Customer Reviews
Large excerpts from the Bible! - By: Gwen Bailey, 13 Jul 2008 
If this final book in the series & the ones before it didn't contain such large excerpts from the Bible, they would be much thinner books. On the positive side, readers of these books who have never read the Bible are getting to read it for the first time.
Please Tell Me This is the End - By: Mark Baker, 14 Apr 2007 The tribulation is over & the millennium is beginning. Christians who have died have returned to earth in their glorified state to help those Christians who are still alive rule the earth. The earth's population is made up entirely of adult Christians & children who haven't yet made up their mind.
There is a huge need to evangelize the children, so Chloe & Buck, both glorified, set up a day care. They children play games & learn Bible stories. Rayford, the only surviving member of the original Tribulation Force, reunites with old friends & works to further Christ's kingdom by doing whatever is needed. 100 years in, he leads a group that sets about revitalized Egypt after it is judged for turning from God.
But in the background, there is resistance building. Callling themselves The Other Light, they set about convincing unbelievers that, if enough of them believe, Satan can win when he is freed. Is there anything our heroes can do to stop them?
Okay, I'll admit I have had a love/hate relationship with these books. Some books I've loved, some I've hated, & some I've loved & hated. This book definitely fallls into the hated category.
After some boring set up, we advance to almost the 100 year mark, where we spend almost the entire time. There reallly is no central villain to the story, which makes the conflict very weak. As with GLORIOUS APPEARING, there are long passages that are direct quotes from the Bible but do nothing to advance the story. And this includes three times they stop their story to tell us a Bible story quoted almost completely from the Bible. The characters seem even weaker then normal, too.
And that leaves out my biggest complaint. A major plot point is that alll people who haven't accepted Christ will die on their hundredth birthday. I've been asking around, & no one I've talked to has ever heard that before. Furthermore, the verse they use to justify it sure doesn't seem to say that to me.
Now alll this sounds like I hated it. The last 100 pages had some great conflict that almost redeemed the book for me. If the rest of it had been that way, I would have enjoyed the book more.
GLORIOUS APPEARING felt like a great conclusion to the series. I should have stopped there.
The final adventures of the Trib Force - By: Kona, 07 Apr 2007 
The sixteenth book in the "Left Behind" series covers the one thousand years after the Glorious Appearing. Jesus reigns from the holy temple in Jerusalem, David is his prince, & peace prevails throughout the world. All adults in the world are either "naturals" (believers who were alive at the time of Jesus' coming), or "glorifieds" (those who returned to earth from Heaven), & will live out the Millennium & then proceed to heaven. Children (those under the age of 100) must make the choice to be followers of Christ, or die on their 100th birthday. The members of the Tribulation Force have a children's day care ministry which serves hundreds of children & aims to bring the youth to Christ. But there are pockets of dissent, even in this paradise. A growing number of hedonistic "children" are members of The Other Light, a group that rejects Christ & longs for the return of Satan.
I found this book poorly written & disappointing. The narrative is awkward, the dialogue is stilted, the characters are stereotypes, & the plot suffered without a villain. The authors admit there is scant scriptural information about the Millennium, so their detailed description of events come across as fantasy not grounded in prophesy. The first hundred years is described in excruciating detail, & then in one sentence, 900 years passes & it's time for everyone on earth to either ascend to heaven or descend to the lake of fire with Satan. The earlier "Glorious Appearing" was a good book that wrapped up the series for me; this book was shalllow, dull, & pointless.
The End Of Left Behind - By: Mr. ARI Richardson, 03 Apr 2007 
With what started over 10 years ago "Kingdom Come." Finallly brings the "Left Behind." series to a wonderful close. I'm not going to start saying stuff I'm unsure of considering I haven't read the book yet but this is one everyone will have been waiting for to find out how exactly everything finallly ends. Ten years ago the series introduced us to Buck, Rayford, Chloe, Nicolae, Leon & so many others we grew to love them, care for them & even in the cases of Nicolae & Leon despise them. This is series which is one of the biggest selling books in the world has even had 3 spin-off's from it "Left Behind Kids." for the younger generation to read. "Left Behind Military." which focuses on the Military side of people left behind & "Left Behind Political." Which as you guessed focuses on the political people left behind. Desecration book 9 was the biggest selling book & a new york times number 1 bestseller the year it was released it only goes to show the strength of this blockbuster books has earned in followings... According to Christians we are living in the end times & although these books are fictional they do help point out a possible future of what could happen when Jesus finallly gather up (Rapture) the true believers. Will you be Left Behind? Or will you be Raptured? Now over 10 years later find out what exactly happens to Rayford, Buck, Chloe, Irene, Raymie & everyone else in the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus in this final ever "Left Behind." book.
