for one am glad to see the New things that God brought into this world along with having Christ in me!!. God bless.

Isaiah 42:1 "Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. 2 He will not cry out, nor raise [His voice,] Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth. 6 "I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles, [i]7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house. 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them."