I listened to the audio book, and this is the first Left Behind I have heard. I haven't finished reading any of the books, though I did start one. It seemed boring. This audio book was rather boring also. It did not arouse in me a sense of identifying with the so-called Christians, and Carpathia and his henchman, the one who talks with a Brooklyn accent, Fortunato, are both really kind of funny, not frightening at all. They're so easy to see through. I think the authors maybe wanted to sell books, of course, but in order to do that, they wanted to basically scare people, because people seem to like scary books (cf. Stephen King, etc.). But the Indwelling was not scary. It was absurd, unbelievable, and, judging from other books written about the Left Behind series (cf. Lisa Ruby's book), not really in accord with the Bible at all. I know a man who reads all of the Left Behind books, and likes them. He's not unusual in any way, but I think the books give him a sense of having a purpose in life, because if you're one of the few survivors, and you're on the right side, then you kind of stand out from the crowd. And the crowd is otherwise so huge, and, God forbid, what if there is no God, or God is not as we envision It in this particular book, in the Bible even? Then we're nothing (this is the old existential argument, cf. Sartre, Camus, etc.). And who wants to be nothing? So we can be something, somebody, by identifying with the heroes of the Left Behind series. Diximus.

I did read the books first, then tried to get my husband interested by listening to the books on tape. He couldn't get involved as there was just no excitement in the books on tape. The Audio Dramas, however, are tremendous and keep you interested. He can't wait to listen more. I will say though, if you haven't listened to them in order, and/or have not read the books, you may miss out a lot and will be lost. I fill him in with info from the books because the audio is abridged. As far as the story, it's easy for us to see through Carpathia because we hear everything that is going on, but take it from the point of view of the characters that were taken in. Carpathia only told them what they wanted to hear. An amazing comparison of events when you read Revelations in the Bible.

Yes, these audio dramas are the BEST thing that could happen to Left Behind. The crew that put this together do an awesome job of using the "theater of the mind" to dramatize Tim LaHaye/Jerry Jenkins' New York Times Bestseller Christian fiction novels!

The actors/actresses are wonderful at what they do, and they ALL work for their characters.

I recommend two things before you listen to this: Read the books, and listen to the previous albums in the series first!

Just as a warning, in case parents would want to listen to this in the car or something: This is NOT something for kids. As book-readers know, Nicolae was assassinated in the previous book, and there's a scene where a mortician goes over the corpse (eugh) as well as other action-oriented scenes.

The Left Behind series is awesome. Once I start one, I can't put it down.I love them because they are the perfect mix between adventure and spiritual application. Not only are they great reading, but they help you with your every-day life as well: like by giving you cool ideas to witness to friends who are unbelievers and to encourage young teens to get into the Word- it did for me.

I would recommend this book and the whole series to any young teen: Christian and non-Christian alike. It's about a group of young teens battling through the 7-year Tribulation after their parents have been taken up in the Rapture. Follow them through this series of books as they fight against the Antichrist, Satan, and principalities of darkness.

i totally disagree with the other man giving the books a negative star. these books are so great and they teach your kids about the bible. they are one of the best books i have ever read

Tim LaHaye does a wonderful job of bringing Biblical concepts alive to our youth... He builds these truths around characters that children can relate to and identify with. I don't feel that LaHaye is trying to "scare the hell" out of kids---but maybe it's time someone does before it's too late!

Wonderful reading for those interested in the Bible and especially end-time prophecies!

I was shocked by the content of the "Left Behind" CD Books. I believe they were improperly advertised. The theme is repulsive and disgusting. The readers make many mistakes and the sound levels are poorly controlled.

If you like Left Behind, you'll love these. If you don't, get them anyway, because you're sure to appreciate the quality of the acting, sound, and drama.

The world is heating up after the Rapture. The antichrist is revealing himself more and more, as spiritual plagues of Biblical proportions descend on Earth. The Tribulation struggles for its survival, and meets new friends (and enemies) along the way.

The best part of this particular album is the demon-locusts, the judgment from Revelation. These audio guys really had to rack their brains (and microphones) to come up with appropriate sounds for them...and they succeeded.

Incredibly powerful adaptations of the best-selling novels by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye.

I am hooked. My wife started me on the "Left Behind" series when she bought me a the first books on CD for a Christmas present. I travel about two and a half hours a day to work and these cd worked exceptionally. The continue to leave me thrirsting for the next one on the sound and drama format. The actors reading the parts put a human voice and emotion with the words. I can't get enough of them. I've even went back to read the books later and found that the cd's are better. Kudos to the authors as well for the gripping and scripturally accurate storylines.

This is a joke right!!! Is this supposed to be serious scholarship. So where do I begin with my problems with it. On page 18 he says Jesus's message improved the lives of women. Oh really?? Did no one notice Jesus had no female apostles. He was rude to his mother at the wedding of canna. Well lets look at history, christian believes condemned over 250,000 women to be burned alive between 1450-1750. It wasnt until the 20th century that women began to be given equal rights, and this was because of liberal thought which was opposed by the clergy. On page 19 he says that are legal codes are based on Jesus's teachings. Oh really, I just thought all these years US and English legal codes were based on the Pagan society of Rome. So why didn't Jesus once condemn slavery if he was such a force for moral justice. Oh why were are at it, lets call the Declaration of Independence a Christian document when anyone with a grasp of history knows it is a DEIST document. Oh I could go on and on, but lets just say they did the typical nonsense of taking Old testament prophecies out of context to make it seem like it applies to Jesus, let misrepresent the believes of Ingersoll and Paine and lets try to rewrite history. Well This is all I gotta say, but one star is to much. Utter trash

A superbly written book for believers and non-believers who want to know more about Jesus. The book answers it's title question from the perspective of Biblical witnesses as well as Jesus' own statements. It offers some interesting non-Biblical opinions, my favorite being a memorable quote by Napoleon. I've read this book 3 times and have purchased 3 copies for others, all of whom really enjoyed it. If you were going to choose only one book on this subject, let it be this one.

Also recommended: the Left Behind Series by Jenkins & LeHaye

Tim Lahaye has all the proof you need to know, without a doubt, that Jesus is who He said He was: the Son of God. This is a very good book for anyone who isn't sure about Jesus or just needs more information. Very good for Christians too: it reinforces their belief.

I've read the Lahaye-Jenkins book and I'm sure the authors are well meaning. But since then I read another book that presents a lot of good evidence that the Christ will not come again, but has instead sent a messenger. After reading the message, I am convinced that Lahaye merely repeats and perpetuates false doctrine and dogma, while the real messenger gives us the truth about real prophecy. I encourage you to seek the real truth, because if you seek it you will find it.

It's truly a miracle that up and coming prophet Lahaye has written so many fine Christian novels lately. His amazing ability to interpret Scripture is powerful and many Christians will profit from reading it. I can only pray he will go on to greater heights.

I also recommend other prophecy greats such as "1994?" by Harold Camping, "666 : The Final Warning" by Gary Blevins and "Gorbachev! Has the Real Antichrist Come?" by Robert Faid.

Don't listen to the review from New York. This guy is fabulous! I bought this book for my husband for his birthday and he has loved it! It is very inspiring and helpful to him.

The book of Revelation is very hard to understand and oftentimes misinterpreted. I believe that being Christians we are always looking for the truth, but won't find it until we are all with the Lord himself.

The Left Behind series, however, gives a great idea of things to come so that we can warn our non-Christian friends and loved ones.

Don't take my word for it or this other, guy, read it yourself.

ESTE, AL IGUAL QUE TODA LA SERIE, SON LIBROS PARA HACERTE REFLEXIONAR SOBRE EL FUTURO Y LA PROFESIA BIBLICA. LA FORMA DE NARRACION ES EXCELENTE. PERO POR SUPUESTO AL SER UN LIBRO PARTE DE UNA SERIE, NO SE PUEDE ENTENDER COMPLETAMENTE SI NO SE HA LEIDO LOS LIBROS ANTERIORES. RECOMIENDO FUERTEMENTE LEER LA SERIE COMPLETA,QUE A ESTA FECHA VA POR 10 LIBROS. ES DIFICIL "DEJARLOS ATRAS " SIN TERMINARLOS.
COMIENZE A LEER EL PRIMER LIBRO DE LA SERIE QUE ES: DEJADOS ATRAS Y VERA LO BUENOS Y INSTRUCCTIVOS QUE SON ESTOS LIBROS. SON EXCELENTES Y NADA ABURRIDOS.

Por fin llego el tan esperado libro en el cual el mudo entero se daria cuenta que Nicolas Carpatia era el hombre en el cual las profecias del anticristo se cumplian en su totalidad. Otro de los misterios que esperabamos resolver era quien de los 3 o 4 probables sospechosos seria culpable de "asesinar" a Carpatia. No les estropeare la lectura al decir quien fue, pero era bastante obvio quien seria (aunque mi esposa diria lo contrario). Lo que si puedo decir sin temor a echarle a perder la lectura a nadie seria que la manera en la cual Nicolas vuelve a la vida dejo mucho que desear. Quiza los autores quisieron contrastarla con el poder de Dios demostrado al resucitar a los testigos en el libro anterior -esa si que fue espectacular y bastante detallada. En esta ocasion pareciera como si fue algo que añadieron al final, como si recordaran que el personaje tenia que hacerlo. Y que decir con los accidentes aereos en los cuales siempre se ve envuelto Camilo. Cual seria la probabilidad de tener tantos eventos en tan poco tiempo. Aun para un libro de ficcion! Por ultimo, lo que mas me gusto fue la gran estatua creada a imagen y semejanza de Nicolas. Tan solo de imaginarme la escena no puedo mas que agradecerle a Dios que por Su gracia me ha salvado. Con todo, puedo decir que fue un buen libro, lo lei en 5-6 horas y espero con ansia el proximo libro, que segun la casa editorial, saldra a la venta en el otoño.

(By The Way- you will have to know what happened in the previous books to understand my review. Check them out.)In this book, several things change for the kids in the Young Trib Fource. Judd, who is in New Babylon with his friend Nada, gets a surprise when Nada's supposedly dead brother is found in his old friend's appartment. They go to Nada's parents to show them the news. Judd hopes it will stop them from being so angry for him getting to be good friends with Nada. Meanwhile, Vicki and friends have a close call when an imposter tricks them into believing he is a Christian, and nearly expose themselves to him. The locust plauge helps them out. When they reach the school house, Lenore askes Vicki if they could turn it into a hospital for people suffering from locust bites. Vicki agrees, and takes on a traveling class. They travel over the country and teach kids around the USA. Meanwhile, Judd loses his good friend who lives in New Babylon. Check out this great book in the Left Behind Series. If you enjoyed this one, you'll like the rest!

I really enjoyed the previous books so I personally think this one will be thrilling and full of adventure and excitment.And I also really want to see the continuation of the previous book.

Making decisions. How do we do it? All Christians want to make right, God-pleasing choices, but there is often confusion about how to accomplish it. Tim LaHaye's "Finding the Will of God in a Crazy, Mixed-Up World" purports to give down-to-earth advice about decision making, but unfortunately LaHaye's work is based upon faulty premises and bad theology.

The decision making model LaHaye subscribes to is subjective and mystical. Since God has a specific will for our lives, it is up to us to find out what it is. To do this we must interpret signs, circumstances, "fleeces" and inward impressions. In effect, we are not so much making decisions as discovering the decisions God has already made for us and following through with them. If we do this, we remain in God's will. If we get it wrong, we are out of God's will and may or may not be able to get back in.

LaHaye's Dispensationalist presuppositions get in the way of sound Bible interpretation at times: he has a tendency to draw unnecessary distinctions. Taking a cue from Romans 12:2, for example, one chapter of the book claims God's will has three "levels": good, acceptable, and perfect. God's "perfect" will (often referred to as the "centre of God's will") is where we ought to strive to be; if we make a poor decision and get off-track, we might have to settle for God's "acceptable" will; finally, if we come completely off the rails we might be consigned to God's "good" will (or worse) for the rest of our lives. The chapter is full of examples of people who made bad choices that took them outside even God's "good" will resulting in their living out the remainder of their lives in despair. However, Paul is not speaking of "levels" of God's will, but attributes: God's will is morally "good," pleasing to him ("acceptable"), and lacking nothing ("perfect").

In fact, LaHaye admits a more serious weakness with the model: it is sometimes possible for someone else to put us permanently out of God's will through no fault of our own. Let's say, for example, that my God-intended spouse goes "out of God's will" and marries someone else. Since casual divorce is not an option for the Christian, I can now never accomplish God's perfect will for my life. But it gets worse. Not only I and my intended wife are out of God's will, but her husband, his intended spouse, whomever I marry instead and her intended spouse, and so on, and so on. It's an infinite regression. The proponents of the mystical model clearly have not thought the consequences through to their logical end.

Certainly some of LaHaye's counsel is good: he tells us to submit to the Word of God, pray constantly, and seek godly wisdom from others, to pay attention to our circumstances, and so forth. Certainly we should heed the wisdom of others, consider our circumstances, and use common sense when we are making decisions. Where he errs, however, is in saying that godly advice and circumstances are signs that we are able to read and discern God's will through. Jesus, on the other hand, said that we mortals are poorly equipped to read God's will through omens (Matthew 16:3). In fact, I suggest that attempting to find God's will through cirucumstantial signs comes dangerously close to the occult practice of augury or divination, which God forbids (Deuteronomy 18:10).

Another sign LaHaye endorses in the decision-making process is the "fleece" (see Judges 6:36-40): asking God to provide a providential sign to confirm that a choice is the right one. In doing so he shows how poorly he mishandles the Scriptures. Gideon did not lay out his fleece to determine God's direction. He already had a direct command from God's angel and a confirming miracle. He laid out not one, but two fleeces out of cowardice, doubt, and disobedience, and was still not convinced. Is Gideon really a role model for good decision making?

In another misapplication of Scripture, LaHaye cites Col. 3:15 to say we ought to let an inner peace indicate to us that we are in God's will, that is, "having a peace about" something is God telling us we made the right choice. However, read in context, this verse is saying that we ought to act in ways that promote peace in the Christian community. It is not saying, as LaHaye suggests, that if we make the right choice God will make us feel good.

The problem with books of this kind is that they simply do not promote spritual maturity, but a continued spiritual childishness in which we must continually ask God's permission for every single decision. It sets up a sort of "non-moral morality" in which we can make morally right or neutral choices, yet noneththeless earn God's displeasure for deciding wrong, and suffer the consequences. As an alternative, I recommend the book Decision Making and the Will of God by Garry Friesen. This excellent book provides the tools with which one can apply his God-given wisdom and the teaching of the Bible to all decisions, big and small.

This is a useful book to help you identify God's will for you in your life and even little decisions. The chapter titled eight road signs for decision making is an excellent guideline or example to apply to yourself to find God's will. I've tried it and it works. May the Lord bless you and keep you all.

I at first liked the Left Behind: The Kids series. But like the adult books, they have been dragging out again. There were, last I checked, plans for over 40 books in the Left Behind Kids series. Now I'm sure they are going to milk it out. Not much happens in this book. Vicki, Conrad, and Shelly are out teaching across the US, Judd is still stuck overseas, and Melinda and Janie still refuse to accept Christ back at the Kids' schoolhouse. Nada and her family get captured. Again. Someone dies, and finally, the horsemen come to kill off 25% of the nonbelievers. Then the book leaves you hanging, something of which Jenkins and Lahaye have been doing more lately with the Left Behind: The Kids series. My recommendation to you is to borrow this from your library or from someone at your church. They are a one time thrill read, and not much else. It is such a shame that the authors have succombed to greed, but they have, and will most likely milk the series dry to make some money.

I could not believe it when I read this book. They just dealt out the unexpected left and right. I won't tell you exactly what happens, but you find out what a great friend Nada really is, even if you might realize it too late. My sister and I never liked Nada in the first place. We thought she was too pushy, too reckless. She was horning in on Judd and Vicki, and we didn't like that. Now, I find myself liking her, even if I never wanted to.
Also, Vicki just keeps getting stronger and stronger in her faith. I think that if the Rapture had never happened, and if she had received Christ anyway, she'd have made a great pastoress.

For several decades now American 'christians' have been concocting a modern myth loosely based on mistranslated 'scripture.' The term 'rapture' has come to signify a fantasy future moment when all true 'christians' will be 'taken away' to heaven, etc. etc. This nonsense is repackaged and massaged for each new generation. Examples: in the 70s the Soviets were going to be led by the 'anti-christ' and would destroy Israel (didn't happen did it?)... at different times either Henry Kissinger or King Juan Carlos of Spain was the anti-christ... many 'christians' were pretty sure Bill Clinton was the anti-christ in the 90s... I'm sure now the Chinese government is next on their silly list. These books are yet another 'take' on this preposterous cop-out.

This series attempts to get this 'rapture' message out to the general public. Parents and educators should be aware of its blatantly skewed religious-right point of view. This is NOT science fiction or fantasy along the lines of Star Wars or the Lord of the Rings... it is insidious propaganda. Check out any of the many 'christian' websites for more info on their view of this series. There you will find glowing reviews and recommendations galore. And you will also realize who the people are who made this a 'best-selling' series. Interestingly, it appears this series is an example where the 'christians' have taken a page from Scientologists, who make 'Dianetics' a perpetual best-seller by buying and rebuying copies of the work.

The truth, and I have examined these 'Left Behind' stories, is that they are horribly written and dreadfully conceived. The plots are obvious to the point of laughter and each book at some point neccessarily contains a plea to 'accept Jesus.' This is clearly the point of the entire series: it is NOT to entertain or educatate... it is to proselytize.

The eighth grade reading level vocabulary and style is appropriate to the target audience however (referring to the adult series). The children's series is about fifth grade level.

You have been warned...

..I love these books! I don't give a diddly-squat 'nevahmin'' that they are written at a 10th grade level..That just makes them a 'fast read' while soakin' in the tub. Happens that I AM a Christian, but that doesn't mean I consider the series to be 'fact' based. My studies of the bible include "Through the Bible" series by Dr. J Vernon McGee and I think his interpretation of the 'end-times' is probably more accurate. ... I don't read these stories for anything but entertainment...

Children shouldn't be scared by characters killed off in a book...

Read these books, they will get you thinking about something grander than yourself...

I think it is fair to warn you that this IS a Christian book series that is written about the end times. God never told us that the end times were always going to be hunky-doory so please don't expect these books to be like a fairy tale where everything always turns out ok. Some people is this series actually do die. Don't get me wrong, I think these books are awesome. I just want to make sure that you don't expect the books in this series to be whishy-washy fluff books. These are the kind of books that make you rethink your own faith. Are you ready for the challenge?